The greatest challenge in the social enterprise space: scale. How do you move beyond a few cases of great work and great impact to a sector that has the potential for scale? How do you institutionalize and build good organizations around the successes that many social entrepreneurs have had with small pilots? There seems to be a lot of hype around some small scale organizations, but there needs to be a big push – a big push to create models that are actually scalable, cost effective, and efficient; a big push to attract investment; and finally, a big push to attract talent to the sector.

This is what Neera Nundy, Managing Partner of Dasra and leader of the track on Intellectual and Human Capital at the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship tomorrow, emphasized when I had the chance to sit down with her last week. According to Nundy, “As organizations think about growing their outreach, they need to think about growing thier teams in terms of expertise and skills.” Funding needs to be thought of as not only supporting programs, but being used to hire the people that you need to grow. » Continue reading “Building Alternative Talent Pools”