Internal Investment
Chances are you have identified a number of breakthrough ideas that could meet the health and welfare needs of your target population. It is always a good idea to make an internal investment in new business opportunities to show funders and investors that your organization is willing to take risks.
An internal investment can be demonstrated by either directly funding a portion of the development of a new SBCC product, service or intervention with new streams of funds, or, alternatively, by shifting existing funds from an obsolete product, service or intervention that continues to consume resources.
At this time, it is important to refer back to your Product and Service Inventory Worksheet to see if there are any SBCC products, services or interventions in your inventory that no longer require funding from your organization. If there are, and if these funds have not yet been reallocated, they may be available as seed funding for the new products, services and interventions your business plan will introduce.
Current Scope - Part II Worksheet
Instructions: Read and complete the following steps.
- After identifying your organization's potential new scope, return to the Product and Service Inventory Worksheet.
- Copy the list of SBCC products, services and interventions listed under Column 1 of the Product and Service Inventory Worksheet to the Existing Products/Services column on the following pages.
- Make sure the SBCC products, services and interventions listed are exactly those included in your inventory.
- Apply the status descriptors from the worksheet to each product, service and intervention listed .
- Use the column on the far right to rank the SBCC products, services and interventions according to the level of financial and human resources allocated.
- Prepare a brief statement describing the findings from this analysis. Be sure to indicate which of the products, services and/or interventions currently offered by your organization will be discontinued.