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Grameen Foundation’s (GFUSA) mission is to enable the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger. Vision A world without poverty. History Founded in 1997, Grameen Foundation was created to extend and adapt the pioneering microfinance model of Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank beyond Bangladesh, in response to growing global demand for inclusive financial solutions. Approach GFUSA partners with local organizations to deliver women-centered programs that expand access to safe digital financial services, strengthen smallholder farmer resilience, and support entrepreneurship. Goals To increase income, resilience, and agency among women. Reach Since its inception, GFUSA has positively impacted over 29 million individuals across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Strategic Alliance In 2025, Grameen Foundation formed a strategic alliance with Yunus Social Business (YSB) to expedite locally led initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty and hunger by merging their complementary strengths in nonprofit programming and impact investing. Rooted in the shared legacy of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, this Alliance combines Grameen's extensive field presence, digital innovation, and capacity-building expertise with YSB's ability to mobilize capital and scale social enterprises. Together, this partnership broadens access to finance, enhances livelihoods—especially for women—and offers sustainable, market-based solutions across Africa, Asia, and beyond. The Alliance embodies a more integrated and scalable approach to combatting global poverty.

Youth for Seva (YFS), founded in April 2007, is a nationwide volunteer movement that inspires youth to volunteer and provides meaningful opportunities to serve the community. The goal of YFS is to support schools, destitute shelters, government hospitals and other organizations in the social sector through volunteers who can help them mitigate some of their shortcomings and challenges. Volunteering is made easy and customized to the individual’s interests, time availability and skill sets. YFS aims to create positive change agents in the society, through the culture of volunteering. Vision: Self-reliant society powered by socially conscious individuals. Mission: To build and facilitate the movement of organized volunteering for societal well-being.

Bhumi is one of India’s largest independent youth volunteer non-profit organisations. Bhumi as a platform enables over 12,000 volunteers in more than 12 cities across India for causes such as education, environment, animals and community welfare. Bhumi is the recipient of the ‘Leader in Volunteer Engagement Award’ conferred by iVolunteer in 2014. Geographical Presence: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Chandigarh and Delhi NCR. Bhumi has two core areas of work - Education and Civic Projects Ignite: Transformational Education Ignite is Bhumi's supplementary education programme for under-privileged children. The programme is delivered during the weekends by over 2,000 trained Bhumi volunteers. Over 10,000 children are benefiting from the programme in 2015 across 12 Indian cities with the aim of providing children with quality education to enable them become responsible and productive citizens of the future. The programme consists of English, Mathematics, Science, Robotics, Computers, Dance, Arts, Sports, Mentoring and Life skills support. Catalyse: Transforming Citizenry Catalyse consists of Bhumi’s civic initiatives that engage volunteers in causes like animal welfare, community welfare, disability, environment, health etc. The programmes consisting of one-off and regular volunteering activities engage over 10,000 volunteers each year in over 15 cities across India. Please contact us if you wish to look at our Annual Report. More information about Bhumi is available at - www.bhumi.ngo