Don’t judge a book by its cover
What is your land holding size? How much land do you own? We used to ask farmers during our survey and the reply used to get us “3 acres”, “I own 5 acres” and “One acre”. Then we used to…
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NuSocia is 5 years old – what it taught me as a Co-Founder
When I am asked about NuSocia, I not only see a 20 member team, 30 clients, 50 projects and 5 years of hard work to get where we are today but also 3 passionate individuals from different walks of life,…
Promoting Entrepreneurship among Rural Women
Women play an indispensable role in sustaining the rural ecosystem of any country as entrepreneurs, wage earners and by farming. India has around 15 million women-owned enterprises, representing 20% of all enterprises. However, women face various challenges in building and…
Data in Social Sector – Boon or Bane ?
Based on its years of experience working with data of social sector, NuSocia has developed a Social Research Ethics code. The code ensures that beneficiary data is protected and used only for the project purpose. The publically available form of…
Respond To Rebuild – Re-imagining better together
Over the last year, organizations and individuals have had to adapt to the COVID-19 humanitarian and economic crisis. While governments globally made efforts to provide immediate relief, vulnerable communities continued to face some of the most profound challenges they have…
Tackling Business Problems using ‘purpose led branding’ strategy
Consumers increasingly expect brands to have not just functional benefits but a social purpose. As a result, companies are taking social stands in very visible ways. Brands increasingly use social purpose to guide marketing communications, inform product innovation, and steer investments toward…
CSR Amendments 2021- A move towards Effective Social Change
On 22nd January 2021, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) announced amendments to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rules to enable businesses to undertake multi-year projects and to shift the emphasis from expenditure alone on impact assessment and modifying the reporting…
Capability Building – What, Why and How
While interacting with a fellow collaborator last week, I was in for a surprise – this individual, at quite a senior position had absolutely no qualms in sharing that she has been taking online lessons on advanced excel – a…
Social Stock Exchange Simplified
A capital strategy to achieve social goals In the last few weeks, the term Social Stock Exchange seems to be the hot news item. In this article, I have tried to uncover some basics around Social Stock Exchange and bring…
Will Social Stock Exchanges meet the Expectation Challenge?
According to the Brookings Institute report, titled “The Promise of Impact Investing in India”, India faces a financial gap of around $564 billion for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030. The report also mentions that in a survey…
Resilience – One thing that’s needed by everyone
Individuals, Workplaces, Organisations and Economy The current ongoing pandemic has shook everyone, across the globe. Never before in last 50+ years, a single phenomenon has brought the whole world under a lockdown. This lockdown and associated restrictions on movement is…
MSMEs and the economic relief package
After much anticipation and build up, Government of India announced its economic stimulus package for economy impacted by Coronavirus enforced lockdown. With the announcement out, TV debates and WhatsApp memes have been fighting it out on how good is the…
Connecting with the Soul
The NuSocia Way It was January 2020 and I was on one of the weekly team calls with my head office when our founder-advisor shared that in March 2020, the organization would be completing three years and would be a…
Small is not always Beautiful
How MSMEs in India are facing COVID19 Scenario Without any doubt, SMEs are one of the key drivers behind India’s growth story. The MSME Sector consisting of 36 million units, as of today, provides employment to over 80 million persons.…
Artificial Intelligence and Social Sector
In these times of Social Distancing, there is new found respect across all sectors for everything digital. The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), finally, is getting its due attention from sectors and quarters which were always sceptical that AI is…
Effective Disaster Preparedness: Is it even possible?
A question that needs revisiting given pandemic like COVID 19 COVID-19 is an unprecedented event impacting humanity across nations. There is also the worry about the livelihoods of millions of people in the low-income bracket, especially in the developing world.…
PRA as a mode of project evaluation
Deep Joshi, the founder of PRADAN composed the following in an article “If I were to conduct a village study”- “I know I would travel around the village … walk, walk, and walk. I would listen and talk to people,…
SDGs and what it means for Corporates
Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) are the new 17 universal goals which cover a 15 years’ time from 2016 to 2030, these goals are the part of wider development agenda which will stand on the base formed by the Millennium Development…
Strategic CSR versus Strategy for CSR
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is as old as business itself and a prominent notion in management discourse; however researchers still do not share a common definition or set of core principles. Nevertheless, there is a consensus that…
Local Fund Raising – The Art and Science
Raising funds to achieve one’s mission or Fundraising, is one of the most crucial function for any non profit organisation and yet, is rated as one of the most challenging functions as well. This is equivalent of sales for the…
Mergers & Acquisitions – Why we never hear of them in Non profit sector ?
Mergers and Acquisitions (or M&A as they are popularly known as ) are very common in business world. Very often we read about a new startup being acquired by a big company or merger between two established companies. India being…