Author Archives: Rainmatter Foundation

Village Resource Center, Ramnagar, Kendrapada, Odisha

Nurturing Custodians of a Place: The Kendrapada Sandbox in Odisha

In 2023, a group of partners came together and took a collaborative approach to build a sandbox. The idea was to test and create a place-based, ecosystem-led model that can build climate resilience and community stewardship. What is a place, though? It is more than the sum of its parts, the geography, the people and […]

The year climate got personal

The year climate got personal

Our team gathered last week, on a cold January afternoon soaking in the warm sun, to reflect on how the past year had been for each of us. A few themes kept bubbling up. 2025 felt like the year climate impact got personal. We could all recount examples of people in our circles, many outside […]

Notes from the field- Madhya Pradesh; September ’24

Early September, Sameer, Vikas and Akshatha from the Rainmatter team spent four days in Indore and surrounding rural areas where Rainmatter’s partner organizations are working actively in the climate space. The experience was both, inspiring and important for our work. Some notes from the field trip in the words of Akshatha Narayana… It was incredible […]