Social Compact Movement (SoCo)
With Dasra2020- ongoing
Forbes Marshall is one of the founding members of Social Compact (SoCo), a unique initiative which brings together stakeholders from corporates, worker organisations and experts to ensure greater dignity and security of vulnerable informal industry-employed workers in India.
Action research and advocacy for activating public systems to support informal migrant workers in Pune
With Work Free and Fair Foundation 2025- ongoing
The study focuses on the vulnerabilities faced by the informally employed migrant workers who form a vast majority of the workforce in Pune, spread across its industrial, construction and service sectors.
HumRahi Programme
With Synergy Sansthan2024- ongoing
HumRahi programme empowers youth leaders to take ownership of initiatives in their communities ensuring that the growth and success of the organization are directly linked to the empowerment and leadership development of the youth in Madhya Pradesh.
Samavesh Fellowship
With Samavesh2024- ongoing
The Samavesh Fellowship offers a scalable solution to the multifaceted challenges faced by students from marginalized by training young people from the community to become community resource persons, enabling them to work closely with students to document undocumented children, unlock existing government schemes, and facilitate career transitions through mentoring.
Future of Impact Collaborative
With Atma2021- ongoing
Atma’s Future of Impact Collaborative is designed to build critical capacities in Indian non-profits, focusing on finance, program delivery, talent, fundraising etc to become more resilient through mentorship, masterclasses, and ecosystem collaboration.
Status of implementation of victim compensation scheme
With Disha 2025- ongoing
Disha’s study aims to address the systemic failure of the victim compensation scheme to effectively provide timely and equitable relief to crime victims in India.
Training Police Patil & Socio-legal volunteers in Amravati
With Disha 2022- 2025
Disha’s program enables Police Patil & Socio-legal volunteers to be a mechanism in village to help victims in accessing psycho-socio-legal guidance to handle violence.
Corporate Partnership
With Social Venture Partners (SVP)2015 - ongoing
SVP is a collaborative that works to strengthen NGOs, ensuring they have access to knowledge, markets, and funding.
7 part series on Capacity Building in the social sector
With India Development Review2025- ongoing
IDR aims to help grassroots nonprofits and those in their ecosystems understand how to strengthen organisational systems, leadership and resilience through bilingual articles that are accessible, and easy to act upon.
Narrative building on Unconditional Cash transfers
With Project Deep2025- ongoing
8 part series on Disability
With India Development Review (IDR)2024-2025
IDR aims to drive awareness and narrative building by developing and disseminating insights that help people understand the moral, social, and economic imperative of building an enabling ecosystem for PwDs.
Support to proximate leaders of Rebuild Fund
With Dasra
25 proximate women leaders of the Dasra’s Rebuild fund are offered intensive support on leadership, narative building and fundraising.
OD and Capacity Building support to organisations
With Saturday Art Class, Indian Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS), The Circle, Earth Focus, TFIx, Umeed, TEACH2022- ongoing
Teach to ELlCIT Fellowship
With Teach to ELICIT2023- ongoing
Teach to ELICIT Fellowship aims to break the loop of violence, trauma and purposelessness by equipping a community of leaders who can create a systematic approach to education, where a symbiotic network of teachers, school leaders, parents and children can work together to co-create spaces for constructive resilience and co-existence for the children of Kashmir.
Aman Fellowship
With AMAN Foundation2025- ongoing
The AMAN Fellowship is designed to cultivate grassroots leadership and improve educational outcomes in Assam’s most underserved communities in the flood affected riverine district of Barpeta. By working with and training young individuals from marginalized rural backgrounds, the fellowship aims to create a sustainable, long-term impact in the region.
EmpowerHER Community Programme
With Dignity Alliance Foundation2024- ongoing
EmpowerHer project aims to bring about a positive transformation in community dynamics, empowering adolescent girls and women to become catalysts for social change at the grassroots level through targeted interventions such as skill development programs and leadership initiative.
Empowering Marginalised Communities
With Kranti2024- ongoing
Empowering Marginalised Communities programme works to enhance educational attainment and empowerment among Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT-DNTs) and Adivasis in Pune District, Maharashtra, by improving access to quality education, fostering community engagement, and addressing socio-economic barriers, thereby promoting holistic development.
GramUday: educational continuity programme
With Gram Urja and Vidyodaya2024- ongoing
GramUday aims at continuing holistic education of school going children from migrant communities of sugarcane workers in source and destination areas. The project is a collaboration of two organisations- Gramurja works in Beed and Osmanabad; a source area and Vidyodaya works in Kolhapur; a destination area.
Kautilya society- J&K Chapter
With Vidhi centre for Legal Policy2024- ongoing
The Kautilya society is initiated as a guided pathway for students in Kashmir to access high-quality legal and policy learning through structured mentorship, peer cohorts, and practical exposure to research.
Crafts X Climate
With Industree Foundation2023- ongoing
Crafts X Climate takes a thematic approach to build public advocacy around positioning crafts as a part of the green economy through various mediums of sustainable practices.
Sashakt Prathmik Fellowship, Research on multi-grade multi-learning classrooms with SCERT Uttrakhand
With Simple Education Foundation2022- 2025
SEF’s work in Uttarakhand aims to build evidence and learnings to create state wide transformation in quality education.
Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiatives
With Multiple partners1997- ongoing
Women’s economic empowerment (WEE) initiatives aim at empowering women towards self reliance and creation of their own identity. The initiatives strive to strengthen more women who in turn become support system for each other. Forbes Maeshall co- creates a wide spectrum of initiatives ranging from access to finance to building entrepreneurship with implementing organisations as well as the women from neighbourhood communities.
Worker Assistance Center
With Safe in India 2022-ongoing
Worker Assistance Center provides free assistance to injured workers for health-care and insurance claims from ESIC in and around Pune. With the insights from this experience, Safe in India also plays a pivotal role in advocacy efforts with ESIC for improvement in their services.
Worker Facilitation Center (WFC)
With Aajeevika Bureau2021 - ongoing
Worker Facilitation Center (WFC) strives to empower the informal workers and migrants by facilitating upskilling opportunities and access to rights and entitlements. Forbes Marshall supports the first of its kind WFC in the industrial belt of Chakan in Pune, paving a path towards more inclusive and sustainable future.
Jankar
With Chaitanya2019- ongoing
‘Jankar’ project aims at creating villages as safe space for women and girls where they are able to raise their voices, seek justice against discrimination and, access to rights and entitlements.
Shared Value Skilling
With Multiple partners2018- ongoing
Shared value skilling programmes aim at increasing the employability of the engineers from underprivileged backgrounds and underserved geographies across India while also addressing the pressing problem of non- availability of skilled resources in the engineering industry.
Goat Development Project
With Yojak2017- ongoing
Goat Development Project (GDP) equips traditional goat rearing communities with scientific goat rearing practices, vaccination and health services and improved negotiation capacity in the market for livelihood enhancement.
Child Guidance Centre
With KEM Hospital - TDH Morris Centre, Yojak2008- ongoing
CGC is a centre for psychological testing, assessment and counselling. The centre provides assessment and counselling services as well as carry out behavioural counselling, parent counselling, development assessment and IQ testing.
The Khed Collective
With Samavesh, Dhwani RIS2019- ongoing
The Khed Collective is a hyper local collective of CSR implementing companies from Khed Taluka of Pune district. Anchored by Forbes Marshall, the collective facilitates sharing of information and amplify the social impact achieved by individual CSR programs. By avoiding duplication of the efforts and encouraging convergence, it aims to pave the way for collaboration for a collective cause.
Girls Scholarship Programme (GSP)
With Yojak, iTeach, Aam Digital2017- ongoing
Girls Scholarship Programme (GSP) aims to empower the girls to overcome the very vulnerabilities that hinder their growth, safety and journey to self-reliance. The programme ensures 10 years of schooling for every girl, allows opportunities of higher learning and empowers for better career options – ensuring that the growth curve is only heading upward.
Study Center
With Yojak2003- ongoing
Study Centre is an after-school assistance programme for students from neighbouring communities to help them with the extra support required to improve social, emotional & learning outcomes.
Samavesh Fellowship
With Samavesh2024- ongoing
The Samavesh Fellowship offers a scalable solution to the multifaceted challenges faced by students from marginalized by training young people from the community to become community resource persons, enabling them to work closely with students to document undocumented children, unlock existing government schemes, and facilitate career transitions through mentoring.
Teach to ELlCIT Fellowship
With Teach to ELICIT2023- ongoing
Teach to ELICIT Fellowship aims to break the loop of violence, trauma and purposelessness by equipping a community of leaders who can create a systematic approach to education, where a symbiotic network of teachers, school leaders, parents and children can work together to co-create spaces for constructive resilience and co-existence for the children of Kashmir.
Aman Fellowship
With AMAN Foundation2025- ongoing
The AMAN Fellowship is designed to cultivate grassroots leadership and improve educational outcomes in Assam’s most underserved communities in the flood affected riverine district of Barpeta. By working with and training young individuals from marginalized rural backgrounds, the fellowship aims to create a sustainable, long-term impact in the region.
EmpowerHER Community Programme
With Dignity Alliance Foundation2024- ongoing
EmpowerHer project aims to bring about a positive transformation in community dynamics, empowering adolescent girls and women to become catalysts for social change at the grassroots level through targeted interventions such as skill development programs and leadership initiative.
GramUday: educational continuity programme
With Gram Urja and Vidyodaya2024- ongoing
GramUday aims at continuing holistic education of school going children from migrant communities of sugarcane workers in source and destination areas. The project is a collaboration of two organisations- Gramurja works in Beed and Osmanabad; a source area and Vidyodaya works in Kolhapur; a destination area.
Kautilya society- J&K Chapter
With Vidhi centre for Legal Policy2024- ongoing
The Kautilya society is initiated as a guided pathway for students in Kashmir to access high-quality legal and policy learning through structured mentorship, peer cohorts, and practical exposure to research.
Sashakt Prathmik Fellowship, Research on multi-grade multi-learning classrooms with SCERT Uttrakhand
With Simple Education Foundation2022- 2025
SEF’s work in Uttarakhand aims to build evidence and learnings to create state wide transformation in quality education.
Girls Scholarship Programme (GSP)
With Yojak, iTeach, Aam Digital2017- ongoing
Girls Scholarship Programme (GSP) aims to empower the girls to overcome the very vulnerabilities that hinder their growth, safety and journey to self-reliance. The programme ensures 10 years of schooling for every girl, allows opportunities of higher learning and empowers for better career options – ensuring that the growth curve is only heading upward.
Study Center
With Yojak2003- ongoing
Study Centre is an after-school assistance programme for students from neighbouring communities to help them with the extra support required to improve social, emotional & learning outcomes.
Crafts X Climate
With Industree Foundation2023- ongoing
Crafts X Climate takes a thematic approach to build public advocacy around positioning crafts as a part of the green economy through various mediums of sustainable practices.
Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiatives
With Multiple partners1997- ongoing
Women’s economic empowerment (WEE) initiatives aim at empowering women towards self reliance and creation of their own identity. The initiatives strive to strengthen more women who in turn become support system for each other. Forbes Maeshall co- creates a wide spectrum of initiatives ranging from access to finance to building entrepreneurship with implementing organisations as well as the women from neighbourhood communities.
Shared Value Skilling
With Multiple partners2018- ongoing
Shared value skilling programmes aim at increasing the employability of the engineers from underprivileged backgrounds and underserved geographies across India while also addressing the pressing problem of non- availability of skilled resources in the engineering industry.
Goat Development Project
With Yojak2017- ongoing
Goat Development Project (GDP) equips traditional goat rearing communities with scientific goat rearing practices, vaccination and health services and improved negotiation capacity in the market for livelihood enhancement.
Child Guidance Centre
With KEM Hospital - TDH Morris Centre, Yojak2008- ongoing
CGC is a centre for psychological testing, assessment and counselling. The centre provides assessment and counselling services as well as carry out behavioural counselling, parent counselling, development assessment and IQ testing.
Training Police Patil & Socio-legal volunteers in Amravati
With Disha 2022- 2025
Disha’s program enables Police Patil & Socio-legal volunteers to be a mechanism in village to help victims in accessing psycho-socio-legal guidance to handle violence.
Empowering Marginalised Communities
With Kranti2024- ongoing
Empowering Marginalised Communities programme works to enhance educational attainment and empowerment among Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT-DNTs) and Adivasis in Pune District, Maharashtra, by improving access to quality education, fostering community engagement, and addressing socio-economic barriers, thereby promoting holistic development.
Worker Assistance Center
With Safe in India 2022-ongoing
Worker Assistance Center provides free assistance to injured workers for health-care and insurance claims from ESIC in and around Pune. With the insights from this experience, Safe in India also plays a pivotal role in advocacy efforts with ESIC for improvement in their services.
Worker Facilitation Center (WFC)
With Aajeevika Bureau2021 - ongoing
Worker Facilitation Center (WFC) strives to empower the informal workers and migrants by facilitating upskilling opportunities and access to rights and entitlements. Forbes Marshall supports the first of its kind WFC in the industrial belt of Chakan in Pune, paving a path towards more inclusive and sustainable future.
Jankar
With Chaitanya2019- ongoing
‘Jankar’ project aims at creating villages as safe space for women and girls where they are able to raise their voices, seek justice against discrimination and, access to rights and entitlements.
HumRahi Programme
With Synergy Sansthan2024- ongoing
HumRahi programme empowers youth leaders to take ownership of initiatives in their communities ensuring that the growth and success of the organization are directly linked to the empowerment and leadership development of the youth in Madhya Pradesh.
Future of Impact Collaborative
With Atma2021- ongoing
Atma’s Future of Impact Collaborative is designed to build critical capacities in Indian non-profits, focusing on finance, program delivery, talent, fundraising etc to become more resilient through mentorship, masterclasses, and ecosystem collaboration.
Corporate Partnership
With Social Venture Partners (SVP)2015 - ongoing
SVP is a collaborative that works to strengthen NGOs, ensuring they have access to knowledge, markets, and funding.
Support to proximate leaders of Rebuild Fund
With Dasra
25 proximate women leaders of the Dasra’s Rebuild fund are offered intensive support on leadership, narative building and fundraising.
OD and Capacity Building support to organisations
With Saturday Art Class, Indian Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS), The Circle, Earth Focus, TFIx, Umeed, TEACH2022- ongoing
Social Compact Movement (SoCo)
With Dasra2020- ongoing
Forbes Marshall is one of the founding members of Social Compact (SoCo), a unique initiative which brings together stakeholders from corporates, worker organisations and experts to ensure greater dignity and security of vulnerable informal industry-employed workers in India.
The Khed Collective
With Samavesh, Dhwani RIS2019- ongoing
The Khed Collective is a hyper local collective of CSR implementing companies from Khed Taluka of Pune district. Anchored by Forbes Marshall, the collective facilitates sharing of information and amplify the social impact achieved by individual CSR programs. By avoiding duplication of the efforts and encouraging convergence, it aims to pave the way for collaboration for a collective cause.
Action research and advocacy for activating public systems to support informal migrant workers in Pune
With Work Free and Fair Foundation 2025- ongoing
The study focuses on the vulnerabilities faced by the informally employed migrant workers who form a vast majority of the workforce in Pune, spread across its industrial, construction and service sectors.
Status of implementation of victim compensation scheme
With Disha 2025- ongoing
Disha’s study aims to address the systemic failure of the victim compensation scheme to effectively provide timely and equitable relief to crime victims in India.
7 part series on Capacity Building in the social sector
With India Development Review2025- ongoing
IDR aims to help grassroots nonprofits and those in their ecosystems understand how to strengthen organisational systems, leadership and resilience through bilingual articles that are accessible, and easy to act upon.
Narrative building on Unconditional Cash transfers
With Project Deep2025- ongoing
8 part series on Disability
With India Development Review (IDR)2024-2025
IDR aims to drive awareness and narrative building by developing and disseminating insights that help people understand the moral, social, and economic imperative of building an enabling ecosystem for PwDs.
Training Police Patil & Socio-legal volunteers in Amravati
With Disha 2022- 2025
Disha’s program enables Police Patil & Socio-legal volunteers to be a mechanism in village to help victims in accessing psycho-socio-legal guidance to handle violence.
Empowering Marginalised Communities
With Kranti2024- ongoing
Empowering Marginalised Communities programme works to enhance educational attainment and empowerment among Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT-DNTs) and Adivasis in Pune District, Maharashtra, by improving access to quality education, fostering community engagement, and addressing socio-economic barriers, thereby promoting holistic development.
Worker Assistance Center
With Safe in India 2022-ongoing
Worker Assistance Center provides free assistance to injured workers for health-care and insurance claims from ESIC in and around Pune. With the insights from this experience, Safe in India also plays a pivotal role in advocacy efforts with ESIC for improvement in their services.
Worker Facilitation Center (WFC)
With Aajeevika Bureau2021 - ongoing
Worker Facilitation Center (WFC) strives to empower the informal workers and migrants by facilitating upskilling opportunities and access to rights and entitlements. Forbes Marshall supports the first of its kind WFC in the industrial belt of Chakan in Pune, paving a path towards more inclusive and sustainable future.
Jankar
With Chaitanya2019- ongoing
‘Jankar’ project aims at creating villages as safe space for women and girls where they are able to raise their voices, seek justice against discrimination and, access to rights and entitlements.