ABSTRACT
Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investors’ organization is the key to maximizing impact from the resources at hand. Adopting innovations that have been developed, tested, and used successfully by others can lead to improvements in performance and impacts. Organizations can radically increase their impacts in three different ways: through innovation, through scaling successful approaches, and through leveraging impact by working with others. Organizations can amplify their social impacts and increase their contribution to creating the social changes they desire. The highest level is leverage beyond the sector, typically to government agencies and corporations that can employ the assets of the social sector. Social Finance launched the social impact bond fund in 2010. This innovation has proven promising. Low-cost product and service designs developed for use in impoverished regions have spilled over into commercial markets. Every effective organization has opportunities to amplify impacts.
