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About the Organisation
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Our vision is to positively, productively, and passionately engage every youth of India into careers of their choice. In line with this mission, we have set an ambitious goal of impacting 25 lakh youth by 2030 via embedding 'Phygital' Career campuses in formal education systems.
The next milestone to achieve this goal is to impact 4.3 lakh students by 2024 and expand our operations to 2 other states.
Antarang's Capabilities:
Antarang has worked with over 135,000 students over the last 10 years. More than 80% of all students are in employment, education, or training as compared to the national averages of more than 50% of students who do not complete high school. Antarang has also empowered half of the CareeReady graduates to increase their family incomes by 30%. Career classes and counseling sessions conducted by our facilitators with both students and parents have led to more than 85% of our beneficiaries having clarity of career plan.
One of the major achievements of Antarang has been to embed career guidance and career counseling as part of the school curriculum. We have strong working relationships with multiple governments like Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the District Education Office, Udaipur; the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, and the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, among others.
The core differentiators of the Antarang Foundation have been to use the government as a vehicle for scale, leverage simple technology like smartphones and WhatsApp, and nurture agency in young adults to independently navigate career pathways. We have rolled out a 24/7 WhatsApp career chatbot that provides career and transition support to students at their fingertips. Antarang is also developing a digital Career GPS that will act as a one-stop platform for the students to explore careers, industries, streams, college, and other career-related information. It will also help them track their career transitions from grade 10 to high shool and from grade 12 to employment opportunities or higher education.
With a cadre of trained career facilitators and a proven track record of building aspirations in young adults- we have acquired the capacity to deliver effectively. Using governments and technology as levers for scale has enabled us to stay lean. The average age of the organization is below 30, and the culture is one of learning and innovation - helping us adapt to curveballs like COVID.
Challenges:
As we work primarily with low-income communities and government schools, we face the following challenges:
1. Close to 70% of all in-school vulnerable adolescents are in low-income private schools- which is a disaggregated network
2. ~50% of adolescents are not in school - they can only be reached through the vast network of on-ground community/ NGO partners.
Antarang addresses these issues through strong partnerships with the government, local NGOs, and industry across geographies. This amplifies impact by leveraging access to employment and education opportunities. We have learned that while advocacy can work to mandate internships and apprenticeships, catalyzing implementation at the ground level requires local support and expertise. In the medium term, the Covid-19 pandemic has posed another major challenge of access to our beneficiaries. This has been tackled strategically with digital innovation and conversion of program delivery to digital platforms, use of WhatsApp career chatbot, and phone counseling to ensure that students stay in education. Thus, limiting the dropout rates emerging out of Covid.
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Antarang Foundation primarily works to solve the problem of employability by enabling successful school-to-work transitions. We do this by generating Career Awareness, building Career Aspirations and providing access to opportunities. Thus, our key qualitative and quantitative impact indicators include the following:
1. Career Awareness: At least 80% of Students know at least 3 career choices in line with their interests, aptitude, and reality.
2. Clear Career Aspirations: At least 80% of students have increase career aspirations
3. Clear Career Plan: At least 80% of students have clarity of career plan
4. Successful Transitions from grade 10 to 11 and grade 12 to higher education/training/internships: At least 80% of students transition from grade 10 to 11/diploma/ apprenticeships and at least 80% of grade 12 students transition to higher educaiton/ vocational training/ employment.
5. Students of grade 11 and 12 are equipped with basic work skills: 75% students are aware of the workplace skills necessary to move ahead in their chosen career
6. More students enroll into higher education: Increase overall gross enrolment ratio by 20%
All of these indicators are tracked and monitored via an employability diagnostic and SalesForce database, the details of which are given below.
Monitoring and Tracking Processes
Antarang uses both custom built and open source technology tools across the program value chain to track, monitor and evaluate the outcomes of the program.
Enrolment into the program is tracked by the community engagement team through PREP - a mobile application that registers students and transfers them into the AF database, a web application that is accessed by the facilitators who deliver the program. The facilitators track attendance, participation in exposure visits and projects and work ethics through this web application on a daily basis. A baseline career readiness diagnostic measures the baseline employability score of the students and the same diagnostic is administered at the end of the program which measures the end line score. Once students graduate the 3 month classroom module of the training, they are moved to a Salesforce enabled system that matches their career Plan As and Bs to available career opportunities and sends them messages to apply and interview through a student facing mobile application. Continued professional development opportunities in the form of workshops, mentoring and courses are also pushed to the students through the CareeReady App and their participation is tracked and reported through Salesforce. Data studio enabled dashboards pick up key metrics from the Salesforce as well as the Applications and present it for easy and real time decision making and course correction.
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In 2012, two young men - one who was putting himself through college by working a grueling 12-hour job and another who was a school dropout, also doing the same job came to meet me - both were due to be promoted to the same position. The soon-to-be college graduate wondered why he was toiling when he could drop out and become the same store manager. That is when the realization hit that there was no systemic bridge that helped disadvantaged adolescents make informed transitions from school to work. What started as a small pilot with 20 first-generation learners in a shack in a low-income community in Mumbai, today enables ~55,000 adolescents year on year to make these informed transitions into careers of choice. Antarang Foundation envisions a world where every young adult is passionately, productively, and positively engaged in a career of her/his choice.
Antarang is on track to democratizing career opportunities by enabling 2.5 million youth to make successful school-to-work transitions by 2030. We are in the process of building a collaborative platform that brings adolescents, school systems, and industry together to enable career xploration and informed career decisions for all, thus bringing equity in career opportunities.
Antarang Foundation believes and has a vision where every young person is passionately, productively and positively engaged in a career of their choice. Through two career focused programs, "CareerAware" and "CareeReady", the foundation works to bridge the Employability gap that exists amongst disadvantaged youth. As of March 2023, ~80% of our students are engaged in Education, Employment or Training compared to the national average of 72.4%
Antarang’s work brings a familiar medical analogy to solve the opportunity gap in employment and incomes. Just as any chronic ailment requires both prevention and cure; an informed school-to-work transition requires adolescents to stay in school and have a clear aspiration (prevention) and the ability and access to opportunities (cure).
Just as you would see a doctor when you are unwell, you would see a career facilitator when you need any help with your future plans.
We solved for one of the critical root causes and leveraged a key strength - build awareness and aspiration and leverage innate agency. We are now in the process of harnessing technology to strengthen agency.
Our novel approach involves the following components:
1. Embedding ‘Careers’ as part of the school curriculum is a bold step in leveling the playing field
2. Embedding phygital career campuses in the formal education system will bring high-end digital access to the less privileged
3. A Career Chatbot that provides 24*7 career support at one's fingertips
4. All of these are envisioned to be part of a digital Career Tracker that maps a young student’s journey and encourages her to reach milestones en route to her career destination
Antarang envisions a world where every young person is passionately, productively and positively engaged in a career of their choice.
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AAETA0540K
PAN Registration Document
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083781565
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16/02/2023
Priya Agrawal Founder-‐Director BSc, MBA. Priya has 23 years of experience, 10 years in advertising and 13 years in the social sector as the former COO of The Akanksha Foundation and SNEHA. She founded Antarang in 2013. Priya has been a Dasra Social Impact Fellow 2010 and Dasra Social Impact 20 Fellow 2014.
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Volunteers are welcome in the field of communication, event management, and teaching.
Current vacancies include:
- Associate- Partnerships
- Associate- Fundraising
- Associate- Content & Training
- Associate - Programs
Please note: Only organisations with FCRA registration are eligible to receive foreign contributions.
If the organisation has mentioned the URL of a website for online donations/ further details, please copy the link into a separate browser window.We are seeking funding to the tune of INR 12 cr for the year 2023-24 to impact ~ 10 lakh youth between the age of 14-18 years in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Goa.
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