One Future Post #21: Eight Years of Nurturing Radical Kindness 🌻
In this December 2025 edition of the One Future Post, we reflect on the year gone by and celebrate eight years of One Future Collective.
Hello from Vandita 💌
We are now midway through the 2020s, and eight years old! Thank you for taking this journey with One Future Collective as we grow into ourselves. This past year, we anchored ourselves firmly in our mission: to catalyse people power and just institutions. Yet, what roots us is not the scale of what we do but the ethic with which we do it: an ethic of loving care, of bravery, of holding the world tenderly.
This is our invitation to you to learn more about this journey and our motivations in the One Future Collective Annual Report for 2024–2025.
Warmly,
Vandita Morarka
How change happens! 💛
Our 2024–2027 strategic plan is grounded in three pathways of change that guide how we put our theory of change into practice and move closer to a world built on social justice.
Challenging indifference and apathy: We help people understand the world around them and recognise their power to shape it through civic education, leadership development and community-building.
Ensuring access to healing, repair and justice: We create community-based models of care that offer dignity, choice and opportunities for both survivors and those who have caused harm to seek repair and accountability.
Holding institutions and systems accountable: Through research, narrative change, coalition building and advocacy, we push and accompany institutions to listen, respond and change, making justice a shared expectation.
Let us take a closer look at what this looks like in action!
Social Justice Education that challenges indifference and apathy 🪴
We do this work because many people who care about dignity and justice have learned apathy over time or lack the tools to create change. Through healing-centred learning spaces, we help people unlearn this indifference and reconnect their values to real issues in their communities. Using accessible and multimedia learning journeys, we guide learners through a supportive yet challenging process that encourages action. This work activates the first pathway of our theory of change: transforming indifference into care, and care into people-powered action for justice.
⭐️ How we do this
Over the past few years, we have delivered our interventions on social justice education through the following two flagship programs:
1. The One Future Festival
The One Future Festival is a travelling social justice festival that brings accessible, creative learning to urban communities across India and South Asia through virtual and in-person workshops, cohort-based courses and healing spaces. Over the past year, the Festival reached 60+ organisations and nearly 3,000 people!
2. The Toolbox
The Toolbox is our open-source repository that makes social justice education accessible to everyone, offering books, reports, manuals, facilitation tools, podcasts, videos, self-paced courses, and creative activities in English and Hindi for people at different stages and with different styles of learning. This past year, we added 80+ new resources, which were accessed by more than 10,000 people.
Nurturing Leadership and Communities That Further Social Justice 🧩
We do this work because communities most impacted by oppression are often excluded from traditional leadership spaces or left without the tools to shape the change they seek. Through participatory leadership development, we help people build skills and supportive networks rooted in their lived experience. This work also activates the first pathway of our theory of change: turning care into people-powered leadership that drives justice from the ground up.
⭐️ How we do this
Over the past years, we have continued to nurture leadership through the following flagship programs:
1. Cohort-based Leadership Programs (CBLPs)
These are learning-action programs that enable people across different sectors to invest in their learning and upskilling.
One of the key programs under CBLP is our Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) training for aspiring PoSH consultants, trainers and Internal Committee external members, which trained 20 people over the past year.
2. One Future Fellowship
The One Future Fellowship is our way of nurturing feminist leadership across South Asia. This year, our 8th cohort brought together 21 leaders, aged 20 to 40, from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, and we welcomed 23 participants for Cohort 9!
3. Sanskaari Girls Book Club
The Sanskaari Girls Book Club (SGBC) is a free, global community of over 3000 readers across 25 states in India and 10 countries beyond South Asia. This year, we started the Sanskaari Girls Podcast to invite listeners to critically engage with feminism, books, politics and more. With 7 episodes and nearly 2500 plays, the response has been exciting!
4. Feminist Leadership Hub
The Feminist Leadership Hub is a virtual, peer-driven platform, developed with FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders, that fosters community for feminist leaders. Since its 2024 launch in Berlin, the Hub has grown to over 800 leaders from 70+ countries.
This year, we hosted a first-of-its-kind virtual Convening Reimagining Leadership in Polycrisis, bringing together 1,000+ participants for 34 sessions with 20 speakers.
5. Alumni & Community Engagement
We are joined by a vibrant alumni community across South Asia. Over the past year, we’ve nurtured a community that supports each other and can sustain itself. This includes, but is not limited to:
Communities of Learning: Spaces for alumni to share knowledge, reflect, and solve challenges together.
Adulting 101: Practical sessions on taxes, investments, health, and legal rights to navigate adult life confidently.
Healing Spaces: Monthly community sessions for care, connection, and resilience amid today’s crises.
Community models of healing that enable social justice 💚
We do this work because women and queer communities at the margins often face generational wounds from systemic injustice and limited access to healing. Through community-led, trauma-informed and survivor-centric models, we create spaces that foster networks of care. This work activates the second pathway of our theory of change: ensuring access to healing, repair, and justice for those who have been harmed, strengthening the foundation for sustained social change.
⭐️ How we do this
Over the past few years, we have delivered our community health interventions through the following flagship programs:
1. Digital Community Centre
The Digital Community Centre is a hybrid centre where we design and deliver community support to enable access to affordable peer-led mental health support (20 trained volunteers responding to 1,734 calls since April 2024 on the One Future Helpline) and legal rights advisory services (handled 6 cases last year). We also launched the Upstander Network this year!
2. Survivor Liberation Program
The Survivor Liberation Program (SLP) supports women, queer, and trans* SGBV survivors by combining livelihood initiatives with rights-based healing pathways that promote dignity and belonging. Across Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata, 43 sessions delivered by 5 trained professionals reached 113 survivors.
Evidence, narrative and coalition building for social justice advocacy 🌠
We do this work because systems and institutions often reinforce inequality, shaping narratives and policies that perpetuate injustice. Through evidence-driven advocacy, coalition-building, and targeted interventions, we push for structural change that complements grassroots action. This work activates the third pathway of our theory of change: holding institutions accountable and ensuring systemic transformation works hand in hand with people-powered movements for social justice. Our advocacy takes a feminist, rights-based approach, grounded in the communities we serve and connected to broader social justice movements.
⭐️ How we do this
1. Evidence-Based Narrative Shaping
Our evidence-based advocacy has reached over 2 million people through campaigns linked to research studies, each aiming to drive institutional change. Some examples include our work on sexual and gender-based violence through Planting Dandelions, a book on supporting survivors that informed our #SystemsThatCare campaign with Asmita Ghosh, engaging nearly 100 participants nationwide, and the development of the Tapestry of Feminist Justice framework.
2. Influencing Policy
We address harmful narratives in public policy by using evidence to influence outcomes. This year, we brought a young, queer feminist lens to the Beijing+30 Review process, hosting India-Level Feminist Dialogues, with Vandita co-drafting key statements for CSOs and young feminist fora, speaking at panels, and co-organising events!
3. Coalition and Movement Building
The work of shifting mainstream narratives cannot be undertaken alone. We rely on our alliances within and outside the sector. We facilitated the 11-member Indian Feminist Civil Society Network, creating spaces for movement-building for gender equality.
4. Governance and Thought Leadership
Our Senior Leadership Team holds or has held governance roles in 30+ coalitions and alliances, including CIVICUS, Vuka!, FICCI Women in Startups, and the Gender+Environment Data Alliance, offering strategic guidance on social and gender justice, public health, business and human rights, labour, and technological justice.
This year, Vandita and Kuhoo represented One Future Collective at ICSW, where they hosted two sessions on feminist leadership, civil society, and strategies to counter backlash. They also represented OFC and the Feminist Leadership Hub at AWID 2024, hosting a booth and engaging global feminist and allied movements.
Accompany institutions towards social justice 🚀
Social justice is impossible without institutions that actively commit to it, yet many lack the guidance to do so meaningfully. Through tailored accompaniments, we help organisations identify their real challenges, build practical and justice-oriented solutions, and strengthen their capacity to sustain this work. Over the past year, we partnered with 50+ institutions and launched our consulting newsletter. This activates the third pathway of our theory of change: holding institutions accountable so systemic transformation can support people-powered movements.
⭐️ How we do this
We work with global organisations across sectors—including development, corporate, and government providing research, learning, safety, strategy, leadership, and ESG-focused services. Our highlights of this year include our work with World YWCA and Fortify Health.
Workplace ethics and culture 🌸
Our internal culture in social justice is grounded in a principle of radical kindness – an active, anti-violence practice shaping how we work and care for each other. Find out how in Sunflowers, our publicly available internal culture manifesto that keeps our values accessible and alive.
A Year That Was ✊🏾
Thank you for being with us through the last eighteen months at One Future Collective; as we close this account of our work, we also acknowledge the unseen parts of our journey. The moments of scrambling, learning by accident, failing and recomposing.
Acknowledging failure remains essential to building a just world, and we hope our learning, joy, and courage offer encouragement to other changemakers in an increasingly anti-rights world. We remain deeply grateful for the trust that makes this work possible and our commitment to catalysing people power, just institutions, and social justice remains unwavering as we step into a new year of collective imagination and civic action.
Onwards and upwards,
Team One Future Collective
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