Practical frameworks, books and assessment tools to help mission-driven organisations build stronger governance, accountability, sustainability and institutional resilience — built around the Institutional Governance Maturity Assessment and The Resilient Institution.
Start from the question your Board, funder or regulator is asking. Each answer leads to the toolkit built for it.
Free articles, videos and frameworks on governance, FCRA and finance leadership for mission-driven organisations.
The Governance Maturity Scale — five levels, from vulnerable to fully optimised governance. In three decades of audits and finance leadership in the sector, many organisations we have seen were operating at L1 or L2 without fully recognising it.
Most boards find out their governance was weak only after a funder audit, a leadership transition, or a compliance notice forces the question. The Institutional Governance Maturity Assessment answers it before that happens — scoring where your organisation actually stands, and telling you exactly what to fix first, instead of handing you another policy template to file away.
Automated Excel self-assessments your own team can run. One-time payment, single-organisation licence, free v1.x updates, instant download.
60 questions, 8 pillars, 646 evidence criteria. A Board-ready maturity score (L1–L5), heat map and 30/60/90-day action plan.
Organisation-wide FCRA check across registration, current compliance, governance integration and future readiness.
6 pillars, 40 questions, 411 criteria. Dashboard, Board summary, assurance report, action tracker and year-on-year trend.
An automated self-assessment against India’s DPDP Act that scores your position and flags the gaps to close.
FCRA Compliance + FCRA Governance + DPDP in one purchase — the same method across all three.
18 case briefs, 5 practical frameworks and a diagnostic — the thinking behind the toolkits.
Not sure which one fits? Compare all toolkits side by side or read the FAQ.
Three series — The Resilient Institution™, The Strategic CFO, The Strategic Life. One flagship title from each is free to read online in full.
Evidence-based governance maturity scoring with executive dashboards.
The full automated Excel toolkits, Institutional and FCRA Professional Editions, with built-in scoring for board-ready results.
A checklist tells you what's missing. It scores where your governance actually stands across five maturity levels, and points to the specific decisions your board or CFO should prioritise next.
No. Start with "Governance Lessons from the Field" — it's free, and carries the same thinking and methodology behind the toolkits, in book form. The rest of the library includes paid books and professional toolkits.
The FCRA toolkit is built for India-registered NGOs managing foreign contribution compliance. The Institutional Governance Maturity toolkit is broader, for any Trust, Foundation or mission-driven organisation reviewing board and financial oversight.
Yes — Gumroad checkout converts to your local currency automatically, and UPI payment is available by email for Indian buyers. See "Good to know before you buy" on the Books and Toolkits pages.
"Perhaps the most compelling idea is the 'CFO holiday test': can the organisation and finance function operate effectively without the CFO being constantly present? A valuable read that I expect to refer to often."
— Andrew Harmer, FCA, senior executive, for-profit & regulated sector, on The Strategic CFO"This excellent pocketbook has concrete practical ideas that NPOs will want to use immediately. It is brief, because it has distilled decades of a practitioner's wisdom, and bottled it up in a small jar."
— Sanjay Agarwal, Principal, Sanjay Aditya; author of the AccountAble Handbook on FCRA 2010, on Governance Lessons from the FieldOne practical note a week on NGO governance, FCRA and the strategic CFO role. Free, on Substack. Unsubscribe any time.
Box not loading? Subscribe on Substack directly.