About NGO:

Third Sector Partners are leading boutique CxO and Board search firms in the corporate and not-for-profit domains. Three years ago, we launched Katalyst, a community programme, specifically designed to achieve holistic and realistic empowerment of the girl child. Katalyst creates leadership potential among girls in grassroots communities.

The primary goal of Katalyst is enhancing employability of deserving girls from marginalized sections by supporting their higher education and equipping them with life skills and personality development tools so that they can achieve economic emancipation. We aim to eventually facilitate their entry and growth in management level jobs, thus increasing the footprint of women leaders in India Inc.

Katalyst has reached out to 200 girls across Maharashtra and Karnataka, through active partnerships with a large number of dedicated local NGOs and individuals.

Through a mediated process of skills training, counseling and overall personality and psycho-social development, Katalyst girls are well on their way to achieving their dreams.

Fund Usage:

The amount raised through the marathon will support Programmatic expenses of the Katalyst students in Maharashtra under the Katalyst program. We spend INR 50,000 each for a academic year per Katalyst. Thus we will be able to support more deserving student

OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED BY THE FUNDING

1. Enhancing Employability Skills, & enabling empowerment by supporting & sustaining brilliant, meritorious girl students from marginalized sections of the society, pursuing professional education, by fostering their academic pursuits. We ensure that she is able to fulfill her aspirations by coaching in hard skills, giving necessary infrastructure like computers, internet access, mobile phones, training in soft skills, providing health insurance to the students and their mother's/family member, providing emotional support in times of crisis, guiding them in decision making on the right course for their post-graduation, aligning them with mentors whose handholding will help them learn life skills and broadening their worldview.
2. Partnering with Civil Society in our girl-centered, movement whose goal is to bring about positive social transformation by behavioral change across the country towards higher professional education of girls. Amongst our most important contribution is promoting our philosophy by collaborating with civil society as substantiated by our wide range of partnerships, that range from partnerships with Government universities, NGO's, corporate entities through their CSR unit, diverse capacity building learning centers, volunteers and mentors.
3. Increasing the management bandwidth of India Inc, by helping the deserving students in honing their interview skills and help them in securing very remunerative positions, to achieve economic empowerment .

We have Katalysts Success Stories that have reinforced our belief "A successful higher education first and foremost recognizes that all students can succeed and all students deserve the chance to succeed ,regardless of their background," We also hope that this reflection of success stories of Katalysts with well paying jobs will prove an inspiration to others and help in mitigating their chronic poverty

Impact:

The amount raised by sale of running bibs in the year 2011, has been used to purchase computers for the Katalyst students. These will be used by them to enhance their knowledge, learning and productivity till they complete their professional and tertiary education and become a part of India Inc. The home access to computers and internet connectivity has become pivotal to our multi pronged approach to ensure playing field for Katalyst, in the process also ensuring that the digital and virtual networking in our country is now accessible to the marginalized sections of the society.

These computers were handed over to the students a function in Mumbai; it was a platform for students to interact with donors and mentors

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo62_third_sector_partners.htm

Founded Year: 2006

Cause category: Women Empowerment

Our Supporters

• Nisha Mukhey