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organisational development
November 5, 2025
Building sustainable FPOs: Lessons from India’s cooperatives
By early 2025, 10,000 FPOs had been set up in India under a central government scheme. But a focus on targets risks undermining what makes FPOs truly viable—community ownership, infrastructure, and capacity building.
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Divyaa Poonam Gupta
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Sanjana Mohanty
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7 min read
October 31, 2025
Good intentions don’t scale, good systems do
Scaling impact isn’t about doing more, it’s about enabling others. Here's how decentralised delivery and shared ownership can drive scale.
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Sudhir Subbaraman
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7 min read
September 23, 2025
SUPPORTED BY PROJECT TECH4DEV
Your burning tech questions, answered
Three nonprofits share insights on what worked for them (and what didn't) as they navigated tough choices around tech.
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Jasmine Bal
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Derrek Xavier
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7 min read
August 26, 2025
Reading our way to change
How a simple lunch-hour book club sparked a shift towards more compassionate, neurodiversity-affirming autism support.
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Andre Filipe Velho
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2 min read
August 6, 2025
Making acquisitions work for nonprofits
What happens when a nonprofit gets acquired? UnLtd India’s story offers a rare look at how crisis can lead to reinvention, and what it takes to make such a move work.
by
Akhil Shahani
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7 min read
June 24, 2025
A playbook for scaling impact
From working with governments to building open tools, nonprofits have found diverse ways to scale impact. A new report offers lessons from those who’ve done it.
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India Development Review
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7 min read
May 28, 2025
The long-term effects of trust-based philanthropy
A three-year study reveals how nonprofits used MacKenzie Scott’s unrestricted grants and how the funding influenced their resource allocation, leadership, and impact.
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India Development Review
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6 min read
May 15, 2025
“If we don’t have failures, we haven’t done our job”
Darren Walker, president of Ford Foundation, talks about the new era of philanthropy in India, centring communities, and the value of failure.
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India Development Review
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2 min read
May 14, 2025
‘Women’s work’: Unpacking gender bias and inequality in nonprofits
Gender-based disparities and biases often manifest in work culture. Creating spaces for dialogue can provide support and drive more equitable practices.
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Parijat Ghosh
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7 min read
November 13, 2024
Attracting young leaders to the social sector
Young professionals from the private sector can bring valuable skills to the social sector, but nonprofits often struggle to attract and retain them. How can this change?
by
Rajneesh Chowdhury
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6 min read
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