A list of organisations and professionals that provide nonprofits with functional support, including communications, governance, compliance, strategy, and other areas.
This is an edited version of the comprehensive intermediary database published by Atma as a part of the Pay-What-It-Takes India Initiative (PWIT). You can view the complete database here.
*This list was last updated on February 10, 2024. If you would like to suggest any edits to this page, please writetous@idronline.org
About the service provider: 4th Wheel is a research and advisory firm that provides valid and sophisticated insights to social welfare programmes to enable data-driven decisions. They also assist in transforming reports into visually engaging content to share stories, garner support, and improve the likelihood of comprehension and engagement, in turn building positive social perceptions of organisations.
About the service provider: 86B offers bespoke, expert services to clients with M&E and impact measurement needs. The 86B team consists of professionals who strive to deliver quality services that are actionable and sustainable for clients to use and reuse.
About the service provider: Aam Digital is an easy-to-use software for social sector organisations to make their work with beneficiaries more effective and transparent. They are a Germany-based, Open Source SaaS startup that enables digitisation of the social sector.
About the service provider: Acumen Academy is the world’s school for social change. It aims unleash a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the determination to build a more just, inclusive, and sustainable world.
About the service provider: AFARM is one of the oldest networks of NGOs in Maharashtra with ever expanding membership. AFARM's identity emerged from an acute need for an apex institution to co-ordinate and support the efforts of voluntary organisations to provide water and agricultural extension services in drought affected villages in Maharashtra. AFARM contributes to strengthening the capacities of small organisations to enable them to manage their affairs in the long run and gain credibility among people, government, and social sector.
About the service provider: Amani Institute is a global nonprofit that specialises in innovative leadership programmes that drive social change. They provide practical skills that empower individuals and organisations with tools for positive impact, alongside tailored training and consulting services to enhance social change strategies.
About the service provider: Aparna Bhasin Consulting provides strategic guidance and support to social purpose organisations and the related ecosystem—with the end goal of maximising impact. Their core service areas include impact advisory, scale assessment and coaching, research and evaluation, and organisation capacity building.
About the service provider: Aria strives to be the CFO Services firm that philanthropists and charities come to when they are looking for transparency, governance, and streamlining processes. They develop practical, customised insights that NGO partners can benefit from.
About the service provider: Arthan is a social enterprise committed to strengthening the impact sector ecosystem by helping organisations in the sector find the best talent. They work closely with social impact organisations in the areas of talen acquisition, capacity building, and thought leadership.
About the service provider: Atma is an Accelerator for NGOs in India. They support NGOs in their capacity building journey across 10 organisation development areas.
About the service provider: Atrios Consulting is a premier partner for top-tier leadership hiring solutions within the development sector. With a deep understanding of the unique challenges and intricacies of the development domain, they specialise in connecting organisations with exceptional leaders who can drive meaningful and sustainable impact.
About the service provider: Bhumi is one of India's largest independent youth volunteer non-profit organisations. Bhumi as a platform enables over 90,000 volunteers in over 20 cities across India for causes including education, environment, animals, and community welfare.
About the service provider: Cerebrus Consultants is a reputed HR advisory firm that works in the areas of organisation design, rewards, HR policy, organisation capability building, and leadership development.
About the service provider: Change Plus is a leadership development firm focused on building engaging learning journeys for managers and leaders in an organisation.
About the service provider: Co.labx helps early and growth stage organisations build high-performing leadership teams. They do this through innovative action sprints to help teams build habits that endure.
About the service provider: Common Purpose is a global nonprofit devoted to developing leaders who can cross boundaries—between geographies, generations, sectors, specialisations, backgrounds and beliefs.
About the service provider: danamojo is a compliance-first payment solutions platform designed specifically for NGOs. Its purpose is to help NGOs raise more funds from individuals by providing a convenient and efficient mechanism to collect donations and engage donors.
About the service provider: Dasra is India’s leading strategic philanthropy foundation, working with philanthropists and high impact social entrepreneurs to bring together knowledge, funding, and talent as a catalyst for social change.
About the service provider: DataOGram is dedicated to enhancing data collection processes for organisations. They help organisations by solving complex data collection requirements using KoboToolBox. The forms can support, longitudinal survey, offline data collection, skip logics, and data validations.
About the service provider: Deshpande Skilling is contributing to the overarching goal of rural transformation by enhancing the employability of educated youth from colleges in tier II/III towns and villages and assisting them to land an organised sector job.
About the service provider: Development Solutions strives to promote informed and grounded decision-making for development and enable impact-driven institutions to leverage the power of research and knowledge, irrespective of size, context, and networks.
About the service provider: Dhwani Foundation provides NGO capacity-building programmes, technology solutions, support services, and strategic collaborations.
About the service provider: Through her boutique research organisation, Dr. Vinti K. Agarwal carries out research projects in realm of designing MEL systems, impact assessment, and/or projects related to theory of change or literature review.
About the service provider: EduMentum is an incubator and accelerator programme that empowers grassroots level organisations. EduMentum provides mentorship, networking opportunities, and access to funding, to assist these organisations in refining their programmes, developing their organisations, and building a robust foundation for long-term success.
About the service provider: EdZola is a Tech4Good company that develops and implements highly customisable and scalable tech solutions. They are focused on helping NGOs save time and cost with affordable low-code solutions.
About the service provider: eivolve incubates startup ideas that aspire to bring about significant social impact driven through volunteers. Be it in education, environment, animal welfare, disability, child care, health, gender issues, civic engagement and citizenship or any other cause, eivolve intends to support organisations that aim to engage thousands of volunteers as change-makers.
About the service provider: Ekaimpact Foundation is a section 8 nonprofit that helps high-impact yet underfunded NGOs pan-India raise funding from an extensive network of HNIs, family offices, and CSR wings.
About the service provider: Gamechanger Law Advisors is a boutique law firm with domain expertise in the social impact space, having advised clients over several years on all their corporate and commercial legal requirements, starting from incorporation/setting up of legal entities, governance, corporate law advisory, contract drafting, labour and employment advisory, FCRA, and philanthropic grant making/receiving, etc.
About the service provider: Give’s mission is to make giving bigger and better. Through their technology solutions and services, they enable individuals and organisations to raise funds for and donate to any cause they care about.
About the service provider: GlocalBodh is a social enterprise tht works mainly with grassroots NGOs and CBOs. Their NGO management course empowers grassroots NGOs/ CBOs to integrate their vision and shape a future where communities flourish.
About the service provider: Goalkeep's mission is to build data culture within social sector organisations. They do this
by refining measurement frameworks, building data pipelines and dashboards, and embedding data reviews within org routines.
About the service provider: Governance Counts helps nonprofits build more effective boards. This includes co-designing board strategy for the organisation with the founder/board member, training of board members, supporting the engagement of boards/advisors prudently, recommending potential board members or advisors, and weeding out non-contributing members.
About the service provider: Gram Vaani uses technology to create participatory media platforms that people find accessible and adaptable. They develop communication platforms where people whose voices are often unheard can share their opinions, hear from each other, and build communities.
About the service provider: Ground Zero Consulting strengthens the nonprofit ecosystem through talent acquisition, collaboration, partnerships, and re/designing policies/systems/programmes for scale.
About the service provider: i-Behind The Ink Foundation is a social enterprise working on mental health and well-being. They specialise in expressive arts therapy as a medium for content delivery and design.
About the service provider: ILSS aims to strengthen India's social sector by transforming the quality of leadership and talent through a selection of robust learning programmes. ILSS endeavours to build the skills, networks, and knowledge to create innovative and sustainable solutions for greater impact, at scale.
About the service provider: INDIAdonates is a flagship initiative of DevPro Trust. INDIAdonates primarily intervenes in areas of fundraising for grassroots organisations and works with a network of over 120 NGOs to raise funds for their projects and to capacitate them on various aspects of fundraising.
About the service provider: Indian School of Development Management has been working towards making a positive impact on the development sector and has been engaging with students, pracademics, thought leaders, and SPOs in shaping its work and body of knowledge.
About the service provider: InnovatED is Teach For India's national platform for incubating entrepreneurs from amongst its alumni community, looking to build impactful organisations in education. We help these entrepreneurs who want to take their innovations from the project or prototype stage to a sustainable organisation.
About the service provider: iProbono is a social justice organisation dedicated to providing quality legal support to NGOs. Their mission is to offer pro bono legal advice and comprehensive assistance, enabling organisations to focus on impactful endeavours in relation to their programmatic work.
About the service provider: iVolunteer is dedicated to uniting volunteers and organisations to advance India's social development. It forges strategic volunteering alliances with notable corporations, supported by esteemed charitable foundations. The organisation's mission is to bring volunteers and organisations together to share time, skills, and passion to promote India's social development.
About the service provider: Kohmorehbee Consulting offers services in the space of strategic philanthropy, fostering trust in the ecosystem, and capacity for resource mobilisation in the social sector.
About the service provider: LastBench Studio is boutique studio of artists focused on crafting compelling narratives and building purpose-led brands. They do this by building creatives in the form of videos, publications, and other collaterals, as required to help a brand communicate their stories better.
About the service provider: Monk Prayogshala is an academic research nonprofit based in India. Monk Prayogshala comprises a team of research authors, assistants, and interns currently working in the areas of social and behavioural science research. The Prayogshala team aims to follow rigorous processes in the development of research proposals, while ensuring adherence to ethical considerations prescribed by international organisations.
About the service provider: Neha Chawla is a social entrepreneur, changemaker, published author, and a corporate veteran that has worked on HR and marketing with IT, startups, and ed-tech organisations. She currently runs two organisations—NGOStory and Project Shiksha.
About the service provider: NSRCEL is IIM Bangalore’s flagship business incubator that is a nonprofit institution purely focused on aiding creators and funding startups in their journey.
About the service provider: Orvador is a boutique digital marketing agency working with NGOs and sustainable e-commerce brands to help them grow online.They provide SEO and digital marketing services to brands that are into sustainable e-commerce businesses and NGOs to help them improve organic visibility and retail fundraising.
About the service provider: Outline India is a research and development consultancy pioneering the use of data for social impact. They consider themselves catalysts for the work of governments, corporate CSRs, social organisations, foundations, and philanthropists by working at the confluence of intellectual capital, technology and voices from the grassroots.
About the service provider: Pacta is a Bengaluru based full-service boutique law firm and think-tank focusing exclusively on the legal and policy needs of the social sector. Pacta services nonprofits with operations in India and globally to provide legal strategy and solutions that inform the nonprofits' operations and programme design in compliance with law, minimise risk, and ensure robust internal policies and governance mechanisms are in place.
About the service provider: Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) is a global centre for participatory research and training with a focus towards empowering citizens through information and mobilisation and sensitising government agencies towards citizen needs. They build capacities of citizens, communities, and institutions, to enable vibrant, gender-equal societies.
About the service provider: PQ (Philathropy Quotient) Solutions provides consulting, knowledge, and software services to support the fundraising, engagement, and marketing efforts of social enterprises working towards making a significant impact in their communities.
About the service provider: Platform Commons is a social enterprise that builds open-source and inclusive platforms to address the world's most pressing challenges. Their services include pre-built digital software accelerators/components that can be customised to a non-profit's needs and go to market faster and strategic platform and mult-sided marketplace consulting support.
About the service provider: Plustrust offers microincubation support for rural women change makers and encourage grassroot organisations through mentoring and capacity building.
About the service provider: Pooja Pandey is a trained qualitative researcher with over six years of professional work experience in policy, research, and education. She has provided research, documentation, and policy-designing support to a range of government and non-government organisations.
About the service provider: Populi LLP is a development advisory firm that partners with organisations in generating meaningful impact. Their services include programme design, tool design, evaluations, data visualisation, capacity building, and project management.
About the service provider: Prashant Tak is a development and public policy professional with more than seven years of work experience in research, developing strategic interventions, implementation within a multi-stakeholder ecosystem, and advocating for the rights of socially and economically marginalised communities in India.
About the service provider: Pravah’s youth-centric approach involves working with young people on self awareness, building positive relationships, and inspiring social action. They work with schools, colleges, young social entrepreneurs, youth-led organisations, trainers, govt. agencies and CSOs to embed a youth-centric approach.
About the service provider: Praxis is a development support organisation aiming to democratise development processes to make them more inclusive, relevant and responsive vis-à-vis marginalised communities through participatory research, capacity-building, documentation, and dissemination of pro-poor research initiatives.
About the service provider: Probex is a small firm that develops theories of change and design evaluations; supports clients to develop internal M&E systems, creates simple dashboards for programme monitoring, conducts evaluations using quantitative and/or qualitative methods and studies that synthesise evidence from multiple evaluations.
About the service provider: Prod is a communications and design agency that
collaborates with stakeholders in the impact ecosystem to help them effectively
communicate their stories and causes to a broader audience.
About the service provider: Project Tech4Dev's mission is to build digital solutions using open source technology to drive strategic transformation, operational efficiency, and scale expansion for social sector organisations. They empower nonprofits to use technology and data effectively to serve their end users better.
About the service provider: Rukmini Data is an independent consultant working on strategy, organisational development, and fundraising with NGOs and social sector organisations.
About the service provider: S P Gupta & Associates is a leading chartered accountancy firm rendering comprehensive professional services, including audit, management consultancy, tax consultancy, accounting services, virtual CFO services, and secretarial services for nonprofit organisations.
About the service provider: Sambodhi is a leading service provider in the field of qualitative assessments, process monitoring, process evaluation, impact evaluation, project management, large scale multi-state surveys, training, capacity building, data analytics and forms of scientific social research.
About the service provider: Samhita Social Ventures is an impact catalyst that works with the private, public, philanthropy, and social sector to create large scale social transformation collaboratives, bespoke CSR, ESG, and responsible business consulting to create impact at scale.
About the service provider: SandMartin is a professional services setup in India, equipped with an extensive array of capabilities to address the intricate financial landscapes faced by businesses and non-governmental organisations. Anchored by a dedicated team of over 500 professionals, the organisation is structured to deliver nuanced expertise in tax, compliance, and a spectrum of financial domains.
About the service provider: Sattva is a mission-driven organisation focused on impact. They research and advise, implement and monitor programmes, design, and deliver scalable solutions for sustainable impact.
About the service provider: Smita Kothari offers content, communication, and storytelling services to NGOs, social enterprises, and other purposeful organisations. This includes deliverables like social media, website, newsletter, reports, videos, etc. She also assists with capacity building for leaders (i.e. Founder/CXOs and communication teams) to create compelling story of their impactful work.
About the service provider: Social Lens is for-purpose organisation that brings professionals working in close collaboration with philanthropy and grant-making institutions to drive transformation for SPOs in India. It addresses the critical challenges in organisation development or programme building.
About the service provider: SOSVA Training and Promotion Institute is a support service organisation involved in strengthening the voluntary organisations working in the social sector.
About the service provider: Studio Subu focuses on solving communication challenges faced by organisations in the social impact space. They specialise in building creative solutions that are targeted towards specific fundraising, brand building, recruitment, and programme delivery goals.
About the service provider: Sustain Plus Energy Foundation is a multi-stakeholder collaborative platform for sustainable energy access and poverty alleviation initiatives in India. They work at the intersection of sustainable development, poverty, and energy access, to accelerate development action through decentralised renewable energy solutions for livelihoods, health, and education.
About the service provider: Suvidhi Khurana is a results-driven development sector consultant specialising in education. She has over 13 years of experience in programme design, strategic planning, capacity building, curriculum development, and stakeholder management.
About the service provider: Social Venture Partners India is a pan-India collaborative philanthropy organisation
SVP India’s vision is to provide individuals with a platform to engage with philanthropy to create fulfilled lifelong givers.
About the service provider: Tech To The Rescue is a global platform that matches technology companies and non-profit organisations. They connect the tech and NGO worlds, so that together they can implement pro bono digital solutions to solve the world's most pressing problems.
About the service provider: Tena Pick is a gender and development expert passionate about women empowerment, community development, and social impact measurement. She is based in Bangalore and has extensive experience in the Middle East, Caribbean, and South and Southeast Asia.
About the service provider: TFIx is Teach For India's growth model. It incubates educational entrepreneurs, enabling them to design, launch, sustain, strengthen, and scale a two-year high-impact teaching fellowship model based on their context.
About the service provider: The Better India is the world’s largest impact-driven, positive stories platform. Their solutions-oriented reporting features stories of changemakers and innovators, with a highlight on small enterprises, grassroots innovations, sustainability initiatives, and more.
About the service provider: The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that works to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organisations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s most important challenges and opportunities. They provide strategic advisory, knowledge and insights, and NGO capability building services.
About the service provider: The Communique is a capacity building consultancy passionate about communication, sharing knowledge and empowerment of the Indian professional in the nonprofit space. Packed into modules, The Communique’s specialised technical and behavioural communication skills programmes build needs-based human resource capacity by way of frameworks, competencies, and tools through training and workshops.
About the service provider: The Core Questin is a leadership development and consulting firm that works with leaders and teams to unlock individual and collective potential. This includes 1:1 coaching, leadership cohort journeys, team transformation journeys, and supporting the creation of thriving systems through levers such as leadership, culture, and purpose.
About the service provider: The Quantum Hub (TQH) was founded in 2017 with the aim of supporting development organisations, businesses, and policymakers with complex public policy problems in the dynamically evolving Indian ecosystem. TQH supports its clients along the entire cycle of policy formulation–from developing well-researched policy positions to building communications, and advocacy strategies.
About the service provider: The/Nudge Institute is an action institute that works with governments, markets, and civil society to build resilient livelihoods for all. The/Nudge Institute runs its own programmes and acts as an ecosystem enabler through its Centre for Social Innovation.
About the service provider: Toolbox INDIA Foundation acts as a catalyst by offering capacity building support to nonprofit organisations with the help of its team of experienced volunteers. Founded to serve as an intermediary platform matching volunteers’ expertise to capacity building needs of nonprofits, Toolbox INDIA supports organisations in the definition of their objectives and optimising their existing resources by leveraging and honing the skills of corporate volunteers.
About the service provider: TBL Consultancy Services (TBL) is a social impact consulting firm that provides end-to-end solutions in the areas of strategic philanthropy, impact investment, and CSR and sustainability.
About the service provider: UIA is a consortium of compassionate and experienced professionals endeavoring to help social entrepreneurs with their insights, experience, and network .
About the service provider: UnLtd India serves as a canvas for early-stage social entrepreneurs in India to nurture their ideas and grow as true artists of change. They find and support entrepreneurial individuals with a passion to bring about long-lasting solutions to pressing problems in India.
About the service provider: Vera has worked with 400 organisations, strengthening their systems and building their capacity to collect, manage, analyse, and utilise data—whether for impact measurement, project and grant management, supply chain management, or CRM.
About the service provider: Viridus focuses on three strategic levers for change—wellbeing of individuals in organisational contexts, strategic organisational design and development, and programme design and implementation.
About the service provider: Wisdom Tree works with social organisations on culture transformation and leadership through an Indic lens. They do this through both cohort-based programmes and organisation specific interventions.
About the service provider: X-Leap is a boutique consulting firm, which serves change makers in for-profits and nonprofits to help build a kinder world. As part of this goal, X-Leap works with organisations in the social sector to amplify their impact. They rely on human centered design to address emerging needs in the sector.
About the service provider: Yellow Spark is a team of management consultants with an expertise in the people side of business. They work as an extended think tank to our clients and help build a high-performance work place through talent planning, acquisition, management, and development.
About the service provider: Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) works with young people to build their capacity to lead change and deepen their engagement with democracy. YLAC's interventions include numerous programmes and campaigns for the cause of gender equality, economic equality, and diversity, and inclusion.
