Frontiers in Social Innovation

8 _____________________________________ The Impact Triangle

Maximizing Efficacy, Financial Sustainability, and Scale

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Gloria Lee

It has been a roller coaster of a year for LaShawn. She leads the National Equity Project (NEP), a nonprofit leadership-development organization based in Oakland, California, that helps US K–12 schools eliminate racialized student outcomes. After Covid-19 caused schools nationwide to close in March 2020, she forecasted a 50 percent reduction in training revenue and immediately began planning scenarios that included staff reductions. A few months later, after George Floyd’s death and the resulting national call for racial justice, the NEP team saw a deluge of interest in their ...