Kimberly Langsam

June 2025 Read the report here Authors: Catherine Clark & Kimberly Bardy LangsamProduced by: CASE at Duke in collaboration with Impact Frontiers Overview:Impact ratings are often seen as a first step toward integrated impact-financial analysis—but they are far more than that. In this new report, More Than a Starting Point, CASE at Duke explores how 14 impact investing […]

In this December 2022 article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, authors Erin Worsham and Kimberly Bardy Langsam share a checklist to avoid common problems that funders have identified in evaluating applications. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/why_we_didnt_fund_your_scaling_plan#

Pathways are the strategies that a nonprofit or for-profit social enterprise can pursue to scale impact. Each pathway — and the range of variations within — can help an enterprise think about its role in the ultimate solution as well as the implications on its operating model, funding, and more. This straightforward guide lays out […]

This case study from the Scaling Pathways series outlines key scaling strategies, the history of the scaling journey, and insights and lessons learned.

One of the significant challenges for scaling social ventures is learning how to create the right data strategy for their organization. We share tactical insights about setting a foundation grounded in equity, the building blocks for a robust system and process, and additional strategies as you grow, partner, look to systems change, or desire to […]

It isn’t “business as usual” with your organization’s human capital as you scale. We share tips for evolving your organizational structure and roles, assembling and maintaining flexibility with your team, leveraging outside capacity, and maintaining a robust organizational culture. Erin Worsham, Kimberly Langsam, Ellen Martin 2019

This case study from the Scaling Pathways series outlines key scaling strategies, the history of the scaling journey, and insights and lessons learned.

This case study from the Scaling Pathways series outlines key scaling strategies, the history of the scaling journey, and insights and lessons learned.

This case study from the Scaling Pathways series outlines key scaling strategies, the history of the scaling journey, and insights and lessons learned.

This case study from the Scaling Pathways series outlines key scaling strategies, the history of the scaling journey, and insights and lessons learned.