Lasting Population Level Impact

happens only when funders, nonprofits and the government come together.

SCALE is the catalyst for that impact.

What We Do

Our Mission

To strengthen India's impact ecosystem by galvanizing domestic capital for high-potential solutions that scale with the government, and strengthening the organisations that drive them.
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India Has The Solutions,
The Opportunity

India Has The Solutions,

We're building the architecture that connects them.
Across India, non-profits are already changing lives with work rooted in their communities. But too often that work stays local, reaching a single district when it could reach the whole country. To grow, it needs two things: a path into government, whose schools, clinics and welfare schemes serve hundreds of millions, and funders willing to back the journey. That is where System Support Organisations come in, the missing middle between communities and government.
SCALE strengthens these organisations and works with funders and government to turn their local success into lasting impact for millions.
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What We Do

We Work Across The Ecosystem

with funders, SSOs, and government. Each plays a part the others rely on, and our role is to bring them together so those parts add up to lasting change.
Funders

Funders

Most philanthropy funds delivery, and that matters. We make the case for a complementary bet: investing in the systems and organisations that make delivery last. We help CSRs and foundations give more systemically and back the big bets worth making.
System Support 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. Partner with it, and one good idea can reach the country.
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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, one we call 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.
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About us

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

What it lacks is the connective tissue that turns scattered good work 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 programmes on the ground ourselves; we strengthen the organisations and partnerships that do, and we stay with them for the long term.

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