Deepening Development
Northeast India is rich in potential, but development has not kept pace. Roots to Branches Foundation (R2B) works as a catalyst by strengthening organisations that strengthen communities. We enable grassroots organisations across Northeast India to grow with depth, not just scale, to transform communities.
Enabling organisations to take root, grow and transform communities
R2B through incubation, helps convert passionate grassroots initiatives into legally sound, well-governed organizations; through capacity building, it strengthens their internal systems, skills, and resilience so they can sustain and grow their impact and transform communities.
Follow the living vine through our three pillars of change
INCUBATE
Converting passionate grassroots initiatives into legally sound, well-governed organisations
CAPACITATE
Strengthening internal systems, skills, and resilience so that grassroots organisations can sustain and deepen their impact
COLLABORATE
Bringing organisations together to strengthen networks, promote dialogue, and build partnerships that can amplify impact and support long-term resilience
Rooted Across the Northeast
Deepening grassroots leadership and sustainable community organisations across Northeast India.
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Grassroots Organisations Incubated
Through Rooted Futures (RFIP)Development Organisations Supported
Capacity building & leadershipIndividuals Impacted Through Programme
Across Northeast communitiesCore Focus Areas & Support Services
Creating knowledge rooted in NE India, shaped for practice
R2B draws on its understanding of the socio-cultural, political and ecological realities of Northeast India, along with its organisational and thematic expertise, to develop training curricula and resources, and undertake research and documentation.
RESOURCES 4 CHANGE
Developing training curricula and resource materials for organisational strengthening, leadership development, finance, governance, and thematic areas.
RESEARCH 4 CHANGE
Undertaking research and documentation to deepen understanding of development issues, organisational practices and the socio-cultural, political and ecological realities of Northeast India.
THOUGHTS 4 CHANGE
A space for ideas, reflections and stories from grassroots organisations, development thinkers and practitioners across Northeast India.
Stories of Community Transformation
Deepening development is about the people who persevere. Explore films and stories from grassroots leaders walking the journey with us.
Our Journey with Karunar Kheti Trust (KKT)
A film on our Incubation Partner Organisation
Ashajyoti: The Light that did not go out
In 2011, a small team in Sipajhar, Darrang began offering therapy to children with disabilities as part of a project intervention. When that support was withdrawn in 2013, the staff and parents who had built it chose to carry the work forward themselves, registering it as a society in 2014 under a new name — Ashajyoti.
“For years, they kept going with the trust of local families, a determined team and a physiotherapist, but little in the way of formal systems or stable funding to build on.”