It has been six years since the finance minister announced the formation of the Social Stock Exchange. However, the exchange has not really taken off, with only 10 listings and a fundraising of around INR 20 cr.

Capacity development of the social sector organizations has been frequently used as a buzz word to mean improvement in sustainability of these organizations.

Functioning of NGOs is no different than a for-profit business organisation except that NGOs work for a social cause and not for giving returns to the investors. NGOs face all challenges that a for-profit enterprise faces –

A simple definition of back-office is – any process or function that is not customer (or supplier) facing or does not have a customer (or supplier) touch point is back-office. It is likely that a function, say Sales, is customer

By default, every organization would want to handle every process in-house. The apparent reasons for this preference are – better control, confidentiality of data, outsourcing is costlier, discomfort about off site work