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Government
SSOs
Population
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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.
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.
As per latest estimates, Indian philanthropy puts around ₹1.43 lakh crore to work each year, next to the ₹25.7 lakh crore the government puts into social services, so the smartest giving doesn't just deliver, it unlocks far more. When EY backed an SSO improving children's reading and maths, every rupee it gave helped unlock fifty times as much in government funding, raising learning outcomes across Uttar Pradesh.
Read more about how India Inc. is building Bharat
₹100 Crore
in government funding unlocked for water rejuvenation
76 Lakh
children in grades 1 to 3 reached through the foundational-learning programme
₹3,770 Crore
unlocked from MGNREGA across two states
We help CSRs and Foundations think more systemically about their giving and back the big bets worth making.
SSOs are the missing middle between communities and government.
Their expertise enables them to develop and take what already works on the ground and build it into public systems, so a proven idea can reach the whole country. They achieve outsized impact on modest budgets, and with the right backing they can go even further: on just ₹16 crore, one SSO helped make India's 100 most dangerous highways safer across 16 states and changed a national rule that now saves an estimated 9,000 lives a year.
Read more about Systemic Impact Exemplars
Step 1
An approach that has demonstrated results on the ground.
Step 2
Strengthens the idea, builds government capacity, develops public goods, and supports implementation.
Step 3
The solution is integrated into public systems and programmes.
Step 4
Millions of people benefit through government delivery.
Through knowledge, peer learning, and hands-on guidance, we help these high-potential organisations grow their leadership, unlock patient capital, and deepen their impact.
No organisation in India reaches more people than the government.
It is the country's largest funder of social progress, spending ₹25.7 lakh crore a year, and its biggest doer, running more than 10 lakh schools and reaching 8.3 crore people through MGNREGA. It shapes entire markets too, drawing over 13,000 private hospitals into Ayushman Bharat. Working with the government rather than around it can make a single good idea reach the whole country. We bring government leaders the evidence, sector primers, and trusted partners to turn promising ideas into impact at scale.
Years of ASER made learning outcomes a national priority, shaping the National Education Policy and the NIPUN Bharat mission
Its advocacy gave India the Good Samaritan Law
Its home-based newborn care model cut neonatal mortality by 60 to 70% and was adopted under the National Health Mission
With the right partnership, a good idea can reach the country. We bring leaders in government the evidence and partners to make it happen.