Enabling holistic growth in our community.
Evolve Lives Foundation is a non-profit working at the intersection of Community, Climate and Child education.
One life at a time.
The communities, through generations of care, ceremony, and sometimes resistance, are the ones holding the soil together. Our work is to follow their lead, enable their plans, and step out of the way so there is a holistic growth.
Evolve Lives Foundation was founded in 2014 in Dharwad District by Ottillie Annan Kumar and her goal to build a bridge which connects the community, children and corporates/gov with holistic projects. A decade later, we can say, yes, we are still going strong on our manifesto to change one life at a time.
“We are not just planting trees or enabling education. We are restoring an entire grammar of relationship between people and place.”
— Otttilie Anban Kumar, Founder, Evolve Lives FoundationFour core programs, one life at a time.
Climate
From planting trees to restoring water bodies to wild life preservation. The domains of support are endless, for everything and everyone is connected when it comes to climate impact.
Community
Direct, no-strings enablement of community projects which help individual growth with a. social impact.
Children
Free curriculum for K-12 and university programs that centers on IQ, EQ and SQ (Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual) quotient) growth.
Corporate
and institutional leadership synergy to enable the community projects and interns embed holistic programs in one’s institution and team.
From the field.
When a creek finds its memory.
Two years after we removed a 1920s irrigation dam, the Coho returned to spawning grounds nobody alive had ever seen used.
March 12, 2026
The Talamanca cocoa cooperative.
In Costa Rica’s Bribri territory, a cooperative of 122 farmers is showing what carbon-neutral cocoa actually looks like — without the certification theater.
February 28, 2026
A high school in Tucson is teaching watershed thinking.
Phoenix area public schools have begun integrating Indigenous science into earth & life science. The students are running with it.
February 14, 2026Evolve Lives was the first foundation that asked us how they could help, and not what they wanted. That sentence is the whole movement.
