Scaling social innovations

In recent years, there has been a growing demand by social entrepreneurs for research that offers a better understanding of how to scale promising social innovations in timely and effective ways. This paper presents data from a large-scale survey of U.S. nonprofit leaders who have experience with or are considering scaling their organizations via branches, affiliates, or both branches, though their motivations for expansion are similar regardless of the expansion strategy they choose. The key challenges faced by branch, affiliate, and plural organizations tend to differ according to the key distinctions among the strategies.