STEP 1: Fill-up the application form and tell us about your organization / project
STEP 2: Interview / discussion to understand if the collaboration will be fruitful
STEP 3: Submit necessary documents. Commit to work with Touching Lives
When you are a dreamer, who has a vision to serve the society / create social impact, what you need from a mentor is - someone who operates from a similar heart space, someone has experience of working in the field and understands the challenges and realities at the grassroots level and someone who let's YOU define your need (whether it is creating a fundraising strategy for a short-term project or it is setting-up processes for building a sustainable organization).
As an NGO working at the grassroots level since more than 18 years and as an organization having supported many other organizations, individuals, teams working on educational projects both in urban and rural geographies, Touching Lives now supports 2 social entrepreneurs every year for organization development and capacity building with a structured mentorship program.
Sonia Mackwani, Founder-Director of Touching Lives, is a multiple award winning social entrepreneur. She started out in 2003 at the age of 21 with an inner need to 'serve'.
Over the course of last decade, many individuals and organizations embarking on a similar journey approached Sonia and Touching Lives for advise and support. One of the foundational values of Touching Lives is to 'share' its resources and knowledge. What began as an informal exercise of guiding other 'dreamers on a similar journey' eventually took the form of a structured mentorship program in 2022.
Mentors from Touching Lives work on the mutually agreed upon goals with the mentee for 6 months. The monthly interactive sessions include reflection exercises, knowledge sharing, discussions, creation of actionable plan, revisiting and following-up on each step.
Fundraising avenues and strategies Networking
Reporting Compliance Proposals
Model of education - Curriculum, methodologies, lesson plan, assessment Classroom set-up
Volunteer program Short-term and long-term goals
Relationship building with communities
Touching Lives Mentors provide regular responses to queries and ideas on whatsapp
Touching Lives shares about the project of mentee in its network - website, instagram, newsletter
Structured 6-month mentoring program on organization development
Mentee can apply for Touching Lives Tithing Program (Grant).
SAMP is as a structured program for the purpose of efficiency. Yet, the approach is friendly, humane, non-stressful and light. Touching Lives mentors strive to work with an awareness - 'It is not : 'one organization helping/supporting another one', but knowing that 'we will be on this journey together'
The mentee needs to give a commitment of dedicating 4 hours every month for attending online mentorship sessions, completing reflection exercises and taking responsibility to execute the action plan.
Touching Lives will not get involved in the execution of the mentee's project, it will only guide and advise.
NGOs, social impact organizations, individuals, teams working on existing social project or teams / organizations who have a vision of starting a new social project.
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STEP 1: Fill-up the application form and tell us about your organization / project
STEP 2: Interview / discussion to understand if the collaboration will be fruitful
STEP 3: Submit necessary documents. Commit to work with Touching Lives
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