What is the Scaling Impact Toolkit?

This toolkit puts the ability to scale up your impact in your hands. The tools help you identify, design, and implement the right strategies, models, and processes for taking your solution to scale, so you can get one step closer to making a dent in today’s most pressing social problems.

The Scaling Impact Toolkit is a collection of resources that draw on our extensive expertise from supporting over 300 organisations across the world to scale their impact.

It translates our methodology – a combination of successful and proven commercial and social principles, methods, and approaches – into practical, step-by-step guides to help you make tangible progress wherever you are on the journey to scale.

Three stages

We break up the journey to scale into three stages – Strategy, Model and Implementation – with tools to help you at each stage.

Curated collections

Under ‘collections’ we’ve gathered tools that can help you tackle specific challenges such as validating your solution, building the foundations for scale or becoming financially sustainable.

Real-life stories

We feature a range of case studies in different formats – from blogs and podcast episodes to videos – to inspire you and show how others have used the tools in action.

JOURNEY TO IMPACT

Strategy

Model

Implementation

Strategy

In this stage, you will learn to develop an ambitious strategy for scale and how to get your solution and organisation ready. Tools will help you:

Validate the social impact, value and sustainability of your solution
Assess organisational scale readiness
Understand your wider ecosystem
Develop an ambitious scale strategy
Test your solution and strategy in the real-world

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Model

In this stage, you will learn to design the scale and financial model needed to sustain your impact at scale. The tools will help you:

Identify the right scale pathway
Identify partners and how to support them
Develop quality assurance mechanisms
Financial model for scale
Test and validate your scale model

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Implementation

In this stage, you will learn how to develop the systems and processes needed to implement and pilot in new locations, and scale up your impact sustainably. The tools will help you:

Develop and implement systems, processes, support functions and materials to support your scaling journey
Pilot in new locations, and continuously test, learn and iterate
Deliver sustained impact at scale

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SUPPORT THE TOOLKIT

This toolkit was developed with generous funding from our supporters to develop a range of tools primarily from the first stage of Spring Impact’s methodology.

If you are a funder and interested in supporting the next phase of development please get in touch with us.

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Scale Readiness Diagnostic

Assess your scale readiness and address areas for improvement

Problem Definition

Clearly define the societal problem you want to address at scale

Design your Core

Define the essential elements that drive your impact and sustainability

Intended Impact

Clarify the change you want to achieve to address a societal problem at scale

Identify risky assumptions

Identify risky assumptions within your strategy, model or solution and prioritise which you should test first.

Doer and Payer at scale

Establish who will deliver your solution and who will pay for it once it's scaled to ensure you're doing it sustainably

Three stages

Curated collections

Real-life stories

JOURNEY TO IMPACT

Strategy

Model

Implementation

SUPPORT THE TOOLKIT

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