SVP India Announces Fast Pitch 2025 Finale to Spotlight Grassroots Changemakers Across India

Social Venture Partners India (SVP India), India’s greatest network of engaged philanthropists, will host their annual marquee on-line tournament ‘Fast Pitch’ on April 24. This high-impact digital fundraising tournament objectives to deliver tough grassroots tales to the fore, providing a countrywide platform for choose NGOs to connect to voters throughout our nation, percentage their social affect trips, and lift finances to strengthen their paintings.

SVP India Fast Pitch 2025 Finalists

Over the previous 3 months, 10 numerous NGOs, shortlisted from 258 candidates throughout India, have gone through a rigorous coaching program in storytelling and fundraising. Guided by way of a qualified storytelling instructor and devoted SVP India companions as coaches, those NGOs at the moment are supplied to be in contact their challenge with readability and middle.

Speaking at the importance of this tournament, Govind Iyer, Founding Board Member and All India Chairperson, SVP India mentioned, “Each non-profit within the Fast Pitch 2025 cohort brings a daring challenge rooted in grassroots motion. Fast Pitch is ready giving those changemakers the equipment and the platform to be heard past their native communities—by way of donors, supporters and voters who imagine in long-term alternate. These are the tales India wishes to listen to.” 

The ten finalists will provide their 5-minute pitches to a outstanding jury – Namita Thapar, Executive Director, Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Reshma Anand, Regional Director, Ford Foundation India, and Sridhar N E, Chief Sustainability Officer, TITAN Company Ltd. The jury will assess the NGO pitches on their doable for lasting social affect, innovation and resilience.

Now in its fourth version, Fast Pitch has emerged as a formidable enabler of visibility and fundraising within the social sector. Over the previous 3 years, over 5,200 other folks have tuned into the digital tournament, contributing over ₹15.8 crores in grants to 36 NGOs.

This 12 months’s cohort contains:

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   Anahad Foundation – Working to preserve and evolve India’s people track heritage by way of empowering the folks musicians with manufacturing generation and development the biggest repertoire of Indian people track thru in depth audio-video documentation.

2. 
   Biome Environmental Trust – Promoting sustainable, local weather resilient water & sanitation programs in affiliation with Governments, numerous communities and corporates in Karnataka. From imposing community-driven water control tasks and undertaking analysis with establishments, to shaping water insurance policies and development capability thru hands-on coaching, Biome is devoted to selling sustainable water practices.

3. 
   Eastern Himalayan Foundation – Closing alternative gaps for early life in North Bengal and the Northeast by way of offering get entry to to talents, wisdom and coaching that might let them develop into alternate brokers for themselves and their communities. 

4. 
   Lokmanya Public Charitable Trust – Advancing rural underdevelopment by way of that specialize in spaces like schooling, healthcare, ability building, agriculture, ladies’s empowerment, and general network enlargement.

5. 
   NeevJivan Foundation – Building change livelihood choices for tribal ladies & early life thru ability building and vocational coaching, decreasing dependence on agriculture and thereby combating migration to the towns.

6. 
   NudgED – Addressing the worldwide studying disaster thru their loose cellular app designed to empower folks in low-income communities to strengthen their babies (ages 3-8) in foundational studying at house. The app supplies content material in Hindi and Marathi, with audio strengthen, and is optimized for low-end cellular units to make sure accessibility for all.

7. 
   Sunrise Learning Foundation – Empowering neurodiverse folks and their households thru schooling, employment readiness talents and mum or dad strengthen products and services together with counselling periods, coaching workshops, mother & kid systems, certificates lessons and so on.

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   The One All Trust – Using the game of Ultimate Frisbee to have interaction at-risk early life from underprivileged and tribal communities. The organisation makes a speciality of empowering younger boys and girls, a lot of whom face early kid marriage, college dropouts, home violence and substance abuse.

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   UPAY (Underprivileged Advancement by way of Youth) – Addressing social problems like illiteracy and unemployment by way of making high quality schooling out there to marginalized kids in side road, city slums, and rural spaces of India thru two impactful projects – Footpathshaala (Turning Footpaths into Schools) and Reach & Teach (Bringing college to doorstep).

10. 
    Vidyoday Muktangan Parivar Foundation – Reimagining ‘science education’ in zilla parishad faculties by way of strengthening studying results in govt secondary faculties thru curriculum innovation and trainer strengthen.

Fast Pitch 2025 is open to someone all in favour of being attentive to impactful tales about social alternate. 

REGISTER at svpindia.org/fastpitch-2025 to satisfy the changemakers, listen their tales, and strengthen their paintings.