CSR partnerships
A partnership you can defend to your board.
What the money does, what comes back as evidence, and what we will not claim — set out before you ask. Written for the person who has to justify the decision internally, because that is who actually reads a page like this.
- Registered1973 Act · NGO DARPAN
- Where we workMadhya Pradesh
- ReportingWritten, per programme
Our side
What a partnership gets you
A programme, not a line item
Funding is attached to a named programme in a named place — a set of digital literacy workshops in a district, a skills camp for a specific cohort — with a start, an end and somebody accountable for it.
Your people can be in it
Employee volunteering is genuinely useful to us rather than something we tolerate for the photographs. Sessions can be run with your teams where that fits the programme.
Reporting you can file
A written report at the end of each programme: what was run, where, how many sessions, what was spent, and what did not work. The last of those is the part most reports leave out.
Work in your own district
If your operations are in Madhya Pradesh, the programme can run where your people live. Local work is easier to visit, easier to verify and easier to defend internally.
Your side
What we would ask of you
Almost no CSR page includes this half, which is why so many partnerships stall three months in. Here it is up front.
A named contact who can answer a question within a week. A partnership routed through a generic inbox stalls at the first decision.
Agreement on what will be measured, before the programme starts rather than after. We would rather negotiate a hard metric up front than produce a soft one at the end.
Permission to say honestly what did not work. A report that only contains successes is a report nobody learns from, including us.
Patience with photographs. We do not photograph children without consent from a parent, and that takes longer than it does elsewhere.
Before you ask about tax
We will not use the phrase “tax benefits available” and leave you to infer what that means — getting this wrong creates a compliance problem for your organisation, not ours, which makes it the worst thing on this page to be vague about.
- The society is registered under the Madhya Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 1973, and holds an NGO DARPAN identity issued by NITI Aayog. Both documents are published in full on the transparency page.
- Ask us directly about 80G and CSR-1 status before you commit funds. We will tell you exactly what is and is not in place, in writing, and you should verify it independently rather than take our word for it.
- Every contribution is receipted against the programme it funds, whatever its tax treatment.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you are trying to achieve
Not what you want to fund — what outcome your organisation is accountable for. The programme is easier to design from that end, and we would rather tell you we are the wrong fit than take a budget we cannot do justice to.
What we will say no to
Programmes we have no presence to deliver. Timelines that would mean running something badly to hit a reporting date. Anything conditional on photographs of identifiable children, which we will not supply without a parent’s written consent and often cannot supply at all.
Saying this before a conversation rather than during one saves everybody a quarter.
Who you would be dealing with
A small governing committee, not an account manager. Whoever replies to your enquiry is one of the people who would actually run the programme, which is both the advantage and the limitation of working with an organisation this size.
Check us before you talk to us
The registration certificate, the NGO DARPAN record and the society’s filings are published in full — not summarised, published. Read them first; a partner who has already verified us is a far easier conversation.