• Creating engagement opportunities:CSO Partners seeks to create a space for innovative collaborations between contributors and CSOs by providing pre-packaged services/ products. CSO Partners is developing `products’ on five themes: disaster management, disability, corruption, governance, education, and child sponsorship. The products would bring in much needed resources – financial and human – to the social sector and also provide opportunities for contributors to engage directly with CSOs.

• Facilitating a spectrum of services to various contributors:Through its network of expert service providers, CSO Partners organizes a wide range of support to various contributors to engage with the social sector. This would ultimately result in channelization of resources – human and financial – to CSOs working particularly in the above-stated five themes.

As contributors are a diverse set (high net-worth individuals, corporates, individuals, etc) with varying needs and aspirations, CSO Partners works on aggregating contributors and providing services. For instance CSO Partners would work with focused groups of contributors such as high net-worth individuals and small and medium enterprises that have the potential to make substantial contributions by offering them prepackaged services of support partners. When necessary, CSO Partners would also provide customized advisory services.

CSO Partners makes use of new technologies to meet varied needs of contributors, ranging from information, expert services and direct engagement with CSOs in an easily accessible and transparent manner.

• Develop an online one-stop solution for all services related to social sector: CSO Partners’ website aims to be a single window solution for services related to the social sector. Through the website, contributors and CSOs can be matched to partners by keying in information about areas in which they seek involvement or require support.

• Online interface to facilitate direct mobilization of resources for CSOs from various contributors: CSO Partners aims to develop an online platform that would enable direct collaboration between CSOs and contributors. The platform would provide information on CSOs, and the facility for contributors to address some of their resource needs.

The number of capacity building organizations working in the social sector is rather small. Therefore CSO Partners is undertaking the following measures:

• Partnering with and strengthening existing capacity building organizations working in the sector: CSO Partners has established partnerships with 12 credible organizations in support domains ranging from donor services, social investment services, financial management, governance, documentation, to advocacy and communications. CSO Partners is identifying more organizations that could support CSOs in these and other domains.

• Incubating innovations to promote replicable and sustainable programme model: CSO Partners provides support to scalable and sustainable programme models, to create pilot projects or proof-of-concept centres that could be replicated.

Online Strategies: CSO Partners would enable CSOs access to services through two online strategies

• Online networking opportunity for CSOs: CSO Partners seeks to build an online network for CSOs to source resources, have a virtual presence and share knowledge. This would provide opportunities for CSOs to work in a collaborative manner and interact with other stakeholders as well.

• Online access to expert service providers: To enable small CSOs operating in remote parts of the country to access expert services, CSO Partners has provided a facility in this website for CSOs to key in the details of their support requirements. The requirement would be routed automatically to the appropriate expert service provider who would in turn approach these CSOs.

Offline Strategies: Offline strategies are aimed at overcoming barriers of geography and communications infrastructure.

• Widening the geographic reach of its support network: CSO Partners is working on increasing the number of partners in various functional areas to cover the length and breadth of the country. We are developing a panel of individual consultants.

• Providing opportunity for CSOs for direct interaction with experts: Such opportunities would help CSOs gain direct inputs in various areas of support.