Stages

Capacity building strengthens skills, resources, and systems to help individuals and organizations achieve and sustain their goals, supporting effective social innovation and local leadership.

Demonstration models showcase innovations in real-world settings, providing proof of concept, inspiring replication, informing policy, and driving systemic adoption in development and social change.

Ecosystem strengthening enables diverse actors to collaborate, supporting social innovation through aligned institutions, resources, and policies for sustainable, scalable systemic change.

Evidence building verifies the effectiveness of innovations, guiding decision-making and supporting the spread of successful practices while preventing ineffective ones in social change and development.

Field building strengthens collective capacity by developing infrastructure, norms, and shared identity to create systemic impact and sustain social innovation ecosystems.

Government adoption is essential for scaling innovations by integrating them into policies and systems, ensuring sustainable impact and broad population reach through public institutions.

Growth trajectory outlines how innovations or organizations expand their impact over time, emphasizing intentional scaling, adaptation, and sustainable growth to deepen outcomes and systemic relevance.

Impact at scale transforms innovations into widespread, lasting change by reaching large populations, integrating into systems, and ensuring sustainability and equity in social and environmental outcomes.

Institution building establishes durable structures and systems that sustain social, economic, and political progress, ensuring accountability, capacity development, and legitimacy for lasting impact and systemic transformation.

Institutionalization embeds innovations into formal systems to ensure lasting, scalable, and sustainable impact by integrating new ideas into policies, routines, and resource allocation.