Impact India Fall 2015

The rise of India’s reputation as a center of technology innovation has in recent years been matched by the country’s growing reputation as a hub of social innovation, and now Indians living abroad are rising as a force for philanthropy in their country of origin. In light of this, The Bridgespan Group, Dasra, and Stanford Social Innovation Review have joined forces to create and publish Impact India, a magazine for philanthropists and social innovators targeting India.

By the Numbers

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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.

Case Study

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Magic Bus

By Radhika Nayar 5

Magic Bus is helping change the lives of Indian children living in poverty through a highly-scalable activity-based learning program.

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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.

Features

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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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Partnering With Women at the Grassroots Level

By Marissa Wesely & Dina Dublon

Initiatives to develop the economic potential of women are becoming a staple of corporate activity.

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Troubled Water

One of India’s largest, and most intractable, challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.2 billion citizens.

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Lessons for Creating Better Global Health Programs

By Lyn Denend & Amy Lockwood, with Michele Barry & Stefanos Zenios

Efforts to bring promising health care interventions to resource-constrained regions of the world often falter because entrepreneurs underestimate the array of obstacles that loom in their path.

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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.

Q & A

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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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Q&A With Desh Desphande

By Katie Smith Milway & Jeff Bradach 2

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

Spotlight on Girls

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Meeting the Challenge of Educating Girls

By Pakzan Dastoor

Educate Girls is helping more than one million Indian schoolchildren.

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Empowering India’s Girls

By Rachita Vora

Sometimes collaboration is the most direct route to impact.

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Improving Sanitation for Adolescent Girls

By Nitya Daryanani

The lack of toilets in India has a disproportionate impact on adolescent girls.

Viewpoint

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Do It the Hard Way

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

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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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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