Radhika Agrawal
I work on corporate social responsibility and social impact: designing and running grant portfolios, holding them to their compliance obligations, and measuring whether they actually changed anything.
Nine+ years across CSR strategy, philanthropy, and multi-stakeholder programmes in India, built on a foundation in financial due diligence.
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- Bengaluru, India
Tools
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Theory of Change Stress-Test
A critic for a theory of change you already have. Everyone can fill in the boxes; a theory of change breaks in the arrows between them — so this red-teams the causal links, finds the missing middle and the attribution overreach, and ranks the assumptions most likely to be challenged. Grounded in contribution analysis.
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Grantee Balanced Scorecard
Assessing a nonprofit partner and their proposal before a CSR grant is approved. Keeps eligibility — a legal yes or no under the CSR Rules — separate from assessment, and treats the organisation and the project as two different questions.
Writing
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One person in one village, with a notebook
One notebook — borewell levels, which birds came back, what survived — feeding local governance, research and restoration at once.
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“We are done with our CSR for the year.”
Heard in more than one boardroom. You cannot be done with impact — only with a filing.
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Every function in a business has a vendor knocking on its door
The development sector has none, so organisations keep rebuilding tools that already exist.
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The first person who taught me about systems wasn’t a consultant
A woman in Jhabua explaining a forest. Communities rarely lack insight — what they lack is influence.