Sajhe Sapne
Sajhe Sapne empowers rural Dalit, Adivasi, and Bahujan women by providing education and employment opportunities. Their mission is to create a movement that amplifies rural women’s agency through learning, earning, and collective action.
2020
Rocket Learning
Rocket Learning is one of India’s leading nonprofits dedicated to catalyzing early childhood education (ECE) and community engagement. They provide bite-sized, play-based learning activities to low-income parents and Anganwadi workers, empowering them to support children’s joyful learning every day. Partnering with the Indian government, Rocket Learning leverages low-cost technology, AI, and behavioral change techniques to ensure equitable access to ECE.
Plio
Plio’s mission is to enhance learning outcomes by making online education more interactive. It transforms passive video content into an active learning experience by embedding questions throughout the video.
Manush Labs
Manush Labs began as an impact accelerator for underserved Indian innovators and entrepreneurs from Tier 2 cities. It aims to empower impact-driven innovators by helping them develop equitable and scalable solutions while democratizing access to mentorship, funding, and network-building within the innovation ecosystem.
MakerGhat
MakerGhat’s vision is to empower underserved youth to become leaders and entrepreneurs who drive social and economic change in their communities. To support this movement, they establish low-cost brick-and-mortar labs that foster a do-it-yourself mindset and a culture of ‘making’.
Launch Girls
Launch Girls empowers adolescent girls with 21st-century skills, entrepreneurial mindsets, and agency to transition successfully from school to work, breaking cycles of poverty and inequality. Its Girl Boss programme, adapted from MIT Sloan classes and research by the World Bank and World Economic Forum, helps underserved girls across India gain income generation skills.
Karghewale
Karghewale identifies emerging artisan-designer-entrepreneurs (ADEs) and offers them an incubation program centered on creative agency. Karghewale helps ADEs design and create their own products, find markets, and supports them in stabilizing and growing their creative enterprises for the long run.
Gramhal Rural Development Foundation
Gramhal is committed to uplifting smallholder and marginal farmers by democratizing access to vital agricultural data. It is building a data cooperative where farmers contribute and access real-time crop price information, enabling them to make better sales decisions.
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DK Health Access
DK Health Access Foundation is on a mission to improve healthcare for all. They have developed the “Sulabh Ilaj” app, which provides access to affordable and quality healthcare services by leveraging public healthcare funds and facilities.
Baeru Collective
Baeru Collective drives community-led climate action through education, coastal livelihood enhancement, and government partnerships. Supported by Karnataka’s Government, Baeru encourages fisherfolk to collect ocean plastics, which are then segregated to generate income for local women.
