Features
Giving Back to India
Philanthropy's New Frontier: Impact Investing
Philanthropists should become more active impact investors, focusing on building sustainable social enterprises often overlooked by private investors who seek market-rate returns.
Q&A with Desh Deshpande
Serial technology entrepreneur Desh Deshpande is taking innovation techniques created at MIT and using them to solve social problems in India.
Partnering with Women at the Grassroots Level
Initiatives to develop the economic potential of women are becoming a staple of corporate activity.
Troubled Water
One of India’s largest, and most intractable, challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.2 billion citizens.
Lessons for Creating Better Global Health Programs
Efforts to bring promising health care interventions to resource-constrained regions of the world often falter because entrepreneurs underestimate the array of obstacles that loom in their path.
By the Numbers
Indian Philanthropy: By the Numbers
Indians are giving more time and more money to charitable causes in India.
Case Study
Magic Bus
Magic Bus is helping change the lives of Indian children living in poverty through a highly-scalable activity-based learning program.
Akshaya Patra
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
Q&A
Q&A with Ram Shriram
Silicon Valley insider Ram Shriram is focusing a great deal of time, money, and energy on helping innovative NGOs improve K–12 education in India.
Spotlight on Girls
Meeting the Challenge of Educating Girls
Educate Girls is helping more than one million Indian schoolchildren.
Empowering India's Girls
Sometimes collaboration is the most direct route to impact.
Improving Sanitation for Adolescent Girls
The lack of toilets in India has a disproportionate impact on adolescent girls.
Viewpoint
Do It the Hard Way
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.
Outsized Outcomes
With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.
Scaling Up Impact
An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.