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Reframing Education Change in India
Improving learning outcomes in India requires that funders and social purpose organizations shift to working on the entire educational ecosystem rather than focused interventions.
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NGO Leadership Development in India: From Pioneer-Founders to Homegrown Leaders
As the trailblazers who built India’s nonprofit sector begin to step aside, a new study shows that NGOs face a significant gap in next-generation leadership. There are barriers to bridging this gap and building blocks to surmount them, but progress depends on founders and funders viewing leadership development as mission critical.
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From the Ground Up
Top-down development doesn't work. What's needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and government agencies working together as equals.
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Creating a Social Business
How Jaipur Living developed a global rug business, one weaver at a time, and lifted thousands out of poverty.
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Case Study: Saathi
Hindi for “friend,” the Saathi Internet program enables women in rural India to help other women improve their lives and livelihoods.
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Case Study: Arghyam
Arghyam, a grantmaking foundation, takes a data-driven approach to helping transform India’s water and sanitation systems.
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Q&A With Rohini Nilekani
Two decades of giving have taught philanthropist Rohini Nilekani the value of pursuing unconventional approaches to tackling social problems.
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Scaling With Evidence
When monitoring and evaluation are in an organization’s DNA, as they are at SNEHA, it’s much easier to create partnerships with government agencies and NGOs.
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Why Indian Nonprofits Are Experts at Scaling Up
There might be no better guide than Indian nonprofits for how to successfully scale up when resources are scarce.
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Q&A With Ratan Tata
Since becoming chairman of Tata Trusts, Ratan Tata has shifted the trusts’ focus from charitable work to programs that seek to transform lives.
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As the world’s largest democracy, few if any countries are more important than India when it comes to the practice of social innovation. That’s why in 2015 Stanford Social Innovation Review co-produced the first print edition of Impact India, followed by a second print edition in 2017. Today, SSIR offers ongoing online coverage of social innovation in India.