• Blog

Innovating Financing for social impact in India

  • Source : ISDM
  • May 2023
This piece highlights how India’s social sector is shifting from traditional grants to innovative financing models such as catalytic capital, blended finance, and outcomes-based funding. It outlines how these mechanisms can unlock flexible capital, strengthen accountability, and enable scalable, measurable impact. The article emphasizes the need for collaboration among funders, intermediaries, and social purpose organisations to build a more resilient and future-ready social impact ecosystem.

In this age of AI, India’s Women Are Being Left Behind inSTEM and Skilling

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‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter by ISDM DataShakti. ISDM DataShakti, powered by Capgemini, is a pioneering single-window SDG data platform that makes SDG data easily accessible to social sector professionals like you, so you can focus on creating change on the ground.
  • Blog

An Urgent Call for Digital Literacy

  • Source : ISDM
‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter by ISDM DataShakti. ISDM DataShakti, powered by Capgemini, is a pioneering single-window SDG data platform that makes SDG data easily accessible to social sector professionals like you, so you can focus on creating change on the ground.
  • Blog

Why India needs to start washing its hands more

  • Source : ISDM
‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter by ISDM DataShakti. ISDM DataShakti, powered by Capgemini, is a pioneering single-window SDG data platform that makes SDG data easily accessible to social sector professionals like you, so you can focus on creating change on the ground.
  • Blog

Double trouble: Why India urgently needs policies to address the challenges of bothits youth, and elderly population

  • Source : ISDM
‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter by ISDM DataSights. ISDM DataSights is a pioneering single-window SDG data platform that democratises data access for the social sector, developed by the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), and powered by Capgemini.
  • Blog

Crash Course in Reality: The Road Safety Crisis

  • Source : ISDM
‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter developed by the team at ISDM DataSights, a free-to-use, pioneering single-window platform developed by the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), powered by Capgemini. ISDM DataSights hosts unified datasets, insights, and analytics on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to help social sector organisations make evidence-based decisions and amplify social progress.
  • Case Study

Designing Impact, Building from the Ground Up: The RBPM – Dr. Priti Story

  • Source : ISDM
  • 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.
  • Book

Development Management in Practice

  • Source : ISDM
  • December 2025
This book is a compilation of research papers and case studies presented at ISDM’s Dialogues on Development Management (DoDM) event held in 2024. The book brings together a rich collection of empirical insights and analyses from practitioners, researchers, and development professionals engaged in strengthening the social sector in India. The volume illuminates how theory and practice intersect across three thematic pillars, Talent Management for Inclusive Development, Empowering the Marginalised through Intervention Management, and Organisational Efficiency in Sociological and Technological Dimensions, to advance the field of development management.
  • Paper / Report

Funders’ Perspectives on Data Maturity of Social Purpose Organisations in India

  • Source : ISDM
  • November 2025
Funders’ Perspectives on Data Maturity of Social Purpose Organisations in India is an addendum to the State of the Sector Report published by ISDM CDSSI. It explores how funders view data-driven decision-making in India’s social sector. The insights in this report come from a roundtable discussion, that was held with 19 representatives, from CSRs, family foundations, philanthropic investors, outcome-based funders, and thought leaders. It shows that data maturity is a sector-wide challenge that requires collaboration, trust, and alignment between funders, SPOs, governments, and communities.
  • Case Study

Rooted in Trust, Rising Together

  • Source : ISDM
  • 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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