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A living library of white papers and reference resources on important topics in agriculture innovation, social enterprise, farm finance, agriculture policy, and impact measurement.
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Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Nonprofit Boards
This article shares our (somewhat counter-intuitive) experiences with our governing board, and how it's composition and function has evolved over time to meet our changing needs and opportunities.
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Financial Sustainability 2.0: A Means to an End
During the last two years (as of this writing), One Acre Fund’s thinking on financial sustainability has evolved. In this white paper, we explain the factors that have driven this change and our latest thinking on this important topic.
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Smallholder Farmers and Business: 15 pioneering collaborations for improved productivity and sustainability
This report shows how pioneer companies and organizations have sustainably increased the income and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers around the world.
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Whats Your Exit...Er Commitment Strategy?
Originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this article delves into the conditions under which nonprofits will find commitment strategies—rather than exit strategies—may be the right answer for their direct service programs.
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Ending Hunger in Africa
Why is solving the challenge of distribution bottlenecks key to successfully disseminating life-changing interventions to smallholder farmers? By Andrew Youn, originally published The Art & Science of Delivery, a report produced by McKinsey & Company.
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Scale Innovations
Our scale innovations team is like an R&D lab for operational improvements to the way One Acre Fund reaches farmers. This white paper discusses the team's unique approach and reviews several scale innovations trials.
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Professional Development of Field Staff
Field staff are crucial to One Acre Fund's future growth, and are the focus of extensive professional development efforts. This white paper delves into One Acre Fund's field staff development philosophy and strategy.
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Measuring to Improve vs. Improving Measurement
Originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this article explores — and challenges — how social sector organizations have traditionally approached the paradigm of impact measurement.
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To Serve the Poorest Clients, Earned Income Isn’t Enough
This articles discusses the tensions between pursuing high social impact while attempting to focus on a bottom line. By Matt Forti and Stephanie Hanson, originally published by the Harvard Business Review blog.
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Growing Prosperity: Developing Repeatable Models to Scale the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
This excerpt of the 2014 report by Bain & Company and Acumen features a case study of One Acre Fund's model and outlines what is needed to spur the large-scale adoption of agricultural innovations among smallholder farmers.
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Driving Financial Sustainability
As a direct service organization, One Acre Fund sees the pursuit of financial sustainability as integral to achieving its mission of transformative social impact. This white paper explains our approach to pursuing financial sustainability.
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Social Good = Scale x Impact (Who Knew?)
Originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this article explores why nonprofits and academics should focus on scale and impact when developing and evaluating direct service interventions. By Andrew Youn and Matt Forti.
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