Since the Companies Act, 2013 made CSR mandatory, it has channelled thousands of crores into education, healthcare, livelihoods, and rural development. For most nonprofits, it’s now the default source of institutional funding. For corporations, it’s evolved from a compliance line-item…
For a decade, June meant the same visual everywhere: rainbow logos, limited-edition merchandise, a flurry of sponsored floats. That visual seems to be increasingly fading in the last two years. Polling cited by Forbes puts the pullback at roughly 43%…
By Manju Menon, CEO NuSocia The social sector is obsessed with success and terrified of failure. In a space where the most important change is always slow, messy, and impossible to guarantee, that combination is quietly devastating. Let me start…
How M&E Became the Engine of Strategic Growth MEL has always been about learning. What’s changed is who’s doing it, how fast, and what technology now makes possible — especially in CSR, where real-time intelligence is replacing the annual field…
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has triggered what the International Energy Agency describes as the largest oil supply disruption in history. Sustainability frameworks have generally operated on an implicit assumption that the global system, while imperfect, is broadly…
Governance is often understood as the system of rules, processes, and institutions that guide decision-making, ensure accountability, and enable societies to function effectively. While strong institutions are essential, governance does not operate in isolation; it depends on an ecosystem of…
The landscape of social development has always been tumultuous, but in recent years, a distinct schism has formed between how organizations manage their social conscience versus their strategic risks. While Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks have become synonymous with…
Sustainable financing was developed to answer one of the most important questions in the development world: how do we catalyze funds for overhauling economic, health, civil ecosystems to reduce emissions and work towards reversing the trajectory to a climate catastrophe?…