About IFI Foundation

IFI Foundation, short for Information For Impact, was incorporated on 5 January 2023 as a Section 8 not-for-profit company under the Companies Act, 2013. Founded in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, IFI grew out of a practical observation: that many of the health and development challenges communities face are compounded by gaps in access to timely, relevant, and culturally appropriate information.

In our founding year, we launched multi-week campaigns on stroke awareness and menstrual health, joined the Odisha Menstrual Health & Hygiene Alliance (OMHHA), became an institutional member of the World Stroke Organization, and supported disaster relief communications during the Bahanaga train tragedy through the Citizen Actions Response initiative. We convened the IFI Foundation Conclave on Stroke and launched the IFI Stroke Initiative. We also co-organised the Odisha Conference of Youth (OCOY 2023), bringing together 150 young people to engage with climate and environmental issues, as a partner of the UNICEF-led Youth4Water Plus campaign alongside 30+ organisations working on water, sanitation, hygiene, and climate.

By 2024, our health awareness work had expanded to cover over 20 topics, from diabetes and heart health to mental wellness and cancer care. This was done through digital-first, multilingual content produced in partnership with Swasthya Plus Network and OdishaLIVE. We continued to build our engagement across the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in health (SDG 3), education (SDG 4), gender equality (SDG 5), and clean water and sanitation (SDG 6).

In 2025, we deepened our institutional partnerships, signing memoranda of understanding with Rama Devi Women’s University, Berhampur University, and the Abhyutthana Foundation. We partnered with IIT Bhubaneswar Research & Entrepreneurship Park on Project Period (a conclave dedicated to menstrual health and hygiene), and joined the Odisha Society of the Americas as an outreach partner for their Odisha Public Library Vision advocacy. We also expanded our flagship stroke campaign into Stroke Mukt Jeevan 3.0, moving from a regional Odia campaign to a multi-lingual pan-India effort across English, Odia, Hindi, Marathi, and Bengali.

In 2026, we signed a new partnership with Glosity Inc. to bring AI-powered career readiness tools to students across Odisha at no cost, and launched Spot Stroke, Save Lives, a six-month statewide youth campaign to build community-level stroke recognition.

We are still a young organisation, and we are deliberate about where we focus. Our approach is to identify areas where information gaps create the highest barriers to better outcomes, and then work with partners and the broader ecosystem to address those gaps systematically. We do not claim to have all the answers. We are committed to building the partnerships and evidence base needed to move measurable outcomes forward.