Lasting population-level impact

happens only when funders, nonprofits and government work effectively together.

SCALE is the catalyst for that impact.

Our Mission

To enable leaders in philanthropy, nonprofits and government to collectively create lasting, systemic change that impacts millions of lives.

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India Has The Solutions,
The Opportunity

India Has The Solutions,

they need an enabling environment to help them scale.

Across India, non-profits are already changing lives with work rooted in their communities. But too often that work stays localised, reaching a single district when it could benefit the entire country. To scale, it needs two things: a way to integrate into the government, whose spending on social services reaches hundreds of millions, and funders willing to support this with patient capital.

That is where System Support Organisations come in, working as the ‘missing middle’ between communities and government. They have chosen pathways to create outsized impact with modest budgets by working strategically with governments.

Strengthening these organisations with catalytic philanthropic capital to work effectively with the government to create lasting impact for millions is the opportunity.

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What We Do

We work across the whole Ecosystem

with funders, SSOs, and the government. Each of these has a role that the others depend upon, and SCALE’s role is to bring them together so the parts add up to lasting, population-level change.

Funders

Funders

Philanthropic capital typically funds programmatic efforts, and that matters. Most social innovations are discovered this way and the service delivery is proof of improvement in people’s lives. We make the case for a complementary bet: investing in the systems and organisations that make that impact scale. We help CSRs and Foundations think more systemically about their giving and back the big bets worth making.
System Support<br>Organisations

System Support
Organisations

SSOs achieve outsized impact on modest budgets, and with the right backing, they can go even further. Through knowledge, peer learning, and hands-on guidance, we help these high-potential organisations grow their leadership, unlock patient capital, and deepen their impact.
Governments

Governments

No organisation in India reaches more people than the government, which is the country's most significant doer and payer at scale. With the right partnership, a good idea can reach the country. We bring leaders in government the evidence and partners to make it happen.
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Choose a Big Bet

What big problem
are you solving?

Develop a Catalytic Approach

How does your model
create impact?

Create a multiplier by Leveraging the Government

How can you achieve scale by working with the government?

Measure and share Population‑Level Impact

How will you measure
population-level outcomes?

Our Approach

Big ideas don't scale on their own

The initiatives we back tend to follow a clear arc - the Circle of Systemic Impact. It begins by choosing a big bet, builds a catalytic approach others can adopt, multiplies that work through government, and measures and shares the results so success can travel. Each stage builds on the one before, turning a single good idea into systemic change that reaches millions.

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About us

India doesn't lack ambition, talent, or even money

What it lacks is the connective tissue that can transform social innovations into lasting, population-level change.

SCALE is the catalyst for this. We are an orchestrator, working with all three stakeholders, funders, SSOs, and government, to unlock new pathways to systemic change, and helping each do what it does best.

We don't run programs on the ground ourselves; we strengthen the organisations and partnerships that do, and we stay with them for the long term. We're agnostic to cause and sector: we care about how change happens, not only where.

SCALE is led by a founding team with deep experience across philanthropy, policy, strategy, and non-profit leadership, and guided by a distinguished advisory committee and mentors’ circle drawn from India's social, government, and business worlds. Together, we're working toward an India where the question is no longer how many more good ideas exist, but how quickly we can take the ones that work to everyone who needs them.

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