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THE NONPROFIT LANDSCAPE IN INDIA
Who counts as a nonprofit, and how many are there?
Source: NGO Darpan, India's NGO registration portal.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
Things we can't stop thinking about.
The Theory of Change vs The Change
What happens when the beautiful diagram meets actual life?
The NGO Hospital
When the nonprofit sector becomes the answer to every public problem.
Let's Discuss the Partnership First
Sometimes we spend more time designing the collaboration than doing the work.
Impact vs Instagram
What happened on the ground and what happened on social media are often two different stories.
Authentic Stories, Carefully Edited
We want the complexity of the ground, but please remove anything complicated.
LONG-FORM
Stories worth sitting with.
Who Decides the Salary of Founders and Co-Founders of Nonprofits in India?
A quick look at transparency and governance gaps in deciding the salary of nonprofit executives.
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Why the Social Sector Must Reject the Labelling of RSS as an NGO
How a public claim that the RSS is the world's largest NGO undermines the credibility of India's 4.9 lakh registered nonprofits doing real development work.
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Is the Oxfam GB Turmoil Really About Dr Halima Begum?
Or is it exposing a deeper crisis in nonprofit work culture?
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Why Do You Think People in the Social Sector Are Paid Less?
Understanding the relationship between gender and pay in India's development sector.
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Who Is a 100-Page Annual Report Really Accountable To?
Why most NGO annual reports read less like public accountability and more like donor-facing institutional storytelling.
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For people asking where the money went. For people who have attended one too many strategy workshops.
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