Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL) is a non-profit organisation with a mission to provide the youth of the nation with access to essential information about career opportunities.

Thinkerbell Labs is an EdTech organization building innovative, accessible solutions in efforts to make education inclusive. Our long-term vision is to be able to dramatically improve learning outcomes for the visually impaired and increase the literacy rate of Braille worldwide. Currently, our flagship product Annie is the world’s first self-learning device that helps visually impaired people to learn to read, write, and type in Braille on their own in any medium of instruction. Annie was launched in 2018 and since then, it has gone from being an Indian Innovation to an International revelation! Our smart classes have already been deployed in 16 states pan India in areas with low network & intermittent connectivity across 7 regional languages. Backed by recognition by NITI Ayog, NIEPVD, UNDP & many more, our work has also received accolades from Hon'ble. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. With a young and passionate team, the startup is modernizing the age-old industry of Special Education with its tech & design-first approach and is helping the world move faster towards making education inclusive.

Makkala Jagriti is a Registered Trust, a non-profit organization, working in the development sector since 2003. The organization strives towards making quality education accessible to every child and youth. We adopt a holistic approach towards learning; integrating the same within the public education system and various poor and under-resourced communities. Makkala Jagriti facilitates children and youth through a journey of self-discovery, which encourages them to explore their innate strength and potential.

We have been recognized by the Department of Women and Child Development and Department of Education, Government of Karnataka, as knowledge partners for holistic development of children. 

Working in India since 2001 in deep partnership with the national and 11 state governments, Ipas Development Foundation eliminates barriers to information and access, and ensures equitable and respectful reproductive healthcare for women and girls. IDF:

• Follows an ecosystem framework approach to facilitate systemic changes and deliver impact at scale
• Is Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI’s trusted partner for reproductive health programs (Family Planning and Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram)
• Is Great Place to Work®-certified as India's Top 10 NGOs to work for five years and Best Workplaces for Women for two years
• Enabled Sexual and Reproductive Health access to >20,00,000 women and girls
• Trained >18,000 providers and strengthened >5,700 public health facilities

HomeBiogas is a world leader in developing groundbreaking, simple to use biogas systems. Enabling people and businesses around the globe to turn their own organic waste into self-made clean energy, on-site.HomeBiogas is serving thousands of households, farmers, businesses, underserved communities, and those seeking a more sustainable way of living. Our prefabricated, fully off-grid, patent-based systems offer modular options to suit each of our customer‘s needs, empowering them to live a healthier, more efficient, self-resilient, and sustainable life.Our vision is to promote sustainability, improve lives, and create a positive impact on the environment by harnessing us expertise in waste treatment and biogas systems.

Orion Educational Society is a National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) partnered and an ISO 9001:2015 certified company established in the year 2006, a non-profit organization registered under 12A, 80G, FCRA. The organization was founded with the vision of impacting inclusive development across all sections of the society. At Orion, they impart mass skill training to marginalised sections which were relegated to neglect, poverty and unskilled occupations. Their objective is to create diverse employment opportunities to enable a sustainable livelihood for all. They primarily focus on skilling marginalised youth and vulnerable sections like differently abled candidates/ Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), and secluded women. They empower youth towards viable livelihood choices in diverse sectors such as Information Technology, Electronics, Travel & Tourism, Retail, Networking, Hospitality, Agriculture, Mobile Laptop Repairing, Healthcare, Apparel Manufacturing and Designing, Hospitality and more.Enthused by the vision of building India as the skill capital of the world, they believe in working towards democratising skill development for all. They have a strong presence in 27+ states, 192 districts and 250+ training centres in India and abroad, they have successfully trained more than 5,40,000 underprivileged and marginalised youth and provided sustainable livelihood to more than 4,50,000 underprivileged youth in various top MNCs and corporate houses. They are affiliated with 19 sector skill council with more than 91 job roles. They are working with more than 40 leading corporates and PSUs.

Water is the driving force of all nature,” the fifteenth-century Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci once professed. Centuries later, the world is in the midst of a water crisis that needs our serious attention. The stress that India faces when it comes to availability and access to water is already alarming. According to a 2018 NITI Aayog report, 600 million people, or nearly half of India’s population, faces extreme water stress. Access to clean drinking water is often a challenge for these populations. But some have taken cognisance of this issue and are working towards providing an easy, reliable and economical solution. At the forefront of this is Supernova Panasia Ventures LLP.  A startup that primarily offers water purifiers , water pumps , water solutions has been contributing towards combating the water crisis in India and abroad. Promoted by Travllers Express Travel & Allied Services Pvt Ltd has been growing and expanding their product base from this economical and easy to use water filter. In the past two years, the company has only grown to offer more innovative and accessible solutions to combat the water crisis like Rain Water Harvesting , ATMs in India.
 

According to various studies, most of the freshwater resources are going to end by 2030. In India, it is much sooner than that. We as a company are trying to address this problem and eliminate the water crisis that the world is about to face. Water is going to become one of the most valuable resources that is needed. But since freshwater resources are depleting, we are innovating and exploring . We want to make drinking water accessible to one and all. And this goal drives all our innovations.

The company is now managed by an expanded experienced team who together are scaling the business around the country. They all share the same passion and vision that Supernova Panasia was founded on: to help produce inexhaustible supplies of fresh water in an environmentally friendly way, without reliance on fossil fuel

Dalmia Bharat Limited is a dynamic and forward-looking cement manufacturing company focused on delivering green growth through a strong people-led and passion-driven business approach. Anticipating future trends in construction, and simultaneously pre-empting global environmental concerns, they operate on a growth model that is designed to deliver higher efficiencies across every facet of their business.

With their strict adherence to industry-best practices, they have attained the distinction of having one of the lowest per tonne manufacturing cost in Indian cement sector, as well as the lowest carbon footprint in the world. Amongst the fastest-growing cement groups in India, the company has a large expanse of manufacturing facilities, spread across 11 strategic locations with market presence in 21 Indian states, and equipped with the best-in-class machinery and systems.

Their CSR Foundation, the Dalmia Bharat Foundation was set up in 2009 to expand the programmes and projects of the company’s CSR division. With this independent entity, Dalmia re-affirm their determination to be an aware and effective corporate citizen. They believe in the limitless potential of the human being and focus on community driven, beneficiary centric development programmes.

For more information, please visit www.dalmiabharatfoundation.org   

Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft non-profit organization with a sustainable approach to a single, solvable problem: cleft lip and palate. 

Smile Train empowers local medical professionals with training, funding, and resources to provide 100% free cleft surgery and comprehensive cleft care to children in their own communities. They advance a sustainable solution and scalable global health model for cleft treatment, drastically improving children’s lives, including their ability to eat, breathe, speak, and ultimately thrive. The organisation vision is to create a world where everyone has access to safe, high-quality comprehensive cleft care and is able to live a full and healthy life.

Smile Train has an expansive pan India program with 150+ hospitals in 100+ towns and cities and 300+ cleft medical professionals. Since the year 2000, Smile Train has supported more than 625,000 life-changing cleft surgeries in India. 

To learn more about how Smile Train's India’s sustainable approach, please visit smiletrainindia.org. 

Learning Links Foundation (LLF) is a Not-for-Profit Trust, established in 2002, with a vision to foster a future where education is optimally delivered and learning is truly inspired. We inspire true learning from an early age and create links to enable learning across different stages of life.

Manbhum Ananda Ashram Nityananda Trust (MANT) is a non-profit, non-racial, non-political, non-religious development organization registered in India in 1959, working in the field of Basic Education, Health Improvement and Livelihood Development; MANT is targeted to ameliorate the immense sufferings of the marginalized section of the contemporary society and to empower them to strive for their own development in the districts of Purulia, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Kolkata and gradually in other parts of West Bengal, India

The Trust believes in the people-centered development through empowerment of marginalized people. It stipulates the dictum that integrated development is a process in which people take the conscious initiative to manage resources for the people, thereby ensuring people’s participation, which leads to the development by the people.

To know more, visit https://mant.org.in/

Named after the chairman and founder of the Hero Group, Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal, BML Munjal University is engaged in creating, preserving and imparting internationally benchmarked knowledge and skills to a diverse community of students from across the world. BMU’s aim is to nurture ethical leaders who are skilled, knowledgeable and have the life skills needed to lead organisations to success. BMU seeks to transform higher education in India by creating a world-class and innovative teaching, learning and research environment. Founded by the Hero Group and mentored by Imperial College London, BMU is a not-for-profit initiative offering undergraduate and post-graduate courses.

The Center for Water and Sanitation is a part of the CEPT Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. CWAS carries out activities related to action research and capacity building by working closely with city and state governments and enabling them to improve delivery of services. CWAS began work in 2009 with a pioneering WASH Performance Assessment System, aligned with the Service Level Benchmarking initiative of Government of India. Over the past decade it has been deployed in over 1000 Indian cities. PAS has precipitated more programmes that align with the current priorities and policies of India including a series of city sanitation projects for piloting innovative approaches in faecal sludge and septage management and the principles of CityWide Inclusive Sanitation. Lessons from these cities feed into state level implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission, where CWAS is a technical partner to the Government of Maharashtra. With water re-emerging as a focus in development discourse, CWAS is revisiting its efforts in water governance towards supporting governments in their water and sanitation reform by providing policy and technical advice, developing water governance knowledge and helping to strengthen institutional capacity.

NuVeda is the strategic growth partner for anyone providing Learning & Development solutions. NuVeda help you design, deliver, manage, measure the business impact and monetize your training interventions. Whether you are a training company or for profit or social enterprise, our solutions will empower you to scale, reach and create positive impact.

To know more about NuVeda, visit: https://nuvedalearning.com/

IBM India has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology Industry.

As a leading cognitive solutions and cloud platform company, innovation is at the core of the IBM company strategy. This is reflected in the end-to-end solutions delivered to clients, which span from software and systems hardware to a broad range of infrastructure, cognitive, cloud and consulting services.IBM helps clients solve complex business and technical issues by delivering deep business process and industry expertise. This is enhanced with advanced analytics, research capabilities, comprehensive IT infrastructure knowledge and the proven ability to implement enterprise solutions to deliver bottom line value to businesses and governments worldwide.

Rohanta, is an experienced & socially motivated team of IIT, Phd scholars, ex-Scientists of eminent Institutes ,Graduates to develop technologies in waste water management that are cost effective and helps to sustain environment.

The idea is to develop decentralised Sewage Treatment Plants to reduce carbon foot print and increase water foot print by recharging ground water.Rohanta has developed in house solutions for aeration of water bodies, floating wetlands and floating debris barriers.

Also, Rohanta is licensee for prominent technologies in waste water treatment.

Public Health Technologies Trust (PHTT), a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to the deployment of  affordable health technologies for the public good. 

Neither money nor technology alone can improve access to comprehensive, quality health care services.  PHTT acts as a bridge between fundraisers and technology providers. PHTT uses state-of-the-art  diagnostic solutions and ecosystems, design tools and cloud technology to empower the Indian  population to obtain better health delivery. Individuals are trained and equipped with above mentioned  ecosystems to be social health entrepreneurs. Using these solutions corporates can also contribute to  various health initiatives launched by the government like Anemia Mukt Bharat. PHTT can help  organizations with complete outsourcing of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) from initiation,  planning, execution, performance monitoring to project closure. 

By bringing together disciplines of engineering, system design, usability, designers, and public health  specialists, PHTT aims to define a comprehensive methodology for the development of appropriate  technologies for public health. PHTT also aims to develop research centers for affordable health  technologies and global health affordable technologies. 

PHTT has expertise in researching, planning, training, and executing. Since 2014, Public Health  Technologies Trust has executed many projects and has successfully made a positive impact on the  health and livelihood of many people in the far-flung areas.

About the organization 

Srinivasan Services Trust (SST) is a Non-Profit and non-governmental organization,  (CSR arm of Sundaram-Clayton Ltd and TVS Motor Company Ltd) carrying out rural  development activities since 1996 in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,  Himachal Pradesh and Maharashtra.  

SST’s holistic approach focuses on key areas of Economic Development, Health,  Education, Infrastructure, Environment and Social and Cultural Development in the  villages. SST works with about 280 field staff live and work in villages. 

Vision: To be a partner in transformation of rural communities and urban slums by  empowering people to achieve sustainable development 

Mission: To take our model of empowerment and transformational change to more  than 50,000 villages, so they become sustainable and self-reliant communities. We  will reach this goal by partnering with both the government and other companies  working together to create a prosperous rural India 

At SST, we have identified six areas of work. While each community and individual have different needs, progress can only be sustained when the development process  touches key aspects of everyone’s life. We nudge communities to embrace better practices and a higher quality of life and focus our efforts on these broad areas. Our program of inclusive change aims for better health, income, education, infrastructure, environment, and social development. 

SST follows an approach of integrated but holistic and sustainable development,  focusing on providing financial security and economic well-being, health care,  education, infrastructure development, clean and green environment, and social &  cultural development to the rural communities. SST works as a conduit between the  government and local communities, enabling people to access various government  schemes and benefits. SST’s attempt is to make people independent and drivers of  change themselves. The idea is to eventually convert individual beneficiaries into  community leaders, who in turn motivate and guide others to bring about social and  economic transformation of communities. 

In the words of Mr Venu Srinivasan, Managing Trustee, SST – 

“This development-led model breaks down traditional barriers of income-inequality  and creates new kinds of leadership. In SST’s villages, the community takes charge  of the change it wants to make and works to make it happen.” 

Youtube link : https://youtu.be/EZKXpVvs1XA

Institutional Biodata – LEPRA SOCIETY – BLUE PETER PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESEARCH CENTRE
 
LEPRA Society is a non-governmental organization that promotes initiates and fosters new developments and implementation of quality health care services. Registered as LEPRA Society under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana areas) Public Societies’ Act 1350 Fasli (Act of 1350 F) No 474 on 22nd February 1989, it is an independent not-for-profit NGO, with no religious, ideological or political affiliation.  The Blue Peter Public Health & Research Centre (BPHRC) established in the year of 1999, is the Research Wing of LEPRA Society and is recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO), by the Government of India, Ministry of Science, and Technology.  Purpose of research at BPHRC is to generate new scientific evidence that could lead to innovations in the field of diagnosis, better treatment modalities and disability/morbidity prevention in leprosy, TB and other neglected diseases of relevance to India. The work at BPHRC caters to the needs of the most marginalized, needy and vulnerable sections of the society.  The center closely works with the public health programme at State and National level through LEPRA’s field sites across Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Telangana. LEPRA BPHRC has a state-of-the-art laboratory facility for conducting thematic research especially in the field of molecular diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance in the areas of wound care, leprosy and TB. BPHRC advocates for evidence-led policies for immediate application into healthcare, through its partnership with Govt. healthcare programmes and academic institutes. The donations for scientific research at LEPRA society (BPHRC) provides 150% exemption from income tax, under the Section 35 1 (ii) of IT act, GoI.   

Karadi Path Education Company Pvt. Ltd. (KPEC) was founded with the mission to ‘provide high impact low-cost programs, to deliver English proficiency to children and adults through the indigenously developed Karadi Path methodology’. The company has been in the forefront of and has been singularly focused on researching and developing innovative products and pedagogies to aid learning in the classroom. Karadi Path has developed a comprehension driven approach that mimics the way one learns their mother tongue or any other language naturally from the environment. This methodology is the result of more than 20 years of research and experimentation on how language is acquired naturally and intuitively. Karadi Path has its presence in 18 states in India where we work with Private schools as well as government schools.

Karadi Path won the Educational Learning Resources award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2021, Sankalp Award 2014 in Education category and ET Stars of the Industry Award 2018 for Most Innovative Company (For Excellence in Education). We are also the recipients of grants from USAID’s READ Alliance, as part of their Early Grade Reading Innovation Challenge 2014, and Millennium Alliance Award 2018. Karadi Path was selected in 2016 for Project Literacy Lab by Unreasonable Group, San Francisco, USA for its potential to impact world literacy. Karadi Path was shortlisted in two categories- The Educational Initiatives Award and The Educational Learning Resources Award in London Book Fair International Excellence Award 2020. Founder of Karadi Path, C. P. Viswanath was recognised by Early Childhood Association India for the contribution to Early Childhood Education and Care.

Karadi Path (KP) methodology has been piloted, tested, and validated across a wide range of demographics in India, independently and in partnership with international agencies, Government departments, foundations and trusts. We are currently reaching out to 3500+ schools, 26000+ teachers, and 7,50,000 students through our various Programs. The outcome assessments ascertain the effectiveness of the program. The study in the Government Schools in Goa implementing ME-SLL- conducted by SCERT, Goa with Karadi Path - indicates that one hour of KP class is equivalent to 11.16 hours of traditional English instruction.

The primary input of this English language Program is the Karadi Path’s innovative language pedagogy. The teachers from the implementation schools are equipped with high quality printed and audio-visual content and detailed manuals on classroom delivery. They are supported by dedicated trainers who provide extensive training through workshops, on-site visits and through telephonic support. Another key differentiator is that it focusses exclusively on language acquisition and is not an all-purpose education product.