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SHAKTI REGENERATION INSTITUTE

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BUILDING GENERATIONAL RESILIENCE

Advancing the systems future generations need to thrive.​

 

Shakti Regeneration Institute is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit connecting education, ecological stewardship, culture, science, technology and capital to build resilient futures with communities around the world.

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From 25+ years of grassroots education in India to Indigenous-led forest protection in the Amazon and coastal resilience around the Bay of Bengal, SRI turns relationships, knowledge and imagination into lasting, place-based change for generations to come.

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EXPLORE OUR WORK  PARTNER WITH US

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35,000+

Youth, women & families served

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$40M+

Mobilized for partner initiatives

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4B+

Global media reach

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25+ YEARS

Education, cultural engagement & ecological partnership

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FLAGSHIP PLACE-BASED PROGRAMS

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Fund people. Protect living systems. Build resilient futures.

 

SHAKTI EMPOWERMENT EDUCATION

Education that changes generations.

 

For more than 25 years, Shakti Empowerment Education has expanded opportunity in West Bengal through free education, nutrition, mentoring, women’s literacy, vocational training and community empowerment.

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8,000+ students empowered · 300+ served annually

Funding priorities: students, teachers, nutrition and women’s empowerment.

 

FUND EDUCATION →​

 

FOREST IS LIFE · FLORESTA É VIDA

Indigenous-led regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon.

 

In Acre, Brazil, SRI works with Puyanawa leadership to advance forest protection, cultural continuity, Indigenous education, biodiversity stewardship, sustainable livelihoods and pathways toward ancestral land protection.

Funding priorities: land protection, forest stewardship, Indigenous education and community bio-economies.

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PROTECT FOREST & CULTURE →

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BAY OF BENGAL COASTAL REGENERATION INITIATIVE

Connecting ecosystems, communities and resilient economies.

 

SRI’s regional platform brings together mangrove and biodiversity protection, livelihoods, education, culture, ecological intelligence and climate-adaptive systems across the Bay of Bengal.

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FLAGSHIP IMPLEMENTATION · SUNDARBAN SHIELD™

An integrated place-based model for the Sundarbans connecting living coastal ecosystems with community resilience, livelihoods, ecological intelligence and resilient infrastructure.

Funding priorities: mangrove resilience, livelihoods, ecological intelligence and climate-adaptive infrastructure.

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BUILD COASTAL RESILIENCE →

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FROM IDEAS TO ACTION

Building new ways of seeing — and new systems for acting.

 

SRI was founded and is led by Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, a cultural anthropologist, filmmaker and systems strategist whose work connects art, science, Indigenous and ancestral knowledge, technology and institutional change.

Across field initiatives, research, artistic practice, filmmaking and global convening, SRI explores a central question:

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How do we redesign the systems shaping life today so they can serve generations to come?

 

RESEARCH & IDEAS →  FOUNDER & LEADERSHIP →

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HOW WE SCALE

Knowledge, culture and systems for wider transformation.

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PLURIVERSAL EDUCATION

Advancing models in which multiple knowledge systems can meet without erasure, including collaboration with the Pluriversal University at Aldeia Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.

 

GENERATIONAL RESILIENCE

Research, economics and implementation for systems capable of serving generations to come.

 

BIO-CULTURAL SYSTEMS™

Frameworks connecting ecological intelligence, community stewardship, governance, measurement and finance.

 

GLOBAL CONVENING

The Science Summit alongside the UN General Assembly connects scientists, Indigenous and community leaders, technologists, economists, institutions and investors around artificial and ancestral intelligence.

 

CULTURE & STORYTELLING

Film and art as infrastructure for imagination and systems change, including The Regeneration Generation.

 

EXPLORE OUR SYSTEMS APPROACH →

 

 

FROM PLACE TO PLANET

Different places. Different knowledge. Shared futures.

 

A school in West Bengal.
An Indigenous university in Rio de Janeiro.
A living forest in the Brazilian Amazon.
A mangrove landscape in the Sundarbans.

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Ecological resilience, human dignity, culture and economic possibility must strengthen one another.

 

What we learn in place can help transform systems globally.

 

SEE OUR IMPACT →

 

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INVEST IN GENERATIONAL RESILIENCE

Your support can turn possibility into durable change.

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FUND A GENERATION

Support students, teachers, nutrition and women’s empowerment in West Bengal.

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PROTECT A LIVING FOREST

Support Puyanawa-led forest protection, culture, education and livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon.

 

ADVANCE PLURIVERSAL EDUCATION

Support Indigenous knowledge and new models of learning.

 

BUILD COASTAL RESILIENCE

Help advance the Bay of Bengal Coastal Regeneration Initiative and Sundarban Shield™.

Support a program, fund a multi-year initiative, or partner with SRI to build and scale new models of generational resilience.

 

DONATE NOW  BECOME A STRATEGIC PARTNER

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Shakti Regeneration Institute is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

 

 

LATEST FROM SRI

BAY OF BENGAL COASTAL REGENERATION INITIATIVE

Building partnerships for ecological and community resilience across the Bay of Bengal.

 

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SCIENCE SUMMIT ALONGSIDE THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Artificial and ancestral intelligence for generational resilience.

 

EXPLORE →

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THE REGENERATION GENERATION

A feature documentary exploring the people and ideas redesigning systems so life on Earth can thrive.

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DISCOVER →

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PARTNERS & RECOGNITION

SRI works across communities, Indigenous institutions, universities, foundations, science, technology and culture to turn shared knowledge into durable action.

 

PARTNERS & RECOGNITION →

 

SHAKTI REGENERATION INSTITUTE

Education · Ecology · Culture · Technology · Resilient Economies

 

Building generational resilience from the relationships that sustain life.

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