INDEX

CONTENTS

A. INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

What is an NGO

Objectives

Vision and mission

Role of an NGO

Advantages and disadvantages of NGO

How to NGO’s get funding

Types of NGO

Causes of NGO

Sectors

B. COMPANY ANALYSIS

Introduction to

History

Members

Regular activity

Other programs

C. LEARNINGS AND CONCLUSIONS

Findings

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 Learning and my experience

Conclusion

Bibliography

 Industry Analysis:

 What is an NGO?

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit, citizen-based group that functions

independently of government. NGOs, sometimes called civil societies, are organized on
community, national and international levels to serve specific social or political purposes, and
are cooperative, rather than commercial, in nature.

nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and

sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international
governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in
humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and
other areas to affect changes according to their objectives. They are thus a subgroup of all
organizations founded by citizens, which include clubs and other associations that provide
services, benefits, and premises only to members. Sometimes the term is used as a synonym
of "civil society organization" to refer to any association founded by citizens, but this is not
how the term is normally used in the media or everyday language, as recorded by major
dictionaries. The explanation of the term by NGO.org (the non-governmental organizations
associated with the United Nations) is ambivalent. It first says an NGO is any non-profit,
voluntary citizens' group which is organized on a local, national or international level, but
then goes on to restrict the meaning in the sense used by most English speakers and the media:

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 Task-oriented and driven by people with a common interest, NGOs perform a variety of service
and humanitarian functions, bring citizen concerns to Governments, advocate and monitor
policies and encourage political participation through provision of information.

OBJECTIVES:-

 To work for the social development of underprivileged individuals, groups and

communities in palghar district.
 To provide food, formal education and vocational guidance to grown-ups and children from
socially and economically backward families.
 To encourage healthcare development and health promotion.
 To help and generate training programme for self-employment and educated unemployed
people and to work for adult education.

 VISION AND MISSION:-

o Vision:
o To be an end-to-end community based solutions provider in the areas of education,
health and sustainable livelihood for vulnerable communities.
o Our vision is also to be an enabler bringing together corporates, groups of interested
individuals, community organisations and the communities in need to do some
meaningful work towards enriching the lives of those in needs.

o Mission:

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 o To identify and work along the economically and socially deprived, the physically
and mentally challenged – starting with children, so that they become educated,
skilled and aware.
Enable them to be self-reliant and enjoy a healthy, dignified and sustainable quality
of life
And to that end, act as a resource to and collaborate with other agencies –
governmental or non-governmental, as well as suitably intervene in policy
formulation

ROLE OF AN NGO
Development and Operation of Infrastructure:
Community-based organizations and cooperatives can acquire, subdivide and develop
land, construct housing, provide infrastructure and operate and maintain infrastructure such
as wells or public toilets and solid waste collection services. They can also develop building
material supply centres and other community-based economic enterprises. In many cases,
they will need technical assistance or advice from governmental agencies or higher-level
NGOs
Facilitating Communication:
NGOs use interpersonal methods of communication, and study the right entry points
.whereby they gain the trust of the community they seek to benefit. They would also have
a good idea of the feasibility of the projects they take up. The significance of this role to
the government is that NGOs can communicate to the policy-making levels of government,
information about the lives, capabilities, attitudes and cultural characteristics of people at
the local level.
NGOs can facilitate communication upward from people to the government and downward
from the government to the people. Communication upward involves informing
government about what local people are thinking, doing and feeling while communication
downward involves informing local people about what the government is planning and
doing. NGOs are also in a unique position to share information horizontally, networking
between other organizations doing similar work.

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 Technical Assistance and Training:
Training institutions and NGOs can develop a technical assistance and training capacity
and use this to assist both CBOs and governments.
Advocacy for and with the Poor:
In some cases, NGOs become spokespersons or ombudsmen for the poor and attempt to
influence government policies and programs on their behalf. This may be done through a
variety of means ranging from demonstration and pilot projects to participation in public
forums and the formulation of government policy and plans, to publicizing research results
and case studies of the poor. Thus NGOs play roles from advocates for the poor to
implementers of government programs; from agitators and critics to partners and advisors;
from sponsors of pilot projects to mediators.

 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF NGO:

o ADVANTAGES
o They have the ability to experiment freely with innovative approaches and, if
necessary, to take risks.
o They are flexible in adapting to local situations and responding to local needs and
therefore able to develop integrated projects, as well as sectoral projects.
o They enjoygood rapport with people and can render micro-assistance to very poor
peope as they can identify those who are most in need and tailor assistance to their
needs.
o They have the ability to communicate at all levels, from the neighbourhood to the
top levels of government.
o They are able to recruit both experts and highly motivated staff with fewer
restrictions than the government.

 DISADVANTAGES:-

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 o Paternalistic attitudes restrict the degree of participation in programme/project
design.
o Restricted/constrained ways of apporach to a problem or area.
o Redued replicability of an idea, due to non-representativeness of the project or
selected area, relatively small project coverage, dependence on outside financial
resources, etc.
o "Territorial possessiveness" of an area or project reduces cooperation between
agencies, seen as threatening or competitive.

HOW DO NGO GET FUNDING:

There are various sources of funding available for NGOs both at the conventional as well
as non-conventional level. Conventional sources are those that are mostly existing and
donor –based and non-conventional sources of funding are those that also include
alternative fundraising for organizations. The bilateral and multilateral aid is one of the
biggest sources of funding we have seen over the past fifty and more years. These originate
either from the foreign offices of the developed countries or from the multilateral
organizations set up by different countries such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the
Asian Development Bank. These organizations have been created to extend international
support for alleviating poverty and reducing the socio-economic gap between the
developed and the developing countries. But their agendas are far more complex and they
are not necessarily focused upon injecting funds into NGOs, but definitely a small part of
their massive programs does include funding support for NGOs in developing countries.

The second important source of funding is the private charities/foundations/international

organizations that are more privately handled and have a better focus on equipping local
NGOs not just financially but also technically. In countries where there is some economic
growth recorded with a presence of a wealthy private sector, NGOs can also look upon the
corporate agencies as another major source of funding for them. There are also
international corporate groups that have Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda for
enhancing equity, social justice and development. Besides, in the present times, the

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 corporate agencies are also partnering with NGOs for joint profit-oriented projects. In some
countries, the local governments are also a major source of funding as they have different
community welfare and development schemes which NGOs can apply and raise resources
and implement projects. Donations and gifts, mostly from individuals or informal groups
are also sources of funding for NGOs. Finally, the non-conventional resources include the
micro-enterprises, microfinance and micro-insurance.

TYPES OF NGO:-
 NGO types by orientation:
 Charitable Orientation
It often involves a top-down paternalistic effort with little participation by the
"beneficiaries". It includes NGOs with activities directed toward meeting the needs of the
poor -distribution of food, clothing or medicine; provision of housing, transport, schools
etc. Such NGOs may also undertake relief activities during a natural or man-made disaster.
 Service Orientation
It includes NGOs with activities such as the provision of health, family pplanning or
education services in which the programme is designed by the NGO and people are
expected to participate in its impementation and in receiving the service.
 Participatory Orientation
is characterized by self-help projects where local people are involved particularly in the
implementation of a project by contributing cash, tools, land, materials, labour etc. In the
classical community development project, participation begins with the need definition and
continues into the planning and implementation stages. Cooperatives often have a
participatory orientation.
 Empowering Orientation
is where the aim is to help poor people develop a clearer understanding of the social,
political and economic factors affecting their lives, and to strengthen their awareness of
their own potential power to control their lives. Sometimes, these groups develop

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 spontaneously around a problem or an issue, at other times outside workers from NGOs
plays a facilitating role in their development. In any case, there is maximum involvement
of the people with NGOs acting as facilitators.

NGO Types by level of operation:

 Community-based Organizations (CBOs)
arise out of people's own initiatives. These can include sports clubs, women's
organizations, neighbourhood organizations, religious or educational organizations. There
are a large variety of these, some supported by NGOs, national or international NGOs, or
bilateral or international agencies, and others independent of outside help. Some are
devoted to raising the consciousness of the urban poor or helping them to understand their
rights in gaining access to needed services while others are involved in providing such
services.

 Citywide Organizations
include organizations such as the Rotary or lion's Club, chambers of commerce an
dindustry, coalitions of business, ethnic or educational groups and associations of
community organizations. Some exist for other purposes, and become involved in helping
the poor as one of many activities, while others are created for the specific purpose of
helping the poor.

 National NGOs
include organizations such as the Red Cross, YMCAs/YWCAs, professional organizations
etc. Some of these have state and city branches and assist local NGOs.

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  International NGOs
range from secular gencies such as Redda BArna and Save the Children organizations,
OXFAM, CARE, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations to religiously motivated groups. Their
activities vary from mainly funding local NGOs, institutions and projects, to implementing
the projects themselves.

CAUSES OF NGO:

There are many social problems that India face in today’s time. Problems like

 Hunger, Poverty, Malnutrition, Safe drinking water & sanitation.

 Illiteracy among under privileged people, people belonging to SC ST, Elderly age group,
Differently abled.
 Gender inequality.
 Environment Related issues.
 Underdeveloped rural areas and slums, Etc.

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PART B

INTRODUCTION TO YUVA PRERANA PRATISHTHAN

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About the NGO:

Yuva Prerana Pratishthan empowers youth to make informed decisions about their career and thus
enables them to transform their passion into gainful employment through life skills development,
career development, and mentoring.

Yuva prerana pratishthan also builds capacities of key stakeholders like parents and schools who
play instrumental role in creating a conductive environment for enabling youth to take informed
decision independently.

HISTORY:

“Yuva Prerana Pratishthan” was established in August 2013, about 6 years ago. It was
registered as a public charitable Trust in Thane under Bombay Public Trust act 1950. Since then,
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it is due to generous and well wishers who have immensely contributed and exhibited the role of
a catalyst to help this sapling flourish into a sweet fruit bearing tree.

Once Swami Vivekananda wisely quoted “every soul has a divine power within”. The work done
by the trust is to merely make everyone realise about this divine power within themselves. Here at
“Yuva Prerana Pratishthan”, we try our level best to enlighten every inmate with the same values.

In today’s world where the life is fast and the competition is cut throat, we instigate and encourage
the children to develop their personalities in such a way that they can live their lives respectfully
and with their heads held high. And in order to achieve this, we need to provide them with the best
possible education and you selfless support.

Our headoffice is located at Nallasopara (E) Mumbai. Since August 2013, inspite of considerable
constraints “Yuva Prerana Pratishthan” has efficiently and effectively managed its social services
. By now 152 destitute children has been provided with love, care and warmth by this organization.

We strongly believe that the right place of a child is its own home and loving parents, where the
child feels more secure, it is also universally accepted fact that the child develops more comfortable
in his own cultural and social milieu. “Yuva Prerana Pratishthan” therefore, preferred, the best
option of showing love and care to children.

MEMBERS:

The NGO was founded by Mr.Yash Mane and Mr.Karthik Kothari. Initially the organization
had ten members and as of today the organization has more than 25 members.

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 YASH MANE

Yash Mane was born in 1993 in Nallasopara, the community around him did not have any major
role model to look up to. As a result the children there had very low aspirations with regards to
education and career. After school, Yash chose to study further in commerce stream because that
was what others with similar marks had chosen and usually chose when he looked at the trends.
He was not aware of why people make such decisions.

Therefore he started doing some research on this issues. He began to talk to people in related fields,
discussing possible situations and ideas. He understood that students need to develop interests in
studying and identifying what job opportunities or what career they could lead to. He saw many
youths who were dropped out of schools needed to be motivated. And so was Yuva Prerana
Pratishthan born.

KARTIK KOTHARI

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Karthik Kothari was born in the year 1993 in Vasai. During his college days, an economic
professor made a big impact on him. His methods and passion for the subject made him realise
that he too wanted to do something ahead in his life which would give him same satisfaction. He
started to think of a career in business. So he joined his fathers business and started working with
his father. He also did social service side by side as he had a keen interest in this field, so he gained
some experience with other non-profit organizations, he felt he needed to do something about the
social issues which boosted him to start an NGO.

Activities:

At Yuva Prerana Pratishthan they believe that lack of conductive environment and positive role
model have led to the problem of aimless education. As a response to the problem, yuva prerana
works with childrens and young adolescents through the programs run in low-income private
schools and communities in the city of Nalasopara, Vasai, Virar and Boisar.

There are various programs which are as follows:

Regular activities

Educational program:

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The educational program focuses on creating a conductive environment in school by building
capacities of students up to grade VII and key stakeholders like parents and teachers for enabling
students to make informed decisions pertaining to their future education. We also provide
educational needs like books, clothing, food and many more thing to students on getting a grade
in education and sports. The inputs to the students are through skill development sessions to
emphasise on the need of identifying and developing the skill to transform their passion into
gainful employment. They aim to work closely with schools especially teachers to facilitate them
to deal with the children in more efficient ways and with the principals to build leadership to ensure
that they create platforms like schools where children have the opportunities to learn about careers
form from activities like exhibition, presentations from experts etc. they also aim to engage with
the parents to built their capacity in positive parenting skill, exposure to different educational and
career options and to improve the communication skills. This initiative will lead to creating
conductive environment at home school and community.

Schools also provide an adequate improvement and gainful thing to students and give opportunity
to go ahead in the particular sports and education through various programs done in the district
like palghar, there are vasai kala kreda which give the students an stage based opportunity to such
student and brings up a great talent through it.

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Day care centre:

The children are brought to the day care centre. The teachers and field workers individually go to
every home and call the children to attend the centre. Here the children are given basic education
like learning the alphabets, numbers, rhymes etc. for older children who are not able to attend
schools special classes are given of the level of school going children. After one year at the day
care the child is enrolled in the school to get further education.

Other activities

Drama for Development:

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Drama for development is a one year program run in the communities which uses drama as a
platform to develop skills that are essential for career. It is used as a methodology of awareness,
action and policy through which children develops awareness about self and issues in the society.
Using the platform of drama, children take initiative and become involved in their community
issues. They also conduct rallies and street play to spread awareness about the issues within the
community which helps in developing, their communication, problem solving, team work. By the
time they graduate they already have certain basic foundations for any further steps they need to
take towards higher education, livelihood and most importantly growing up as confident young
citizen.

Livelihood program:

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Youths often do not have an environment in which they can develop essential life skills, workplace
reediness skills and guidance for choosing career in the field of their interest. They also lack the
exposure to the industry where they will be working in future and a result of which are often low
on confidence.

Livelihood program is a platform to develop skills such as English and IT skill training, career
development. This program is for childrens and youth. This training sessions are conducted by
facilitators who are equipped with the knowledge and skill required. This activity is carried out in
various schools.

Youth Development & Training Centre:

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An accessible centre in the community where a 3 months livelihood programme is run for youth,
who are known as aspirants, in the community in the age group of 18-25 which developes them
through like skill training, English and IT skills.

Women empowerment:

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The women empowerment program aims to assist deprived women to improve their self-
confidence by helping them to improve their literacy and skills. Living in a male-dominated society
some women in India are illiterate and lack the opportunities to develop their fundamental skills.

Yuva Prerna Pratishthan volunteers this program and will assist local women in tasks including
teaching and enhancing their knowledge of English language. Improving their listening, reading,
writing and speaking skills. Teaching them about computers and how to operate them. Teaching
them about culture and general knowledge. Teaching them about basic personal hygiene. By doing
this woman may also enhance their skill and confidence with other fun creative ideas.

Community development:
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There are various initiative taken for community development, water continues to be a issue at all
the places steps have been taken to provide drinking water. Waste management are undertaken for
better and efficient methods and results.

These are the activities that are carried out by different NGO’s they perform similar kind of
activities in the same field. These NGO’s are making a big difference through their activities, lakhs
of people are getting help from these companies. India is the first county to where the government
has made compulsory law for the company to spend 2% of total profit from previous 3 years.
Because of such initiative NGO’s and corporates have played a big role in reducing social
problems happening in the country. Because of which there is a considerable amount of change in
the county and in the lives of the people. There are still many affected peoples but at this pace we
can soon witness a change in the country’s social problem.

Provision of water supply

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A threat of drought looms large over Palghar district in the region of Maharashtra, due to the
deficient rainfall and excess use of water for agriculture purpose. Most part of Palghar received
average rainfall last monsoon and the water stock in the region stands at just 16.81 percentage,
according to figures of the water resources department of Saphale region.

The Karwale dam, considered lifeline of Palghar, has around 24.45 percent water stock, as
compared to 48.77 percent the same day last year. At least Palghar district is under threat of
drought like situation said by an official of water resources department. But, it is too early to
predict if the regions will face server scarcity. As per officials figure, the Karwale dam in Saphale
has 8.24 percent water stock as compared to 48.04 last monsoon, while the Pelar dam in the same
district has completely dried up. It has 28.81 percent water stock in the dams

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE TRUST

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 1) FINANCE

The major issue faced by the trust is the financial issue. Earlier when the Saphale project “Saphale
seva prakalp” the trust was not having enough funds for 5-6 years, not even for the basic needs
like food.

Later all the volunteers at Saphale project worked systematically at Palghar by contacting various
industries and businessman and explained the project and its benefits, and many young engineers
and senior officers from various industries are giving financial support to the trust.

Currently the trust is receiving enough funds from the nearby areas as well as from corporate that
they can easily run their trust and came up with different new projects that presently no other NGO
in the area serves. About 35% of the donations comes from the young generations.

2) DEDICATED WORKFORCE

The next issue that the trust is facing is that it is lacking with dedicated work force. The trust has
very few permanent employees and others are the volunteers.

Where the trust says they want employees who can serve the trust for a minimum period of 2 years
so that there is a sense of understanding and proper continuity and uniformity in the organization.

3) REACH

The trust wants to increase their reach by starting more of such projects in the areas where there is
a need and the government fails to reach there.

But because of the financial issues that the trust is facing as well as the lack of dedicated workforce
the trust is not able to make it possible. But they are planning and trying hard to achieve this.

Apart from all of the above issues, there is a requirement of food every day by the Yuva Prerana
Pratishthan.

There are lots of people who provide food to the needy, but they did not have food stock in the
quantity required for the month Feb-March.

I and my friends personally chose this area and decided to help them by making a plan.

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We all asked people from our respective societies, if they are interested to help the needy people.

As Yuva Prerana Pratishthan is near to my place it was easier to meet the children and understand
what they face and lack in .

From my society there were 20 families who came up to help these people and contributed to
provide raw materials.

Lack of support

In yuva prerana pratishthan there is no backup and support by the people and infact doing of a
good thing for the people there are many barriers which come in between such as, peoples support,
community crisis, religion issues, political problems and most important the lack of volunteer
taking part in such events not about the event but also about the funds and donation.

LEARNING AT YUVA PRERNA PRATISHTHAN.

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 By working here at yuva prerna pratishthan I got to know are as follow:
 child rights in todays world
 I got to lean there are lot of places in this region where the government is
unable to reach and people are living with most suffering
 I learned about various people coming from various social classes and their
problems.
 I got to learn about the education need to the backward classes in the society
and community.
 I got to know, how important it is for an NGO to be financially stable.
 I learned how finance (funds) is essential for an NGO to be visible in the
society for the support.
Conclusions and Findings

Several interactions with different social workers and volunteers amongst which Mr. Devarshi
Pathak trustee of the Yuva Prerana Pratishthan described finance as the main hindrance in the
NGO sector. Even though there are several individuals contributing to the social cause the finance
is not enough to support all the activities.

Cities in Thane district where average income is high there are several contributors and financial
donations are high but this money has to be also used for activities in parts where there may be no
financial support available.

Hence even though there are substantial contributions and donations coming in to the revenue
stream this is not enough to support the entire activity by Yuva Prerana Pratishthan .

Suggestions and recommendations

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 The government has introduced several rules for corporate as well as individuals to encourage
participation in social welfare activities. The government has also introduced tax benefits for
donation or contribution to NGOs
Example: Tax benefits All donations to the trust are eligible for income tax exemption under
section 80 (G) of income tax act. The trust has also secured sanction used section 35 AC of income
tax act where 100% deduction is permissible for corporate sector and professionals. We have also
sanctioned used FCRA regulation to accept foreign donations.

But still the main obstacle faced by NGOs today is lack of adequate finance. The government
should introduce laws making it compulsory to either contribute time or financial resources to
social activities which will further boost and provide a better platform to these NGOs.

References

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