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Saumil Majmudar and Parminder Gill run Sportz Village, a Bengaluru-based organisation that uses sports and play as a medium of education. Sportz Village Foundation, its non-profit subsidiary helps children from public schools (rural & urban) benefit from sport in terms of better educational, health and developmental outcomes. The organization also helps students become athletes playing at district, state and national levels in a variety of sports.

Kalyani Subramanyam and Corina van Dam run Maitrayana, an initiative that uses the sport of netball to help thousands of girls study, fight gender bias, and pursue their dream careers.

Civis, a platform that enables citizens to participate in public consultations in the domain of environment and policy has released Climate Voices. This is a handbook and guide for Indians to participate in environmental law-making and play an active role in shaping our climate policies.

To build an inclusive workplace, we need more awareness around blood disorders, which are counted as invisible disabilities, say members of v-shesh, an enterprise that prepares organisations with disability inclusion. Here are some ways to do it.

I-Venture @ISB’s Social Impact Accelerator aims to give all the support that startups in the social impact sector need. Here’s how.

Several initiatives under the incubator programme I-Venture @ ISB, launched by the Indian School of Business, are providing startups with the resources and support they need to bring their product or service to market and achieve rapid growth.

Thanks to the Anantapur Sports Academy (ASA), lakhs of children in rural Andhra Pradesh have been able to use sports as a means to inculcate holistic development, increase awareness on gender inequalities, and eventually pursue higher education and livelihood.

Revealing the wide diversity and history of Indian music, the Indian Music Experience (IME) museum in Bengaluru is an awe-inspiring tribute and treasure trove of the nation’s rich legacy.

A search for nutritious food for their children pushed mothers Dibyajyoti Borgohain and Madhavi Pomar to set up Rigdam Foods, a ready-to-eat millet snacks venture that has earned a turnover of Rs 24 lakh.

Members of v-shesh, an enterprise that prepares organisations with disability inclusion, weigh in on how Indian workplaces can better accommodate people with autism and other neurodivergence to make offices more inclusive.