This document outlines plans for a Section 8 company in India that will focus on providing 100% local funding for social development activities of Christian NGOs. The company aims to address regulatory challenges for foreign funding, lack of options for charitable contributions, and growing social sector needs. It will create a local funding channel, partner with NGOs in areas like medical, education and charity, and implement accountability measures like social impact metrics. The company will target funding from Indian companies' CSR programs, NRIs, and the Christian community in India. It will provide services like impact assessments and advocacy to empower partner NGOs and increase funding.

1. Social development funding from
the Christian community in India
CA Sunil Fernandes
CA Manju George
CA Paris Verghese
CA Mark D’Souza
CA Simon Rodrigues
Coordinated By: Pradeep Dewars

2. The Vision - Love
• “Love your neighbour as yourself” - Jesus
• Viewing India and Indians as our neighbours
• Loving enough to make a difference

3. The Challenge
• New regulations making foreign contribution
more difficult for Christian NGOs
• Lack of trustworthy options for charitable
contributions
• A growing need for CSR and philanthropic
spends in the social sector to bolster
development needs in India

4. The Solution
• Focus on creating and developing a 100% local
funding channel
• Creation of Section 8 Company to encourage
funding to Christian NGOs
▫ Funding for Secular activities only
▫ Partnership approach with Christian NGOs to
promote effectiveness and impact
• Core team of respectable professionals
• A metric driven approach

5. Objectives
• 100% Local Funding
• Empowerment of NGOs
▫ Medical
▫ Education
▫ Charity
▫ Others
• Accountability
• Services
• Advocacy

6. CSR Activities
• Indian Companies that want to maxise
impact investment
• Primarily Philanthropic CSR activities
• Operational and Transformational can be
added later as advisory service
• Metrics to gauge effectiveness of activity
NRI Funding
• Primarily NRI Christians who may want to
contribute to the development situation in
India
• Largely web based interface and through
word of mouth
• Metrics to gauge impact of investment made
Local Funding
• Push and pull based methods to encourage
contribution from Christian community
• Community focused events
• Initially community driven, scaling up to
national impact
Local Events
• Fetes, fundraisers etc. held once or twice a
year
• Rallying the community to stronger
participation
Localised Funding –
100% by Indians for
India

7. NGO Empowerment
Focus on Development
Partnering with NGOs across development sectors
including Medical, Education, Charity and Others
Best Practices
Tracking of international best practices in the space
and sharing of methods with partner NGO
Social Impact Metrics
Sharing of metrics and scorecards used in sector so
partner NGO has tools to track the impact they make
Sector Highlights
Sharing of information on NGOs operating in
underfunded sectors or sectors without enough
participation

8. Metrics for Greater Accountability
Impact
• Measuring effect
of investment
made
• Social factors
• Development
factors
• Effect on BoP
Efficiency
• Are partnered
NGOs performing
as well as they
can?
• Access to best
methods
• High Social
Returns/Impact
per Rs. 1,000
funding received
Contribution
• Channel-wise
Percentage of
funding passed on
to NGOs

9. Services
Building of Scorecards for Social Impact
NGO assessment
Fundraising events and advocacy
Accreditation of NGOs
• Handled through separate entity

10. Advocacy Identify unsatisfied sectors and boost
awareness / requirement for social
development in that space (Eg. Family
counselling, Old age care, etc)
Bringing knowledge to investors of
NGOs operating in underfunded
sectors or priority social development
sectors
Build Affiliations both to expand
reach and increase impact of advocacy
actions

11. Getting off the Ground
• CEO with passion and a strong social perception
• No Share Capital
▫ Investment of time, office space and other needed
resources
• Policy of no FCRA
• OPEX resources

12. Contributing to building the Company
Businessmen
Professionals
Individuals
Who
Time
Talent
Resources
How

13. Core Strategy
Unique tangible and intangible assets that create a competitive advantage
Genuine Assets
• Plenty of charity aggregators operating in India make it more difficult to source ready funds. Need to
differentiate ourselves in order to make funding goals
• Unique access to Christian community in India – we are the first to actively target this sector
• Eventual creation of unique intellectual property (year 3+, provided success of concept)
Tracking of both global best practices in the non profit space as well as governmental and
other local legislation impacting business
Vigilance to Forces of
Change
• Technological trends: Are NGOs globally achieving greater impact through newer/different methods?
Can we help partner NGOs develop those same methods to increase impact?
• Governmental trends: Awareness of restrictions and new regulations that can either help or adversely
affect the company
Metric driven approach to performance of company, impact of charitable contributions
and effectiveness of NGO partners
Disciplined Performance
Measurement
• Strict performance measurement and reporting to facilitate transparency
• Tracking of performance metrics to forecast expected funding patterns and to identify NGOs with high
impact of activity
• Identification of NGOs with low impact so we can see if we can help them become more effective