Unique Financial Model

IPH is technically, an NGO - a non-governmental organization. In the Indian context, these are social organizations working for social service, working not for profit & usually dependent on governmental or other sources of funding.

Ideally such organizations have the potential for individual and mass development and a potential to mould the social value system towards betterment.

However, in practice, most of the 'typical' Indian NGOs have shunned themselves from use of management principles. In fact they take mismanagement as a permit or brand identity of social work. It has, to an extent, reduced NGOs to a culture of amassing money in whichever way and thus going close to being called as bootleggers.

IPH has chosen & tried to be different & prefers to be a 'social enterprise. Designing a dream is as important as having a dream. And for designing one need management principles - which are generally criticized by social workers because of the perception, that whenever there is a system, it has to be rigid. Actually a system is a system and the users and designers make it flexible or rigid. Right from designing an event to financial discipline, most social work organization either rationalize their lacunae or go in to denial - saying that they just don't need them

At IPH, being a social enterprise, we believe that we need not return the `money' but can return by creating manifold wealth; Wealth in the form of ideas, individuals, teams, and systems. Our balance sheet is not just about money but also consists of the credit & debit of rational & irrational attitudes / beliefs / practices in the society. And the wealth we seek to create is the rational attitudes which can help individual & collective development - in his/her chosen field of endeavor.

We are also seeking to create a system by which the same set of beliefs can continue to flow even after the first propagators take exit.

We, therefore, do not shun away from the word enterprise - only because that phrase is not often used in the social field.

Consequently, we do not believe in only soliciting donations (we do not shun the donations, we do in fact respectfully and gratefully accept those), we do try to actively earn the money needed through corporate training programs, sale of CDS, taking training programs as a part of our Aakalan (continuation of education). We are accountable to the money earned or received as donation and there is complete transparency.