Meet our Nonprofits

Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation supports state governments and nonprofit organizations to improve the quality of school leadership and students’ learning outcomes by enabling educational leadership.

Vision: Anahat For Change Foundation envisions creating a world with informed youth and citizens sensitive to sustainability and gender equality.

Mission: To work towards bringing knowledge, life skills, and linkages to many disadvantaged women, underprivileged children, adolescents, and youth to enhance leadership, promote self-sustainability and alleviate poverty.

Antarang Foundation envisions a world in which every young person is passionately, productively, and positively engaged in a career of their choice.

Antarang has transformed the lives of 83,000 at-risk youth by providing career guidance, reducing dropout rates, and teaching core employment skills to the 14 – 28 age group.

Mahila Abhivruddhi Society (APMAS) was set up in 2001 on a public-private partnership model with the objective of enhancing the quality and sustainability of the SHG movement and community based inclusive interventions, having its registered office at HIG 11 & 12, HUDA Colony, Tanesha Nagar, Manikonda, Hyderabad-500 089, Telangana (hereinafter referred as “APMAS”). APMAS is a premier resource organization in the fields of capacity building and strengthening of Community based organizations (CBOs) and other stakeholders, quality assessment of SHGs and CBOs, rural livelihood promotion and research and advocacy.

Apni Shala builds social and emotional competencies among individuals to constructively engage with society and have a harmonious co-existence. They do this by increasing access to Social Emotional Learning (SEL) spaces for children, youth, and the larger community, developing capacity among educators and mental health workers to facilitate SEL programs and implement a wholesome SEL evaluation framework in the Indian context alongside advocating with the government to push for policy interventions.

Bright Future guides disadvantaged young people towards gainful employment and a meaningful life through life skills and career training. Their mission is to facilitate young people to become changemakers by developing future skills and promoting lifelong learning. The organization also builds capacities for key stakeholders like parents, teachers, mentors and employers so that we set up our beneficiaries for success at home, school and work.

Founded 25 years ago, Calcutta Foundation has worked to support over 500,000 individuals around West Bengal. Calcutta Foundation are dedicated to supporting women in every aspect of their journey to independence, and bringing the potential of rural India to the global stage. Through Apni Kutir, our physical vertical, and SAMA, our digital community, they work on bringing varied opportunities to the most remote parts of the country.

Vision: It is to dramatically change the life of every woman we work with.

Mission: Our philosophy is four fold - advocacy, independence, safety, and access to systematically dismantle gender inequality in India.

Set up in 1997, Communication for Development and Learning (CDL) is a Bangalore based not-for-profit organization working to facilitate the use of communication as an integral part of the development process. Our work at CDL is directed to create and subsequently mainstream innovative approaches in development communication – both within NGOs and civil society.

CDL engages with both, alternate and mainstream publications – in both English and Kannada (local language) to provide an interface between the media and development. The core area of work is media research and analysis of development issues in the print media. Our team competency and strength rest on an integral understanding of both sectors, which is based on experience in building partnerships with journalists in the print.

Chhaya works to create a safe haven for animals and treat them with love & respect. They provide some crucial services like Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme - humanely neuters street dogs to reduce their population. Street animal rescue, picking up injured animals & providing them necessary treatment. Free treatment for cattle (goats & cows) of villagers. Their work extends to Kolkata & its neighboring districts.

Chitrika - Artisans Foundation (AF) focuses on working with women artisans. It is an incubator of women-owned artisan enterprises that aims to build an enabling ecosystem for the collective gain of 10,000 artisan households by 2030. Having successfully incubated 3 collective enterprises, Artisans Foundation has demonstrated the inherent capacity of women artisans to become a key players in the craft economy when supported with the right skills and access to resources. Artisans Foundation has helped more than 700 weavers to earn US$ 1315 per annum - double the national average annual earnings of weaving households. Artisans Foundation’s Operation Web has transformed craftswomen into community builders and collective entrepreneurs who understand and interact with the market.

At Craftizen, we play the role of Craft Architects, building bridges that connect the crafts sector to newer possibilities. Craftizen was founded in 2014 with the vision to help revive Indian craft and artisanal skills so that they remain an integral part of our cultural fabric. Our model enables craft-based skill development by offering support across the value-chain from training to design, production and marketing, including absorbing risk of inventory through assured buyback, to ensure sustainable livelihoods for our groups.

DIKSHA is a rights-skills-building organisation working with children and women from marginalised communities. DIKSHA engages girls and boys together as equal partners in change to evolve as community leaders and transform their communities towards gender justice, inclusivity, and free of inequalities.

Earth Day aims to develop and promote ways to inspire individuals and groups to protect the environment. The objective of Earth Day is to enable the Circular Kolkata Alliance, promoting circular practices in the city of Kolkata and reducing material waste going to the landfill.

Vision: Our world needs transformational change. It’s time for the world to hold sectors accountable for their role in our environmental crisis while also calling for bold, creative, and innovative solutions.

Mission: EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide.

EMpower partners with local organizations in emerging market countries to enable marginalized young people to transform their lives and communities.

Enfold Proactive Health Trust was founded in 2002 to promote gender equity, sexuality and personal safety education and to create safer spaces and prevent sexual and gender-based violence against children and adults.

Every Infant Matters serves disadvantaged women and children by providing last-mile health solutions.

Their biggest project is preventing blindness by dispensing Vitamin A to malnourished and marginalized children. We believe in justice and inclusion and work towards promoting gender equality.

Future Hope is a charitable organization that provides opportunity through its homes, school, sports, and medical program for some of the most vulnerable children from the streets and slums of Kolkata, India. They put society's most vulnerable children at the center of all we do. After 34 years, we understand their problems and the solutions that dramatically and permanently change their lives for the better.

Gantar aims at creating a learning environment for all as a way to empower oneself and live life with dignity. They work in the space of secondary and higher secondary education in rural India. The hope to is provide equal opportunity in education to all individuals which is relevant for their ecosystem and matches their aspirations

GREEN Foundation works toward a well-preserved, diverse ecosystem that will sustain the rural livelihoods of the present generation without eroding the resource base of the future. Our work to empower the small scale and marginal farmers of India first began in 1994 with a simple effort to distribute indigenous seed varieties in and around the village of Thalli, Tamil Nadu. This soon turned into a growing biodiversity conservation program that has been central to our work ever since.

Hand in Hand Inclusive Development and Services (HHIDS) is a not-for-profit organization registered under Section 8 of the Indian Companies Act. HHIDS performs various socio-economic development interventions oriented towards environmental sustainability. The company was established in 2007 to deal with the waste menace the community and the environment face, and to create contemporary, affordable solutions to mitigate the effects of waste through tactical applications. HHIDS specializes in three activities that underline the organization’s interventions namely Municipal Solid Waste Management Program, Waste-to-energy Program and Community Safe Drinking Water Program.

There are numerous children in our country that come from disadvantaged background, these include abandoned, surrendered, and trafficked children, orphans, as well as children with families that are unable to support them. They are often placed into Child Care Institutions where they are looked after with care and given adequate supervision and guidance. 91% of these Child Care Institutions are run by nonprofits. Apart from supporting their basic physical and emotional needs, it is imperative to provide them with a happy and enriching environment. Humanity aims to leverage the existing resources to make sure that these institutions are places of nurture and rehabilitation, where children can grow to become happy and contributing members of society.

Driven to enrich public spaces, the organization works with the government and citizens. It’s focused on cleaning up the streets and regulating waste disposal in urban India. They seek to support ground-breaking work anchored in networks and movements, to create and strengthen communities that work for their own betterment. India Rising Trust believes that the value of samaaj which is on this quest as beyond measure.

Established in 2000, Industree Foundation holistically tackles the root causes of poverty by creating an ownership based, organised creative manufacturing ecosystem for women. Industree Foundation’s comprehensive approach helps communities assess their traditional skill base, organize them into production units, develop products that appeal to contemporary markets, and create consistent demand to create sustainable businesses at the lowest possible costs. Our approach has tripled the incomes of artisans in non-farm occupations by leveraging their artisanal skills and integrating them into the creative industries sector.

Kaarigar Clinic develops micro entrepreneurs among kaarigar communities to create sustainable livelihoods, strengthen their social and economical status and empower them to make villages a better place to work, earn and live.