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16 Years Of Experience NSFI is now Act Impact

What We Do at ActImpact (NSFI)

Community members taking part in an ActImpact programme

We Build Sustainable Livelihoods

ActImpact designs and delivers integrated livelihood programmes that combine skills training, enterprise support, and market access to create sustained income opportunities. Across 100+ interventions, this approach has enabled over 8 lakh individuals to improve their livelihoods, through 45+ skilling projects, 19 market linkage initiatives, and 11 enterprise support programmes. By embedding research into implementation, ActImpact ensures that solutions are not only effective on the ground but also scalable and systemically relevant. The focus remains on building economically capable communities where individuals can earn, grow, and sustain their incomes over time.

Women learning soap making together during a skills training

How we work

We turn research and partnership into pathways that last: enterprise and income where the work is livelihoods, and capability, access, and resilience where the work is health, education, or climate. Every model is grounded in evidence, strengthened through convergence with governments, corporates, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and philanthropic partners, and carried through incubation until it can stand on its own.

Research & Evidence Building

Every programme starts with evidence, not assumption. We study what's working on the ground, test it, and revisit it as conditions change, turning field learning into models designed for scale, not just for a pilot.

Stakeholder Convergence

No single actor closes a livelihood gap alone. We align with governments, corporates, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and CSR and philanthropic partners, converging with schemes already active on the ground so public and private effort extend each other's reach.

Programme Implementation

Design becomes delivery here. Depending on the theme, that means skills training and market access carried through to income, or diagnostics, curricula, and infrastructure carried through to lasting access: one connected, evidence-led pathway either way.

Incubation

Promising ideas need more than good intentions. We back them with seed capital and hands-on mentoring, without taking equity or a share of what they earn, until the enterprise can sustain itself, a model now running beyond India.

Contribute

Project Funding

Your grant is the bridge between a community's hardship and a durable way out: training that becomes income, care that becomes health. We match that trust with rigorous tracking of outputs and outcomes, and transparent reporting back to you.

Beneficiary Funding

Grants build the capacities (skills, market access, financial inclusion) that help communities move past hardship. Yet the road to self-reliance often hits unforeseen gaps: a delayed loan, a missed market window. NSFI can also facilitate direct funding to individuals, bridging exactly these moments.

Volunteer & Interns

NSFI's operational areas offer real ground to test what's learned in the classroom: management, social work, rural development. We welcome students and young professionals to bring fresh perspectives into programme design, applying their training to real challenges on the ground.

Experts & Experienced Professionals

Not every contribution is financial. Often it's mentoring, guidance, or the right advice at the right moment. NSFI welcomes experts and experienced professionals to share their specific skills and experience. We'll help match your expertise to where it can move communities furthest toward opportunity.