Action research and advocacy for activating public systems to support informal migrant workers in Pune
With Work Free and Fair Foundation 2025- ongoing
Work Free and Fair Foundation’s 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Narrative building on Unconditional Cash transfers
With Project Deep2025- ongoing
Project Deep uses evidence based approaches to reimagine the delivery of cash based policies, which can empower communities and stimulate inclusive growth.
OD and Capacity Building support to organisations
With Multiple Partners2022- ongoing
To drive sustainable impact at the grassroots level, we prioritize strengthening organizations beyond programs alone. Our approach focuses on long-term capacity building through non-programmatic and organizational development support, including cohort-based learning for organizations, support for resource persons, scholarships, technology and donor-platform enablement, and a strong commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
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.
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.
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.
Social Compact Movement (SoCo)
With Dasra2020- ongoing
Social Compact (SoCo) is 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.
Support to proximate leaders of Rebuild Fund
With Dasra
Dasra’s Rebuild fund offers intensive support on leadership, narrative building and fundraising to 25 proximate women leaders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 part series on Capacity Building in the social sector
With Indian Development Review (IDR)2025- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OD and Capacity Building support to organisations
With Multiple Partners2022- ongoing
To drive sustainable impact at the grassroots level, we prioritize strengthening organizations beyond programs alone. Our approach focuses on long-term capacity building through non-programmatic and organizational development support, including cohort-based learning for organizations, support for resource persons, scholarships, technology and donor-platform enablement, and a strong commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Support to proximate leaders of Rebuild Fund
With Dasra
Dasra’s Rebuild fund offers intensive support on leadership, narrative building and fundraising to 25 proximate women leaders.
Social Compact Movement (SoCo)
With Dasra2020- ongoing
Social Compact (SoCo) is 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
Work Free and Fair Foundation’s 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.
Narrative building on Unconditional Cash transfers
With Project Deep2025- ongoing
Project Deep uses evidence based approaches to reimagine the delivery of cash based policies, which can empower communities and stimulate inclusive growth.
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.
7 part series on Capacity Building in the social sector
With Indian Development Review (IDR)2025- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.