Acts as an essential overarching structure that constantly develops and improves strategies, structures and processes that assist in driving organisational effectiveness.
The goal of the programme is to keep other programmes running smoothly, ensuring organisational policies and procedures align with legal compliances. Aside from maintaining our beautiful campus infrastructure, finances, media and IT services, we work hard to provide wider scopes for Keystone to achieve its intended goals.
The team’s interventions essentially facilitate employee and field staff resource requirements, furnishes financial information for donors, liaises with regional and district government bodies and communicates the organisation’s impact to all affiliations, communities and the general public.
Our Administration and the IT team are responsible for the overall wellbeing and functioning of Keystone’s 50+ employees. They ensure office spaces and equipment are well-maintained for staff and visitors.
As a community based organisation, our field office are effectively important links between the organisation and the local communities with whom we work with. Our field centres are spread across five important working areas spanning two states – Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Areyapalyam is located in Sathyamangalam (Erode District). This field centre is the hub for NTFP related research and conservation-related activities. Besides this, livelihood interventions and governance-related work across villages in the region are coordinated from this centre.
Our Sigur centre falls in the buffer zone of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. This centre has a nursery that nurtures both cash crops (livelihood support) and native plants. Governance, Livelihoods, Health and Wellness, Wildlife Monitoring and Conservation activities are coordinated from this centre.
The Pillur valley is nestled in the dry deciduous forests, segregated from the bustle of the Coimbatore
district. Livelihoods, Governance, Conservation, Apiculture and Health & Wellness projects are implemented across the region.
10 % of the population in Nilambur in the state of Kerala are indigenous communities (Schedule Caste & Schedule Tribe). We closely work with Cholanaikkar and Paniyar communities. Apiculture, Health & Wellness, Governance, Conservation are some the core activities implemented in this region
Our Wayanad Centre is the most recent centre in comparison with other areas. We work with – urban and rural communities living in the region. Water & Sanitation, Livelihood, and Restoration activities largely comprise our work in the region.
This resource centre has been the nucleus for our Tamilnadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) work. This project which took place from 2015-2022 mainly functioned as a city Technical Support Unit whose tasks were to improve the sanitation value chain in two town panchayats.
Central India is a region where majority of our Network partners are based out of. Our work in the region is mainly carried out through our partner organisations who mainly focus on gender, ecology & climate change, community governance, traditional or uncultivated food etc.
Our cafeteria and the traning and capacity-building center were built in 2016. The cafeteria serves all three meals during meetings and when volunteers stay on campus. Dorms and rooms are used during the monthly staff meeting, programme related trainings, meetings, and conferences, etc.
By Ujjainee Sharma, Community Wellbeing & Climate Change The Leadership and Capacity-Building Workshop, facilitated by Somnath Sen on 21 November 2025, brought together staff from
By Rohan Mukerjee –Organisational Development On August 13, 2025, the Keystone Foundation inaugurated its Agroecology and Climate Change Resource Center in Kanke, Ranchi. Keystone Foundation
By Anita Varghese The 11th edition of the Ecosystem Services Partnership conference was held in Darwin, Australia, between 23rd and 27th June. Anita Varghese was
By Shawn Stephen-Biodiversity Conservation A Three-Day Multi-Stakeholder Conference at Keystone Campus Using Open Space Technology to Build a Sustainable Future From June 20th to 22nd,
By Anita Varghese In the month of March, a heady fragrance of Mahua flowers, a forest ablaze with flowers of Palash and the sweet taste
By Bhavya George, Climate Change This year’s Women’s Day theme ““For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality, Empowerment.” Called for action to unlock equal rights, power