School and college partnerships
Fund and equip a STEM lab or makerspace in an affiliated institution while Karkhana manages setup, activation, and documentation.
Karkhana MakerspaceCSR, NGO & Enterprises · Innovation Lab
CSR Innovation Labs That Deliver Measurable Impact — Not Just Good Intentions.
Schedule VII ready. Outcome-tracked. Built for communities, documented for boards.
- Schedule VII ready
- CSR
- 4 · 8 · 9
- SDG
- Tracked quarterly
- Impact
- 9001 certified
- ISO
The CSR lab challenge
Most CSR labs fulfil compliance. Few fulfil purpose.
Companies invest in innovation infrastructure only to see labs underperform on utilisation or produce photographs instead of outcomes. The problem is rarely intent — it is programme design.
Karkhana designs CSR labs backwards: we start with the impact you need to document, work back to the programming that generates it, then specify the equipment and space required. Compliance isn't the goal — it is the floor.
Who this is for
Every kind of CSR mandate — one capable partner.
Community skill centres
Maker and vocational programmes for youth in manufacturing towns, tribal areas, and semi-urban communities.
Foundations & multi-site programmes
Standardised multi-city or multi-state rollouts with coordinated procurement, training, and unified impact reporting.
Impact documentation
The numbers your board and your auditor need.
What we measure
- Beneficiaries trained
- Skill-training hours delivered
- Projects and prototypes completed
- Placement outcomes where applicable
- Gender, community, and geography metrics
What we deliver
- Quarterly impact reports and structured data
- Photo and video documentation
- Beneficiary testimonials and case stories
- Supporting CSR documentation
- SDG alignment matrix for ESG reporting
SDG alignment
Innovation infrastructure with a wider social purpose.
SDG 4 · Quality education
Access to quality technical and vocational skills training.
SDG 8 · Decent work
Employability through practical maker and technical capability.
SDG 9 · Innovation & infrastructure
Building local innovation capacity and hands-on technical infrastructure.
SDG 10 · Reduced inequalities
Reaching communities with historically low access to technology.
Plan your lab
Build a CSR lab your board will be proud of — and your community will actually use.
Share your CSR mandate, target community, and approximate budget. We'll map a programme to your eligibility and impact goals within a week.