Sharing Our Knowledge

In line with our mission to systematically spread blueprints for social change throughout the developing world, Global Gain plans to openly share everything we learn with the NGO sector as a whole. Our goal is to carefully document every project we're involved with and make this information easily and readily available to other NGOs and foundations interested in applying Global Gain's theory of change to their own work.

Proof of concept: In 2007, we will be taking on our first major project to demonstrate adaptive blueprinting as a means of quickly and effectively taking proven ideas to scale.

Documenting our work: We will team up with the Indian NGO Start-Up! to document the entire process and share it via our website and through other channels. Start-Up's founder and Executive Director, Manisha Gupta, has already documented one highly-successful case study for scaling-out a proven blueprint for social change in her book 1098 about Childline, a hotline for street children in India. Childline spread rapidly from a pilot project in Mumbai in 1994 to every major city in India in just four years. Mrs. Gupta helped Childline's founder, Jeroo Billimoria, identify and train partners in the Childline model and wrote the book to make sure the knowledge they gained from the process could be used to help others as they launch initiatives of their own.

Training NGO leaders: After proof of concept has been established and at least one case-study thoroughly documented, Global Gain will team up with Atlas Corps to launch our first intensive training course designed to teach NGO leaders how to adopt principles of adaptive blueprinting and scaling-out for their own organizations. Atlas Service Corps fellows will spend one month with Global Gain to develop custom strategies that enable them to make use of the wealth of information we hope to have accumulated by this time.