Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

“Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits” represents an innovative guide on how nonprofits achieve social impact and relates to how the Reut Institute aims to model itself.

Most early research on how nonprofits expand social impact focuses on ‘Program Replication.’ In the past decade however, this focus has shifted to building organizational capacity in order to deliver programs more efficiently.

More recently, nonprofits have been advised to look to the private sector for models of success. However, as the authors describe, better management practices can only create incremental, not ‘breakthrough’ social change. To that end, they suggest the best way to understand impact is to study nonprofits as catalytic agents of change and present 6 practices to achieve more impact:

In this context, the Reut-Institute perceives itself as a catalyst which employs a strategy of leverage between government, business and civil society to deliver greater social change than they could possibly achieve alone.

For example, in the realm of socio-economics, Reut aims to:
(1)  Match up people and organizations committed to fulfilling the ISRAEL 15 Vision;
(2)  Generate a sense of urgency to motivate structural changes essential to fulfilling this vision;
(3)  Build capacities and institutions essential for leapfrogging;
(4)  Identify models of success, extract relevant insights and then disseminate them.