After a review of its grantee-partners' work, the Ford Foundation developed a scaling framework defined by 'five basic pathways to scale' to enable large numbers of people and institutions to build assets.

The purpose of this report is to share what they have learned and what still needs to be understood about these five pathways: which strategies the Ford Foundation and its grantees tend to use to move along a particular pathway; how combinations of pathways may be used; what each pathway’s factors for success may be; how to design solutions and build capacities for “scalability;” and some of the many questions that remain about the process of scaling up.