In July two things landed on ImpactMojo, and both come from the same idea: the courses should meet you where you actually work, on paper, offline, in a workshop, or at the start of a new topic you have to get up to speed on fast.
Printable Course Notes for 18 flagships
All 21 flagship courses are, and will stay, free to study online. But reading on a screen and owning a document you can work from are different things. So 18 of the 21 flagships have a companion Course Notes PDF: the core ideas, concept diagram, worked examples where the subject calls for them, open-access key readings and a reflection prompt for each module, laid out as a print-ready A4 reference you keep.
Print it, mark it up, take it into a training, keep it on the shelf. Once you have the file, it needs no login, no connection and no distraction: just the course, in your hands. Each is ₹350, paid by UPI, and the PDF is emailed within 24 hours of payment. The course itself stays free. The information is free. The price pays for the finished artefact, covering the layout and typesetting, and it helps keep the rest of the library open.
Find them on the Products page, or click “Course Notes” on any course.
What is inside
Each Course Notes PDF is the whole course, condensed into a reference you can work from, and it is a reference rather than a slide dump. For every module you get its core ideas stated plainly, the concept diagram that anchors it, worked examples grounded in South Asian practice where the subject calls for them, and the key readings (all open-access, so each citation leads to a text you can read). The MEL notes run to 101 pages and the Public Choice notes to 129. The shortest, Livelihoods in India and Power BI for Practitioners, run to 37 and 39. Each file is print-ready A4, typeset with generous margins to write in, a clean single column, and diagrams that survive a black-and-white printer.
Who reaches for the printed version
We built these because we kept hearing the same thing from practitioners: the screen is where you learn, but paper is where you work. A few patterns we’ve seen already:
- Facilitators print the notes for a session, mark the three ideas they’ll actually cover, and leave the rest as a handout participants keep.
- People prepping for an interview or a new brief want the whole arc of a topic in one document they can skim on a train, rather than in seventeen browser tabs.
- Teams in low-connectivity field offices keep a printed set on the shelf, so the reference doesn’t depend on the wifi.
The notes sit beside the free online course. The web version is where you learn interactively, with course lexicons, AI study companions for 12 courses and progress tracking. The PDF is the form that travels.
Four new 101 courses
The 101 Series (free, self-paced interactive slide decks) grew to 51 courses in July with four timely additions built for how development work actually looks in 2026, and now has 60:
- GenAI for Practitioners, how to use large language models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) responsibly in your work: what they’re good at, how to prompt well, and the hallucination, bias and data-protection risks you must manage.
- Data Protection & the DPDP Act, India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 for NGOs: consent, the rights of the people in your data and your obligations as a data fiduciary, and what to do now.
- Safeguarding & PSEA, protection from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment: the standards, the red lines, and survivor-centred reporting and response.
- Disability Inclusion, rights-based, twin-track inclusion: the CRPD and the RPWD Act, accessible programming, and data that counts everyone.
Each is a native-HTML deck with a light/dark theme and keyboard navigation: free forever, no sign-in.
And under the hood
Alongside these, every flagship module live in July opens with a theme-aware concept diagram and carries a verified open-access key reading, the site shares one top bar and footer, and flagship content is served from the database. Small things, but they add up to courses that feel like one coherent library.
As always, everything core stays free. Browse it all in the catalog, or start with the 101 Series.