This #DaanUtsav, BloombergQuint brings you a series of first-person accounts of how different organisations across India are making interventions at scale, or in depth, and bringing about significant transformation.
I have been a venture capitalist and an early-stage investor; my experience has been that smaller companies attract investments when they come together. In 2001, I began impact-investing, and subsequently, my philanthropy stemmed from the main impetus to solve a key problem. Many times, when multiple NGOs are working in the same domain, the impact can be significantly less due to duplication of efforts. I, therefore, wanted to find ways for organisations to collaborate and sustain their collective work in an area.
For me, collaboration means long-term partnerships between non-profits working towards meeting a common objective over time.
In the social sector, people work with…
