WhiteSwan Rural Consulting Group: A Pitch

The Hypothesis
- Developmental sector in India is extremely fragmented. As of today, there are over 1.2 million registered and unregistered Non Governmental Organizations operating in the country. Fabulous transformations are happening at the micro-level, but due to disharmony and deficiency of structure, change has not become integrable. Today's social environment lacks competition and a majority of NGOs lack basic business infrastructure and systems that would aid them in scaling up.

- Social Responsibility departments of Indian corporates face an exceedingly cumbersome task of investing in the developmental sector. Unlike any other investment portfolio, social investments are tricky due to lack of transparency and accountability. Recent studies have revealed that philanthropic investments often result in 8% (or less) social impact. This calls for a more diligent investment methodology.

The Critical Question
When good happens, we fail to understand it's driving efficiency, often because of our mental contentedness. We fail to ask the critical question - "How good is good?"

Vision
WhiteSwan Rural Consulting Group(WRCG) was born when a bunch of socially motivated engineers made an attempt to answer this critical question. WRCG has one primary vision - "To cause enhanced and measurable social impact". We believe that by playing a catalyzing role in producing an integrable social change, a significant impact can result. We enable developmental organizations to perform better.

Key engagements
- Non-Profit Consulting. Providing organizational, financial, IT and HR management services to small and medium scale developmental organizations. The focus is to increase social impact.

- Knowledge Management. Conduct, analyze and share case studies on the performances of NGOs across the country. The focus is to examine and enhance transparency and accountability in the developmental space.

- Metrics and Impact Research. Develop indigenous tools and innovative methodologies to measure social impact for MFIs, NGOs and other agencies. The focus is to cause an integrable change.

- Social Investment Packages. Provide investment packages and advisory services to CSRs in making informed social investments. The focus is to facilitate yielding social investments - what Acumen Fund calls "The Patient Capital".

- Social Leadership. Carefully designed year-long immersion programmes and short-term stints for college students. The focus is to groom a cohort of bright leaders for the social sector tomorrow.

Our Dream
WRCG believes in the big bang theory for development. We dream to integrate and revolutionize today's fragmented Indian developmental space. Such an integration has the potential to significantly impact a billion lives.