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International Women’s Day: Meet Khushboo Awasthi, a key face in ‘mission’ to transform India’s 1 million govt schools

adminMarch 8, 2025010 mins

[ad_1] International Women’s Day: The public education system of India cannot be fixed overnight but needs small, incremental changes to achieve tangible goals, says Khushboo Awasthi, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ShikshaLokam, a non-profit working on the education leadership development mission. ShikshaLokam works with the Department of School Education in different states and…

Hari S. Bhartia: International cooperation has a key role in fostering ‘AI for good’

adminFebruary 10, 202508 mins

[ad_1] The AI Action Summit in Paris, co-chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, highlights the global focus on artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential to tackle pressing issues. It addresses key themes, including public interest in AI, the future of AI in work, innovation and culture, trust in AI, and global…

How to tell fake NGOs apart from actual do-gooders? Here’s a guide.

adminAugust 28, 202409 mins

[ad_1] All put most of the onus of these trends on funders, not on the NGOs—big or small—that are pushed along the dimensions of fakeness and flakiness by individual funders and the dangerous momentum in this sector. But they were scathing about a certain set of NGOs that are tapping these funder-led trends to position…

NGOs eye social stock exchanges, but compliance barriers remain

adminAugust 23, 202409 mins

[ad_1] Earlier this month, Swades Foundation raised ₹10 crore from the SSE of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), with Screwvala calling the process of reaching out to donors the “equivalent of a book-building exercise”. In an interaction with Mint, Screwvala said that while the listing process was not simple, the disclosures were necessary to maintain…

Fake-and-flaky alert:Funders of NGOs should note social change isn’t T20 cricket

adminJuly 31, 202408 mins

[ad_1] Overall, on ‘goodness,’ they follow a normal distribution around the average, with most in the middle and tail-ends on both sides. ‘Good’ here means genuinely well-intentioned, dedicated and hard-working, with relevant expertise and integrity. The ‘fake-flake’ framework is useful to assess the goodness of an NGO. In brief: ‘Fake’ and ‘flake’ are like the…