TAP India Competitors

Teach For India is a nationwide movement of leaders dedicated to providing an excellent education for all children. These include both Fellows, who commit two years to teaching low-income & under-resourced classrooms, as well as Staff teams, who bolster these efforts through strategic support & organizational direction. To learn more about the movement and the work that we do, visit www.teachforindia.org.

Founded in 1999 by Matthew Spacie, Magic Bus is building a world where young people break out of poverty to lead fulfilling, rewarding lives and contribute positively to their communities. This is achieved by enabling adolescents to complete secondary education and skilling young people to be in jobs. Our Childhood to Livelihood programme works with adolescents and young people in the age group of 12 to 24 years. Over the past two decades, we have spread our reach across India and impacted more than 1 million young people across 24 states and 75 districts. We have set up 240 Community Learning Centres and are present in 2342 schools We have set up 80 Livelihood Centres and 8 Entrepreneurship Incubation Centres What are our programmes about? Childhood Programme: In our Childhood Programme, we work with adolescents and multiple stakeholders from their connected ecosystem. We focus on teaching Life Skills, enhancing education and imparting employability skills. Livelihood Programme: Our Livelihood Programme enhances employability by imparting Employability Skills and connecting young people to sustainable livelihood opportunities through sector specific training, job placements and post-placement support. Entrepreneurship Development Programme: Our Entrepreneurship Development Programme assists and mentors budding young entrepreneurs from underserved communities, 70 successful entrepreneurs from 3 regions have been supported through this programme. To find out more about our programmes and support our work visit: http://www.magicbus.org

Aavishkaar started in the year 2001 with a vision to invest in entrepreneurs building sustainable enterprises that can catalyze development impact for excluded communities and remote geographies across the globe. Aavishkaar's initial focus was India and now is taking its learnings to countries in South and South East Asia. Over the years, Aavishkaar through its various initiatives in micro equity and micro finance space has pioneered the approach of building a financial ecosystem that would nurture entrepreneurs by providing risk capital for scalable rural focused enterprises. Our mission is to evolve an approach to investing that nurture entrepreneurs in building enterprises that can generate commercial returns while serving humanity sustainably.