Institutional Partners

The Convergence Foundation

The Convergence Foundation, in its role as a grant-making incubator founded by philanthropist Ashish Dhawan, builds and scales new foundations in key areas of India’s development sector.
Through TCF’s support, we will work to positively impact public health, inclusion, equality…

The Isaac Family Foundation

The Isaac Family Foundation, founded by Mr. Ajit Isaac, Chairman of Quess Corp, has partnered with the Sports and Society Accelerator to promote universal access to sports and physical activity by 2047. This partnership involves supporting SSA’s research, policy, and program initiatives aimed at encouraging physical activity for all Indians.

Our Partners:

Government of Karnataka

The Sports and Society Accelerator has partnered with the Department of Higher Education, Government of Karnataka, to explore the role of sports and physical activity (SAPA) in higher educational institutions. SAPA has the potential to shape attitudes and habits that can help us be active throughout life. SSA will work with the department on ways to foster…

UNESCO

The Sports and Society Accelerator is in partnership with UNESCO, a collaboration that marks a significant step towards fostering positive change through sports-and-society initiatives.
The partnership seeks to help advance UNESCO’s Fit For Life programme and SSA’s work, including the State of Play in India Initiative. Our shared goals include organizing knowledge…

Gujarat National Law University

The alliance will provide the Accelerator and Gujarat National Law University a collaboration platform to work on key research and policy interventions, commencing with the launch of the ‘India Safe Sports Project.’ The focus areas of this project will be to secure participant safety in sports at all levels, through research, policy, advocacy, and programmes…

Pro Sport Development

Pro Sport Development is an award-winning social enterprise that uses sport as a tool for the holistic development of children and youth. This partnership will enable us to work together on further developing the opportunities to use sport for social impact through greater access and participation…

Policy & Development Advisory Group

Policy & Development Advisory Group (PDAG) is a social enterprise working at the intersection of public policy research and advisory, and strategic communications to drive data-driven people-centric public policies in India. This partnership will enable us to work on using sports policy and scalable social enterprise pilots at the state and district levels to…

ELMS Sports Foundation

The organisations will collaborate on key research and programmatic interventions including capacity building in sports and physical literacy. Also ecosystem-level monitoring and evaluation protocols. These focus areas will drive forward the objectives of universal access and universal participation, and further, provide a data-driven roadmap to interventions and…

Sportz Village

Sportz Village is the leading youth sports platform with a goal of getting 100 million children to play sport. Their philosophy is based on improving the health and fitness of children and getting everyone to experience sports. Together we will work on using sports through education tools that integrate physical activity in a measurable format to showcase change…

International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA)

The Sports and Society Accelerator and the International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA) are working together on the adoption and promotion of physical literacy in India. The IPLA champions the cause of physical literacy across the world, with an active presence in Denmark, Costa Rica, Cyprus, and India, among other countries…

International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA)

The Sports and Society Accelerator is excited to announce our partnership with ISCA – International Sport and Culture Association, working on the mutually shared goals of universalising physical activity by empowering stakeholders across India and the world. ISCA has an active presence especially across Europe and has been a leader in promoting…

Dalberg

Dalberg Advisers and the Accelerator are collaborating to jointly develop the strategy and the content of the State of Play report.

Pacta

Pacta is a Bengaluru based full-service boutique law firm and policy think tank focusing exclusively on the legal needs of the social sector. Pacta and the Accelerator are working together on research projects related to CSR in sports.

The Better India

As India turns 75, the Sports and Society Accelerator, in collaboration with The Better India, has been sharing a series of stories from across the country, of exceptional people and initiatives that have used the power of sport to impact lives around them. These have included heroes, household names, and organisations that have used sport for social good…

Meraki Sport & Entertainment

Meraki Sport & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and the Accelerator joined hands for the”Sports of the Future” partnership.
A collaborative effort between Meraki Sport & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (‘Meraki’) – one of India’s leading fully-integrated sport marketing and consulting firms – and us, the initiative ai…

Magic Bus

The Sports and Society Accelerator works with Magic Bus India Foundation on projects related to policy, awareness, and ecosystem-building to develop the sector’s capacity around integrating life skills and monitoring and evaluation.