Aid retrenchment is now structural, not a shock
Private and corporate giving is rising anyway, so the direction of travel is not new.
A Cosmos Strategy Social Sector Vertical

Lumity
/luː.mɪ.ti/
from Latin lumen ‘light’ + Latin veritas ‘truth’
The luminous clarity that emerges when deep insight meets genuine human empathy.
A light that reveals what social sector organisations truly need to thrive, scale and inspire.
Where the social sector meets the rigour of transformative growth strategy.

We are
Social sector growth strategists
who use
insights & empathy
to unlock
a positive spiral of transformative impact
The traditional approach breaks a problem into pieces, solves each piece, and reassembles them — reading an organisation as the sum of its parts. We work the other way. We find the core insight, the human truth at the centre of the problem, and reimagine the organisation concentrically around it. An organisation is not a sum of parts. It is an engine, and insight is its fuel.
Insight at the centre of performance and organisation — not insight applied function by function.

Insight-centred, empathy-driven
with collaboration & accountability
Substantive, sustainable impact
for customers who want to make a difference — non-profits, foundations, philanthropic organisations, corporates, family offices and governmental institutions.

Operating contexts that are complex, represent discontinuities, or have a history of fragmentation.
Transformation
of
Programmes | Enterprises | Organisations
For Scale-up | Efficiency | Institutionalisation
Entry
for
Funders | Not-for-profits
Into new Themes | Geographies
Capability
through
Skills + Culture + Processes | Performance + Potential
For Attrition-resistant operating results | All-level leadership development
Across all social sector stakeholders, across geographies.
500+
years of cumulative practitioner experience behind us, through Cosmos Strategy
~100
years of collective development sector experience in the core team
60+
industries whose patterns we bring into social sector contexts
57
questions we have been asked, and have loved answering
7
locations, from Mumbai to Barcelona
Tell us who you are and what you are wrestling with. This page will assemble the parts of our credentials that bear on it — the relevant questions, the relevant practice, the relevant details.
Assembled by Claude from the contents of this site. It selects and arranges; it does not invent, name a client or claim an outcome.
Credentials are easier to fake than curiosity. So instead of a list of engagements, here is the actual work: fifty-seven questions our leadership has been asked across four continents, in the words they were asked in.
We are senior professionals with roughly 100 years of collective development sector experience, blended with the 500+ years of for-profit experience of Cosmos Strategy Consultants in building, managing and growing diverse enterprises globally. We stay with you from proposal to solution to execution. Our team is based across India, Singapore, Australia, UAE, Sub Saharan Africa, Europe and North America.





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5 notes · last updated 2026-08-12
Private and corporate giving is rising anyway, so the direction of travel is not new.
There is no funding crunch.
FPOs need to move up the value-addition curve.

Let’s illumine … together !!!