aikyam school is a free, open forum for anyone working in the nonprofit sector in India. Ask anything: about compliance, finance, HR, PoSH, technology, fundraising, storytelling, team management, or anything else that comes up when you're building an organisation from the ground up.

Your questions will be answered by vetted domain experts: practitioners and professionals who know this space well and have chosen to show up for the community.

~ No consulting fees. No gatekeeping. Just honest, informed answers.

How it works

You join the forum and ask your question, publicly, so others facing the same thing can benefit too.

Domain experts on aikyam school each have their own space, a microsite where you can understand their background, their areas of expertise, and the kind of questions they can help with. When a question falls in their domain, they answer.

Over time, the community grows. More experts join. More questions get answered. The knowledge compounds and stays open for anyone who needs it.

We also send out a regular newsletter surfacing the best questions and answers from the forum, so even people who haven't joined yet can start learning and eventually find their way in.

What can you ask about?

Anything that comes up when you're running a small or early-stage NGO. Some starting points:

• Compliance and legal: Income Tax, FCRA, GST, Labour Laws, PoSH, registration
• Finance and accounting: budgeting, audits, donor reporting, fund management
• Team and HR: hiring, volunteer management, policies, leadership
• Fundraising: grant writing, CSR, donor relationships, budgets
• Technology and AI: tools, systems, how to use them with a small team
• Storytelling and communications: impact reporting, social media, writing
• Day-to-day operations: governance, documentation, knowledge management

Why free?

Because the organisations that most need good advice are usually the ones least able to pay for it. That shouldn't be a reason to go without.

aikyam school is part of aikyam's larger belief that the nonprofit ecosystem gets stronger when knowledge moves freely, from those who have it to those who need it.