Meet our Nonprofits
SVP India Partners with high-impact Nonprofits addressing social challenges, supporting them with mentorship to strengthen their impact.

Veruschka Foundation

SVP's goal is to build the capacities of the Veruschka Foundation to grow and scale enabling them to reach more beneficiaries.
Veruschka works towards empowering persons with disabilities and those from marginalized communities to become contributing members of society. Through the Culinaris Institute of Hospitality, their flagship initiative offers government-certified skill development programs aimed at providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for students.
Rakesh Damani, Sudhir Shenoy


VigyanShaala International

Project KALPANA will enable a space for girls from various STEM programs in the city to come together, collaborate, co-create and build unique projects and also engage with younger school girls to pursue STEM. This prototype will foster collaboration, project-building, and mentorship opportunities for 50 talented girls in the Pune district.
VigyanShaala is to enable the innovators of tomorrow to achieve their dreams by bringing science, technology, and learning to their doorstep today.
Program KALPANA is a mentoring and career readiness program designed and delivered by scientists and professionals from leading global universities to successfully place every fellow on a high confidence STEM career path. "
Padmini Sundaram, Netra Walawalkar


Vihaan

SVP Bengaluru
SVP has been supporting Vihaan in piloting a first-of-its-kind program of training and placing survivors of human trafficking – who are within shelter homes – onto a path of a meaningful and sustainable livelihood. Under the program, 20 candidates were enrolled for skill training in 3 domains: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Housekeeping, and Security. The program also envisaged convergence of relevant government and non-government stakeholders to make opportunities for skill training inclusive in reintegration plans for the survivors.
Vihaan had actively worked with partners in the ecosystem to place the candidates in suitable organisations who are now out of the shelter home drawing an average salary of INR 11-14,000/- per month.
SVP Kolkata
The goal of the project with SVP is to ensure that each beneficiary becomes socially acceptable, financially independent with stable employment and able to lead a life of respect and honor. 17 Candidates would undergo skill training over a period of 6 months. 50%of the candidates (10 candidates) would be provided with sustainable livelihood opportunities. Candidates would undergo 720 hours of training over a period of 6 months. Apart from training in fashion designing, the candidates would undergo training in life skills, art therapy, group counseling, Industry visit and market survey as per the curriculum. At least 50% of the candidates would be provided sustainable livelihood opportunities.
Vihaan seeks to model, institutionalize and scale effective solutions specific to the crime of human trafficking and other forms of abuse and exploitation. They work with victims of sexual abuse and exploitation, bonded and child labor, domestic servitude and beggary.
Vihaan’s long term vision is to see trafficking become a rarity across the world. This can only work through a strong collaborative approach with the State, Judiciary and other like-minded organizations. Vihaan uses a victim-centric, end-to-end approach to facilitate rescue, provide access to legal support leading to justice, as well as provide rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors.
Sashi Rajamani, Kusum Pai, Arati Hegde, Talha Salaria, Rashmi Basavanhalli, Abhijit Banerjee Raj Chhajer Radha Kothari


Voice of Needy Foundation

Along with funding, SVP is supporting with:
Capacity building - SVP Team supported on proposal building, program planning,different capacity building online sessions and LPs supporting on program management and resource mapping Networking and facilitation - SVP connecting VNF in different platforms like sattva IPN etc..
Voice of Needy Foundation (VNF) is a Bangalore headquartered NGO working across Karnataka in the field of Disability. After 3 years of intensive field work, VNF was formally registered in 2013. Within disability, our focus has been to work with the most disadvantaged amongst them. Our bias is towards the school drop-outs, the very poor and the more severely disabled.
TV Srinivasan, Ram Ramaswamy, Jayashree Vaitheeswaran


Waatavaran Climate, Environment & Sustainability Foundation

Waatavaran primarily serves tribal communities who have lived in the forests for generations but do not have the rights to their land. They strive to transform these vulnerable communities into land-secure ones. They create awareness about forest protection and sustainable cultivation practices and assist them in using provisions of the legislation to claim community rights to their forests
Madhavi Ravuri, Rajendra Adsul, Suvarna Apte


WinVinaya Foundation

Along with funding, SVP is supporting with:
Funding our programs focused on enhancing livelihood placement for candidates, primarily Graduate with disabilities.
Support for Placement, networking and facilitating meaningful partnerships, comprehensive research, and job fairs.
Strategizing and planning for 3 Years
In 2016, WinVinaya Foundation, a Charitable Trust was registered with an aim to empower Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), women, and transgender individuals in cutting-edge, future-oriented skills. The organization operates centers in Bangalore and Tirupur.
We cater to 18 out of 21 recognized disability categories .. We have trained 1200+ beneficiaries who come from 24 states of India and Nepal. To date, we have placed 430+ candidates in various MNCs and MSMEs. The average salary of our placed candidates is double of the average salary of PWDs heloing them lead a life with dignity. 50% of WinVinaya’s employees are PWDs and our trainers are a perfect combination of young and experienced minds.
Abraham Stephanos, Mukul Mathur, Rachna Nath, Radhika Narain


Yein Udaan

SVP is financially supporting the salaries of a co-founder, HR consultant - for upgrading the HR policies of the organization, tech dasboard to analyze key metrics and a dedicated office space for the staff. In terms of advisory support, our Lead Partners are helping with transition management for the leadership team, refining the volunteer management policy and advise on HR processes.
At Yein Udaan, we establish community centers in urban slums to provide safe and nurturing spaces for children to thrive after school hours. Our holistic programs address academic needs, physical health, and mental well-being, while offering nutritious meals, extracurricular activities, sports, and therapy. Children are empowered through Rights and Duties awareness campaigns, building their social responsibility and leadership. Recognizing the importance of involving families, we partner with parents, teachers, and community leaders to foster healthy adult-child relationships and safeguard children from abuse. Additionally, our tailoring unit and daycare support mothers by enabling them to upskill and achieve financial independence, reducing reliance on alcoholic spouses
Rinku Mecheri Veerendra Mathur Bhuvana Maruthachalam


Young Men's Welfare Society

SVP will support to enhance educational standards by empowering female teachers, train and develop/build strong teams with adequate leadership skills to foster community awareness and engagement.
YMWS is dedicated to empowering communities through education and social initiatives through their flagship project, Khelaghar, that provides quality pre-primary and primary education to children aged 3+ to 14+ years in the district of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, Blocks : Mandir Bazaar, Kulpi, Joynagar and Mathurapur-1 with a recent expansion to upgrade classes up to VIII.
Soumitra Bhattacharya, Saket Choudhary


Youth4Jobs Foundation

SVP Bengaluru
SVP funded the College Connect Program of Youth4Jobs for two consecutive years. College Connect works for the skilling and placement of graduates with disabilities. Under SVP's guidance and support, Youth4Jobs could secure jobs for 63% of the candidates for an average salary of Rs. 3.42 LPA. Youth4Jobs has catered to 8 different disabilities and secured jobs for candidates in Banks, IT, ITES, and Manufacturing sectors, in different roles at the right levels and for good salaries.
SVP Hyderabad
Youth4Jobs’s relationship with SVP has evolved over the years and works at multiple levels now. We were among the first cohort of organisations onboarded. This gave us the opportunity to share our challenging but transformational work with youth with disabilities at SVP Forums. SVP Hyderabad has supported us in reflecting on our future, getting a third-party impact report done and funding gaps which other CSR funds hesitate to bridge, like communication requirements.
The Y4J team has a mixture of professionals drawn from various backgrounds, all knit together with a passion for making a difference in the lives of the disabled. Inclusion and diversity are reflected in the team. Of the 185-strong team, 15% have a disability, and 30-40% are young women. 70% of the team is below 35 years of age, full of ideas and enthusiasm. Over the years, the team capacity has been built on understanding different stakeholders – community, companies, educators, and government.
Sashi Rajamani, Jayashree Vaitheeswaran, Usha Narayan, Ajit Rangnekar, Sunita Shrivastava

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KADAM

SVP’s engagement with KADAM involved mentorship & financial support for issues that were blockades in creating sustainable incomes for 332 trained artisans in year 1 & 462 artisans in year 2. This created a twofold growth for the organization in terms of revenue generation and upto 33% increase in sustainable incomes of the beneficiaries. Various facets of business and sustainability have been the theme of monthly meetings with Lead Partners Mr. Ayush Poddar and Mr. Shaurya Veer Himatsingka.
Mission: To empower 10,000 people by the end of 2023 while following upto 10 of the sustainable development goals set by the UN as global goals via upskilling, using local replenishable resources, bringing economic opportunities to rural communities with majority of women via handicrafts.
Ayush Poddar, Shaurya Veer Himatsingka, Dibyendu Bose, Rohini Murarka


Katakhali

In collaboration with SVP, KSWS will focus on the key objective of resource mobilization whereby the following initiatives will be taken: To develop the capacity of the resource mobilization team of KSWS for helping them to develop standard operating procedures (SOP) for fundraising and operations by securing new and additional resources for the organization and maximizing existing resources.
Katakhali Swapnopuron Welfare Society works to improve the lives of the children living in the remote villages of Sunderbans by providing English-medium education through its schools and simultaneously empowering the community by spreading awareness, through relief work and with livelihoods initiatives like pisciculture.
Vision: A safe empowered community where every child has an equal chance to realize his/her full potential.
Mission: To empower children with holistic, quality education. To create a safe, fair community through building knowledge and livelihoods.
Harsh Hada Alok Marodia Shruti Kishorepuria Pradeep Murarka


Kheyti

Kheyti was struggling with farmer financing in the early to mid-2019 phase of our work. We were neither making progress in resolving the bottlenecks with our existing finance partner nor were we getting any leads with new financiers. We partnered with and onboarded APGVB bank as our financier thanks to the connection made by the advisors from SVP. APGVB solved most farmer financing issues for us. We also got guidance from time to time to map out our scale-up plan.
Kheyti aims to increase the climate-resilient income of small farmers. They design, adapt and implement low-cost farming solutions that help small farmers increase yield and predictability of produce. Kheyti combines these technologies with end-to-end support to give these farmers a seamless path towards higher income. They have developed a “Greenhouse-in-a-box” – an affordable, modular greenhouse bundled with full stack services that uses 90% less water, grows 7 times more food and gives farmers a steady dependable income.


Kshamata

SVP lead partners have raised support from various donors as well as individuals who have given their own money, time and provided access to their own connections as well as the SVP network in order to ensure that Kshamata is supported and able to move forward in their work and create new collaborations. This isn't just limited to fundraising help but also to other critical aspects like social media, photography, brochure for the products, refurbishing content and core messaging (through dragonfly), etc. They have journeyed closely with Kshamata and their involvement has created a sense of support and brought in different perspectives, which has been extremely helpful in the growth and change of the organisation.
The engagement of SVP with Kshamata is on multiple fronts which includes capability development, developing strategy, strengthening social media presence/digital marketing/communication material and most importantly, raising money to fund the program and people involved.
Vision: Ensure that every woman/girl has the opportunity to lead a life of dignity and self-reliance.
Mission: Kshamata seeks to transform lives by engaging with, equipping and empowering women and adolescent girls faced with vulnerability and exploitation, helping them become respected, productive and earning citizens by providing opportunities for training, employment and reintegration into society.
Priya Vandrevala, Rohan Iyer, Arnab Bhattacharya


Literacy India

The project was supported and grew with the SVP grant since 2019. It has empowered and changed the lives of close to 300+ women, the positive results of this compounded to 1500 families and communities. They can earn basic income & become self-sustained with the help of invested grants. Projects are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Goals targeted to be achieved by 2030.
Vision: Literacy India has clearly set the Four E's as its goal on a process of achieving in next decade i.e., Education, Empowerment Employment & Environment. LI endeavour to meet this objective through imparting basic education and through exposing our students to a variety of vocational skills in performing arts, computer animation and all kinds of futuristic vocation for the growing generation. Literacy India aims to make the beneficiaries as a resource and support to the ongoing work in the community.
Mission: Literacy India is focused on bringing about a qualitative change by providing holistic education and making sure it reaches one and all.
Devina Salarpuria


Mann

Mann – Center for Individuals with Special Needs is a registered charitable trust which epitomizes the belief - ”Giving is receiving”.
It is dedicated to the growth of persons with Mental Retardation, Autism, Down’s Syndrome, Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Mann provides generalized as well as person-specific trainings to its students, to help prepare them for a more meaningful and independent life.
Krishnan Neelkanthan, Zarine, Sethuram Belur


Maya

The Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA) is a not-for-profit organisation that has been working in the sectors of education, livelihood and health for more than three decades, addressing issues related to child labour, early child development, and skill building. These initiatives of MAYA have become independent entities known as Prajayatna, LabourNet and Maya Organic, all of which have substantial impact on the ground as NGOs/social enterprises.
Since 2014, MAYA has made it a mission to build healthy individuals and communities, by enabling preventive health care and promoting overall well-being through trained community health entrepreneurs (HE). During this time, MAYA has enrolled and supported 100 HEs who serve about 75,000 households in the rural and semi-urban areas

Maya CARE Foundation

SVP began its partnership with Maya Care in 2022 to provide capacity building support to the core team as per their requirements
Maya Care aims to fulfill the growing need to enhance the comfort of senior citizens in India. Maya CARE has coordinators running helplines in Mumbai, Pune, and Bengaluru. Once a request is made, these coordinators connect with the vast network of volunteers and send the best-suited volunteer to the senior citizen. Maya CARE volunteers include college students, homemakers, working professionals, PWDs, and active senior citizens who visit senior citizens in their own homes to provide services.
Deepika Reddy, Zhooben B, Radhesh Welling


Mitti Cafe

SVP Bangalore discovered Mitti Café in 2018, when they were 1 café and 3 employees with disabilities. With the mentorship and grant support given by SVP Partners, Mitti has been able to scale their impact towards generating skilling and livelihood opportunities for hundreds of PWDs coming from low income backgrounds. SVP has the potential to enable organisations like Mitti to scale their impact towards realising the collective vision of economic independence and dignity for the last mile.
In 2020, SVP was instrumental in the launch of Mitti’s Kolkata chapter by connecting them with NSHM Knowledge Campus, and sponsoring the set up of their first café at Kolkata, employing 5 persons with disability. This year, SVP Kolkata has sponsored Mitti to set up an experiential center in a public space - to be opened soon - which will enable them to generate livelihoods for an additional 20+ PwDs.
Vision: Mitti Cafe’s vision is economic empowerment for all by creating opportunities for sustainable livelihoods for persons with disabilities through visible, tangible models of inclusion that can be emulated across the globe- fueled by the participation and involvement of the community.
Mission: Create platforms for adults with physical, intellectual and psychiatric disabilities to showcase their abundant potential for productive activity and create awareness for the cause of economic independence and dignity for all.
Mitti Café is a chain of cafes across India that provides experiential training and employment to adults with physical and intellectual disabilities (PWDs). The organisation’s outreach initiatives help create awareness about inclusion and disability rights.
Pradeep Grama, Lalit Pai, K.G. Mohan, Shashi Rajamani, Sunil Bhandari, Tanuja Bhandari, Adarsh Tulshan, Dhiraj Arora, Yagnesh Bagdoria


Neeva Foundation

Neeva Foundation is a non-profit organization that works towards empowering women by training them in driving services. The women trained by Neeva Foundation often get placed in TaxShe, a cab service by and for women. These two initiatives together are an attempt to create safer communities and, in the process, help women from underprivileged backgrounds break out of Poverty.
Since its inception in 2016, Neeva Foundation has trained more than 350 women who have gone on to not only take employment at TaxShe and other cab services but also became micro-entrepreneurs by starting their cab service or by teaching driving. TaxShe, on the other hand, has completed over 1 million drives for women and children without a single safety-related incident both on the road and in the cars. In a world wh

Nirmaan

SVP began its partnership with Nirmaan in 2022 for Project Ankuram in Narayanpet to provide Careeer guidance in the government schools. Nirmaan will be conducting 2 visit career workshops in 70 schools with psychometric test alongwith their Sahi kadam program. This program will be implemented in 75 schools, reaching a total of 5000 rural students in an year.
Nirmaan Organization is a registered NGO. We work in the areas of Education, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Health and Wellbeing, Community Development and Social Leadership. In the past 18 years of journey, we have impacted the lives of 2.5+ million beneficiaries with the support of 500+ full time employees and 1000+ strong volunteer network, through various impact-oriented Flagship Programs & Social Leadership Initiatives benefiting Children, Women, Youth, Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), LGBTQ+ and Farmers from diverse social backgrounds across 22 States of India while partnering with 200+ Corporate, Government and Philanthropic partners. We have our presence in the USA, UK, Australia, Singapore & UAE.
Sunita Cheruku, Usha Pendyala


Nudge Life Skills Foundation

Nudge Lifeskills Foundation incorporated with MCA on 23 September 2015. The Nudge Lifeskills Foundation is listed in the class of section company and classified as Non Govt Company. This company is registered at Registrar of Companies(ROC), Delhi with an Authorized Share Capital of Rs. 0 and its paid up capital is 0. The company has 4 directors/key management personal Arun Seth, Muthuraman.Balasubramanian, Atul Satija, and Gagandeep

Oorvani Foundation

Oorvani Foundation is a nonprofit working on open knowledge platforms that helps catalyze better cities. Our initiatives include Citizen Matters (citizenmatters.in) — an independent news media focused on cities and citizens, with insightful reporting from professional journalists, practitioners and citizen reporters, offering insights and solutions to India’s urban issues. Citizen Matters is an award-winning media known for its in-depth investigative stories, analysis and data journalism. The trust also supports Open City (opencity.in), an urban data platform and Co Media Lab that serves as a resource center for collaborative projects and citizen media.

Organisation for Friends Energies and Resources (OFFER)

SVP is supporting OFFER in building a long-term partnership through vision development, team capacity building and leadership training. Support also includes identifying funding opportunities, forming strategic alliances and strengthening governance by defining key roles and responsibilities.
OFFER supports underprivileged children and youth in Kolkata and West Bengal, providing healthcare, psycho-social support and education, including those with HIV/AIDS and mental challenges. Through “Café Positive,” they empower HIV-positive youth for social and economic integration. OFFER focuses on capacity-building initiatives aiming to enhance governance, project management and resource mobilization, equipping OFFER staff with the skills and tools to deliver high-impact social services to children in need.
Harsh Hada, Soumitra Bhattacharya, Pradeep Murarka
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Parikrma Humanity Foundation

Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a non-profit organization located in Bangalore, India. Parikrma addresses the growing gap in urban India between those benefitting from economic liberalization and those who are not, in which consequently only a minority of children in India can afford access to private schools where the content of education is of high quality and in the English medium. Children from the slums and rural communities attend schools in the free government-run mass schooling system, where they only teach in the state language, which often proves insufficient in attaining job opportunities in a rapidly globalizing world

Prabhat Education Foundation

Lead Partners are assisting with innovating and adopting vocational skilling for Youth with ID: Assistance with identification of industry and jobs within it for youth that are able to go out for mainstream jobs Sytemizing processes and approaches for long-term retention at workplaces for youth with ID Identifying alternative opportunities for youth enable to go out in the mainstream workforce
Prabhat aims to create opportunities for individuals with disability through training, coaching, skilling and therapy to help them reach their full potential
Romen Sood, Malay Patel, Raju Shah


Prerak Trust

Prerak Trust is a not-for-profit organization striving to provide integrated water and sanitation solutions for urban and rural communities in India. Established in 2012 with its headquarters at Bengaluru, we have since been working in various parts of Karnataka.? The vision is for a healthy and sustainable environment for habitations and their mission is to develop collaborative solutions with communities and institutions to protect water resource provide access to safe water and effective waste management.

Raah Foundation

SVP Mumbai Chapter is supporting Raah Foundation pilot the project of implementing dragon fruit cultivation to improve the income of small and marginal tribal farmers.
Raah foundation works with the tribal communities in Maharashtra on the following core pillars of development: Water shed development (building check dams, wells, etc. to create additional sources of water), Krishi - Agriculture Development, Urja - Livelihoods (women micro businesses), Adikala - Traditional Art revival and rejuvenation (Warli Art and Fabric Art), Soukhya - Health, Vidya – Rebuilding the school infrastructure, Srushti - Environment, and Adikatha - Tribal tourism.
Arti Jain, Vivek Venkatachalam, Jayant Mehrotra


Rangeen Khidki

1. Capacity building of Trainers: Capacity building of stakeholders through a ToT model through Mother Groups, Teacher groups, ASHA staff, PRI members, ANWESHA Clinic staff, Counsellors
2. Building Community Knowledge: Knowledge dissemination and influencing perception level changes in adolescent girls, women through Peer Educators, Kanyashree Club, school students, Panchayat communities.
To reach out to 3500 school students and 12000 Indirect beneficiaries through these students that include the family members, friends, community members etc of these students, to disseminate the knowledge on the access to information, services, and support related to their sexual, reproductive, physical and mental wellbeing and can grow to their fullest potential as leaders.
Rangeen Khidki Founded in 2020, aims to enable informed decision-making and bodily autonomy for adolescents and youth through knowledge dissemination of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Their work aligns with SDGs 3(good health and well being), 5 (gender equality), 10 (reduced inequalities) and 17 (partnerships for the goals). They had been working in West Bengal, Sikkim, Nagaland, Chhattisgarh and Delhi through partnerships. They consist of a team of young professionals to build innovative ways to educate and empower communities especially young minds like the school students about their body and physical identity from a human rights perspective.
Pauline Laravoire, Sheetal Jhunjhunwala


Safa India

Safa has been fortunate to have the able guidance of the SVP team in creating a vision as a social enterprise. Also, to begin with, we have had our evaluation done to assess the current organizational standing and the areas of support that we need. The SVP partners allocated to us for mentoring have shared their expertise with immense passion and curation, and have given us candid opinions on our plans and approach.
Safa is a Hyderabad-based non-profit that strives to improve the financial status of women and youth from marginalized, socio-economically backward communities by empowering them with education and skill training. The focus is on helping women recognize their worth and potential and take initiative for themselves.
Preeti Khandelwal, Sunita Cheruku Reddy


SAGE Foundation

SVP India will be assisting SAGE for legal advisory with becoming independent entity for the establishment of arms-length arrangements of the organisation along with its potential merger with UnLtd.
SAGE is committed to educating under resourced children and giving wealth generating skills training to their families for creating extraordinary lives. It works in tandem with Thadomal Shahani Centre for Management to build heart centric leaders.Through adopting major slums and villages in and around Mumbai. SAGE envisages transforming the world one village at a time

Sahaja Samrudha

Sahaja Samrudha or Bountiful Nature, a brainchild of a group of organic farmers was born over a decade ago mainly out of concern to protect our mother earth. Sahaja Samrudha started as a farmer initiated to exchange ideas, seeds and share knowledge on sustainable agriculture. The formation of Sahaja Samrudha was the culmination of their individual efforts into a more exciting and powerful force to make sustainable agriculture a way of life of the farming community. Sahaja Samrudha has spread out its network on publications, workshops & trainings, organizing different melas and on marketing in order to encourage more farmers towards organic farming.

Sambahv Foundation

Sambhav Foundation is a social organization, founded in year 2015 with the motive to bring growth and equality in the society at large. It works mainly in the areas like education, livelihood, environment, women empowerment, child development, events & social survey, and impact assessment. Sambhav Foundation is based in Delhi and works across the country through its branches and local presence. Sambhav has established a good network system for mobilization, social surveys, and awareness which is the most crucial & impactful area of any development work/project. Vision is to bring parity among the citizens and bridge the gap between the societies through 3E(s) i.e. Education, Empowerment & Equality.

Score Foundation

'- Capacity building
- Strategic growth initiatives
- Technological advancement
Score Foundation is dedicated to transforming perceptions of visual impairment. The goal is to shift societal attitudes toward blindness and foster discussions on leading a fulfilling life with visual challenges. Score foundation views visually impaired individuals as valuable resources, deserving investment. Through Project Eyeway, Score Foundation strives to empower and inform the visually impaired, showcasing the myriad possibilities for them to lead independent lives.
Anurag Verma, Paresh Vaish, Shilpa Kohli
