Working with changemakers to make their journeys a little easier.
"aikyam makes changemaking journey a collaborative experience"
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Starting and running a social impact organisation is hard.
Many early-stage Social Impact Organisations in India struggle not because they lack vision, but because they don’t always have the crucial seed funding, resources, or support to build strong foundations.
Funding is scarce, compliance is confusing, and building resilient teams takes more than passion. We’ve seen promising ideas lose momentum simply because the people behind them didn’t have access to the right kind of support at the right time.
aikyam grew out of this gap — as a set of small, practical projects that try to remove everyday barriers for changemakers.
Ego-System to
Eco-System
Early in our journey as a not for profit, we noticed that others also faced the same challenges as us — compliance hurdles, limited tech know-how, fragile funding, and stretched teams.
We did not know how to ask for help.We wanted to solve all the problems faced by social impact organisations, We did now know how to let go of our ego and build resources that everyone can use. We did not know how to open our office to everyone.
Over time, we learnt.
Through Tiny Experiments, We have learnt and believe that shared platforms and resources can ease this burden, offering common tools, knowledge, and spaces that help social impact organisations focus more on their communities and less on reinventing the wheel.
Following are some of the key shared resources we have nurtured along the way:
aikyam space in Fort Kochi, Kerala started as a small 10 bed living and workshop space to host our capacity building residential workshops for social impact organisations. It is a space where teams could rejuvenate, pause, and learn together. More than a physical place, it’s a shared psychologically safe space for reflection and exchange.
aikyam fellows are social impact driven individuals who make benefits of design, technology, strategy, fundraising, operations, storytelling, impact measurement more accessible to social impact organisations.
aikyam jobs started as a tiny experiment to support social impact organisations in India find the team members. There is an abundance of talent wanting to work in the social impact space but a scarcity of career paths, guidance, curated opportunities for them. With 100+ active jobs from 150+ organisations and 300+ subcribers - aikyam jobs aspires to bridge that gap by making hiring ecosystem more accessible to organisations and job seekers.
aikyam fund makes resilience more accessible to early-stage social impact organisations in India. Over a 12-month program, they take part in hands-on bootcamps, workshops, and mentoring designed to see organisations as complex, adaptive systems. Together, we focus on four interconnected areas that shape long-term resilience: building compliant and efficient operations, fostering psychologically safe teams, designing measurable and impactful programs, and creating diverse, predictable fundraising streams.
"Rare to find such in-depth program design workshop for NGOs"
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Co-creation, sharing warmly & freely.
Stronger solutions emerged when we worked with others and learnt and built together.
Co-creating tools, practices, and knowledge with other organisations ensured that they are rooted in real needs. Making these shared resources openly available and easy to access meant that even the smallest social impact organisation can benefit, adapt, and contribute back—strengthening the ecosystem as a whole.
PATTIC (People’s Alliance for Trust & Transparency in CSOs) is a community platform that helps nonprofits in India navigate compliance and governance. It brings together a multilingual knowledge hub, practical resources, and an active Q&A forum where organisations can ask questions and get help. 2000+ members of PATTIC make regulatory knowledge more accessible, collaborative, and rooted in the everyday challenges of social impact organisations in India
OASIS (Open Source Alliance for Social Innovation and Sustainability) is a collaborative network playing a supporting role to social impact through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Through hands-on workshops, tool showcases, case-studies, and a community forum, OASIS makes low-cost, transparent, and maintainable tech solutions more accessible to social impact organisations.
"I made our impact storytelling site with zero coding skills!"
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Looking to volunteer?
If you are passionate about contributing to the work done by social impact organisations through volunteering your skills in design, technology, strategy, fundraising, storytelling, talent management, finance, etc - please do write to us at shemeer@aikyamhq.com
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