Catalysts For Social Action

Catalysts for Social Action is an Indian NGO that works towards creating and ensuring a brighter future for every child under institutional care. We strive to ensure a better future for children in need of care and protection which pays attention to their physical, emotional, personal, spiritual wellbeing and learning. We believe that every child needs family or family-like care in a well-managed institution. We have been working since 2002 as catalysts by leveraging existing institutions and empowering them to improve child outcomes and enhance the quality of care to children. This is achieved by partnering with like-minded child care institutions, individuals and corporates. Over the last 18 years, we have been enabled by our generous donors, supporting partners and volunteers to create a visible impact in the lives of 20000+ children. Our Vision To build a nation where children in need of care and protection are nurtured into happy and contributing members of society. Our Mission We believe that every child needs family or family-like care in a well-managed institution. With this objective we work towards: - Increasing adoptions and support to adoptive - Maintaining higher standards in child care homes - Supporting children in their transition into independent living and secure livelihood - Supporting Government policies and their implementation - Our role is not only to provide direct services but also to act as a catalyst for systemic and sustainable change. Our Values - Every Child Matters - Holistic Approach - Sustainable Change - Best Management Practices Our Work Through our institutional care channels and the tireless efforts of our team and your support, we ensure family-like care for our children. This ensures access to healthy living conditions, good education, personal development resources along with an identified path to independent living with dignity for the young adults from our Aftercare program.

Muskurahat Foundation

At Muskurahat, we envision a world where children become socially responsible citizens. Through our programs, we focus on the holistic development of children at-risk, primarily in shelter homes. To know more about us, visit our website - http://www.muskurahat.org.in

Wadhwani AI

The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is an independent nonprofit institute founded by the Indian-American tech entrepreneurs Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani. We aim to harness the power of AI to find the break points that cause the world’s deepest problems — and then find innovative solutions to fix them. We specialize in AI research to address problems in public health, agriculture, education and infrastructure using tools such as Machine Learning, Data Science, Cognitive Reasoning and IoT. We are a global AI hub with ongoing collaborations with leading academic organisations, global nonprofits, think tanks and other private foundations who are interested in leveraging AI as a force for social good. We partner with government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to help identify needs and to implement and scale the solutions. Our core aims include: - Conduct ground-breaking applied AI research - Pilot solutions on-ground in collaboration with the affected communities - Deploy solutions at scale in collaboration with the social sector and civic authorities.

SBI Foundation

SBI Foundation is a section 8 company, registered under the Companies Act, 2013. SBI Foundation was established by State Bank of India in 2015 to undertake Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives on behalf of State Bank Group in a focused and strategic manner. SBI Foundation is working on projects located across all 28 States and 8 Union Territories of India, undertaking CSR initiatives to make resources available to the most vulnerable and underprivileged sections of the society.

United Way Mumbai

United Way Mumbai is a part of the 130 year old United Way movement spanning 41 countries across the world. Our mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities to advance the common good. We work closely with a network of 400+ NGOs and a large number of corporates for their CSR programmes, workplace giving campaigns and other events. This includes designing of CSR policy and strategies, due diligence of NGO partners, programme implementation, employee volunteering, impact assessments and financial and programmatic reporting. Over the past 16 years, we have partnered with over 300 companies and over 1,00,000 individual donors investing close to INR 312 crore for community development projects. We work across 6 key focus areas – education, health, income, environment, public safety and social inclusion – in urban and rural communities. We are also the philanthropy partners for the Tata Mumbai Marathon- India's biggest charity platform.