India's legions of hard-working non-profit organizations strive to reduce absolute and relative poverty and improve the capabilities of communities and individuals but struggle for resources. With the introduction of a legal mandate in a 2013 revision to her Companies Act, India became the first country to mandate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure by large firms. Both corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) still struggle to meet the act's requirements. CSR funding is unevenly distributed or unspent, neglecting many issues and regions in need. In 2021, 45% of mandated corporations remained non-compliant and less than 1% of India's NGOs had received funding through the CSR mandate. Small, local NGOs are often extremely effective in terms of impact and outcome. They have the connections, local knowledge and agility to generate and implement sustainable solutions but are excluded from consideration if they struggle to meet transparency requirements. The goal of DaanMatch is to use technology to overcome these and other challenges in development. We are developing a system to facilitate localization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and improve outcomes for Corporate Social Responsibility. This paper describes the DaanMatch system and the innovative technology it utilizes to match CSR with NGOs in a way that showcases small NGOs and helps level the playing field for them. Although the initial emphasis is on India, our goal is to reinvent the process of NGO evaluation, monitoring, auditing, and reporting for charitable giving and global development.
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Arellano et al. (2023) studied this question.