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💚 Get Involved → 🎓 Work With Us
We are nine people. We are not going to become ninety. So the question we keep asking is a different one: how do we work with far more people than we can ever employ?
There are two answers today — a job or a volunteer role — and a third we are building: a platform other people can start something on.
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Write to us before we advertise.
We hire rarely and carefully, and roles are often filled by people we already know are out there. If you want to be considered — for a role, a fellowship, or a piece of paid project work — send a CV and a short note saying what you would want to work on to [email protected].
Tell us the place and the problem, not just the skill. We keep good notes, and we come back to them.
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This is an intention we are building towards, not a programme running today. The shape below is what we are working to open. Nothing here is a live offer yet — but if it describes you, write to us anyway, because the first ones will be shaped by the people who ask.
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In India, having a good climate idea is the easy part. What follows is the hard part: registering a society, trust or Section 8 company, opening bank accounts, waiting on 12A and 80G, obtaining CSR-1, building a website, producing audited accounts — all before a single rupee of CSR money is legally allowed to reach you, and long before anyone has tested whether the idea works.
Most people give up somewhere in that queue. Some very good ideas die in it.
We already have all of it. A nine-year-old Section 8 non-profit, the registrations, the accounts, the audit, the reporting systems and the relationships. We would rather lend that platform than watch someone spend two years rebuilding it.
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Adjunct Fellow Research
For academics and independent researchers who need an institutional affiliation for publications, grants and collaborative studies.
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Independent Affiliate Project development
For practitioners contributing to project design, proposal and grant writing, and strategy — turning field evidence into fundable programmes.
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Founder Affiliate Incubate & pilot
For entrepreneurs, start-ups and project leads who want to build and test a climate model on our platform — and take it independent when it works.
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This is the track we are most excited about, so it is worth being precise about it.
You have a model you want to test — a start-up idea, a social enterprise, a community project, a piece of applied climate work. It aligns with what we care about: community resilience, climate adaptation, circularity, women's and youth leadership. What you do not have is an organisation behind you.
So use ours. You run the idea. We provide the platform.
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What the platform gives you
• Our Section 8, 12A, 80G and CSR-1 registrations, so a CSR donor or foundation can legally fund your pilot from day one • An institutional name to work under — letterhead, MoUs, government and school access • Finance, compliance, audit and donor reporting handled by people who do it every year • Mentoring from our directors, and the CLAN alumni network around you • A real field context to test in, rather than a slide deck
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And an exit, by design
This is a runway, not a marriage. Test the model here; if it works and you want to stand alone, register your own organisation and take the work with you — with a track record, audited numbers and a funder relationship already in place.
We consider that a success, not a loss. It is the same principle as every community programme we run: exit by design.
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