Section 8 Social Enterprise80G & 12ACSR-1 Registered
Video · HeroHero film — a tribal hamlet lit for the first time
Innovate · Implement · Evolve

Building self-reliant villages across India.

Decentralised, community-owned systems for clean energy, education, livelihoods and the environment — owned on the ground and built to last.

Image · Mission URJASolar-lit tribal village at night
Clean Energy · Mission URJA

Lighting up forgotten India.

24/7 community-owned solar power for tribal and nomadic hamlets — and their transition into the socio-economic mainstream.

Image · Program DhruvStudents in a hands-on workshop
Education · Program Dhruv

Building future-ready youth.

Confidence, life-skills and employability for adolescents in Class 5–12 across rural, tribal and urban-slum belts.

Image · Project EklavyaWoman entrepreneur with her products
Livelihoods · Project Eklavya

Where skill meets market.

Revenue-backed, women-led micro-enterprises — carrying rural women all the way from skill to sale.

Image · Project GarimaWomen's healing circle
Women & Health · Project Garima

Dignity, healing, leadership.

Trauma-informed counselling and care that help rural women recognise their self-worth — and lead.

Image · Program DHARAMula–Mutha river restoration
Environment · Program DHARA

Bringing rivers back to life.

Decentralised interception, oxygenation and community stewardship for the Mula–Mutha river system in Pune.

Image · Program UTTHANWhole-village community portrait
Village Model · Program UTTHAN

A whole village, transformed.

Energy, water, health, livelihood and governance working together in one self-sustaining tribal ecosystem.

INNOVATEWho we are

A people-led social enterprise

A Section 8 non-profit, founded in 2018, enabling a self-reliant rural and tribal India — where communities power, teach and sustain themselves.

Our story
IMPLEMENTWhat we do

We build systems, not hand-outs

Decentralised models across energy, education, livelihoods and environment — designed to be owned, measured and replicated at scale.

Our programs
EVOLVEHow we do it

Community-owned & measured

Village-level Samitis, trained local teams and published cost-per-beneficiary keep every intervention alive long after we step back.

Our impact
Impact at scale · since 2018

Measured outcomes, not promises.

0MWhDecentralised renewable capacity
0NosStudents empowered
0NosTribal huts electrified
0NosAnemia-free women
0tCO2eCarbon credits generated
Our four verticals

Four systems. One integrated model.

Select a vertical to see how it works — each stands alone, and connects into one community-owned model.

ImageSolar micro-grid at dusk
Vertical 01

Clean Energy & Environment

ImageClassroom / mentoring
Vertical 02

Education, Health & Well-being

ImageWoman entrepreneur
Vertical 03

Sustainable Livelihoods

ImageWhole-village portrait
Vertical 04

Integrated Village Model

Clean Energy & Environmental Infrastructure

Decentralised solar and ecological restoration that bring reliable power and clean water to the last mile — owned and maintained by the village itself.

Mission URJA · Program DHARA
Recognition & validation

A track record, awarded year on year.

Select a milestone to read the citation — from a global win at MIT to a Guinness World Record.

2018
MIT Heller — Global Winner
2020
Karmaveer Chakra · UN & ICONGO
2022
Guinness Record · Better India
2023
ZEP Award · SD Challenge
2024
SD Challenge · SANMAN · KC
2025
Featured · The Better India
2018

MIT Heller Social Innovation Challenge

Global Winner at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — recognising TREE Innovative Foundation's socio-technical model at the very start of the journey.

Backed by purpose, built on partnership

Our partners & supporters.

Communities are not beneficiaries — they are stakeholders and participants in their own transformation. Our work is to build the systems that make that ownership possible.
The TREE Innovative FoundationVision 2040 · Socio-Technical Upliftment
Join the journey

Let's build the next self-reliant village together.

Partner with us through CSR funding, volunteer in the field, or fund a specific outcome — a hut wired, a student mentored, a woman supported.

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