Year: 2026

Consider this: a programme trains 300 tribal women in tailoring. The first two cohorts run well. Completion rates are strong, toolkits distributed, income projections modelled and presented to the board. On paper, the programme is working. By the third cohort, attendance has fallen sharply. A detailed assessment by BlueSkyCSR traced…

Seven years ago, a CSR manager said something to the BlueSkyCSR team that has stayed with every assessment since: “We just need to spend the 2%. The law requires it.” Last month, that same company’s community programme ran its annual harvest event. The corporate team was not present. The NPO…

In 2023, the Annual Status of Education Report found young men in rural India more than twice as likely as young women to own smartphones: 44% compared to 20%. Separate survey data placed women’s digital literacy nationally at 29%, against 59% for men. These figures describe a structural gap, not…

Across BlueSkyCSR’s portfolio – 70+ clients served, 200+ projects assessed, 40+ years of collective experience, ₹200+ crore worth of projects assessed – one pattern consistently separates high-impact programmes from those that plateau: the best performers are not running parallel to government schemes. They are plugged into them. This is a…

Across multiple CSR impact assessments conducted by BlueSkyCSR spanning rural India, one finding surfaces with enough consistency to warrant closer attention: programs that center women as primary stakeholders, and that invest in their agency rather than just their access, generate returns that extend well beyond the individual. This is not…

Most organisations do not have a Monitoring & Evaluation problem. They have a sequencing problem. The M&E report gets written at the end of the project cycle. A consultant is brought in. Available data is stitched together. The report is submitted.And the cycle repeats. This is not monitoring and evaluation.This…

From Tick-Box to Transformative: What Strategic CSR Philanthropy Actually Looks Like India crossed Rs. 34,908 crore in reported CSR expenditure in FY2023-24, according to disclosures filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. More than 32,000 companies have collectively invested over INR 1.5 lakh crore in CSR projects since the Companies…

Impact Reporting That Gets NPOs Refunded, Not Just Thanked India is home to an estimated 3.1 million NPOs, a number that the Central Bureau of Investigation has noted is more than double the country’s total number of schools. But size has not translated into sustainability. The more pointed challenge facing…

The Smartest CSR Move in FY26-27 Might Be Climate. Here Is Why. Three things happened in India’s regulatory and judicial landscape over the past two years that CSR committees are still catching up to. First, SEBI made Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions disclosures mandatory for India’s top…

Picture this: an NPO running a genuinely transformative nutrition programme in rural Maharashtra – measurable outcomes, a dedicated team, ten years of community trust. They apply for a prominent corporate CSR grant. They don’t make the shortlist. The reason? Their board structure wasn’t documented. Their Memorandum of Understanding was outdated…