Sustainability

How can an organization sustain an initiative financially over time? What makes an initiative fresh and compelling even as it ages and matures? These and other questions about the sustainability of excellence in a shared initiative are foundational to its success. Threats to sustained excellence can arise from an almost limited number of places. Key personnel may move on, for example: competition may arise for attention, resources, and excitement. A project may encounter unexpected resistance even as it succeeds. Achieving a scale sufficient to attract funding may be difficult.

The Pi² project deals specifically with these problems and their implications for the leadership of important public-private initiatives. The feedback loop between sustained investment and the achievement of impact is our particular focus in this area of the project.