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"We cannot take a kukri to the battlefield."
So writes Amit Chandra in a New York Times op-ed about India's need for more philanthropists.
The country has more than 2 million Not for Profit Organizations (NPOs) that do things like feed the hungry, provide health care, or fight climate change, but they're often hard to find and often under-funded.
"The point we want to make is that if we believe that NPOs have an important role to play as partners in social change, we cannot 'take a kukri to the battlefield,'" writes Chandra.
He argues that India needs at least a dozen such organizations in various sectors, " ideally focused on multiple geographies, with at least one focused on a major region each."
A recent report by Sattva Consulting found that the 200th NPO had a budget of just $10 million, while the top 200 NPOs had budgets of more than $9 million.
"The Central Government allocates Rs 12,467 crores for the Mid-day Meals nutrition program," writes Chandra.
"As against this, Akshay Patra Foundation, the largest such organization in the country in this space, perhaps one of the largest NPOs in the country, working in partnership with state and local
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