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Giving Back to India

By Rohit Menezes, Sonali Madia Patel, & Daniel Pike 6

Indian Americans are donating more than ever before to support broad-based social change aimed at reducing India’s inequities.

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Akshaya Patra

By Brandon Keim 4

Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.

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Philanthropy’s New Frontier—Impact Investing

By Michael Etzel 5

Philanthropists should become more active impact investors, focusing on building sustainable social enterprises often overlooked by private investors who seek market-rate returns.

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Do It the Hard Way

By Eric Stowe

To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.

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Outsized Outcomes

By Priya Jha

With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.

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Q&A With Ram Shriram

By Radhika Nayar

Silicon Valley insider Ram Shriram is focusing a great deal of time, money, and energy on helping innovative NGOs improve K–12 education in India.

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Scaling Up Impact

By Louis C. Boorstin

An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.

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Q&A With Desh Desphande

By Katie Smith Milway & Jeff Bradach 5

Serial technology entrepreneur Desh Deshpande is taking innovation techniques created at MIT and using them to solve social problems in India.

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Empowering India’s Girls

By Rachita Vora

Sometimes collaboration is the most direct route to impact.

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Indian Philanthropy: By the Numbers

By Impact India Editors

Indians are giving more time and more money to charitable causes in India.