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Primary school student girls in a classroom in Rajasthan-DIBs
February 21, 2019

To DIB or not to DIB

A relatively new approach to development funding, DIBs come with a number of challenges. It's important to understand which contexts and sectors lend themselves to a successful DIB.
by Vikram Gandhi | 7 min read
livelihoods, jobs in India
January 23, 2019

Sustainable livelihoods: Where donors need to focus

After interviewing sector experts and 44 organisations, this report tells donors exactly what the sustainable livelihoods sector wants and needs.
by India Development Review | 6 min read
November 29, 2018

The opportunity for new philanthropy

Indian philanthropy needs to fund innovatively, take on riskier projects, and step in to fill the gaps that foreign philanthropy cannot.
by Pradeep Nair | 4 min read
September 07, 2018

Are the elite hijacking social change?

In Winners Take All, writer Anand Giridharadas calls out the hypocrisies of philanthropists.
by Mark Kramer | 6 min read
social businesses - girls using tech
June 19, 2018

“We were too smitten by our tech to see its cracks”

Our big ideas and business models often fail because we aren’t really listening to communities; nor are we involving them in co-creating solutions.
by Satyan Mishra | 5 min read
May 30, 2018

Why funding beyond the programme is a two way street

It takes two to make non-programmatic investments become a reality in the nonprofit sector. While funders must support sustainability and scaleability of programmes, so must organisations actively communicate what they need.
by Shridhar Venkat | 3 min read
Development Jargon
February 12, 2018

Decoding development jargon

Capacity building. Theory of change. Sustainability. This is the ultimate dictionary to help you make sense of what your colleagues are talking about. After all, someone's got to understand what these words really mean.
by Karan Malik | 1 min read
innovation sea waves
June 26, 2017

Are you delivering services or are you providing value?

More social organisations need to ask themselves whether their services benefit the people they aim to help. Nasreen Dhanji and Roshan Paul talk about how you can refine existing models to make them more efficient and impactful.
by Stanford Social Innovation Review | 1 min read
Innovation Lightbulb in a village
May 29, 2017

Innovation is not the Holy Grail

The social sector’s collective quest for innovation might actually be misinformed and counter-productive. Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair argue why it is time to move from innovation as an ideology to innovation as a process.
by Stanford Social Innovation Review | 2 min read
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