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Reimagining non-profits in India by empowering founders to build social impact unicorns of the future. https://teapawt.net/t.co/WxjK7cURmB

Joined August 2025
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They have greater access to unrestricted funding: Around 21% of organisations with at least one woman founder have more than 25% of their budgets in unrestricted funding, compared to nearly 13% of organisations with only male founders.
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In The Daily Pioneer, Kriti Krishnan, Co-founder of Ally, and Varun Aggarwal, Co-founder of Change Engine, make the case for strengthening the support systems behind India’s growing mental health conversation.
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At Change Engine, we’re backing Ally’s work to address this gap. By leveraging technology to train and equip different layers of the mental health support system, Ally is working towards a future where asking for help is met with the right support.
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Here’s a glimpse from “Big Ideas for India”—a conversation on what it will take to unlock greater impact from India’s philanthropic capital. Watch the full session on YouTube and explore the full Mission Billion Summit 2026 playlist. Link - youtube.com/@changengine_in
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The conversation then moves to what funders look for in organisations and ideas that have the potential to create wider change—
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from solving an unsolved problem and building trust with funders, to identifying compelling needs, designing models with strong unit economics, building on emerging enablers, and creating force multipliers rather than isolated interventions.
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How do you use evidence to drive impact and change the narrative around a problem? At the Mission Billion Summit 2026, we asked four founders this question. A thread 🧵
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4/4 — Mentor Together Arundhuti Gupta of Mentor Together spoke about using evidence to shape youth mentoring when you're building an ecosystem, not just a programme.Worth watching if you're building for scale.
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The Same Message, Four Different Studies: Why Flexible Funding Matters More Than Ever by Kate Griffin medium.com/firetreephilanthr… @BridgespanGroup @caps_asia
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Asia Community Foundation — Funding in Practice: 68% of social purpose organisations receive more than 80% of their annual income from restricted grants.
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Across the four studies, the pattern is clear: short-term, restricted funding remains the norm, while smaller organisations face particular challenges in accessing the flexible capital they need to build organisational capacity.
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