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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Shakti Foundation

SVP India will be guiding Shakti foundation to increase mobilization, expansion and capacity building of the team in addition to marketing initiatives.
Shakti Foundation is a registered not-for-profit entity started by a group of like-minded socially conscious citizens in 2010 to provide shakti (energy) to people and children to better their quality of lives sustainably. They have expanded their footprint to waste management, alternative livelihoods, financial inclusion, remedial education. Relief work, though not a separate function, forms a vital part of Shakti’s activities.
Piyush Chawla, Adil Ahmad


Sol’s Arc

'- Capacity Building and Networking Connects
- Advocate for the organization and market their achievements to the rest of the partnerships of SVP
- Work in partnership with the organization to set and monitor annual objectives
- Work with the organization to identify projects for Partners to engage in capacity building; coordinate with Partner volunteers
Vision: Every Last Child In A Classroom Learns
Mission: Sol’s Arc creates scalable learning solutions that meet the diverse learning needs of ALL children
Prasad Baji, A. V. Suresh


Stonesoup Trust

SVP has worked with Stonesoup on two projects, providing support on product innovation, testing, design and access to funding. One initiative created livelihoods for rural women in Karnataka by equipping them to make cloth sanitary pads. In addition to creating products for their own use, awareness and community cleanup, they were plugged into the Stonesoup supply chain. This model has been scaled substantially and Stonesoup pads are available now on Amazon, Health and Glow and other e-commerce platforms. This provides a very high impact, low-cost model with sustainable returns for the women being trained.
A second initiative is solid waste management in aid of greening Bangalore. Stonesoup works closely with the government and administration through SVP. Both were new models that subsequently, with SVP support, attracted funders, partners and have since scaled significantly to other cities across India.
Just like the fabled Stonesoup story, where the entire village contributed to the making of a healthy soup, we hope to realise the dream of a zero-waste world by getting every citizen to contribute by making a sustainable choice. Most people want to do the right thing, when it is convenient. We want to make sustainable living an easy choice for the majority.


Swasti

COVID had a multifaceted impact on the lives of marginalized community members (Female Sex Workers, MSM, TG & People Living with HIV). The lockdown has decimated the livelihood of sex workers. During the lockdown period, SVP Hyderabad Chapter supported this community by distributing Ration and Hygiene Kits to the 1200 members. (1000 Female Sex workers & 200 PLHIVs). At present SVP Hyderabad chapter is supporting 2 community-based organizations in promoting alternative livelihoods for community members. Alternative livelihoods will help community members to decrease dependency on sex work and shape their lives, which in turn can enable them to adopt and sustain low-risk behaviour. We are very thankful to the SVP team for extending this support.
Swasti is a Global South civil society organisation that is committed to adding 100 million ‘well’thy days for vulnerable communities.
Sharad Mathur, Sunita Cheruku Reddy

The ANT

The ANT continues to work for development of villages in Northeast India. Headquartered in Chirang District of Bodoland in Western Assam, our team reaches out to 900 village hamlets through our current work on education, child protection, women's empowerment, peace building and mental health. At another level, the ant's initiative called IDeA (the Institute of Development Action) works with other NGOs all over the Northeast to help them do what they do even better. IDeA has now started an an office in Guwahati and had a full-fledged team doing interesting work.

Turnstone Global

The engagement of SVP with Turnstone Global has been beneficial in many ways. Apart from assisting with financial resources to train 100 dropout youth for their sustainable livelihoods in manufacturing cleanliness products such as soap, handwash, phenyl etc., the journey with SVP is a learning process on various important subjects relating to non-profits. The Lead Partners, Mr. Pradeep Murarka and Ms. Smita Agarwal, engage with the NGO every month to discuss progress and help resolve issues if any.
Vision: To make a world free from poverty and injustice where every human being irrespective of their age, sex, caste, creed, religion, birthplace, disability enjoys the right to life with dignity and to empower the marginalized sections of society by enhancing their knowledge, skills, capacities, access to opportunities, services and their participation in life’s decisions.
Mission: Facilitating the holistic empowerment and development of the disadvantaged sections of our society, helping them to achieve their highest potential and preparing them to face challenges in life with high confidence.
Pradeep Murarka, Smita Agarwal


Umoya Sports Foundation

'- SVP partners have been great thought partners
- Organization's developmental areas- capacity building, technical skills and so on
- SWOT analysis for growth
Umoya aims to create inclusive sports culture by enabling people with disabilities and able bodied individuals to participate in sports programs together. We believe that sports benefits all equally and our program enables all the participants to not only improve their physical and social skills and promote healthy lifestyle but also build friendships through sports.
Adnan Ahmad, Sanjiv Sachar, Tripti Someshwar, Vipul Sabarwal


Vacha Trust

SVP is working with EMpower on the 'In Her Voice' project undertaken by the Vacha Trust to enable a platform for interaction, learning, skill-building, and network-building for girls from the underprivileged community.
Vacha Trust focuses on girls’ empowerment by helping them acquire soft & hard skills, training in leadership, and community work.
Rakesh Bhutoria, Indranil Chowdhary, Sapna Kusumgar, Khyati Vyas, Mansi Shah


Vivaan Foundation

SVP has been supporting Vivaan since July 2024. SVP provides support in strategy, networking, and planning to create a successful model for skilling and employing youth with intellectual Disability. Presently, it is in the modeling stage, where the team is working towards creating a plan for the successful implementation of the project.
Vivaan was established on 9th August 2017, in the outskirts of Hyderabad by a few parents of neurodiverse adults. They wanted to create a safe and permanent group home for their wards and others like them, with the infrastructure to meet their needs and keep them gainfully engaged for their entire lifetime. Vision : To create an inclusive and sustainable ecosystem for neurodiverse adults and help them to not only acquire life skills for independent living but also to develop vocational skills to become contributing members of society
Himanshu Tambe, Rajat Kumar, Karuna Rao


Vrutti

Vrutti is a not for profit organization registered under the Karnataka State Societies Registration Act 1960 . It is a centre for sustainable livelihoods enhancing people’s well-being through knowledge, innovation and transformative actions. We work through an ecosystem approach integrating and delivering services that empower small producers and marginalized grow their way out of poverty and uncertainty and to be 3 times more profitable. Mission is to Building Wealth and Resilience of Small Producers and Vulnerable Communities through Transformative Livelihoods Solutions.

WASSAN Project

SVP collaborated with WAASAN/The Rainwater Project for the restoration of ‘Bansilalpet Stepwell’ located in Secunderabad. The stepwell not only holds a huge architectural value, is also a source of clean ground water to the community of around 20,000 people.
The Rainwater Project is a social enterprise focused on providing a sustainable water management practices and conserving Earth’s natural resources. WASAN is a Non profit committed community based natural resource management and water conservation.
Tejaswini Yarlagadda, Ravi Khandelwal, RVS Ramakrishnan


Waste Impact Trust

Waste Impact, founded in 2014 is a trust that incubates partners who build environment management services that preserve the environment, and are financially sustaining. Waste Impact aims to take innovations to grass roots level and improve the livelihoods of the waste pickers and other communities. Their long term goals are:
? To reduce waste dumped in India ? To create a more sustainable future for India’s cities ? To make the economically challenged communities of India part of the solution

Waste Warriors Society

Build Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) capability within the organization to provide most accurate, real-time & insightful data monitoring across functions.
Waste Warriors Society is a nonprofit organization catalyzing systemic change to solve the waste management crisis in the Indian Himalayan Region. Our work lies at the intersection of Climate Change, Biodiversity Habitat Conservation, and Livelihood Generation. Our objectives are: enabling better governance, addressing infrastructure and policy gaps, and activating communities to co-create solutions. With over a decade of experience and a team of over 160+ Warriors, we are in 8 locations across Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh
Sabina Suri, Shalini Jindal, Shefali Chhachhi, Vani Vaish
