NalandaWay Foundation is an award-winning non-profit organization headquartered in Chennai, India, that uses visual and performing arts to help children from disadvantaged communities to soar high by enabling them to be creative and express themselves through Arts. The organization helps disadvantaged children realize their dreams through the power of arts. It is an alumnus of Singapore International Foundation’s annual Arts for Good Fellowship, which seeks to use arts and culture to create positive social change.
Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR), a non-profit organization in India, is focused on using public interest research and advocacy to impact the gender and social development discourse. For the past two decades, CFAR has been actively involved in advancing the rights of HIV/AIDS, women's rights and health, child rights, sustainable development, and elimination of violence against women and children.
Development Consortium (DC) is an Indian non-profit organization dedicated to working with young people and vulnerable communities across India - empowering them to overcome issues related to health, education and rights, abuse and injustice. DC believes that a better future for humanity depends on the capacity to harness change. And building this capacity forms the core of their working model.
The Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) is an autonomous, non-profit institution established to serve as a think-tank for policy inputs and to enhance the management skills of professionals working in government and business. It is a registered society under the constitution and has a governing body called the Court of Governors, which comprises eminent professionals and industry leaders from various sectors.
EQUATIONS is a research and advocacy group that envisions forms of tourism that are non-exploitative, where decision-making is democratized, and access to and benefits of tourism are equitably distributed. They believe in the capacity of individuals and communities to actualize their potential for the well-being of society and works toward justice, equity, people-centered and movement-centered activism, and dialogue.
CFAR, a Delhi-based, non-profit organization is a public-interest research and advocacy group. Their focus for the past 20 years has been to take forward the rights of the marginalized citizens of the society including the urban poor, the girl child, transgender persons, sex workers, single women, and unorganized workers, among others. Their goal is to shape inclusive policies and programs from a gender and development perspective.