NEWSLETTERS

Dear colleagues, This is not your usual Newsletter, but then these are highly unusual times. In this Newsletter we share with you our thoughts about the severe crisis in development and climate assistance and involve you in the process we are undertaking to respond to the crisis as a Community of Practice. The Crisis Our [...]

filler space Dear colleagues, Once again, we are delighted to offer you, our 4,200+ members, the latest news about SCoP activities and other exciting scaling news you have shared with us. This cover letter provides an update on some recent developments regarding the SCoP and on progress with our flagship action-research initiative on Mainstreaming Scaling [...]

Dear colleagues, As the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP) enters its 10th year, we are pleased to present Newsletter 30, marking two significant milestones at the same time. Once again, we are delighted to offer you, our 4,200+ members, the latest news about SCoP activities and other exciting scaling news you have shared with us. [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 29 of the Scaling Community of Practice (SCoP). This Newsletter provides you with summaries of our very successful 2024 Annual Forum on 11-26 March. The 12 virtual sessions covered a wide array of issues and experiences with presentations by 54 panelists from 51 organizations. A [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 28 of the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP). As usual, this Newsletter reports on news that submitted by some of our 4000 members. This time, we have organized your submissions under the CoP Working Group topics for ease of reference. In addition, you will find [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 27 of the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP).  As usual, this Newsletter reports on news that submitted by some of our 4000+ members plus references to recent knowledge products about scaling that have come across our screens. You can find this material and much more [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 26 of the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP). This Newsletter reports on our very successful Annual Workshop 2023 which ran from 23 January to 8 February 2023. The 11 Workshop sessions were attended by over 900 participants, 70 percent of them from the Global South. [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 25 of the Scaling Community of Practice (CoP). As usual, the Newsletter reports on various aspects of our collective work in the CoP: - the Annual Workshop 2023, planned in virtual format for 23 January to 8 February 2023; - the CoP's new strategy for [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter 24 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). As usual, the Newsletter reports on various aspects of our collective work in the CoP: the deliberations of our Executive Committee, the cross-cutting knowledge work that we have embarked on (especially on institutionalizing scaling in governments [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #23 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we present a short think piece by Jenny Perlman Robinson, our colleague who has for many years worked at Brookings on scaling education solutions and who has been a stalwart supporter of our [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #22 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on our 6th Annual Workshop which took place from 8-23 November, 2021. We are very grateful to over 900 participants who attended, to the 48 panelists and moderators, to the chairs [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #21 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on progress with our cross-cutting work on three topics: scaling and systems change; institutionalization of scaling; and principles of scaling. We also are moving forward with our planning for the next [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #20 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on our plans for this calendar year. They include a new webinar series on crosscutting scaling issues, our next (virtual) Annual Workshop during the last two weeks of October 2021, and [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #19 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on our 5th Annual Workshop from 19-30 October 2020. Many of you attended this gathering with 12 sessions over two weeks. We are very grateful to all of the 306 participants [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #18 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on the recent meeting of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the CoP. The Committee welcomed new members from the Global Climate Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sincere thanks [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #17 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter, we depart from our past format and focus exclusively on the COVID-19 crisis, a crisis that confronts the world with problems of a scale and of an urgency rarely seen before. We thought [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #16 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on the recent meeting of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the CoP, including the decision to go ahead with the establishment of a new Working Group on Climate Change and Environment. [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #15 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on the annual workshop of the CoP which took place on 24-25 October 2019 at the headquarters of Management Systems International. As you will see from the report, the discussion was [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #14 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on progress with putting our CoP on a more self-sustaining footing, organizationally and financially. We also report progress with our efforts to add three new working groups: (i) on scaling up [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #13 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on progress we’re making with putting our CoP on a more self-sustaining footing, organizationally and – hopefully – financially. We also report on plans to add two new working groups, one [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #12 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we try something a little different: Various members of the CoP have submitted blog-length special features on their work, which allow them to share their experience in somewhat greater depth than the regular [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #11 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In our last Newsletter we reported on the very successful CoP workshop, which took place in Arlington, VA on March 15-16, 2018. With some 70 participants from over 40 organizations and a growing list of CoP [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #10 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report on the very successful CoP workshop which took place in Arlington, VA on March 15-16. We also include a special feature on Millions Learning, the Brookings initiative on scaling up education [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #9 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter, with continue our recent practice of adding a blog-length special feature. This time Larry Cooley and Jonathan Papoulidis report on a recent paper that they have prepared on scaling up in fragile states. [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #8 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter, as a special feature, we report on a new initiative: the recent publication of the new frameworks for scaling up and impact measurement of the International Development Innovation (IDIA). In addition, as usual [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #7 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this Newsletter we report as usual on news from the CoP and CoP members and also report on publications that have come across our desks, which you might find of interest. We are also pleased [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #6 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this sixth Newsletter we report on the proceedings of the two-day workshop of the CoP held in Arlington, VA, on 27-28 October 2016. We were very pleased with the turnout of 39 participants from 24 [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #5 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this fifth Newsletter we update you about the developments of the CoP, and pass on information that some of you have kindly sent us in response to our call for contributions. In addition, we share [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #4 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this fourth Newsletter we update you about the developments of the CoP, and pass on information that some of you have kindly sent us in response to our call for contributions in November. In addition, [...]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share with you Newsletter #3 of the Scaling Up Community of Practice (CoP). In this third Newsletter we update you about the developments of the CoP, and pass on information that some of you have kindly sent us in response to our call for contributions in November. In addition, [...]