Executive Summary This paper serves to document, as a case study in the Scaling Community of Practice’s mainstreaming initiative, how a leading philanthropic intermediary integrates scaling into its operations—so other funders can apply the lessons. Although funded by LFC, the analysis remains that of the author’s alone. The study synthesizes: (i) a review of LFC documentation; (ii) interviews with LFC staff and leadership (“key informants”); (iii) anonymous interviews with leaders from organizations that participated in LFC’s open-calls (OCs); and (iv) ...

A.  Introduction The world faces enormous development, humanitarian, and climate challenges at the very time when traditional sources of international financial support are suffering major cutbacks. Likewise, governments in the Global South, the private sector and civil society are under stress, while communities face major challenges to their cohesion and traditions of civic culture.  This puts a premium on ensuring that the available financing shifts its focus from funding innovative, standalone projects to increasing the capacity of governments, social enterprises, ...

A. Introduction The world faces enormous development, humanitarian, and climate challenges at the very time when traditional sources of international financial support are suffering major cutbacks. Likewise, governments in the Global South, the private sectors and civil society are under stress, while communities face major challenges to their cohesion and traditions of civic culture.  This puts a premium on ensuring that the available financing shifts its focus from funding innovative standalone projects to increasing the capacity of governments, social enterprises, ...

Over 2.5 billion people can’t afford a healthy diet. Over half of all children and two out of three women globally are deficient in the essential micronutrients they need to thrive—affording nutritious foods is out of reach for many. For more than two decades, biofortification has proven to be a cost-effective, food-based solution to address hidden hunger. Scaling has gained momentum and millions of farming households and consumers in non-farming households globally, are now growing and eating biofortified foods, making ...

Preface: A High-Level Summary of Findings This report presents a synthesis of findings from a three-year action research initiative undertaken by the Scaling Community of Practice. The main findings of the report are also summarized in a Policy Brief. The world faces enormous development, humanitarian, and climate challenges at the very time when traditional sources of support are suffering major cutbacks. This puts a premium on ensuring that the available financing shifts its focus from funding innovative standalone projects to ...

Acknowledgements The Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) and the authors are indebted to the many colleagues from the funder partner organizations that participated in this Initiative with case studies and in commenting on the findings. The authors received helpful comments on the Synthesis Report from the SCoP’s High-Level Advisory Group, the SCoP Executive Committee, a special Steering Group for the analysis of mainstreaming scaling by foundations, and from participants in various dissemination events. The authors and the SCoP wish to ...