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IMPROVING

LIVELIHOODS THROUGH COMMUNITY, CAPITAL, CULTURE & TECH

Auto Queens  

Trained in Digital Literacy Women

70+

400+

Women in the Mobility Community Collective

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Impact film AUTO QUEENS, Global Premiere IDFA 2025

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5,000+

Livelihoods

Strengthened

2,500+

Community Participants Across 14 Cities

8+

Mission Pods

Launched

Building livelihood infrastructure through culture, community and blended finance.

Active Missions

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LIVE

2023

Culture & Creator Livelihoods

Sustain place-based creators and community culture through mixed financing, extended IP lifecycles, and credible public programming.

4 Cities 

1 Ongoing Programs 

2.4 cr Mobilised

65 % Repeat Creators Retention

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LIVE

2025

Women & Mobility 

Improve women’s livelihoods through mobility systems using narrative and community activation + partner systems + blended finance.

1 Cities 

1 Ongoing Programs 

400 + Womens Participation

4 Mobility Partners

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IN PROCESS

2026

Clean Air

Improve air quality through lived exposure, work, and health—with interventions + capital structures that move the needle.d a short bio for each team member. Make it brief and informative to keep visitors engaged.

3 Cities 

1 Ongoing Programs 

Air Quality Mapping Progress 

Policy Roundtable Q3

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LIVE

2023

Festival Financing & Culture Credit

Unlock affordable, contextual credit for small businesses around festivals and cultural cycles—anchored in culture, enabled by tech rails, and scaled via blended risk cover.

6 Cities 

3 Ongoing Programs 

 

1200+ Participation

75 % Repeat Creators Retention

Mantra Foundation is a not-for-profit enterprise building sustainable livelihoods through place-based impact interventions — empowering individuals and communities to create lasting, irreversible change.

Four Levers

Culture

Narratives, Identity, and IP as Infrastructure

Community

Place - Based Ecosystems

Technology

Practical DPI/open-network/AI tools that reduce friction and enable scale

Blended Finance

Philanthropic De-risking + Commercial Capital Scaling to Make Impact Travel Farther.

Mission Rooms

Climate Imagination as a Tool for Better Futures

Location: Bangalore International Centre Bengaluru
Date: April 2026

In the room: Anand Malligavad - Malligavad Foundation, Arto Sivanen, Prachi Shevgaonkar — Cool The Globe

Missions

New Updates

Insights

Playbooks & Field Learnings.

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EarthBound Book

1st Edition brings together voices of resilience, loss, and hope — stories that remind us what it means to live, love, and dream in a fast-changing world. 

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Micro Entrepreneurs

Assisting micro entrepreneurs in building sustainable businesses with support for branding, business model, marketing, and pricing strategies.

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Powering to

Demand Networks

By connecting local producers to a network of market participants, we ensure steady income flows and strong supply chain integration.

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Micro Entrepreneurs

Providing financial and technological education to improve decision-making, separating personal and business finances for better micro-business management.

Partner with
Mantra Foundation

Every year, major companies and philanthropic foundations sponsor our Missions. Most partners sponsor pods or host rooms. 

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