SVA Quarterly Social Ventures Australia

At SVA’s summit into impact at scale, three leaders in social change in Australia and the UK shared their insights into what it takes to create impact at scale?
The speakers are:
- Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, UK National Health Service Confederation 
- Kristy Muir, Chief Executive Officer, Paul Ramsay Foundation 
- Cindy Reese Mitchell, Program Director for Indigenous Women’s Entrepreneurship, Good Return.
Their responses covered a range of experience from dealing with large systemic changes in UK’s National Health Service, through place-based community projects across Australia, to working with an Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship program in the Kimberleys which provides takeaways for people working with First Nations people.
For a summary article, see www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/what-does-it-take-to-create-large-scale-impact/

Dr Neela Saldanha, Executive Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation & Scale (Y-RISE), visited Australia on the invitation of SVA to give the keynote address at our summit on impact at scale. She explained why successful pilots often don’t achieve the same results ‘at scale’ and provided questions to consider when expanding a change program.
View the slides referred to in the podcast: https://www.socialventures.com.au/assets/Dr-Neela-Saldanha-keynote-slides.pdf

For summary article: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/five-questions-to-consider-when-scaling-for-impact/

Elyse Sainty, director in the Impact Investing team at Social Ventures Australia, spoke with Patrick Flynn, director of public affairs at SVA, as she’s about to pass on the baton after 10 years leading SVA’s work in social impact bonds (SIBs) and outcomes contracts.
https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/outcomes-contracting-trailblazer-shares-knowledge-before-passing-the-baton/

Research from SVA and CSI found that not-for-profit organisations across Australia are, in general, not funded for the actual cost of what they do. The result is less effective operations and reduced impact. Author of SVA Quarterly article, Sam Thorp explores this tendency and its impact. For more see: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/paying-what-it-takes-to-create-impact/

Sally Garis outlilnes how strategic partnerships offer corporates the opportunity to create business and social value. She looks at how companies are adopting more effective ways to partner with the non-profit sector.
From the SVA Quarterly aritcle: https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/building-effective-corporate-partnerships-with-non-profits/

Field-building intermediaries play an important role in social sector ecosystems and they need to be supported financially. But what do they do and what kind of funding do they need to sustain their work and impact?
Annabelle Roxon provides this audio of the SVA Quarterly article:
https://www.socialventures.com.au/sva-quarterly/social-sector-intermediaries-what-are-they-and-what-do-they-need/