Philanthropy & CSR

Vidya Shah of EdelGive Foundation talks about what funders did and didn’t get right during COVID-19, and what the way forward should be.

Funders need to broaden their approach to supporting technology, focusing as much on the tech ecosystem as they do on individual projects.

Embedding a core purpose into their business ethos can help companies move beyond a compliance-based attitude towards CSR.

The cost-based funding approach of Indian philanthropists does more harm than good for nonprofits and for their impact.

Blended finance can improve the quality of India's spending on healthcare and education; and bring the country closer to achieving its development goals.

Unrestricted grants for nonprofits are hard to come by. Here's why funders need to place bigger bets on the social sector.

A closer look at the complex internal CSR decision making processes at companies, and their impact on the social sector.

Media attention on COVID-19 deaths due to a lack of oxygen in big cities has skewed donor priorities. This is impacting relief efforts on the ground.

Rohini Nilekani on how philanthropy can underwrite social sector failures in practice and what she has learnt from her own failures as an activist philanthropist.

While designing India’s social stock exchange, emphasis should be laid on ensuring independent leadership, ensuring scale, building investor and donor appetite, and developing a viable business model.