Philanthropy’s New Frontier—Impact Investing
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
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.
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.
Q&A With Ram Shriram
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.
Scaling Up Impact
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 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.
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.
Photo Essay: The Many Faces of Learning
India has the most youth of any country, and one of the most diverse, making education one of its biggest challenges.
Akshaya Patra
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
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.