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August 12, 2025

Dana Schmidt

Mainstreaming Scaling: A Case Study of Echidna Giving

Executive Summary Echidna Giving is a private funder solely dedicated to getting more girls into better schools to live better lives. It is one of the largest and fastest-growing philanthropic actors dedicated to education in lower-income countries. This case sheds light on how a relatively young philanthropic organization, which began grantmaking in 2008, has rapidly [...]

July 18, 2025

ScalingCoP

CoP Newsletter 33

Dear colleagues, As the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) enters its 11th year, we are pleased to present Newsletter 33. Once again, we are delighted to offer you, our 5,000+ members, the latest news about SCoP activities and exciting scaling news you have shared with us. In particular, this cover letter provides an update on [...]

July 17, 2025

Mats McGrath

Mainstreaming Scaling: A Comparative Synthesis of Agri-Food Funders and Research Organizations

This is a draft report open for comment until August 17th. Readers are invited to share comments to richardkohl@strategyandscale.com. Abstract This paper presents a comparative analysis of case studies on mainstreaming scaling within international development organizations, with a particular focus on agri-food funders and research organizations. Drawing on roughly fifteen studies - six from [...]

July 15, 2025

Anamika Priyadarshini

Community Agro-Vet Entrepreneurs: Scaling Livestock-based sustainable Livelihood

In 1944, Dan West and a group of fellow farmers from Indiana (United States) founded Heifer with a compelling idea: not a cup of milk, but a cow. This concept marked a paradigm shift from short-term aid to long-term empowerment through livestock. Since then, animals have remained central to Heifer’s mission to help rural families […]

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