Crafting Futures
Together
At Craftizen, we see what becomes possible when skills, opportunity and the right support come together.
Your contribution can help women, traditional artisans and adults with intellectual disabilities build meaningful livelihoods through craft.
Choose an area of our work that speaks to you and help create opportunities that can grow well beyond a single contribution.
Support an initiative
Petalists Livelihood Program
Support India’s largest craft-based vocational training program for adults with intellectual disabilities. Your contribution can enable ability-based training, product development, stronger vocational systems and meaningful income-generating opportunities through our partner organisations.
Strengthen Women’s Livelihoods
Support women from urban, rural and tribal communities as they build skills, earn incomes and participate in community-led enterprises.
Your contribution can help provide training, tools, design inputs, production support and access to market opportunities.
Keep Traditional Crafts Thriving
Help traditional artisan communities preserve valuable knowledge while responding to contemporary markets. Your contribution can support craft documentation, skill development, design innovation, prototyping and stronger market connections.
Reimagine Crafts for the Future
Support the Craftizen Innovation Challenge, which brings industry, designers and artisan communities together to develop contemporary, market-relevant applications for traditional Indian crafts.
Your contribution can help enable design mentorship, artisan–designer collaboration, prototyping and pathways to production.
What your contribution enables
With your support, we can provide the communities we work with:
- Skill and vocational training
- Tools, equipment and raw materials
- Design development and product adaptation
- Training for NGO teams and community facilitators
- Prototyping and production support
- Market access and income-generating opportunities
- Research, documentation and knowledge building
Beyond the Tangibles
The impact of livelihood support extends beyond skills, tools or products. It can help build confidence, strengthen independence and create a greater sense of dignity, purpose and participation.
For families and communities, it can also reshape perceptions, making abilities more visible and opening up new possibilities for inclusion.
How it works
Choose
Select the initiative you would like to support.
Contribute
Make a secure one-time or recurring contribution.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I choose which initiative my contribution supports?
- Yes. You can select an initiative while making your contribution. Where no preference is indicated, the funds will be directed towards the area of greatest need.
- Can I make a recurring contribution?
- Yes. You can choose between a one-time and recurring contribution, subject to the payment options available.
- Will I receive an 80G receipt?
- Yes. An 80G contribution receipt will be sent to the email address provided during the donation process. We will need a PAN number to issue the same.
- Can organisations contribute?
- Yes. We welcome CSR partnerships, institutional grants and employee-giving collaborations. Please connect with us to discuss the most suitable pathway.
- How can I learn about the impact of my contribution?
- You can follow our work through updates on our website, newsletters and donor communications.
Give as an Organisation
Looking to support a program
through CSR, employee giving or an institutional grant?
We can work with you to identify
an initiative aligned with your organisation’s priorities and create a clear engagement and
reporting framework.