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Climate action in India tends to be organised nationally while the change itself has to happen locally. Asar builds the connective tissue in between, convening state-level ecosystems on clean air, energy transition, commons governance and climate education, and running the country's largest clean air network across more than 500 stakeholders. The Foundation supports this because coordination, not conviction, is usually the binding constraint.
How climate change is reported shapes what the public believes is possible about it. Climate Trends builds public and policy understanding of environment, clean energy and clean air, and supports the research and outreach of think tanks, academics and journalists working on those questions. The Foundation supports the communications layer because good evidence still needs a route into the mainstream.
India will urbanise for another generation, and the institutions that can think about that at the necessary scale are few. IIHS is a national institution dedicated to the transformation of India's cities, towns and villages, bringing together academics, research, practice and capacity development rather than treating them as separate trades. The Foundation supports the making of practitioners as much as the making of knowledge.
Sattva Consulting works with companies, philanthropies, non-profits and governments across emerging economies on the design and measurement of social impact, on the premise that no single stakeholder can solve a long-standing problem alone. The Foundation works with them where a question needs evidence before it needs money.
YouCAN is working towards creating an India with an educator in every community who teaches students stewardship for the land they live on: a new generation of educators rooted in the wisdom of their place and its community. They dream of such an India by 2047, our country's 100th year of independence. With this mission in mind, they have been nurturing a community-led fellowship ecosystem since 2018 for India's emerging educators to power a better conservation education system for our country.
Akshaykalpa Foundation promotes regenerative farming practices that restore soil health, increase biodiversity, conserve water, reduce chemical dependency, and strengthen local economies. From agroecology to fair market access, our partnership supports their work in building resilient farming communities where long-term sustainable practices lead to better incomes, healthier ecosystems, and food security that lasts.
Acting as a bridge between communities and governance, B.PAC is solution-agnostic and engages with political and bureaucratic layers to enhance the quality of life and enable effective progress at the local level. Our partnership supports B.PAC's work in bringing together political and administrative actors to engage effectively with local communities, thus strengthening the Neighbourhoods for the Future approach, where climate action is owned and implemented locally.
Bridgespan India is building a Community Ownership Action Hub to deeply embed the place-ownership approach in the ecosystem, and inform and inspire greater funding towards community-driven change (CDC). The goal is to become an accelerator for greater adoption of CDC by enabling organisations to design and scale CDC models through capacity enablement and peer learning.
CoRE Stack is a digital public infrastructure that helps communities plan and manage landscapes responsibly, both socially and ecologically. It is building a shared, open platform where landscape data, community insights, and planning tools come together, enabling communities, organisations, researchers, and governments to make better decisions and strengthen local stewardship. Built through a consortium of partners, CoRE Stack treats collaboration itself as critical infrastructure for bottom-up resilience.
Ethos Foundation, under Arcause (Our Cause), reimagines design education to be more grounded, inclusive, and connected to real-world challenges. With over 400 architecture colleges, they are building a community where young designers learn to see buildings as tools for climate adaptation, comfort, and equity. Partnering with the Ethos Foundation is important for the future of the built environment in India because they integrate sustainability and design as tools for solving societal and environmental problems into the way young ACEDs (Architects, Civil Engineers, Designers, and others) are trained, connected, and exposed.
Kalpavriksh is the force behind Vikalp Sangam (Confluence of Alternatives), and aims to support the creation of Alternative Decentres, physical spaces that bring together people practising or conceiving alternatives across sectors like ecology, education, health, justice, livelihood, market/trade, governance, and more. The platform offers space to constructively challenge and learn from each other, build alliances, collectively evolve alternative futures, bring forward community solutions, and apply in one’s own context.
MARC is an informal network of wildlife rescuers and researchers trying to solve human-wildlife conflict in Kannur, Kerala. In addition to rescue and rehabilitation efforts, MARC also conducts awareness programs to educate citizens about the importance of wildlife conservation. They also collect data on these interactions and help government departments in their efforts to mitigate conflict. These programs equip citizens with the knowledge needed to handle chance encounters with wildlife and provide immediate responses to facilitate rescue and rehabilitation, thereby preventing negative interactions.
Paani Foundation is creating an ecosystem to mobilise farmers and villages to build a water-abundant future for themselves. Through knowledge-sharing and incentive-driven competition, the foundation is empowering communities to break free from the cycle of thirst, hunger, debt, and forced migration.
Praja is a non-partisan organisation working towards enabling accountable governance. The Prajatantra Program for Urban Leadership (PPUL) is designed to address gaps in governance at the grassroots by developing a network of trained urban leaders who can navigate governance complexities, optimise municipal finance, and drive climate-responsive development.
Saath is an urban resilience initiative integrating communities working in informal sectors into sustainable city ecosystems. It focuses on economic empowerment, climate action, and circular economy. Our partnership is to support their work in building multipurpose cooperatives as a self-sustaining infrastructure to enable climate adaptation for informal settlements
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation is an enabler for clean energy and climate solutions in India. It catalyses policy solutions to reduce GHG emissions and tackle climate change in collaboration with policy makers, civil society, academia and industry. The Rainmatter Foundation collaborates with Shakti recognizing the urgent need for innovative solutions to address complex climate mitigation challenges. The aim of this initiative is to collaboratively identify transformative work areas intersecting with local environmental, ecological, and sustainable development needs, while also serving as a bridge between national and state-level policies and community-level actions.
The Climate Narrative Hub seeks to redefine India's climate story by bridging hyperlocal, community voices and larger thematic priorities. By bringing together community perspectives, expert opinion, policy priorities, media and philanthropic action, the hub aims to transform how the changing climate is felt, understood and reflected in the mainstream.
The Locavore is a platform committed to creating enduring impact through food. The initiatives are designed to champion local and seasonal food, archive culinary knowledge, and build awareness around where our food comes from. In a rapidly warming world, they are also consciously spotlighting diverse food practices that are climate-resilient, and the communities responsible for preserving them. Rainmatter Foundation is supporting them in promoting local food cultures, sustainability, and community engagement across India.
For over 35 years, The Timbaktu Collective has demonstrated what steady, community-led action can build: stronger livelihoods, restored ecosystems, and renewed cultural pride. Working across 347 villages in one of Andhra Pradesh’s most drought-prone regions, they have nurtured cooperatives for women, farmers, artisans, agricultural labourers, and people with disabilities, while regenerating commons and reimagining education. Through this partnership, the aim is to deepen their work and share their proven, place-based model with communities everywhere.
TRIF is an organization focusing on Rural livelihoods by working at the conjunction of Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazar. It seeks to transform conditions and opportunities in "locality" for human flourishing, places where residents can meet their aspirations and lead a life of dignity. Their founding belief is that communities' own initiative and aspiration is central to the process of "transformation". Through convergent societal action it is possible to trigger a process of "new socialization", fostering synergistic state Private Sector community interrelationships, bringing in new normative behaviour which creates fertile ground for rural communities to transform themselves.
Living Landscapes, constituted as the Padraka Foundation, anchors Common Ground, a collaborative initiative on environmental governance and rural livelihoods co-created in 2023 with 23 partners and now a network of more than 90. It works as convener, connector and catalyst rather than as an implementer. The Foundation supports backbone organisations, which are hard to fund and harder to do without.
Platform for Commons builds digital platforms that create equitable opportunities for people, communities, and impact-driven businesses. They offer a wide range of services, including consulting, digital platforms, and bespoke applications. Rainmatter Foundation has offered institutional support for their work in the space of building platforms for regenerative agriculture.
A grassroots community organization based in Kutch, Gujarat that works with pastoralists to achieve conservation and restoration goals. Sahjeevan focuses on empowering local communities through Community Forest Resource Management Committees (CFRMCs) and Biodiversity Management Committees, enabling them to conserve landscapes they rely on. They focus on integrating long-term conservation into collective consciousness, addressing India's conservation and restoration challenges through collaboration
Shivganga is an innovative intervention in the Jhabua-Alirajpur region of Madhya Pradesh, focusing on holistic village development through community strengths rather than weaknesses. Founded by Shri Mahesh Sharma, Shivganga Samagra Gramvikas Parishad engages 3000 volunteers to connect over 1,500 villages, nurturing social capital and sustainable growth. By tapping into the wisdom and resilience of the tribal community, Shivganga awakens the inherent Parmarth ka Bhav, responsible for their Swabhiman, making them Swavalambi, leading to Akshay Vikas, the globally talked about, Sustainable Development. Through initiatives such as youth empowerment camps and community-led projects in Water Conservation, Afforestation, Organic Farming, and Healthcare, Shivganga revitalizes traditional practices and empowers communities to thrive in the face of challenges. Recognized for its significant impact, Shivganga continues to lead in community-driven development, envisioning a future where every village serves as a hub for comprehensive learning and progress.
The Shola Trust is a non-profit conservation organisation in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of South India. Based in Gudalur, at the edge of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, it was set up in 2007 to promote human-inclusive models of nature conservation, inspired by the unique high altitude sholas of the Nilgiris and its people. They are committed to preserving indigenous knowledge, practices, and beliefs relevant to conservation, working closely with local communities to integrate this traditional wisdom into conservation.
The Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC) is an independent research organisation analysing issues at the frontier of addressing climate change, managing the energy transition, and limiting environmental threats in India and globally. We focus on the systemic changes required for India’s transition to a sustainable, just, and resilient economy and society. In these areas, we identify upstream policy levers that, when activated, can drive downstream impact at scale
Udhyam Vyapaar's mission is to help Vyapaaris scale their businesses, make them successful in life, and move them towards their highest human potential. The long-term vision is to make entrepreneurship respectable and aspirational for Bharat.
The law is where a lot of the detail lies. Whether for conservation or protection of our commons, it is important to understand how the laws around them are strengthened or weakened over time, and work to improve them. Vidhi Legal works in this space, both with the government and also in the larger interest of the common good, commenting and highlighting gaps and needs. During the course of Rainmatter Foundation’s journey, we realised this is an important area to support. We have also run a few sessions to help improve awareness around the policy and legal aspects of these issues.
WCS-India envisions a natural world where ecosystems and communities coexist sustainably. The organization focuses on conserving and restoring wildlife and habitats across India through evidence-based actions. The organization's approach is data-driven, leveraging scientific research for effective conservation. The organization engages local communities as essential partners in conservation efforts. The organization uses technology and strategic partnerships to address environmental challenges and foster preservation.
A Rocha India is a part of the global network of A Rocha organisations, which spans six continents and more than 20 countries. When we first started as a public charity in 2003, our goal was to create research, education, sustainability, and outreach programmes to address important conservation issues in the fragile human-dominated ecosystem known as the Bannerghatta-Hosur landscape. We have played a key role in creating innovative strategies and plans in this operational area to proactively address significant biodiversity and community concerns while promoting the fundamental ethics of conservation (wildlife & community) culture.
It is India’s premiere showcase of today’s climate stories. Through pay-as-you-feel global online streaming & in-person community screenings, our audience witnesses untold stories of regeneration, activism, crisis and hope
ATREE is a globally recognised non-profit organisation focused on environmental conservation and sustainable, socially just development. ATREE engages in the generation and dissemination of rigorous interdisciplinary knowledge that informs and is informed by the needs of grassroots communities, policymakers and the wider public. It prioritises capacity-building for producing the next generation of scholars and leaders.
The Biodiversity Collaborative is a network of individuals and organisations engaged in biodiversity science and conservation that have come together to demonstrate, advocate and highlight the linkages between conservation, sustainable use of biodiversity, and human well-being.
ClimateRISE Alliance is a collaborative platform that aims to accelerate our journey towards climate resilience for the most vulnerable communities. The Alliance comprises 65 civil society organisations, 10 intermediary groups, and six funders. By leveraging collective insights, the alliance is working to shape an India view of climate, a common vocabulary and enable a multi-stakeholder engagement approach to intersectional climate action in India.
ComMutiny- The Youth Collective is a community of practice of youth work organisations across the country. ComMutiny incubated the vartaLeap Coalition in 2019 to mainstream youth-centric development across all sectors. Rainmatter Foundation is supporting ComMutiny in the development of ‘nourishing now’ framework, embedding climate change into the vision and strategies of organisations and nurturing young leaders to inspire climate-positive environments.
CEEW is one of Asia's leading policy research institutions, using data and integrated analysis to explain and change how India uses, reuses and misuses its resources. Its work spans energy transition, water security, air quality, industry and land, and it is read by the people who write the rules. The Foundation supports research that is designed to be used rather than cited.
The Rainmatter Foundation’s support for Goonj is towards Gram Swabhiman - to foster village empowerment and development by catalysing collective participation, setting positive narratives, building environmental consciousness and capacitating youth to encourage a solution-based approach for complex issues such as environmental resilience. Goonj works on poverty alleviation, rural development, and disaster relief & rehab, by using the cities’ discards as a fuel for wide-spread development work across villages in India addressing issues around water, sanitation, agriculture, education and local infrastructure.
The Rainmatter Foundation supports Gram Vikas to develop an intersectional approach to localise climate-resilient actions in 1000 Gram Panchayats in Odisha. The initiative will record the impact of climate change on rural communities and strengthen their abilities to self-assess the changes, and accordingly take action. It will demonstrate climate-sensitive value chain measures in agriculture and non-farm production systems, develop Village Climate Action Plans as part of poverty reduction efforts, build evidence for use by other stakeholders, engage governments to adopt best practices into their programmes, and inform policies.
Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary (GBS) is a community-based conservation centre in Wayanad, Kerala, concerned with plant conservation, habitat restoration, nature education and ecological advocacy. It is a practical hands-on demonstration of best practice in horticultural techniques for plant species conservation, as well as complementary strategies in rewilding that support human community and the rainforest biome. GBS seeks to consolidate its mission in conservation and education through a School of Ecological Nurturance in partnership with Rainmatter Foundation.
The India Climate Collaborative (ICC) is a first-of-its-kind organisation working to accelerate climate action in India, with a lens towards justice and equity. The ICC identifies and designs for critical sectors that need investment, drives funding towards climate solutions, and enables private and corporate philanthropy to engage more effectively with climate action. The Rainmatter Foundation is supporting ICC to enhance domestic grant funding for climate initiatives in India. This collaboration ensures that the funding is strategically directed toward catalytic, India-centric, and development-aligned priorities.
IDR bridges a critical information, knowledge and sense-making gap in the development sector, occupying a unique and niche position in the space. It counts among its readers sector professionals, funders, policy-makers, mainstream media and students. The Foundation decided to support IDR to adopt a climate lens to all its reporting, to build consensus on climate vocabulary among funders and host convenings of diverse stakeholders.
Jagriti is building an Udyamita ecosystem across 10 districts of Purvanchal (eastern Uttar Pradesh) to inspire communities, incubate entrepreneurial leaders, and innovate new ways through Jagriti Enterprise Centre - Purvanchal (JECP). A hub-and-spoke approach - an incubation and innovation centre as Hub in Deoria, and district network offices, manned by Udyam Corps and Mitra (last-mile connectors) - is at the heart of the JECP. The Foundation has supported JECP to set up a BioRegional Centre that promotes circular economy, biodiversity, and natural assets in the region, incubates sustainability-focused enterprises, and designs large-scale interventions that addresses current or future environmental challenges of the region.
MSSRF was founded to pursue a pro-poor, pro-women and pro-nature approach to agricultural science, and has worked since on biodiversity, coastal systems, nutrition and rural knowledge for four decades. The Foundation supports institutions carrying that long a thread of practice.
The Nature Conservation Foundation has among the best known conservation and restoration researchers and practitioners. They are engaged in multiple distinct landscapes across India where the teams build evidence, practice with the community and also help citizens connect deeper with local biodiversity. NCF trains many to become naturalists and also anchors a community of restoration specialists. The Rainmatter Foundation decided to do core organisational support for three years, and also explore how their work could better inform mainstream restoration efforts in both wild and community-owned spaces.
Palluyir Trust for Nature Education and Research works to create diverse nature-education resources, curricula, and interfaces for children and the public across ages and social backgrounds. Currently, the organization is making efforts to have local nature-based learning adopted as a state education policy. Palluyir centers local nature and biodiversity in the process of reimagining learning and living together. It also works to advocate the protection of nature and lend support/solidarity to ecological movements, struggles, and places.
Started in 2008, Rang De is India's first social peer-to-peer lending platform, now RBI-regulated, letting individuals lend from as little as five hundred rupees to farmers, entrepreneurs and students who have no access to formal credit. The Foundation supports the plumbing that moves small amounts of money to people the formal system does not see.
Through the Neighbourhood Initiative, Socratus is focusing on nurturing long-term, place-based change. The initiative engages and empowers people by combining physical and digital infrastructure, innovative experience centres, and a revival of collective wisdom within the neighbourhood. This approach embeds sustainable choices in people’s everyday environments and nurtures values beyond self-interest to strengthen community responsibility. It’s a step towards building subsidiarity.
SVYM has worked since 1984 on building the human and social capital of tribal, rural and urban communities in Karnataka, through health, education, socio-economic empowerment and environmental sustainability delivered together rather than as separate programmes. The Foundation supports organisations that treat a community as one thing.
VAAGDHARA is a civil society organization working with more than 100,000 indigenous farming families of above 1000 villages in adjoining areas of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat. For more than 2 decades, following the Swaraj philosophy, VAAGDHARA has been making efforts on the three major thrusts viz. True Farming (focus on food and farming sovereignty), True Childhood (community-based child protection and child rights initiatives) and True Governance (reaching the most marginalized, ensuring their entitlements and participation in the governance). Being accredited with the Special Consultative Status from UN-ECOSOC, VAAGDHARA also amplify the aspirations and concerns of the indigenous communities on global platforms and strive to bring attention to the invaluable locally available solutions practiced by the indigenous communities, contributing towards attainment of the SDGs.
A lot of scientific research and knowledge as well as practitioner-led solutions tend to not be publicly accessible. The Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods (WELL) Labs (formerly known as the Centre for Social and Environment Innovation at ATREE) has taken on the challenge of making such knowledge available and actionable at scale, and also take the idea of hypothesis-led scalable pilots to governments and civil society organisations. The Foundation realised that this is a major gap that needs to be filled and extended support.
Wetlands are the ecosystems India loses fastest and counts least. Established in 1996 as part of a global network, Wetlands International South Asia works on the conservation and restoration of wetlands across the region, from science and inventory to management plans that a state can actually adopt. The Foundation supports work on the landscapes that do not photograph well.
WRI India uses data and technical expertise to catalyse change across the systems that decide emissions and wellbeing together: food, land and water, energy, and cities. It works alongside city and state governments on the transitions they have already committed to and often cannot resource. The Foundation supports the translation of national commitments into what a city can do on Monday.
ACT is a venture philanthropy platform that backs founders solving India's hardest problems with risk-tolerant capital, pooling money from the technology industry and moving it early. It works on climate alongside health and education, funding ideas before they are fundable. The Foundation's interest is in what happens at that stage, where a good idea either finds its first backer or quietly stops.
Rainmatter decided to support the Biome Trust chiefly to create an outreach and communications program to advocate the organisation's work in visibilising the problem of depleting groundwater and recharging aquifers, such as their Million Wells campaign for Bangalore.
Buzz Women works with women in rural Karnataka to build confidence, skills, and leadership so they can play an active role in shaping their communities. Through locally rooted collectives, the organisation supports women to start and strengthen livelihoods, take action on environmental issues, and participate in local decision-making. Our partnership supports their work in evolving from empowerment to systemic change.
Civis makes it easy for ordinary man to participate in the law-making and public consultation process. They do this by making proposed Bills and other pieces of legislation available on an online platform and making this easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-give-feedback-on. The Rainmatter Foundation has supported Civis for a limited grant to create, publish and disseminate a primer i.e. a how-to guide, on environmental public consultation.
The Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) is a team of systems thinkers that research connected problems from a science and evidence lens, and inform policy about the same. Their modelling tools and approaches effectively enable decision making. The Rainmatter Foundation is in sync with their new focus on intersectionality across sectors for better policy inputs to address climate-related issues.
Energy Swaraj Foundation works on the demand side of the energy question, arguing that consumption itself has to fall rather than merely be sourced differently. Through the Finite Earth Movement it runs climate literacy training, community action challenges and a network of ambassadors, with a stated goal of bringing a billion people into climate action. The Foundation supports work that treats individual behaviour as infrastructure.
Preserving old-growth and native trees is one of the best ways to build-in environment resilience. Can private land-owners and farmers be persuaded not to chop trees on their lands for money or for firewood, and instead nurture them if they were paid to do so? Farmers For Forests is pioneering the payments-for-ecosystem-services concept in India, and the Foundation's support is enabling them to try this with land-owners in Gadchiroli and Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.
The Foundation is supporting a programme office for the Himalaya Unnati Mission (HUM), which is an initiative to preserve, protect and resurrect the biological, economic and cultural heritage of the Himalayan states in India.
The Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology (Hume) has a unique approach towards making science accessible to local citizens primarily through their weather forecasting and school science program in Wayanad, Kerala. This is one of India’s aspirational districts. Rainmatter Foundation supported Hume to further this work and socialise this approach with other non-profits in the country.
Industree Foundation works with creative producers, mostly women, from marginalised communities in India and other parts of the globe. The Foundation has supported the organisation to enable the development of value chains (know-how and capacity to use natural material to developing market connects) for natural resources such as bamboo and natural fibres and engage with a few states to enable friendly policies around such livelihood options.
The Lipok Social Foundation (LSF) is a grassroots organization working to build resilient rural economies by helping communities understand and localize their consumption patterns. As part of the Green Rural Economy and Basket of Needs modules, Lipok is developing the “Gram Chakra” tool to help villages assess their resource needs and production capacities. The team plays a catalytic role in enabling local entrepreneurship and is actively supporting other organizations through training, capacity building, and consulting. Lipok is also contributing to the GRE Solution Hub with toolkits and insights for replication. Their work is rooted in the ACRE framework and has already led to over 40 enterprises across six villages.
Much of India is rural, and the rural seldom finds a place in mainstream media. PARI's coverage of rural India is an invaluable treasure. The Foundation's grant to PARI will enable the team to bolster their climate coverage of parts of India that are largely ignored by mainstream media.
PRADAN works to enable the most marginalised people, especially rural women, to earn a decent living and take charge of their own lives, mobilising women into self-help groups and connecting them to banks, markets and government entitlements. It has done this across India's poorest districts for four decades. The Foundation supports organisations that put professionals in villages and keep them there.
The RCRC network, along with the Ministry of Rural Development, is making a concerted effort for an integrated farming approach in multiple clusters across India. The Rainmatter Foundation feel this will be a valuable experiment at scale, and worth supporting. This effort can help farmers self-assess a bunch of parameters and perhaps better understand the trade-offs, without which it's unlikely that we can arrest ecological degradation or prevent nutritional challenges and curb asset and income losses.
Waste management at source is critical to prevent pollution and deterioration of soil and water. The Foundation has supported Saahas to initially handhold and transition eight gram panchayats in Karnataka into model gram panchayats where waste will be segregated at source and recovered at material recovery facilities (MRFs) for sustainable solid waste management practices. The program is to be scaled to 100 gram panchayats in the two districts of Yadgir and Kalburgi alongwith relevant training and workshops.
What is water? What is air? Are they connected? Are they important? How does one talk to kids about the elements, about nature? Slam Out Loud builds open source climate learning resources for children, and with Rainmatter Foundation's support, trains educators in engaging kids with the environment.
SWMRT is a collective of solid-waste management (SWM) practitioners working since 2009 for the adoption of sustainable waste management practices by citizens and municipalities, to improve public health, clean air and water, safe food, healthy soil and inclusive livelihoods. The Rainmatter Foundation has offered institutional support to SWMRT to build internal capacity and to help create similar organisations in other towns and cities for advocacy and training.
The Tech4Good Community runs a maturity model based program for non-profit organisations to embrace technological tools. The Foundation's support to Tech4Good Community is to bring in this tech readiness to the organisations we work with as well as to the larger non-profit community.
Sand is among the most mined minerals on the planet. Rampant sand mining from riverbeds alters a river's ecology. While sand-mining is a regulated activity, on-ground, this is a thriving illegal trade. Illegal sand mining is an invisible problem since no data on sand-mining exists in India. The Foundation is supporting Veditum to build an open platform which will crowd-source information on sand-mining from primary sources in an attempt to quantify and visibilise this problem.
WASSAN’s farmer network, especially for rainfed regions, is among the largest in the country. The Rainmatter Foundation’s support is to provide an ecosystem of support to make it easy for farmers to shift to regenerative practices as well as to arrive at an assessment methodology for place-based indicators, a seed exchange platform, a bio-resource centre (BRC) and work on a hub-and-spoke model for farm tools and millet machines.
India’s long coastline tends to be a blindspot for policy and problem solving. Dakshin's Sea Change programme takes a holistic view of the coastline and assesses community needs from economic and ecological lens, and works with locals to meet the same. The Foundation is glad to support this focused approach and hopeful that these efforts will enable better resilience for a coastline that is under threat in so many ways.
Public policy is often thought of as complicated and complex. Fields of View uses games and simulations to make sense of policies and their impact both to policy makers and to the common person. Rainmatter has supported Fields of View to enable non-profits to make sense of systems thinking in the public sphere and enable changemakers to understand abstract ideas in actionable ways.
GROW+ helps grassroots organisations strengthen their internal capacity and build resilience to navigate the climate pressures of their local landscapes. The fund invests in core institutional capacities including stronger teams, better financial planning, smarter use of technology, and climate-aware decision-making. By pairing flexible funding with institutional support, tools, and methods that strengthen community ownership, the ecosystem moves beyond resourcing projects to building long-term capacity for local enablers to support change in their own regions.
Oorvani Foundation is committed to civic engagement, citizenship and communities. Their mission is to connect people who want better cities with civic information, tools, networks and resources they need to make it happen.
For nearly 25 years, Janaagraha has been working with a mission to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns. Their strengths lie in municipal finance, government capacity building, and unlocking of funds to enable effective delivery of municipal services. An integral part of their city-systems work is making it easier for citizens to actively participate in the governance of their neighbourhoods and cities. With Rainmatter Foundation’s support, they are creating climate-friendly city action plans in 10 cities of Assam which will be taken to many other states.
Rainmatter Foundation did a small grant for Nrityagram for their plan to demonstrate the baby steps that communities and campuses such as theirs can do to practically lower their water, food and energy footprints in their location. The intent is to show what a place of interest with high footfalls can do to spread awareness.
Punarchith is located in Chamarajanagar, which is one of Karnataka’s most environmentally distressed districts. With Rainmatter Foundation’s support, Punarchith is continuing its restoration effort of a degraded plot of land in Nagavalli village. The place, called Angarike Maala, is a kind of a “living lab” for regenerative and traditional experiments be it for crop rotation, slash-and-burn, seed bank, bamboo construction and so on. The team is also engaging with the Solega community of BR Hills to document their language and traditional knowledge.
Reap Benefit is engaged in local problem solving for civic issues through its Solve Ninja program, which enables young people with tools, knowledge and networks. Rainmatter's funding was to enable a climate lens to this problem solving approach, creating playbooks and expanding their work to newer parts of the country through collaborations and partnerships.
If we have to address the climate crisis, we need, at scale, changemaking through place-based fellowships that take on myriad local problems and start to address them in sync with local governments, entrepreneurs, self-help groups (SHGs) and CSO partners. Sauramandala's model to create this and help other organisations with the same, appealed to the Foundation to step in and support.
SayTrees has a solid record for not only planting trees, but also getting various stakeholders involved in this. The Rainmatter Foundation’s support will enable the team to scale their efforts into agroforestry and landscape restoration at landscape- and collectivised-farm levels. This is a large push towards what is a major answer for both climate adaptation as well as mitigation.
A small, focused team that brings technology to the conservation space, Technology for Wildlife Foundation has collaborated with numerous organisations and worked on many projects to enable a better understanding and tracking of the landscapes, do independent Environment Impact Assessments (EIAs), and more. The Foundation wanted to support this critical work and provided core organisational support.
Ever heard of elephants raiding crops in farmlands? These kinds of human-animal interactions tend to be a costly affair for both creatures. Rainmatter Foundation funded Uttarayan Wildlife to rope in farming communities to together restore degraded elephant corridors in southwest Bengal. We hope this effort is beneficial not only for the farmers but also for the elephants.
Waste Warriors is involved in waste management efforts in parts of the Himalayas, an extremely eco-sensitive zone. The pristine environment is under pressure from increasing anthropogenic activities such as tourism. The Rainmatter Foundation is Waste Warriors for their waste management initiatives, awareness building and inputs for local waste management policies.
The Centre for Wildlife Studies has a long history of working in the buffer zones of some of the major forests across peninsular India, and innovating to help reduce the fallout of human-wildlife interactions in these zones, improve education and attitudes around the forest and wildlife, and research on and bring to the fore the connection between the pressure on the wild and zoonotic diseases. We decided to support CWS through a flexible, core grant.
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