Clients - Past & Present
Our work with our clients generally adopts the VISTAR approach developed by ILID since it has found significant relevance and applicability to the work of the development sector as a whole. Our work ranges from strategic planning to creation of systems & processes to training & capacity building to counseling and project management training.
Jawaharlal Nehru Leadership Institute
Created in 2008 to train young political leaders in a holistic manner to serve the society. Training imparted at the State, Lok Sabha, assembly and Panchayat levels to hundreds of thousands of young elected office bearers across India.
Janaagraha
Janaagraha is a non-profit organisation based in Bangalore, India. It works with citizens and the government to improve the quality of life in Indian cities and towns. The term 'quality of life' as defined by Janaagraha has two distinct and inter-related aspects. The first 'quality of urban infrastructure and services' - the quality of urban of amenities, i.e., roads, drains, traffic, transport, water supply, etc. The second aspect is the 'quality of citizenship' - the role that urban residents play by participating in civic issues. Founded in 2001 by Ramesh Ramanathan and Swati Ramanathan, Janaagraha started as a movement to enable citizen participation in public governance. It has now evolved into a robust institution for Citizenship and Democracy. Janaagraha envisions Urban India as the flywheel for India’s social, economic and political transformation.
Helpers of the Handicapped
Two dynamic ladies, one wheel chair bound, struck by paraplegia at the age of 16 years, namely Miss Naseema Hurzuk and the other one on crutches due to polio, namely Mrs. Rajani (Karkare) Deshpande along with like minded people like Mr. Manohar Deshbhratar undertook a crusade in 1984 for rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. The organization has provided assistance to over 17,410 persons with disabilities to the tune of Rs. 708.19 Lacs so far and also created infrastructures such as Hostels, Schools, Rehabilitation & Training Centres etc., costing Rs. 714.16 Lacs (figures upto 31st March 2010) to ensure more effective and on-going services.
Karunashraya
Hospice for Advanced Stage Cancer Patients Caring for an advanced stage cancer patient needs understanding, a certain degree of medical skill, and most importantly, compassion and psychological support. There may be need for a medication adjustment, for more skilled care, or for a brief respite for the primary care giver. Those are the times patients and families need the support offered by Karunashraya, the Bangalore Hospice Trust. Karunashraya provides thoughtful touches and compassionate care. Here, patients continue to receive medical attention in warm and comfortable surroundings. We have offered a holistic care for the patients to fulfil their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs.
Our goals continue to be:
- To alleviate pain and related symptoms & offer all round intensive care
- To ensure quality of life at every step and to counsel the patient's family in order to give them fortitude to accept the situation
- To provide Peace and Dignity in death to the patient
- To heighten awareness of Palliative care
Indian Association of Palliative Medicine, Pan-India
The Indian Association of Palliative Care was formed in 1994 in consultation with World Health Organisation and Govt. of India to form a forum for activities aimed at the care of people with life limiting illness such as Cancer, AIDS and end-stage chronic diseases. The mission of IAPC is to promote affordable and quality palliative care across the country through networking and support to palliative care institutions.
Chiragh, Shitla, Uttarkhand
Chirag is a rural development organisation based in the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand in India. Since 1987 we have sought to improve the quality of life of families – with a special emphasis on women, children and the poor – residing in villages of the Central Himalayan region. We recognise the need for an integrated approach to development and consequently our activities are diverse. Our activities include community forestry, soil and water conservation, the development of watersheds, increasing the availability of fodder, animal husbandry, agriculture and horticulture, drinking water, primary health care, primary education and the development of knowledge and skills amongst young people.
Indian Youth Congress, Delhi, Pan-India
A Pan-India youth organization serving the youth of India. Membership numbering in the millions, it has open membership and free elections. The elected office bearers are trained by the Jawaharlal Training Institute. Programs, Performance Management, Financial Transparency and ethical code of conduct are the other ‘pillars’ of this organization.
National Students Union of India, Delhi, Pan-India
National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) is the largest democratic and secular student organization in the world that represents the aspirations of millions of students. NSUI, since its formation on 9th April 1971, has been motivating young minds and leading the torch of student activism. We have always been in the forefront to protect the rights and interest of student community irrespective of caste, religion, gender, and status in society. NSUI has embarked on a revolutionary journey which will see young leaders emerge from the grass root. The doors of NSUI are open to everyone and the process of electing and grooming young leaders is on. NSUI, at present, has a million plus registered members, 45000 elected office bearers at different levels and 7500 college committees across the country. Our motto of Student Welfare is achieved through this grand network of members and young leaders.
Plus at home Healthcare
Founded in 2006, the company has grown from strength to strength in delivering consistent high-quality nursing and physician services to residents of Bangalore. Our patients and their families have appreciated our services and recommended us to their friends and relatives! Our community of patients has grown to thousands in a short span of a couple of years.
Ummeed
UMEED - The NGO in India is the largest foundation in Punjab providing Primary healthcare, Rural Development, Rural BPO, Education, and Social empowerment in Sangrur - the most backward district of the state. Since its inception in 1997, Umeed has reached out to 550 villages and benefitted 12 million people of diverse communities with services in healthcare, Women empowerment and Community development.
Swadhar
Swadhar, IDWC Pune, a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), was established in July 1995 as a branch of Swadhar, Mumbai; after completing 12 years of working with women in Mumbai. Swadhar IDWC came into existence to help women in distress, irrespective of their caste, creed or religion.
Dhrishti
An NGO created to assist other NGO’s through funding, counseling and networking. More than a decade of good service.
FAME
FAME India is a registered trust formed by concerned philanthropists, with the objective of working on developmental issues of our society, with a particular focus on disabilities.Our mission is to reach out & empower persons with disabilities, so that they may lead a life of dignity and be self-reliant.
BASIX, Pan-India
BASIX is a livelihood promotion institution established in 1996, working with over a 3.5 million customers, over 90% being rural poor households and about 10% urban slum dwellers. BASIX works in 17 states - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam and Gujrat, 223 districts and over 39,251 villages. It has a staff of over 10,000 of which 80 percent are based in small towns and villages.
Maya
Maya Organic is a livelihood development Initiative that helps micro-entrepreneurs build a network of sustainable enterprises that makes impeccable quality products by collaborating and partnering with umbrella structures to manage supply, product development, design and marketing. Maya Organic aims to create wealth and build capabilities of poor informal sector workers and their families.
Dhan Foundation
Development of Humane Action (DHAN) Foundation, a professional development organisation, was initiated on October 2, 1997. It brings highly motivated, educated young women and men to the development sector. They would make new innovations in development to root out poverty from the country. The Foundation works to make significant changes in the livelihoods of the poor through innovative themes and institutions.
Embarq (World Resources Institute, Washington DC), Pan-India
EMBARQ is a program of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. EMBARQ’s mission is to catalyze and help implement environmentally and financially sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities. Since 2002, the network has grown to include five Centers for Sustainable Transport, located in Mexico, Brazil, India, Turkey and the Andean Region, that work together with local transport authorities to reduce pollution, improve public health, and create safe, accessible and attractive urban public spaces. The network employs more than 100 experts in fields ranging from architecture to air quality management geography to journalism; and sociology to civil and transport engineering.
Consumer Action Group (CAG)
CAG came into existence on 7 October 1985 as a non-profit, non-political, non-religious, voluntary and professional citizens group based in Chennai, India. S. Govind Swaminadhan, legal practitioner and former Advocate General of the State of Tamil Nadu, was the founding trustee of CAG. The initial trustees included S. Guhan (former Finance Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu), S.L.Rao (former Chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commissioner), Shyamala Nataraj (development journalist with the South India Aids Action Program) and Sriram Panchu (Senior Advocate). Over the last five years, our main activities have ranged from campaigning for greater access to information, monitoring the functioning of public utilities and advocating for greater transparency and accountability in governmental and private sector functioning to decentralised and localised urban planning, and the protection of open spaces and our natural environment.
Grameen Koota, (Southern States)
Grameen Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. (GFSPL) is a registered non-banking financial company actively engaged in the microfinance sector (NBFC-MFI). We aim at the social and financial upliftment of the rural poor and low income households, particularly women, by providing them financial assistance and non-financial services. The financial services include microcredit and microinsurance, and non-financial services include training, education and awareness. We are inspired by the ideal of availing equal opportunities for, and inclusive development of, the rural poor.
Infosys, Bangalore and Global (ILI, Infosys Leadership Institute)
The vision of Infosys Leadership Institute (ILI) is to be a globally recognized institution that grows leaders. Leadership Development is the mantra here. ILI’s Tier Leadership development creates a corporate pool of leaders and moulds them to take on current and future business challenges. ILI offers a wide variety of individual and organizational development sessions to solve business problems.
SREI Infrastructure Finance, Pan-India (LEaD SREI - Leader & Entrepreneur Development Institute)
Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited has been a pioneer in infrastructure financing in India, steadily contributing towards infrastructural development, and a better tomorrow. Today, we are synonymous with innovative infrastructure financing from customized solutions to marketing programmes.
Byraju Foundation
Byrraju Foundation was set up in July 2001 in memory of Late Byrraju Satyanarayana Raju, the founder of the Satyam group of companies. He was a philanthropist who believed in development of villages and did all he could to see the quality of rural lives transformed. The Foundation seeks to build progressive self-reliant rural communities - adopting a holistic approach - by providing services in healthcare, environment, sanitation, primary education, adult literacy and skills development. The Foundation currently works in 200 villages in 6 districts of Andhra Pradesh - East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Ranga Reddy and Visakhapatnam - positively transforming the lives of nearly 3 million people.
Vishwas
A home for 45 children rescued from the streets and being brought up with love and care. Provides for all needs including good education till the age of 18. Staff too are from very poor and destitute circumstances.
Dream-A-Dream
Founded in 1999, Dream A Dream empowers children from vulnerable backgrounds by developing life skills while at the same time sensitizing the community through active volunteering leading to a non-discriminatory society where unique differences are appreciated. Dream A Dream provides children from vulnerable backgrounds with non-traditional educational opportunities designed to allow them to explore, innovate and build important life skills. These life skills are fundamental to child/youth development and to the successful transition into adulthood and becoming fully functioning and productive members of our society. Dream A Dream programs allow children to develop: Interpersonal skills and Cognitive skills.
Hippocampus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project. NROC makes editorial and engineering investment in the content to prepare it for distribution by HippoCampus. Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
NTTF (Nellore Technical Training Foundation)
- An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Training Institution.
- Imparting Technical Training since 1959.
- Academic Consultant to World Bank Skills Development Projects.
- Having 15 Training Centers with 10000+ Students, 600+ Full Time Faculties.
- 400+ Industries recruit Trained Manpower through NTTF annually
- Established Training Centers and Manufacturing Divisions Overseas for International Clients
- Our Alumni present throughout the World.
Prathibha Poshak, North Karnataka
The Pratibha Poshak project was started in 2000 at Raichur. Since then, its coverage has extended across Karnataka. In Bangalore alone, the program assisted over 500 students in 2009-10. Pratibha Poshak provides academic support like coaching for entrance examinations, career counseling etc. and financial help like hostel fees, tuition fees, transportation expenses, stationery and a lot more.
Prerana
Prerana was founded as a ‘not for profit’ voluntary organisation in September 1974. The founders, a group of committed professional social workers, gave expression to their vision and drive through voluntary action. Through the use of their knowledge, skills and resources, they created partnerships with people from under-privileged communities – by establishing a dialogue, generating enthusiasm, organising and strengthening capacities of local volunteers for planning, implementing and monitoring programmes facilitating their own and their communities’ development.
Acumen Fund, New York
Our mission is to create a world beyond poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas. Our vision is that one day every human being will have access to the critical goods and services they need – including affordable health, water, housing, energy, agricultural inputs and services – so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and unleash their full human potential. This is where dignity starts – not just for the poor but for everyone on earth.
COMAT, Karnataka
Comat provides easy access to essential information and transformational services to people in rural India. Working closely with rural communities in the country, we recognize and deliver their needs through a well-established network of Rural Business Centers. Our Services are focused on revolutionizing the lives of rural citizens by providing access and delivery of citizen records and entitlement benefits on behalf of the government; employability training and job creation; supplemental educational services and access to formal financial and insurance services.
IDPMS, Karnataka
IDPMS was established in 1988 with the objective of implementing the Dutch aided projects in the state of Karnataka. IDPMS is mainly focusing on community development, women empowerment, women and child development, sustainable livelihood, micro finance, human rights, public private partnership, forestry environment, watershed development and water supply and sanitation, training, health and education, health insurance, Tsunami programmes, health security, cluster development project and handicrafts, research and advocacy, etc.
Heart and Soul Foundation
The Heart and Soul Foundation runs a project called PUNARVASAN - in technical partnership with The Spastics Society of Karnataka and provision Asia. Punarvasan (Rehabilitation when translated in English) is an endeavour of the Heart and Soul Foundation to enable Community Based Rehabilitation. To start with, the center focuses on children with disabilities in around the urban slums of Bangalore. The center strives to provide all therapies/facilities like Aids and appliances, medical assessment,early intervention, ADL training, special education, vocational training, speech and language therapy under one roof for the holistic development of the disabled child. Since the centre is located in the child's community it involves the family and sensitizes the community to their needs. An active community of full-time workers and volunteers ensure that these children spend a very productive and fun-filled day at Punarvasan.
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF), Delhi and Pan-India
The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has historically been working in areas of literacy, health, disability, empowerment of the underprivileged, and livelihoods. Almost two decades after rich experience of grassroots developmental work, the RGF has revisited its larger purpose, and repositioned its focus area. The Foundation will now focus its energies towards achieving systemic and social change through Education. Other programs will continue as Development Support Initiatives. Vision: To create access for the largest number of children to an education that:
- Encourages curiosity, independent thinking and open-mindedness
- Enables each child to live by the values of integrity, equality and humanity
- Equips each child to realize his/her full potential.
RGICS, Delhi and Pan-India
Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS) is a part of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) and started its work towards the end of 1992. The functioning, the agenda and the achievements of RGICS cannot and should not be seen in isolation but most necessarily in conjunction with the pursuits of RGF. Both RGF and RGICS are committed to carry forward the values that Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi always stood for and to spearhead the ideas that his life and work represent. Both the Institute and the Foundation uphold as a guiding principle Rajiv’s vision for India: “modernization, economic reforms for productivity and competitiveness, decentralization of governance for greater public participation and promotion of science and technology to make India enter 21st century strong in development and defence.
Arvind Eye Care Hospitals, Pan-India
Aravind Eye Hospital was founded in 1976, by Dr. G. Venkataswamy, a man known to most of us simply as Dr. V. In an eleven bed hospital manned by 4 medical officers, he saw the potential for what is today, one of the largest facilities in the world for eye care. Over the years, this organization has evolved into a sophisticated system dedicated to compassionate service for sight. The Aravind Eye Care System now serves as a model, for India, and the rest of the world.
Mahiti
Mahiti specialises in websites (including web design), web applications, messaging, e-commerce, payment gateway integration, knowledge management, content management, donor relationship management, contact management, supply-chain management, customer-relationship management, micro-finance management, collaboration, social networking systems. Our services include consultancy, software design and development, server cluster deployment, 24/7 monitoring, application maintenance and monitoring, advocacy campaign management, and customised training and workshops. Mahiti has been listed to provide training on Ubuntu Linux based desktop and servers. Mahiti has worked with approximately 1000 organisations in its long history and has created a niche in the market on multi-platform, multilingual web applications, extranets, intranets, multimedia and kiosk applications. We now have a growing international customer base with clients located in US, South Africa, Australia and France.
Akshara Foundation
Akshara Foundation is a Bangalore based Public Charitable Trust with the mission to ensure that every child is in school and learning. Established in the year 2000, Akshara Foundation has a range that provide multiple solutions for universalizing elementary education. Akshara is a part of the Pratham Education Initiative and has replicated Pratham’s approach of comprehensive, scalable, replicable and cost-effective education solutions. Akshara works in Bangalore, and many other parts of the state through its close partnership with the Education Department of the Government of Karnataka and the different school administrations.