Implement the Intervention

Identify and prepare the resources you need.

To deliver your intervention, you will need personnel, funding, physical products, partnerships, and more. Without a clear understanding of the resources needed for proper implementation, your organization is unlikely to achieve its desired results. As part of the implementation process, it's crucial to measure the amount of resources you will need in your first iteration and appropriately assess how those needs might change as your efforts increase. As you encounter new challenges with your intervention, the need to secure additional resources is likely. However, by considering the logistics of capacity building now rather than later, you will be better situated to grow.

What resources will your intervention require?

Be strategic about your funding streams.

Understanding how to best secure funding in accordance with your organization's legal structure is a key part of successful implementation. You will need to plan how to secure and distribute funding in alignment with your supporting organization’s goals. Do you need to fundraise or write a grant? Does your for-profit company allocate a certain amount of revenue to charitable giving? Set specific funding goals or estimates and clearly define where those funds are likely to come from. For example, nonprofits often rely on public and private fundraising to cover the cost of their interventions, while utilizing volunteers for manpower. Interventions implemented by private companies are usually funded by the company itself, with labor provided by paid employees or nonprofit collaborators.


What is your organization's structure and how does it affect your funding flow?

If your intervention is successful, consider scaling it.

There are three ways to grow an intervention's scale: reach, depth, and replication. To boost reach, grow the number of people who are receiving the program in the same community. For depth, identify a new aspect of the same social problem and innovate a way to address it. And for replication, expand the circle of communities that will receive your intervention. For example, to expand the reach of an intervention focused on providing marginalized students greater access to the outdoors, an organization could request that more students from the same school be allowed to join their monthly field trip. Meanwhile, scaling for depth might include inviting parents to join their children on the field trip each month and educating them on the physical and emotional benefits correlated with increased time outdoors. Replication might look like implementing the intervention at a new school.


What type of scaling would best fit your intervention?