Our partner organizations are situated in different parts of the world, represent small to large organizations serving a few hundred to 100’s of thousands of people, cover little to large landscapes, and operate in applied fields ranging from agriculture and sustainability to healthcare and human rights- but they all have one thing in common- commitment to improving lives and tackling the most crucial problems of our world today.
The varied interests and areas of emphases of our 32 partners showcased in the pages below can be grouped as follows,
Education: National, international, and special education
Health: Healthcare and public health, including those classified as rural health, tribal health, voluntary health, and community health
Change Agents: Performing arts, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, design, and innovation for social change
Justice for all: Seeking fairness, equity and opportunity through better livelihoods, microfinance, recreation for all, poverty reduction, transparency and better governance practices
Resource Management: Research in agriculture, horticulture, bovine productivity, water resources, energy, sustainability, architecture and housing
To be tractable, we have grouped all our partners into one or more of the five groupings. Rarely any of our partners, belong to only one or all the five groupings. Most of them have interests in 2-4 groupings. By delving deeper into their web sites, one should be able to gain insights on the breadth and depth of their interests. Most of our partners (30 of 32) work hard and strive to attain a better quality of life for their clients by seeking fairness, equity and justice in all actions that govern their clients. The next grouping is education, where 25 of our 32 partners are engaged, followed by 20 serving as change agents, 11 in health-related areas, and finally 10 in resource management.
CRHP facilitates building community and villagers’ capacity to address their own problems, including the underlying causes/determinants of health in a multisectoral approach, which leads to sustainable process and impact on health and well-being.
Read MoreSVYM is a development organization, engaged in building a new civil society in India through its grassroots to policy level action. SVYM believes that building human and social capital will result in economic consequences and all of SVYM’s programs are driven by this development paradigm.
Read MoreKEMHRC Pune started its activities in 1972 with a vision to strive for excellence and to encourage clinicians and social scientists in conducting quality research. The Vadu Rural Health Program (VRHP), run under KEMHRC is now an internationally acclaimed research centre for its work and efforts in community health.
Read MoreThe IPH, Bengaluru is a non-profit academic research institute established in 2005, with a vision to create an equitable, integrated, decentralised and participatory health system within a just and empowered society. The work at IPH is organised into Research, Education and Policy engagement activities.
Read MoreSaidham Schools aspire to be the very best amongst schools at no cost to parents. In addition to education, they provide over 2000 children with food, clothing, study material, sports facilities, health care, excursions, free skill development with job placement, facilitating social well-being through mass marriage assistance, and empowering women with opportunities in 4 states across India.
Read MorePPES aims to empower girls and women from the poorest sections of society by focusing on improving their quality of life. Over last 18 years, Pardada Pardadi School has supported the complete education of more than 3000 rural girls. The organisation works with a holistic perspective towards rural development through social and economic empowerment of girls and women.
Sevalaya serves the poor, orphan and destitute children and senior citizens and works for rural development. All the services are rendered free, without any discrimination on the basis of caste/creed/religion/language/gender etc.
Read MoreYuwa, which means "youth" in Hindi, works specifically with girls from impoverished families in rural Jharkhand, India—a place where girls are at risk of child marriage and human trafficking. It is a program that uses team sports and education to build character, confidence, and courage. It is a place where girls who don't yet know their worth can meet to compete, achieve goals, and create brighter futures. Yuwa prepares girls to break the cycle of poverty—permanently.
Read MoreAnanda Shankar Jayant was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She tells her personal story of not only facing the disease but dancing through it, and gives a performance revealing the metaphor of strength that helped her do it. With precision and sparkling grace, Ananda Shankar Jayant performs and teaches the classical dance styles of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi.
Read MoreDarpana believes that art is a language that is universal. It is an arts center where the arts meet society, to inform, educate and transform. Started 66 years ago as a teaching and performance institute, it has grown into a contemporary symbiosis affirming the role of creativity in culture.
Read MoreGEMS B School was created with the exclusive purpose of "Igniting Excellence" in young minds. Its focus is on creating leaders and not just developing managers. Its vision is to elevate the standards of management education with a curriculum that is robust, content rich and industry relevant.
Read MoreThe foundation team works together with rural communities to create sustainable programs for managing water resources, increasing agricultural productivity, and strengthening rural governance. Sehgal Foundation’s grassroots programs address three of rural India’s most pressing and interrelated issues: water security, food security, and social justice.
Read MoreBCA aims to bridge the gap between our children, their families and society and to ensure our children become self-reliant and productive members of society.
Read MoreFor nearly three decades, Battery Dance has introduced American audiences to some of the leading exponents of Indian classical dance and music, and has helped to create a fertile ground for contemporary experimentation and collaboration by creative artists in India and the U.S.
Read MoreBAIF strives for a perfect alliance between its vision of a self-reliant rural society assured of food security, safe drinking water, holistic health, gender equity, high moral values and clean environment, with its mission of gainful self-employment, through development research, technology and skill enhancement with community mobilisation.
Read MoreDevelopment Alternatives (DA) is a premier social enterprise with a global presence in the fields of green economic development, social empowerment and environmental management. It is one of the leading Think Tanks in the field of Sustainable Development.
Read MoreQuality products are manufactured at low costs with the aim of substituting current high cost imports. MANIK products are very popular in beverages and breweries, pharmaceuticals, chemical, bulk drug, dyes, dairy, food, nylon and textile Industry. In 2008, founder Mr. Shekhar Kulkarni was honoured with the life-time achievement award by ISHRAE, Pune Chapter for contributions towards growth of refrigeration and air conditioning industry in the past 30 years in India.
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