Insights on social impact,
SSE compliance & responsible funding

Before an NGO can raise funds on the Social Stock Exchange, it must register as a Social Entity. SSE4NGO filed and secured that registration for CHORD, a Hyderabad non-profit — and renewed it effective 26 June 2025.

If your firm does assurance work, the Social Stock Exchange has opened a new line of it. Every NPO that raises on the SSE must have its annual impact report audited by a registered Social Auditor — and the entry point to that role is the NISM Series XXIII: Social Auditors Certification Examination.

Accessing the Social Stock Exchange could be part of a broader strategy to link social welfare objectives with market-based funds, the Minister said.

Non-profit organisations raising money on India's Social Stock Exchange (SSE) are working in a very different environment from the platform's early days. With corporate CSR money now able to flow through the exchange and minimum ticket sizes cut to retail levels, the question for most NPOs is no longer whether the SSE works — it's whether they are structured to raise on it.

India’s equity markets have been making news for years — and the Social Stock Exchange (SSE) is building a regulated pathway for outcome-driven philanthropy and impact funding.