Connecting Communities | Shaping Our Future
Bella Foundation works at the intersection of corporate social responsibility and community development. We support the planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation of social initiatives designed around real community needs.
Plan, implement, monitor and document CSR and community development programmes.
Six programme areas, each referenced to Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013.
Headquartered in Dehradun. We take up programmes in any state or Union Territory of India.
Corporate CSR teams, institutions, NGOs and community organisations.
About Us
Bella Foundation is a CSR implementation and social development organisation headquartered in Dehradun and open to programmes anywhere in India. We work with companies and institutions to plan, deliver, monitor and document social initiatives — and we work alongside communities, so that each initiative answers a need people have named themselves.
The need. Rural and underserved communities across India face connected challenges: distance from schools and health facilities, limited local employment, pressure on farm incomes and water sources, and the migration that follows. No two places are alike, so each programme is designed for local conditions rather than adapted from a standard template.
Our approach. We listen before we plan. Farmers, women's groups, teachers and local institutions help shape a programme and take part in delivering it, as partners rather than recipients.
Our role in CSR. For corporate partners we provide the structure a CSR programme requires: defined objectives, budgets and schedules, field coordination, progress monitoring, and documentation that supports the company's own reporting.
The long view. Continuity and handover are planned at the design stage, because the worth of a programme is decided by what a community can carry forward once the project period ends.
Our Vision
An India in which access to education, healthcare, livelihoods and a healthy environment does not depend on where a family lives, and in which communities lead the decisions that affect them.
Our Mission
We identify needs through consultation, design programmes that respond to them, implement responsibly with appropriate partners, monitor progress against agreed indicators, and report results clearly.
Commitments are stated realistically and reported as they are, including shortfalls.
Budgets, utilisation and decisions are documented and open to the partners concerned.
Communities are consulted in planning and involved in delivery.
Every activity and every rupee is supported by a record.
Continuity and handover are planned from the design stage.
Development is done with communities, never merely for them.
The principle behind every programme
Our Focus Areas
These are the thematic areas in which Bella Foundation designs and proposes programmes. Each card sets out the development objective, the type of interventions involved and the outcomes a programme would be measured against.
Supporting equitable access to quality education for children in underserved communities.
Thematic reference: Schedule VII, item (ii)
Improving access to preventive healthcare, safe drinking water and sanitation.
Thematic reference: Schedule VII, item (i)
Strengthening women's economic participation and their role in household and community decisions.
Thematic reference: Schedule VII, item (iii)
Conserving the natural resources on which rural communities depend.
Thematic reference: Schedule VII, item (iv)
Improving rural household incomes and basic community infrastructure.
Thematic reference: Schedule VII, item (x)
Building employable skills among young people and women.
Thematic reference: Schedule VII, item (ii)
These cards describe proposed programme areas and intended outcomes, not completed projects. A Schedule VII reference indicates thematic alignment only; it is separate from an organisation's eligibility to receive and implement CSR funds, which is addressed under Governance.
CSR Partnerships
Bella Foundation offers three models of engagement to companies and institutions. A partner may take up one model or combine them; in each case the scope, budget and reporting requirements are set out in a written agreement before work begins.
Partnership model
Collaborative planning of initiatives aligned with a company's CSR priorities and with community requirements identified on the ground.
Partnership model
Support for coordinating and delivering approved projects through appropriate local institutions and implementation arrangements.
Partnership model
Structured progress reviews, field documentation and outcome reporting based on the requirements agreed for the project.
Planning a CSR programme?Share your thematic priorities, geography and timeline. These are the partnership models we offer; they do not represent existing contracts.
Discuss a CSR PartnershipOur corporate partners
Working commitments
Objectives, activities, timelines and costs are agreed and documented before implementation starts.
One person is accountable to the partner for each project and its milestones.
Progress, expenditure and field observations are reported on the schedule set in the agreement.
Activity records, attendance, photographs and utilisation documents are maintained and available to the partner.
Communities and local institutions are consulted at the planning stage and involved through delivery.
Our Approach
Every programme we undertake follows the same sequence, so that a partner knows at any point which stage a project has reached, what has been documented and what comes next.
Stage 01
Establishing what a community needs, what it already has and who should be involved, before any plan is drafted.
Stage 02
Converting assessment findings and the partner's CSR priorities into a project that can be approved, budgeted and tracked.
Stage 03
Delivering the approved plan on the ground with local institutions, under defined supervision and with the community's participation.
Stage 04
Tracking progress against the plan during implementation, verifying it in the field and correcting course while there is time to do so.
Stage 05
Providing the partner with a complete, documented account of what was done, what was spent and what changed.
The monitoring and evaluation described at Stage 04 is routine programme management carried out during implementation. Where a company is required to undertake an impact assessment under the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014, that assessment is carried out by an independent agency appointed by the company. Our records and reports can support such an assessment, but do not replace it.
Projects & Impact
We do not publish impact figures that cannot be supported by records. The framework below sets out how results are defined, evidenced and assessed in each programme.
What the programme is expected to change, for whom and by when — agreed with the partner before implementation.
EvidenceApproved project proposalA limited set of output and outcome indicators, each with a baseline value and a target.
EvidenceBaseline report and indicator sheetActivity records, attendance, dated photographs and expenditure documents maintained through the project period.
EvidenceProgress reports and utilisation recordsEnd-of-period comparison against the baseline, with shortfalls and learning reported alongside results.
EvidenceOutcome summary for the partner
Photographs: community meetings and farmer training programmes in Uttarakhand, and plantation sites in Kadamtala, Tripura.
Recent projects
The full list, with locations, partners, status and documented outcomes, is on the Projects & Impact page.
The Projects & Impact page has an interactive map of India showing where project records have been published, with details for each project.
Explore All ProjectsInstitutional
Partners are entitled to verify who they are working with. This section sets out how we approach responsible operations, together with the foundation's registration details.
Programme funds are budgeted, approved and accounted for project by project, with supporting documents retained for review.
Utilisation is reported against the approved budget. Annual reports and audited statements will be published here once finalised.
Registration and statutory documents are shared with prospective partners on request, as part of their own verification process.
Alignment with Schedule VII describes the subject of a programme. Whether an organisation may act as an implementing agency for a company's CSR funds depends on its legal form and registrations under the Companies (CSR Policy) Rules, 2014, including Form CSR-1 and the applicable income-tax registrations. Partners should confirm these directly with us before committing funds.
Copies of the certificates are shared with prospective partners on request. Write to info@bellafoundation.in.
Contact
Tell us what you are planning — thematic area, geography, timeline and budget range, if known. A member of our team will reply with what is feasible and what it would require.
