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Nonprofits face fierce headwinds, look to private sector to fill funding gaps | Philanthropy News Digest, 02 aug 2025
The Editor's Post: Diversity in social enterprise: do positive attitudes lead to positive action? | Pioneers Post, 01 aug 2025
Open Board Search - How a new approach to recruiting board members can transform nonprofits | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 31 jul 2025
The 6 best volunteer opportunities for making a difference | Quartz, 29 jul 2025
What Young Social Entrepreneurs Are Teaching Us About Skills, Scale, and Sustainability | UNDP, 15 jul 2025
New report reveals the highs and lows of UK charity management since 2020 | Charity Times, 13 jul 2025
Starting, Scaling and Sustaining Social Innovation | OECD, 25 jun 2025
Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 29 may 2025
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A CHOICE BETWEEN CHARITY IMPACT AND FINANCIAL RESILIENCE? | Charities Aid Foundation, 27 may 2025
The evolution of research on corporate social responsibility and financial performance: a bibliometric analysis | Taylor & Francis Online, 25 may 2025

April 2023

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 29 apr 2023

Even though India is on a development and growth path, but there are areas that require special attention particularly the social issues like poverty, unemployment, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. According to the Lancet study 'Progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators in 707 districts of India: A quantitative mid-line assessment using the National Family Health Surveys, 2016 and 2021' (Authors: S.V. Subramanian of Harvard University, Mayanka Ambade of Laxmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute India, Akhil Kumar of Harvard University, Hyejun Chi of Korea University, William Joe of Institute of Economic Growth India, Sunil Rajpal of Korea University, Rockli Kim of Korea University), India is not on-target for 19 of the 33 SDGs indicators. The critical off-target indicators include access to basic services, wasting and overweight children, anaemia, child marriage, partner violence, tobacco use, and modern contraceptive use. For these indicators, more than 75% of the districts were off-target. Because of a worsening trend observed between 2016 and 2021, and assuming no course correction occurs, many districts will never meet the targets on the SDGs even well after 2030. Abhishek Dubey, founder and CEO of Muskaan Dreams, suggests that India needs more social impact entrepreneurs to make a positive difference in society. Social entrepreneurs are capable to put their talent and energy for social causes that they value along with generating revenue and profits. The are well suited to contribute effectively to India's growth story for following reasons - (1) Tackling social problems at scale (2) Promoting inclusive growth (3) Solving environmental challenges (4) Innovating for social impact (5) Bridging the gap between the public and private sectors (6) Creating sustainable ventures. Read on...

Forbes: Why India needs more social entrepreneurs
Author: Abhishek Dubey