Show Me the Money? Not Necessarily: Lessons Learned from Building an Innovation Practice at a Global Nonprofit

Michelle Risinger

Show Me the Money? Not Necessarily

Lessons Learned from Building an Innovation Practice at a Global Nonprofit

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Michelle Risinger

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When Pact, a Washington, D.C.-based global nonprofit founded in 1971, first invested in innovation in fall 2013, we looked to determine whether we could institute a dedicated innovation team to source and win unrestricted funding for concepts from across Pact’s country and project staff. The nuanced and complex nonprofit system required a thoughtful, systems-level approach to achieve this. With critical local staff already prioritized to projects and without local-level organic, enabling environments for testing and experimentation, success for innovation at Pact was a journey that went beyond dollars and awards, targeting and transforming our culture and processes.

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2018-06-02

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Risinger, M. (2018). Show Me the Money? Not Necessarily: Lessons Learned from Building an Innovation Practice at a Global Nonprofit. Social Innovations Journal, (47). Retrieved from https://socialinnovationsjournal.com/index.php/sij/article/view/12811

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No. 47 (2018): Issue 47 | Asia’s Social Innovations, Social Enterprises, and Public-Private Partnerships

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