Asha for Education - Colorado Chapter
        P.O. Box 234
Lafayette, CO 80026

Project Name:

Date:

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Project Contact Information

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Part I: Information about your group/organization

Please feel free to attach any additional sheets and/or information such as brochures, press reports etc.

1. Name of the organization requesting funds. *

2. When was the organization established? *

3. Briefly describe:

a) Motivation for starting this organization and the history of the organization. *

b) Organizational structure (e.g. Board of Trustees, Directors etc.)

c) Profiles of the directors/board of trustees of the organization

4. Briefly describe the long-term objectives of your organization?

5. Does your organization have any religious or political affiliation? If yes, please describe the type of affiliation. *

6. Describe all the activities your organization is currently involved in (in reverse chronological order starting with the present).

 

Part II: Details about your educational project/s

Note: If this specific project has been funded earlier by Asha Colorado and you are requesting renewal of funding, please use the progress report form in appendix A.

8a. Please provide an overview of the project that you are soliciting funds for [RP1]  . *

8b. Describe briefly the other projects run by your group, their locations and the training provided.

9a. If this project is initiated by another NGO, please choose the type of NGO?

o        Small NGO (in terms of annual funding and infrastructure)

o        Indigenously or locally funded

o        Established NGOs

o        Other (please explain)

9b. Please provide us with the information for the primary contact person from this NGO

Name:

Address:

Phone number:

Email address:

10a) How would you describe the location of the project? Circle the location of the project from below:

o        Tribal districts (ex: Garhchiroli, Bastar, Santhal Pargan)

o        Hill districts

o        Far flung districts, away from urban centers (ex: Banaskantha, Dharamapuri, Gonda, Anantpur)

o        Street Dwellers

o        Block / District Towns (ex: Dhule, Hoshangabad)

o        Small town slums

o       Suburban metropolitan area

o       Others (please describe)

10 b) Has this area been affected recently by any natural/political disasters? If yes, please explain the situation briefly.

11. How would you describe the activities of the project that you are soliciting funds for? Please choose the appropriate category/s from the list provided below. *

o        Primary education

o        Non-formal Education

o        Special Education for mentally and physically challenged children

o        Orphanage

o        Curriculum intervention

o        After school tutorials

o        Vocational training

o        Community development initiative

o        Other (please specify)

12. Please describe about your teaching techniques.*

13. What are the main causes for resistance to education around the geographical area of the project under consideration? *

12a. What is the literacy rate in your local community?

12b. Which sector of the society does the beneficiaries belong to? Please circle the appropriate option.

o        Bonded and Landless laborers

o        Tribal populations

o        Street Children and children of sex-workers

o        Migratory labor (ex: construction, quarry, brick kiln workers, etc.)

o        Unorganized labor (ex: domestic servants, taxi drivers, auto drivers)

o        The urban underprivileged (ex: factory worker, daily wage earner)

12c. What changes does this project aims to bring about in the current conditions.

13a. What do the kids do outside school hours?

13b. If the children are engaged in child labor, what is the most vulnerable age at which they start working?

13c. What is the nature of work they engage in?

14a. What is the admission criteria for students to join your school?

14b. How many students did you start with? 

14c. How many students attend your school currently?

14d. What is your boy: girl ratio?

14e.What is the age group of children attending your facility?

14f.What is your teacher: student ratio? (For education related projects only)*

14g. What is the fee paid by the students?

15. In addition to education, does your group provide any other services to the students in your schools (e.g. food, health care, clothing, etc.)? Please explain.*

16. What community development activities is your organization involved in?

 

 17. Does your school have:

Its own building(s):      Yes        No       Number      

Number and type of classrooms (e.g. Pukka):      

                           Yes  No                          Yes  No                                   Yes  No

Toilets                           Playground                    Toys                    

Chairs & Table          Blackboard                      Library                

Drinking water           Electricity                         Computers          

Laboratory                                      Teaching aids (e.g. books/slates)           

Others (please specify)

118a. How many staff members are employed at your schools? *

Teachers                       Minimum Qualifications      

Other staff               (Please explain)

18b. Please answer the following questions so that we can get a picture of the staff members (tabular format)

o        Gender

o        Age

o        Teaching experience & training

o        Salary

o        General background of each teacher (to get an idea of what motivates each: money? Social service?)
 

19a. Please answer this if your institute has existed for at least 3 years.

19b. How many students have gone through your program in the past 3 years

19c. What are they doing currently?  

19d. Do you prepare them adequately for future education and employment opportunities? If yes, please explain.

220a.  Are there any other schools (Kindergarten/Balwadi, Elementary school, High school) in the area?

20b. If yes, please list the schools and the range of classes each of them offers.

20c. Why are the children in your school/s not attending government/other schools in the local area?

21. What are your expansion plans for the future (e.g. adding more classes or schools)? How do you see your school impacting the village 3 years from now?

22. Please provide us with the contact information of two individuals from your community who can describe the impact of your program. *

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23. Asha for Education requires reports from its projects every six months/annually to continue funding. Please provide the contact information for the person from your group who will be responsible for these reports.

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Part III: Financial Details

Please feel free to attach any information such as annual reports, budgets etc.

24a. Does your organization have FCRA clearance from the Indian government? This is required for you to receive foreign funds. *

24b. If no, have you applied for FCRA or temporary FCRA? What is the status of your FCRA application?

25a. Please provide details of your past and current funding. If the funds were given for a specific purpose, please outline these restrictions for us as well

25b. Please provide us with the primary contact person from each current-additional/past funding agency

26. Please provide us with details of your projected budget for the next 3 years: *

                                                  

Year(s)

Recurring costs

Fixed costs

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27. What are your proposed means of continuing the project (financially) after current funding ends*
 

Appendix A: Progress Report

[For use by an organization in India for the annual/ half yearly financial report to be submitted to Asha-CO. Please include details from the last funding period.]

Date:

When did the funding begin

When does the current funding end:

Time- Period Covered in this report:

Amount of funds received from Asha:

In US dollars:

In Indian rupees:

Total Budget for the project that you solicited funds for:

How much of the total funds for the project has your organization been able to generate? Please give us the specific details.

Expenditure of past funds(of Asha Funds): (Please Include budgeted and actual figures. Please be as detailed as possible):

If there is a significant departure from the budget, please explain.

Progress of the Project

In the past funding period, what is the number of (regular) students benefited by the activities of this project (how many children, number of males/females, age and other demographics, and other relevant details): Please compare these numbers with those before the start of this funding period

Please describe the progress made by your organization. Did you meet the goals that you eventually set out to? Are you confident of meeting the goals that you eventually set out to?

What were your plans?

What did you do?

What was the outcome?

What is the next step?

In the past funding period, please describe any issues of concern that you feel need to be addressed.

How would you like to address these issues going forward?

Please describe your plans for proposed funding period?

What do you think Asha can do to help you achieve your goals? How can Asha work with you to help you achieve your goals? (more ideological again, that we work with partner groups in India, and do not just fund them, more stress on the joint collaborative effort) 

Please enclose photographs of the project site and/or children’s benefiting from the project.

  [RP1] Has this project been funded earlier by Asha/or any other agency? If so, please use the progress report form in appendix A to describe details of the funding, and the progress achieved, in that period.