Who We Are

As a part of the broader Public-Private-Partnership framework, Educate Girls works in collaboration with the Government of Bihar. By leveraging the government’s existing investment in schools, Educate Girls delivers measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries and avoids duplication or parallel delivery of services.

As a part of the broader Public-Private-Partnership framework, Educate Girls works in collaboration with the Government of Madhya Pradesh. By leveraging the government’s existing investment in schools, Educate Girls delivers measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries and avoids duplication or parallel delivery of services.

As a part of the broader Public-Private-Partnership framework, Educate Girls works in collaboration with the Government of Rajasthan. By leveraging the government’s existing investment in schools, Educate Girls delivers measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries and avoids duplication or parallel delivery of services.

As a part of the broader Public-Private-Partnership framework, Educate Girls works in collaboration with the Government of Uttar Pradesh. By leveraging the government’s existing investment in schools, Educate Girls delivers measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries and avoids duplication or parallel delivery of services.

10×10’s feature film, Girl Rising, is a social action campaign, created and launched by an award-winning team of former ABC News journalists in association with The Documentary Group and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions. 10×10 uses the power of storytelling and the leverage of strategic partnerships to deliver a single message: educating girls in developing nations will change the world.

Accenture conducted a needs assessment exercise for Educate Girls in 2013.

Adobe is a multinational software company that focuses upon the creation of multimedia and creative software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. Adobe is supporting Educate Girls’ program intervention in Banswara district of Rajasthan.

APCO Worldwide has been guiding Educate Girls in its advocacy initiatives, training of its personnel and partnership research.

APPI is part of a group of organisations and institutions founded by Azim Premji in the social space to facilitate a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. It provides grants (and other support where appropriate) to organisations whose work has significant potential to contribute to social change in a synergistic manner. The grant support from APPI has helped Educate Girls to prepare its ‘Strategy 2.0’ and derive a road-map for the upcoming 5 years.

BA Continuum is a non-bank subsidiary of Bank of America, part of its Global Delivery Center of Expertise. BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd supports business process, information technology and knowledge process across Consumer Banking, including Card and Home Loans, Legacy Asset Servicing, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Wealth and Investment Management lines of business at Bank of America.

Bloom&Give works with master artisans – block-printers, weavers, tailors, tanners – who create handmade scarves and bags. They donate 50% of their profits to support girl education programs in India.

Bohemian Foundation was founded by philanthropist Pat Stryker in 2001. Since its inception, Bohemian Foundation has awarded grants to local, national, and global nonprofits that support various causes including supporting youth; promoting economic stability; building vibrant communities; providing opportunities and enrichment through music; promoting access to education; alleviating poverty; improving public health; and strengthening democracy. Bohemian Foundation is supporting Educate Girls program intervention in Udaipur.

Capri Global Capital Limited (CGCL) is supporting Educate Girls’ in-school program (Vidya) in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh. Established in 1997, CGCL is a leading Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) listed on BSE and NSE. Focused on empowering MSMEs, CGCL uses innovative tech-driven solutions to provide flexible financial products tailored to small businesses, addressing gaps in traditional lending. Through its SME & Retail Lending vertical, CGCL supports sectors like manufacturing, education, and retail. The company also offers construction financing and affordable housing solutions, contributing to India’s ‘Housing for All’ mission.

Established in Geneva in 2012 by the Maison Cartier, the Cartier Charitable Foundation shapes and implements a need-based and result-oriented philanthropic strategy, aimed at building the capacities and strengthening the resilience of the most vulnerable groups, women in particular. The founding and nurturing of successful partnerships with development and humanitarian actors lie at the center of the Cartier Charitable Foundation’s reflection and work. The Foundation currently supports 14 partners in 22 developing countries around the world, funding initiatives that promote women’s economic and social wellbeing, provide humanitarian assistance to children in the aftermath of disasters, and engage with communities to encourage a responsible management of natural resources.

Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL) is a prominent financial institution in India that serves as a central securities depository. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, CDSL acts as a key intermediary between investors and the stock market.

Since the launch of our partnership in FY 2022-25, we have successfully enrolled around 6,500 out-of-school girls and have cumulatively impacted over 26,000 beneficiaries through our retention and learning initiatives in Uttar Pradesh.

Established in 2003 by the COMO Group, COMO Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports non-profits with innovative projects that enable education, skill development and income generation for women and girls. Since 2015, COMO Foundation has supported Educate Girls in strengthening its organisational framework.

Cotopaxi is an outdoor gear manufacturing US-based company with the social mission of reducing global poverty by collaborating with high impact non-profit partners. With a focus on the three pillars of health, education and livelihoods, Cotopaxi aims at addressing the most persistent needs of those living in extreme poverty. Cotopaxi has provided capacity building support to Educate Girls since 2016.

CRISIL Foundation launched in March 2013 and is a significant step forward in CRISIL’s mission to make markets function better. CRISIL Foundation provides a structured and strategic framework for achieving the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility goals. The Foundation’s two primary goals are to increase financial awareness and environment conservation. By consolidating and amplifying the efforts made, the CRISIL Foundation will now enable CRISIL to take its goals to the next level. CRISIL Foundation has been a partner of Educate Girls since its first year in 2013.

Dasra is the leading philanthropy foundation within India. Dasra works with philanthropists and social entrepreneurs in order to make nonprofit organizations more efficient and strategic. It provides knowledge, funding and people. Dasra has been supporting Educate Girls with funding and capacity building since 2009.

Aiming to trigger significant breakthroughs and a material difference in the lives of children who have no access to primary education, Educate A Child (EAC), a global programme of the Education Above All Foundation launched in 2012, has been helping millions of out of school children (OOSC) all over the world, through partnership and innovation, overcome the access and retention barriers blocking their path to education. Playing a catalytic role in the field of OOSC and quality primary education, EAC strives to achieve individual and social outcomes for these children, their communities and a more sustainable world for us all.

The Eros Foundation, is the philanthropic arm of Eros International Media Ltd (EIML), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry. The Eros Foundation supports educations programs and works towards providing high quality learning and teaching support for targeted communities currently caught in cycles of poverty so that they can have real opportunities to change their personal futures and their communities.

The Fossil Foundation works to create positive change in the world through partnerships with remarkable individuals and groups. As the Foundation has grown, we’ve developed close ties to the leaders of innovative social organizations who approach the world’s most pressing problems with pioneering, entrepreneurial solutions. Fossil Foundation has funded and provided organizational capacity building support to Educate Girls since 2014.

Give India is a not for profit donation platform that allows individuals to support a cause of their choice. It aims to channel and provide resources to credible non-governmental organizations across India. They envision a strong giving culture where Indians donate 2% of their income every year to give the poor a chance. Give India strives to promote efficient and effective giving in India that provides greater opportunities to the poor.

Give2Asia is a US based organization founded by The Asia Foundation in 2001 which serves as a catalyst for diaspora philanthropy from the United States of America to many Asian countries. Their goal is to make international philanthropy safe, effective and impactful for corporations, foundations and individual donors.

Global Giving is an online marketplace where donors can find projects from around the world to support. Educate Girls has been part of Global Giving’s Online Donation Platform since 2010.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), a leading global investment bank and active investor in India, announced that Educate Girls has been awarded a grant as a team of young analysts from the Bengaluru office secured a second place finish in the “2017 Goldman Sachs Gives Global Analyst Impact Fund” competition. The grant was utilized towards implementation and delivery of Educate Girls’ program in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

Harish & Bina Shah Foundation (HBSF) is a philanthropic organisation dedicated to advancing equity, opportunity, and dignity across India. Established in 2002, it has supported initiatives in education, healthcare, livelihoods, legal aid, environment and sustainability, and arts and culture. Educate Girls’ partnership with HBSF began in 2023–24, and in 2025, HBSF renewed this partnership through an unrestricted grant of ₹100 crores over five years (2025–30), making HBSF our anchor donor helping us to transform the lives of over 3 million learners during this period.

Established in October 2012, HT Parekh Foundation works across a range of social interventions and development initaitves across India for the wellfare, betterment and advancement of the society. HT Parekh Foundation has partnered with Educate Girls to support intervention in Barwani District and a part of Khandwa District, Madhya Pradesh.

IDBI Bank is a leading public sector bank in India committed to inclusive growth and community development. In partnership with Educate Girls, IDBI Bank supported the Vidya program in areas of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, where girls face some of the greatest barriers to accessing education.

Founded in 2009 as a registered trust, iPartner India is committed towards building an ecosystem for inclusive and diverse social development in the country. iPartner India works across the key challenges of vulnerable children, education, women & livelihoods, climate change and health. iPartner India in association with Pakhar Singh Foundation is supporting a part of Educate Girls’ program in Ajmer district, Rajasthan.

ITC Limited is one of India’s foremost private sector companies, with a diversified presence in FMCG, Hotels, Packaging, Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Agri-Business, and Information Technology. Guided by its ‘Nation First: Sab Saath Badhein’ philosophy and a commitment to ‘Responsible Competitiveness,’ ITC drives social and environmental impact through innovative business models that align shareholder value with social progress. Under its ‘Mission Sunehra Kal’ for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, ITC supports Educate Girls’ Pragati program—a second chance in education for adolescent girls in the Munger district of Bihar.

Jasmine Social Investments is a New Zealand registered charitable foundation established by Sam Morgan in 2006. Their goal is to have a portfolio of high impact social organisations and to help other high net worth individuals and foundations to give effectively. They fund experienced entrepreneurs developing scalable models to provide healthcare, education and improved livelihoods to the world’s most disadvantaged.

Jester Foundation, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, provides non-programmatic funding to Educate Girls that is utilized for organizational capacity. The aim of the trust is to donate to scalable, sustainable social initiatives that alleviate some of the world’s biggest problems.

LGT VP is an impact investor that provides organizations with financial capital, management know-how and relevant networks. LGT Venture Philanthropy’s team in 5 continents strives to increase the sustainable quality of life of less advantaged people. Educate Girls has received support in funding and capacity building since 2010.

Lionbridge Technologies has been partnering with Educate Girls since 2013 in developing a standalone Android-based application for tracking the movement of field level employees. The mobile application will also be used for capturing and compiling activities and output for assessing impact.

Lucille Foundation comprises of people who believe in the ability of entrepreneurs to create high impact and sustainable solutions to complex problems. They provide unrestricted funding to organisations where the impact of their work greatly outweighs the investment. They also believe in supporting organisations that are working towards finding innovative solutions to current and pressing issues. Lucille Foundation strongly believes in Educate Girls’ mission and are supporting our work since 2018.

Marico Limited is the first mainstream consumer products company that Educate Girls has partnered with. The organisation holds a number of brands including Parachute, Saffola, Hair & Care, Nihar etc. Through this partnership, we aim to leverage Marico’s positioning and reach, to promote the cause of girls’ education and pursue engagement opportunities.

Mercuri Urval has been guiding Educate Girls since 2013 in carrying out its recruitment process by using psychometric profiling, cognitive testing and in-depth assessment interviews. It also provides leadership mentoring to Educate Girls’ senior management.

Milton is a trusted household brand known for innovation, quality, and convenience. With brands like ProCook, Treo, Claro, and Spotzero, it offers durable kitchenware, home solutions, and sustainable products, enhancing everyday living experiences. As part of its commitment to education, Milton is supporting the implementation of the Enrolment, Retention, and Learning Model under the Vidya program, benefiting 2,284 individuals in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh.

Montpelier Foundation supports and empowers disadvantaged people across the world through social impact investments and grant programmes. The Foundation supports organizations offering sustainable and scalable solutions for disadvantaged or low-income groups in sectors such as education, agriculture and energy. Montpelier Foundation has funded Educate Girls since 2014.

Motivation for Excellence Initiative (MFE) is the commonly used name for the Mumbai-based RG Manudhane Foundation for Excellence. It was set up as a legacy to society by the late R.G. Manudhane (1921-2012), a self-made man whose life exemplified a continuous striving for values-based excellence. They have a strong belief in value-based excellence and a passion for helping catalyze improvements in society. They focus on solutions that are innovative, yet pragmatic and effective. RG Manudhane is supporting us in Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh.

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, is an initiative of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India. Currently, NPCI supports Educate Girls’ intervention in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh. The partnership began in 2021 with an aim to bring back over 16,000 girls back to school, train 7,000+ adolescent girls in life skills, and deliver remedial learning curriculum to over 20,000 marginalized children. To date with support from NPCI, Educate Girls has been able to impact over 29,000 beneficiaries through enrolment, learning and life skills training cumulatively.

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is the leading stock exchange in India and the fourth largest in the world by equity trading volume according to World Federation of Exchanges (WFE). It began operations in 1994 and is ranked as the largest stock exchange in India in terms of total and average daily turnover for equity shares every year since 1995, based on annual reports of SEBI. NSE is supporting Educate Girls program Ajmer district of Rajasthan.

Oracle is a transnational computer technology corporation and a leader in cloud computing solutions, headquartered in California, USA. The partnership has helped Educate Girls with capacity building, program delivery and technology upgradation.

Piaget is a Swiss luxury watchmakers and jewelers, founded in 1874 by George Piaget. The company was founded as a manufacturer of watch movements but began marketing its own line of watches in the 20th century. The Luxury Institute jewelry brand study ranked Piaget as the 6th most prestigious jewelry brand. Piaget is supporting Educate Girls program intervention in Udaipur.

Educate Girls has partnered with Pratham to develop its activity based pedagogy – Creative Learning & Teaching (CLT) curriculum, which is deployed in classrooms for 24 weeks.

Established in 2000, Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation have been supporting passionate, impact-driven organisations that work towards providing educational access and support for all, with special emphasis on the most disadvantaged and underserved population. At its core, RTNF strives to empower people and provide equal opportunities for all. The Ray & Tye Noorda Foundation is extending its support to the Educate Girls’ program for the next five years.

Sandhan has helped Educate Girls in 2012 to strategize and fine-tune its Team Balika (community volunteers) approach, which forms the backbone of Educate Girls’ program model.

Within the social sector, we create strong partnerships with organisations who have the desire to make an impact. We believe it’s not just leadership but also the people working at the ground and mid-levels who need to be empowered to enact change. We help these individuals and teams fulfil their potential.

We empower those who empower others.

Sol’s ARC, a non-profit, through its project Special Edge works towards resolving an education crisis that India faces today by tackling learning lags with a 360-degree view. The organisation creates innovative, equitable and scalable learning solutions for improving learning outcomes for every last child by making learning inclusive. It partners with organisations working implementing learning intervention in schools for the most vulnerable groups in India to provide inclusive learning content and training. Through its partnerships, Sol’s ARC currently impacts and improves the lives of over 2 lakh children across 4 states in India. Sol’s ARC partnered with Educate Girls and was responsible for redesigning its learning curriculum for English and Math, that was first implemented in schools under the Development Impact Bond (DIB) project. It also developed the training modules and trained master trainers to build capacity to teach the content developed.

Educate Girls has partnered with STIR Education (Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results) since 2014 in facilitating public school teachers’ training and ushering in innovation in classrooms.

Strategy& (Formerly Booz & Company) helped Educate Girls in 2013 in arriving at a long-term strategy including a 5-year growth roadmap, which would see Educate Girls expand to 15 critical gender-gap districts and impacting 4 million children.

The ‘Students Stand #withMalala’ movement has partnered with Educate Girls to raise awareness and generate dialogue about the importance of girls’ education by conducting multiple film screenings of ‘He Named Me Malala’. This partnership is supporting Educate Girls with its community mobilization efforts by inspiring a large number of its stakeholders that include beneficiaries, community members and Team Balika (community volunteers).

The Audacious Project is a first-of-its-kind coalition of leading organizations and individuals that surfaces and funds critical projects with the potential to create global change. Educate Girls, has been named as an Audacious project.

What if we could empower more than one million girls to enter the classrooms by 2024? To know more and support the project, visit The Audacious Project!

The British Asian Trust brings lasting change to the lives of poor people in South Asia through access to education, health and livelihoods. Founded in 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales, the Trust has helped more than 350,000 people overcome poverty in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The Mulago Foundation is a private foundation designed and built to carry on the life work of Rainer Arnhold. Rainer’s passion is the prospect of a better life for children in poverty, and so the Foundation’s work is focused on health, poverty, and conservation in the world’s poorest places. The Foundation works to drive sustained impact that can grow to benefit people on a big scale.

Dr Rebecca L. Thornton from the University of Michigan conducted a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) to study the efficacy of the Educate Girls program model in Jalore.

The Womanity Foundation is guided by their vision to contribute to a world where all women and men have equal and full social, economic and political participation. The Womanity Foundation collaborates with organizations to empower girls and women to shape their future and accelerate progress within their communities.While aiming at generating systemic change in the beneficiaries’ communities, they also focus on innovation as well as potential for growth, sustainability and replicability.

The World Bank is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. In India, the World Bank works with the government and other partners to provide financing and advice for their projects in order to aid development. The World Bank has supported Educate Girls since 2011.

UBS Optimus Foundation is the philanthropic arm of UBS bank established in 1999. The Foundation works to break down barriers that prevent children from reaching their potential by funding leading organizations to improve the health, education and protection of children. Since 2015, UBS Optimus Foundation has partnered with Educate Girls and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation to launch the world’s first Development Impact Bond (DIB) in the education sector. UBS Optimus Foundation also supports Educate Girls’ operations in the districts of Jhalawar in Rajasthan and Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh.

In India, UNICEF recognizes that the health, hygiene, nutrition, education, protection and social development of children are all connected. UNICEF’s Education Programme supports the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to improve the enrolment, retention, achievement, and completion rates in elementary education, and the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education.
Currently, UNICEF is supporting Educate Girls’ program in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.