Center for Social Innovation

Published: February 19, 2013 Download  1 hour 3 minutes,

How can smaller and local nonprofits dramatically increase their impact? In this audio lecture, senior consultant at the Monitor Institute and co-author of Local Forces for Good, Heather McLeod Grant shares ideas and case studies of high-impact small and local nonprofits, and how these organizations have leveraged outside forces and agencies to great success. Speaking from Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Nonprofit Management Institute, McLeod Grant analyzes how many smaller nonprofits managed not only to survive the economic downturn, but also to thrive during that time.

Heather McLeod Grant is a senior consultant at the Monitor Institute, where she focuses on scaling social impact, leveraging networks for social change, and transforming large-scale legacy nonprofits. She is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, named a Top Ten Book of 2007 by The Economist. McLeod Grant was a former McKinsey & Company consultant and a co-founder of Who Cares, a national magazine for young social entrepreneurs and activists. She has also been an advisor to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the National Civic League, HandsOn Bay Area, and the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and an AB from Harvard University.