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Powering Asia’s Philanthropy Boom: Why Investing in Talent and Capacity Matters Now

  • Source : WINGS
  • 3 February 2026
In this blog written for WINGS, ISDM — a WINGS member and contributor to the APAC working group — makes the case that Asia’s philanthropy boom can only deliver lasting impact if investment in talent and institutional capacity keeps pace with growing capital. Drawing on India’s experience, it highlights gaps in governance, compensation, and leadership pipelines, and calls on donors and ecosystem enablers to treat capacity-building as a core strategy, not an overhead.
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The AI Platform Ending Pay Uncertainty in the Informal Sector

  • Source : ISDM
Kanak AI uses machine learning on real-world training data to predict income potential and recommend targeted upskilling courses, empowering job seekers to negotiate fair wages and build stable careers. Azad Ahmad (25), works as a Data Entry Operator in Gurgaon. He earns enough to support his family and sponsor his parent’s healthcare needs.. But it wasn’t always so. In 2021, when he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree, the COVID-19 pandemic was still raging, and he found himself navigating a tenuous…
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AI is helping resurrect and scale India’s traditional veterinary medicinal practices

  • Source : ISDM
  • 18 March 2026
This mobile chatbot empowers low-literacy farmers and healers by combining centuries-old ethnoveterinary knowledge with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and voice-enabled LLMs. The sun burned fiercely over the parched earth of Jambavanodai, a small village in Thiruvarur district in Tamil Nadu. In front of a small mud house, a group of gathered villagers were watching a sick cow lying on the ground. The cow was frothing at the mouth, and its eyes were rolling back. The worried owner had called the village…
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How a tool is helping secure India’s vulnerable workers

  • Source : ISDM
  • 19 March 2026
This platform allows policymakers to test the cumulative impact of social security schemes, forecast household risk, and offer evidence-based policy interventions for millions of informal labourers. On 9th September 2021, delivery and ride-share workers stood together in a protest outside the Supreme Court of India. They were demanding official recognition, which is denied to them because they are contracted as ‘partners’ rather than employees. This excludes them from essential social security benefits such as health insurance, pensions, and maternity cover….
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The AI Platform Ending Pay Uncertainty in the Informal Sector

  • Source : WINGS
  • 1 March 2026
Kanak AI uses machine learning on real-world training data to predict income potential and recommend targeted upskilling courses, empowering job seekers to negotiate fair wages and build stable careers.
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Designing Impact, Building from the Ground Up: The RBPM – Dr. Priti Story

  • Source : ISDM
  • 10 February 2026
In the growing urgency of India’s environmental crisis, the question is no longer whether change is needed but how to design, sustain, and ensure communities own and apply it effectively. For Dr. Priti Singh, a development professional with over two decades of experience, this question became deeply personal.
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Rooted in Trust, Rising Together

  • Source : ISDM
  • 16 October 2025
In one of Chennai’s oldest urban settlements, over 3,000 families navigate daily challenges marked by poverty, addiction, and instability. Many children return from school to difficult home environments with limited support. Amidst this, one young woman chose to respond— not with sympathy, but with sustained action. Although Vedika was overjoyed, she was left overwhelmed by the amount of work she was putting in. Fundraising, curriculum, operations, team building, trauma counselling—she was doing everything alone. There was no advisory board. No formal governance structure. Just urgency, heart, and a mounting emotional toll on her.
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Strengthening Governance, Deepening Impact

  • Source : ISDM
  • 1 August 2025
This case study is the story of the Association for Sustainable Community Development (ASSCOD), a grassroots nonprofit in Tamil Nadu, and its transition from a founder-led organization to one with strengthened governance. The article highlights how ASSCOD addressed key challenges by collaborating with the Indian School of Development Management’s (ISDM) Women on Boards (WoB) program. It details how a corporate professional, Sunanda Rangarajan, helped establish a formal advisory board, streamline operations, and empower local women. The result is a more sustainable, community-owned, and impactful model for social change.
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Beyond Compliance: Firstsource’s CSR Blueprint for Inclusive and Sustainable Impact

  • Source : ISDM
  • 1 February 2024
This case study explores how Firstsource goes beyond compliance in CSR by focusing on deep employee engagement and long-term, trust-based partnerships with NGOs to create sustainable impact. It exemplifies practices aligned with Philanthropy for Inclusive Development (PID) through inclusive hiring, volunteering, and community partnerships.
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Ask, and they receive

  • Source : ISDM
  • 1 April 2025
FarmerChat, an AI assistant, is helping farmers across India and abroad get quick, relevant answers to questions about better farming practices, loans, market prices, subsidies, and much more. The result? Improved agricultural productivity.
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