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Every quarter, from January 2027

SocioStory Quarterly: the work, and the people who back it

A magazine of stories from India's NGOs and conversations with the people who lead CSR. It goes to our 50,000+ readers and to CSR heads across the country. We're putting Issue 1 together now.

Tell us your NGO’s story Put your CSR head forward

Issue 1 closes to new stories on Friday 6 November.

Issue 1January 2027

SocioStory
Quarterly

The CSR Desk: CSR heads on what works

From the field: NGO stories from across India

Social Heroes

Campus

In the making

What's in an issue

  1. The CSR Desk

    Long conversations with the people who run India's CSR programmes: what works, what doesn't, and why.

  2. From the field

    NGO stories reported from the ground, many of them from outside the big cities, with photographs of the real work.

  3. Boardroom and field

    Where we can, an interview sits next to a story about a programme that company funds, reported by us.

  4. Social Heroes

    Short profiles of people whose everyday work changes their community.

  5. Campus

    What students, NSS units and SocioStory Centres did in their communities.

  6. How to

    A practical piece from the Academy, for people doing the work.

How it works

How to be in it

  1. 1

    Tell us about your work

    A short form: a few facts, a few photos and, for CSR teams, your CSR head. About ten minutes.

  2. 2

    An editor gets in touch

    Within a week, to ask questions, plan a visit or set a time for the interview.

  3. 3

    We report and write it

    Our editors do the writing. You check the facts and figures before anything is published.

  4. 4

    It's published

    In the magazine, on sociostory.org and in our weekly mailer to more than 50,000 readers.

Four issues a year

January, April, July and October

Each issue closes to new stories about ten weeks before it comes out. Anything that arrives later goes into the next one.

  1. Issue 1 · January 2027

    Open now: closes Friday 6 November

  2. Issue 2 · April 2027

    Closes Friday 12 February

  3. Issue 3 · July 2027

    Closes Friday 14 May

  4. Issue 4 · October 2027

    Closes Friday 13 August

Our promises

Independent, and careful

We choose what goes in. We tell people’s stories the way we’d want ours told.

  1. It's free, and no one can pay to be in the magazine.

  2. You check the facts and figures before anything is published. The editing is ours.

  3. Real photographs only, credited, with the consent of the people in them.

  4. No child is identifiable in a photo we publish.

Done something worth telling? Tell us.

Send us your story