The Mann Deshi Foundation is an organization empowering women entrepreneurs. As part of our CSR initiative, we have sponsored a ‘Business School on Wheels’ bus – a mobile training programme that focuses on providing essential skills and financial literacy training to women in rural Maharashtra, helping them build sustainable livelihoods and achieve economic independence.

The Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) is India’s pioneering institute focused on public policy education, aiming to create leaders who drive transformative change. In partnership with ISPP, we launched the Franklin Templeton Scholarship programme targeted at deserving women fellows from tier 2 and 3 towns.

SOS Children’s Villages of India is a non-profit and global childcare organization. We continue to support a programme that provides long term, high quality, family-based care to children without parents and launched a separate programme targeted at holistic empowerment of women & children.

Cuddles foundation supports various programs targeted at children fighting cancer. We funded a programme focused on providing nutritional supplements, ration bundles and caregiver support for these children.

Gaurav is a non-profitable Community Based Organization (CBO) working for the health and human rights of LGBTIQ+ persons in India. We support a program ‘Saksham’ that enables skilling and employability of 125 transgender persons in Hyderabad/Telangana and Mumbai.

Teach for India (TFI) is an organization dedicated to eliminating educational inequity in India. TFI runs a two-year fellowship that brings together and trains youth, giving them the chance to work as full-time teachers in under-resourced schools with students from low-income communities. We support TFI’s fellowship programme to train teachers who are placed in low-income schools and a launched a Scholarship programme targeted at deserving female students in these schools.

Cheshire Disability Trust (CDT) is an NGO that focuses on providing employability training and placement assistance to persons with disabilities (PWDs), aiming to foster economic independence and self-reliance. We continue to fund a skilling programme targeted at PWDs.

 

Aastha Parivaar is a community-led NGO working in Mumbai and Thane to empower women from vulnerable communities. The partnership supports a dedicated Skill Development Centre that equips women with market-linked skills in tailoring, jewellery making, and beauty services. Through a structured program covering vocational training, entrepreneurship development, placement support and financial literacy, the initiative enables financial independence, builds confidence, and fosters sustainable livelihoods, driving long-term community transformation.