As evaluators, we come across and leverage many global frameworks, metrics, benchmarks, indices and more. While these are created in a way to have broad application potential, they don’t always translate 100%. When a global model is applied to a…
At a recent workshop hosted by NuSocia, a group of CSR funders discussed a shared challenge: how to verify the accuracy of the programme monitoring data they collect and report to their boards. With small teams, limited budgets, and often…
A working toolkit for CSR funders, philanthropists, NGOs, evaluators, and anyone else trying to figure out where they stand Four years after India launched its Social Stock Exchange (SSE), the honest answer to “how is it doing?” depends on who’s…
India’s philanthropic sector is frequently described using numbers that sound authoritative. Figures in the trillions appear in conference decks and sector reports. Percentages circulate about how giving is distributed, which causes receive the most, and how many organisations are actually…
By the Gender Center of Excellence There is a particular kind of institutional failure that is harder to correct than simple neglect. It is the failure that comes dressed as progress. It carries the right language, checks the right boxes,…
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…
Why AI for Social Impact in India Is Stalling at the Policy Layer India’s development sector is experiencing a paradox. Artificial Intelligence (AI) uptake across health, education, agriculture, livelihoods, justice, and social protection is widespread and accelerating. Yet, very few…
By NuSocia Labs Introduction: The AI Revolution in the Non-Profit Sector Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force across industries, and the non-profit sector is no exception. As organizations dedicated to social good, nonprofits face unique challenges and…
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…
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…
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…