Non-profit OrganizationDedicated to social justice and leadership development for community success

ORGANIZING for the FUTUREGov Reg No: 21/2015Unlocking people power

Fundraising Proposal for Women Empowerment Community Organizing Projects

Vision: Every child should get free or affordable quality education. All hardworking families should receive opportunities to reach a better lifestyle.Mission: Our mission is to organize, educate and empower communities to address poverty and systemic inequality in power through community organizing.

What we do: Organizing for the Future is a change organization. We try to change the conditions that affecting people lives. We bring people together for effective action where individual cannot do it alone. We are planning below social change projects in Kapra, Hyderabad, India.Our method of change: There are many ways to improve world. We focus on one way, the strategy of community organizing building powerful, ongoing groups to change the conditions causing the problem. It is not charity work. We believe that we are trying to do something that no one else is doing in this area. This type of bottom-up approach for building societies and organizing by ordinary people at the community level has changed the fundamental mode of operation of societies all around the world.Core processes in our work1. Building relationships with communities to organize people for solving community problems. 2. Laser-sharp focus on developing leadership.3. Building alliances with other groups.4. Research potential winnable solutions, involving the people affected by the problem, experts, institutions and other actors in the community. 5. Development of collective action plan around the agenda by leveraging the power of people.6. Evaluate and reflect on the commitments we made, learn from our actions, and keep acting.

Our Women Empowering Program-To create better worldNation building starts with empowered individuals. We are organizing women empowerment workshops in low-income areas. We believe educating women has a huge ripple effect on entire community. Empowered ladies will bring change in their family and in the world. In this 5 months workshop we empower them in all spheres of life at individual level, family level and community level. We train them on vocational skills, develop their individuality, provide knowledge, entrepreneurship ideas and motivate them to take the ownership of their community issues.

Goals: To develop their self-esteem, self-awareness and self-confidence To increase their income and to decrease dependency on their spouse Help them to contribute more to their families and communities Develop a community learning center including various other skills like technology education with computers, spoken english and other useful programs.Need of the Project: We identified many low income areas in Kapra, Hyderabad. In those women are suffering with unemployment, unstable jobs, low self-esteem and lack of opportunities to go ahead in their life. Many hardworking girls who dropped out of college/school and young housewives are willing to develop new skills to improve their lives for better. Through our grassroots campaigns we understood that thousands of families struggling to make ends meet, and they dont have economic security. They desperately needed women empowering workshops to receive economic opportunities, and to maximize their potential. Our work is to ensure anyone willing to work hard should reach a better life style, and also making sure quality education is affordable to them.Strategy & Targeted areaThis program is a community outreach program. Our strategy is we reach out communities, organize them, touch them and empower them. We would like to setup multipurpose skills development workshops in their neighborhood community. We already completed this kind of projects in two low income areas (Yella Reddy Guda & Gandhi Nagar) in Kapra. Based on our past experience this project is estimated to empower close to 100 ladies in each of below other areas, in Kapra Hyderabad. The beneficiaries are including high school, college drop outs and young women. . Gemmi Gadda BJR Nagar Sairam Nagar

Estimated Budget: Sponsoring a workshop in one of the area approximately: $ 1100 or (66,000 Rs)

Buying 5 normal sewing machines for the workshop: 5*4500 Rs22,500

Instructor salary for 5 months 5*800040,000

Other expenses including Table & Board & Chairs & Mats for ladies sitting2,500

TOTAL65,000

Note: 100% of your funds will be utilized for this program not for any other operating expenses.Achievements till date:Our organization is a change organization. Generally certain aspect of social impact is hard to measure. But for accountability below important results we achieved in less than a year from the organization started date.

We reached out close to 200 low income women (that is 1000 including their family and dependent members) and developed their skills, empowered them to maximize their potential. We organized below big community events to bring together for a change, to interact, learn and grow. 1. Skills development workshop opening event2. Swachh Bharat Through traditional folk art3. Community event- To distribute workshop completion certifications4. Community event- Dial your village team field visit We got government certificate on tailoring course, on that they can get bank loan of 50,000 thousand rupees and also bigger loans more than 2 lakhs for a new start up if they have a business plan. Our commitment & hard work is opening many opportunities to communities. We got Rockwell industries ltd to set-up a call-center office in the same location where we organizing women empowerment workshops. This company started the hiring process to offer part-time or full time jobs for many women in phase wise those who studied at least 10th class. But unfortunately this project is on hold from client slide. Our tailoring skills development workshop is helping all the women stitching their own family dresses; it saves them at least 3000-5000 Rs per year. Few of them working in boutique shops, and some of them using their skills to earn money working from home, and some of them are ready to take loan from the banks to self-support them. We gave them knowledge for nearly 200 people about school issues, challenges and the role of the parents to create better schools. We organized a workshop with 40 women on how to make everyday households products at home for very cheap, like Herbal shampoos, liquid-soaps, Washing powders etc. After this workshop many women making these products by themselves at home, and ready to sell others in the community, it is saving significant amount of money monthly.

Please look at our FB posts links to get more information on above achievements.https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.870024729718486.1073741938.557542240966738&type=3https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.861260667261559.1073741934.557542240966738&type=3https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.857304994323793.1073741933.557542240966738&type=3

Dial your village team field visithttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.923445224376436.1073741954.557542240966738&type=3

Certificate distribution eventhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.880718365315789.1073741941.557542240966738&type=3

Swachh Bharat through folk arthttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.777972775590349.1073741909.557542240966738&type=3

Workshop opening eventhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.759726964081597.1073741905.557542240966738&type=3

Author & Lead Organizer:I am Vamsi Machiraju, Lives in Hyderabad, India, married, has one daughter. I started my IT career in Bangalore, later I moved to US with family, lived over there for more than 5 years as software professional in integration technologies. In US I had volunteered, participated in grassroots community organizing groups like faith, broad-based, and President Obama political organization Organizing For America. I tasted the power of organizing. I quit my job, returned to India in Feb 2013 since then I am working on social issues I care. I am planning for community organizing pilot projects for social change.

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