• contact@vardhishnu.org | |
  • +91 - 9890336070

    Launched in 2020, Community Collectives is a unique one-year program.


    It combines support and incubation to share knowledge and resources.


    The program targets grassroots initiatives with limited or no exposure to evolving development trends.


    These initiatives must be willing to work with children from the most marginalized communities.

We are looking for

  1. Individuals / Initiatives / Organisations working with or willing to work with children from economically disadvantaged background.
  2. Preferably living and working in Non-Metro city from Maharashtra / Gujarat / Madhya Pradesh / Chattisgarh
  3. Acceptance to attend training workshops in-person and taking out required time for field-visit, regular follow-ups and webinars.
    • 4 Workshops of 4 Days each = 16 days
    • 2 Field Visits of 2 Days each = 4 days
    • 8 Webinars of 2 hours each = 16 hours
    • Monthly Support Calls of 1.5 hours each = 15 hours"
  4. Willingness to work with children for at-least 2 days in a week.
  5. Commitment to work with children for at-least 2 years post end of incubation period.
  6. If selected at ideation phase:
    • Commitment to initiate on-ground interventions within the first 6 months of the incubation process (before the end of 2nd residential workshop).
    • Need to submit detailed plan for first 6 months of incubation.

Incubation Program Support Structure

...
Residential Training Workshops

Through 4 Fully funded residential workshops of 4 days each. We deep dive into different aspects of teaching-learning practises, content designing along with administration, governance to help you build an effective organisation

...
Field Support Visits

Our program team will visit your work twice during incubation year to give you hands-on support on program implementation.

...
Theme based Webinar

Theme based webinars designed considering emmergent need of the cohort members. The webinars are conducted by senior members from different social organisations.

...
Networking & Resource Sharing

You will meet like-minded people. Get access to a larger eco-system and partner organisations. Post successful completion of the incubation year you will become part our alumn network comprising of organisations across the state.

...
Monthly Support Calls

Monthly support call with our team members will give a personalised support to stengthen your program and building a sustainable movement.

Topics Covered

Through residential workshops, webinars we will deep-dive into following aspects to strethen programatic as well as organisational aspects of the organisation

Programmatic Aspects

  • Program Designing
  • Teaching – Learning Practices
  • Designing teaching – learning material to encourage activity based experiential & joyful learning
  • Creating session plans and program modules
  • Impact Assessment
  • Community Engagement
  • Sharing tools, techniques & resources created by Vardhishnu

Organisational Aspects

  • Fund-Raising
  • Administration & Governance
  • Documentation & Compliances
  • Getting Pitch Ready - Budgeting, Proposal writing, Presentation
  • Social Media Management
  • Team Building
  • Culture Setting
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Personal Leadership

Selection Process

Application Form

We start our application process in the month of March. Interested people can apply online through application form. The application form is an opportunity for us to get to know you. Through the application, we will understand your inspiration, why you want to join and why you would be a strong fit for the program.

Telephonic Interview

Here we will ask some follow-ups questions based on the information provided in the application form to gain further information about your inititiative. This will helpful in our evaluation.

Final Panel Selection

Here you will attain a day long workshop and where you will take part in group discussions and also complete a short problem solving activity. You will also have a hour-long personal interview with one of our team members

Our Cohorts

Cohort 1

2020 - 21

More info

Cohort 2

2021 - 22

More info

Cohort 3

2022 - 23

More info

Cohort 4

2023 - 24

More info

Collective Impact

+

Organisations Incubated

+

Founders Nurtured

+

States

+

Organisations Still Functional

+

Learning Spaces

+

Children Impacted

Resource Persons

Over the years, many emminent dignatories have interacted with the participants, sharing their experiences and knowledge about social problems and social change and by providing mentoring inputs. The list includes:

...
Nikunj Jhaveri

Founder - Systems Plus Group of Companies.

...
Sunil Chavan

Director, Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation

...
Nivritti Samtaney

Program Manager, Acumen India.

...
Manasee Mahajan

...
Henna Khan

FAQs

"No Fees or anything will be charge from the participants". We'll be taking care of all the expenses during the course of entire incubation program. The only time the participants need to manage their expences is when they come and return for the residential workshops.

Community Collectives Program is restricted only to the organisaitons working in the Education field with children from vulnerable backgrounds

No, we are preferably looking for organisations from Maharashtra, Madhya-Pradesh, Gujrath, Chattisgarh & Karnataka

Unfornutely at this moment we are not able to provide any financial assistence to the shortlisted candidates, but we do refer organisations to the interested funding agencies and donors. We also arrange pitch events to meet and interact with the donors.

YES, 100% attendance to all the residential workshops are MANDATORY. We do make exceptions in case of some serious reasons; otherwise the selected candidates have to attend all the workshops.

NO, only the person who has gone through all the selection process is eligible to attend the workshop. You cannot replace anyone during incubation year

Anandghar Community Collectives PProgram has got two objectives to serve:

- To be a support system for those early-stage initiatives/organizations (preferably from tier 2 and/or tier 3 cities), who are working with children from economically disadvantageous backgrounds and with no or little exposur of the domain.

- To create an ecosystem of support for the children (all over Maharashtra and India as well) coming from economically disadvantageous background.

What you will be getting:

1. Learning circles of trust, inspiration and support.

2. Resources(Not financial), tools, and other documents shared by Vardhishnu.

3. Help to build network with senior organisations.

4. Vardhishnu will:

  • - Plan & Fund all program related expenses.
  • - Showcase the work of cohort members through web-site, other social media platforms.

Vulnerability:Children deprived of a happy, safe, and secure childhood, very likely to drop-out from education, fall into the trap of vicious circles around them, and to engage in harmful practices.

Economically disadvantageous backgrounds:Children bearing the responsibility of earning 'roti' and 'kapda' (bread & butter) for the family.

Yes! You can apply but the only conditions are:

1. You have to be present (working) on ground for quite sometime now.

2. You should be able to register your entity during the course of the incubation program, preferably before coming for the 2nd workshop.

Yes! But you have to be able to initiate your ground-work just after the 1st workshop. And you have to register your entity during the course of the incubation program, preferably before coming for the 2nd workshop.

Yes you can! We would love to have you with us. It would be great if you have identified yoou potential team-members and you can onboard them just after the 1st workshop.

Yes you can, but only if you haven't been selected the last time..

Yes, but you must have to be in the core-team and having the on-ground decission making authority.

Yes, you can! But should have the vision to transforming it into a full-time thing somewere in the future.

Post sussful completion of 1 year support program, you will become part of the larger alumni community. We have some curated support in the form of Alumni Retreat, Pitch events for our alumnis.

2018 © vardhishnu. All Rights Reserved | Powered by RG-VP Web Solutions