{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Scaling Impact","title":"Supporting Nonprofits to Scale: Insights from GreenLight Fund Boston’s Melissa Luna","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1709,"description":"In this episode, Senior Executive Director of GreenLight Fund, Melissa Luna, discusses the organization's mission to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity by launching and scaling proven programs that address community-identified needs, GreenLight Fund's approach of investing financial resources and providing long-term sustainability support to partner organizations, and the significance of community engagement and learning from past data and trends within the GreenLight Fund portfolio.Melissa Luna is an experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the philanthropy and nonprofit industry, who is skilled in Nonprofit Management, Program Design, Politics, Policy Analysis, Event Planning, and Evaluation. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Scaling Impact:The programs that the organization launches and scales that meet community-identified needs.The multi-year funds and on-ground support that Greenlight Fund invests and provides for portfolio organizations.The KPIs are outlined to determine reasonable and high growth for organizations over four years.How brand visibility, partnerships, and unlocking investments are important for growth and expansion.Why successful scaling requires a step-by-step approach and managing risk with the unexpected that may come along.How Greenlight Fund helps nonprofits to scale up in the Greater Boston region.Resources:GreenLight FundNxtStepPodcast ChefConnecting with Melissa Luna:LinkedInConnecting with Sean Boyce:LinkedInEmailQuotables:15:20 – “I'd love to talk a little bit more about that too because obviously the theme of this show is figuring out how to help people that are making amazing change, but maybe it's just hyper-local at the moment, but it's something that, you know, the needs that you described, the mental health challenges, the disproportionate level of access for people of color, those types of things, those are not hyperlocal problems, right? Like they may be...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/66Z-JkzyaQve51NguBCteHZdh4LBbMmJS4LNGtPEwTw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzOTY0LzE2NjI3/MjAyMzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}