Registered Section 8 Company · India
Building the infrastructure for economic and legal empowerment, starting in India.
Lovefrom Foundation works at the intersection of women's economic formalisation, employment access, and legal empowerment — through direct programmes, policy engagement, and published research.
About
Three enduring gaps in India's growth story.
Lovefrom Foundation is a registered not-for-profit Section 8 company based in India. Our work sits at the intersection of three enduring gaps in India's growth story: the formal economy that millions of working women remain outside of, the employment infrastructure that hasn't kept pace with India's workforce, and the legal system that remains out of reach for those who need it most.
We build practical, ground-level programmes — and back them with published research, government and institutional engagement, and international partnerships — so that what we learn on the ground can shape policy, and what we learn in policy rooms can reach the ground.
Our Work
Three initiatives. One mission.
Each initiative operates independently on the ground, and reports into one shared body of research and policy engagement.
Active
SHE Founders
A practical programme for women entrepreneurs — combining AI-tool literacy, climate-smart business training, and direct navigation of government schemes and funding access, to move India's informal women-led businesses into the formal economy.
In Development
India Employment & Skilling
A broader initiative addressing India's employment and skilling ecosystem — connecting first-generation job seekers and small business owners to formal employment pathways, government skilling schemes, and the digital public infrastructure that underpins modern work.
Planned
Education
A future initiative extending our economic empowerment work into foundational education access — planned for development once SHE Founders and India Employment & Skilling are established at scale.
Publications
A growing series of practical guides.
Books built from direct programme experience — for women entrepreneurs, first-generation founders, and India's employment ecosystem.
Forthcoming
The SHE Founders Guide
A practical startup and formalisation guide for women and first-generation entrepreneurs in India.
Forthcoming
Doing Business in India
An annually updated guide for founders, GCC and global entrepreneurs, and companies entering the Indian market.
In Development
India at Work
A guide to India's employment and skilling ecosystem — how the workforce is changing, and how to access it.
In Development
The Gateway
A guide to building businesses through the UAE as a global gateway — for founders from India, Africa, and beyond.
Global Engagement
Carrying ground-level work into global rooms.
Status as of September 2026. Nothing below is confirmed unless it carries a status saying so.
2026
COP31 — Antalya, Turkey
Climate finance and sustainable entrepreneurship dialogue
2026
unDavos Summit
Panel: informal to formal economy
2026
IMF–World Bank Group Annual Meetings
Civil Society Policy Forum — civil society consultation on labour formalisation, technology, and gender equality
Leadership
Founder's Note
Vishal Shankla
Founder and Managing Director, Lovefrom Foundation
Fourteen years building and running a business taught me how much of India's real economic activity — and real talent — sits just outside the formal system, uncounted and unsupported. Lovefrom Foundation exists to close that gap: through direct programmes, honest data, and a seat in the rooms where the policy that shapes all of it gets made.