Arthan is launching a long term, future-oriented and multi-stakeholder initiative, ‘Building Civil Society Organisations of the Future’. This online to offline initiative begins with a track on ‘The future of fundraising’ on June 22, 2020, and will go on till December 2021. We noted that while the pandemic brought forth the spirit of collaboration of the social sector with a plethora of online convenings, collaborations and collectives, a few questions remained unaddressed. These included the need for a long term, sustainable and resilient strategy for the impact sector that would include the voices of all stakeholders in the sector – across regions, languages and gender to ensuring accountability by converting these dialogues into action. This initiative will address ecosystem challenges and opportunities, in the wake of the pandemic, in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, progress towards which has been pushed back due to these unforeseen circumstances. The initiative is meant to co-create solutions, co-evolve out of the pandemic, and define the future of civil society organisations in India.
