iScale is a networked social enterprise committed to creating, developing, applying, promoting and sharing the innovations for scaling impact to address the world's most pressing challenges.

Despite constrained resources to tackle them, the world today is rife with complex, unyielding, and often brutal problems that cross all kinds of boundaries - geographical, sectoral, and functional - from the local to the global levels. These problems range in fields from finance to health to environment to human rights to corruption. Meanwhile, an ever broader range of stakeholders in government, private sector and civil society are creatively working to address these problems. iScale works around the world from the local to the global levels to dramatically scale the impact of these efforts.

Vision, Mission and Strategy

Our mission is to develop, promote, apply and share innovations that scale impact to address the the most intractable problems that create disharmony/to promote harmonious change in the world.

Our strategy consists of implementing high impact action-learning projects, facilitating communities of practice, and building fields (issue and competency), through which we develop, promote, apply and share innovations for scaling impact.

The iScale suite of innovations for scaling impact include:

• strategic mapping for scaling impact
• building and leveraging networks
• multi-stakeholder engagement and cross-sectoral problem-solving
• impact planning, assessment and learning systems
• social media and ict platforms
• next generation strategy, structure and governance approaches
• markets of the future and emerging regulatory approaches
• action-learning processes
• communities of practice

Combinations of these innovations are often needed to truly scale impact.

Governance

We are legally a 501(3)C in the United States registered in 2003 with 10 FTE staff (who we call stewards) and a network of on-call associate experts/consultants located in all regions of the world. Our partners include ISEAL, AccountAbility, Keystone, the Global Policy Institute, and numerous others around the world. Through our stewards and partners, we have physical office presence in Boston, Seattle, London, Brussels, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, Panama City, Mumbai, and Cape Town. Our 2008 budget is U$1.25 million. Our confirmed 2009 budget for 2009 is already U$1.25 million and our proposed budget is U$2 million.

Board of Directors

• Allen White, Tellus Institute & Chair, iScale
• Thomas Burke, Center for Global Health and Disaster Response, Mass. General Hospital
• Shawn Bohen, Year-Up
• Constance Kane, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
• Sanjeev Khagram, Harvard Business School
• Ralph Taylor, Metanoia Fund

Allen White - Tellus Institute Board Chair

Dr. White is a Vice President of Tellus Institute where he directs the Corporate Redesign Program. He has 30 years of experience in the area of corporate responsibility, advising multilaterals, foundations, corporations, and NGOs on strategies and policies for elevating the contribution of corporations to sustainable development. He co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative and served as its Director from 1999-2002. In 2004, he co-founded Corporation 2020, an initiative focused on designing future corporations to sustain social purpose. Dr. White has served on advisory boards and committees of ISO, Civic Capital, a social investment fund, the Institute of Responsible Investment at Boston College, and Instituto Ethos (Brazil). He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of GAN-NET, a non-profit dedicated to capacity building and movement building of global action networks that address critical issues of health, education, environment, trade and transparency. Dr. White has published and spoken widely on corporate responsibility, sustainability, and accountability. Earlier in his career, Dr. White held faculty and research positions at the University of Connecticut, Clark University and Battelle Laboratories, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Peru and Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua.Dr. White received a Ph.D. in geography from Ohio State University in 1976.

Thomas Burke - Center for Global Health and Disaster Response, Mass. General Hospital

Thomas Burke, MD, directs the Center for Global Health and Disaster Response at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the associate clinical director of the emergency department at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a practicing emergency physician on the faculty at Children's Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Burke has spent half of his career in community practice and half in academia. His many extraordinary experiences include 7 years in the U.S. Army with several overseas deployments and serving as the doctor for the FBI Hostage Rescue Team at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. He served as director of the emergency department in the U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center during the Bosnian crisis and helped care for 28,000 refugees in Guantanamo Bay in 1995. Currently Dr. Burke is the medical director for two companies that provide expeditions via private jets for international travel. He has served as a visiting professor and lecturer in many countries. Dr. Burke's unique collection of published essays is available online at NotesFromtheER.com.

Shawn Bohen - Year-Up

Shawn Jacqueline Bohen has made a career of creating, building, growing, and strategically realigning mission-driven organizations. Bohen is deeply interested in figuring out how human beings can overcome differences in cultures, belief systems, geographies, languages, and economic realities to tackle the most challenging and interesting questions our global society faces - the social, political, economic, environmental dilemmas, which fall between the cracks of our existing knowledge, institutional structures, and sectors.

Bohen most recently served as Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University co-leading the institution's approach to finding, hiring, developing, promoting and retaining a diverse, world-class faculty. Over the last 25 years Bohen has developed an expertise as a collaborative strategist, translating ideas into action and navigating and facilitating relationships among people who are, in her mind, at the center of any answers we may find to these critical "bridging" questions.

Bohen holds an MBA from Babson and a BA in Theatre Arts and English from the University of Minnesota. Bohen's embrace of living and working as a fully integrated person has sustained her journey through political organization, theatre, and academic management. She is the mother of two children.

Constance Kane - Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Dr. Constance Kane is the Vice President and COO for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. She has worked in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Constance held previous positions as a Senior Consultant for the Africa Division of World Education International, the Global Program Director for Oxfam America and the Asia Regional Director for Pact Inc. She is also founding member and Vice Chairperson of the Global Reporting Initiative.

Sanjeev Khagram - Harvard Business School

Dr. Khagram is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral leadership, research, teaching and engagement in the areas of globalization and transnationalism, sustainable development, human security, good governance, public policy, partnerships, social networks, corporate social responsibility, civil society, strategic management, impact assessment. He is currently a Wyss Scholar at the Harvard Business School, Ratan Tata Chair at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and Lead Steward of iScale. He was previously Dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre and led the global impact evaluation and learning program at the World Commission On Dams. He has published widely including: Restructuring World Politics, with University of Minnesota Press; Dams and Development, with Cornell University Press; The Transnational Studies Reader with Routledge Press; "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance: A Transnational Perspective/ Prospective" in the journal Global Governance, "Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, and "Social Balance Sheets" in Harvard Business Review - Latin America. Khagram has worked extensively with global action networks, multilateral agencies, governments, corporations, civil society organizations, professional associations and universities all over the world, with extended periods in Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. He holds a B.A. in development studies/engineering, an M.A. in economics (from the Food Research Institute), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from Stanford University.

Ralph Taylor - Metanoia Fund

As an advisor to the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation, and a trustee of the Metanoia Fund, a philanthropy that supports breakthrough social technologies that enhance the efficacy of multi-stakeholder processes and outcomes, Mr. Taylor has engineered a portfolio of multi-year grants to enhance corporate and government accountability standards and mission related investment strategies. Examples include the Global Reporting Initiative, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative, and the Access Initiative. Mr. Taylor is a Director of World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. He is also founder and member of the coordinating committee of the Generative Dialogue Project, a global community of practice that nurtures and promotes generative dialogue for an equitable and sustainable world. The community seeks to integrate individual and societal transformation through dialogic processes and initiatives. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Divinity School.

Partners

iScale partners with organizations from all sectors around the world, including:

• AccountAbility
• Center for Asia and Globalization (Singapore)
• Excelsior!
• Ford Foundation
• Generative Change Community
• Humboldt-Viadrina Governance School
• Harvard Busines School Social Enterprise Program
• Harvard Transnational Studies Initiative
• Humanity United
• International Development Resource Center
• ISEAL Alliance
• Institute for Strategic Clarity
• Keystone Accountability
• Metanoia
• Omidyar Network
• Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences
• Tutu Peace Center
• Value Networks
• Volans

Vision, Mission and Strategy
Governance
Board of Directors
Partners