I-saksham Education And Learning Foundation

What I-saksham Education And Learning Foundation does

I-Saksham Education And Learning Foundation is an Indian nonprofit incorporated in 2017 and headquartered in New Delhi, operating a community-led intervention model across six field offices in rural Bihar (Munger, Jamui, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, and two sites in Begusarai). Its flagship product is the 2-Year Edu-Leader Fellowship Program, which selects young women from the same marginalized communities it serves through community nominations, written assessments, behavioral interviewing, and family counseling, then trains them across three pillars — Personal Leadership, Educational Leadership, and Community Leadership — before deploying them to drive school enrollment, life-skills delivery, and parental engagement within local government schools. The organization's go-to-market is a community-led, event-driven model anchored in direct field engagement; alumni transition into the WAYAM Alumni Network for sustained post-fellowship community action, and a sub-program called Project Maitri extends reach to out-of-school girls.

The business model is donation- and philanthropy-driven, with no fees charged to beneficiaries; funds are routed through GiveIndia (domestic) and Benevity (international) campaigns, supplemented by CSR and grant funding. There is no proprietary technology platform — the intervention is fundamentally human-led, with IT functions limited to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). The organization is supported by an advisory bench that includes former CEOs of GiveIndia, Pratham, and Piramal Foundation, the country director of Michaels and Susan Dell Foundation (India), and board members from Boston Consulting Group, Acuvon Consulting, and PRADAN. Strategic institutional partners include the Government of Bihar, JEEViKA, Pradan, Pratham, and Azim Premji University, which provide embedded access to government schools and state livelihood programs. No revenue, headcount, or funding-round figures are publicly disclosed in the available sources.

Name

I-saksham Education And Learning Foundation

Legal name

I-Saksham Education And Learning Foundation

Website

https://i-saksham.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

I-Saksham is an Indian nonprofit (founded 2017) running a 2-year Edu-Leader Fellowship that trains young women from marginalized rural Bihar communities as local change agents delivering education and gender-equity interventions in government schools, funded entirely through donations via GiveIndia and Benevity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Education and Community Development

NAICS

Educational Services (61), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Education, Skills & Workforce Development Aid Programs (BPADABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK), Higher Education Capacity Building & Scholarships (BPADAKAG)

Keywords

• Nonprofit education
• Women empowerment
• Leadership fellowship
• Rural development
• Community education

Headquarters

HQ city

New Delhi

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Philanthropic Contributions: i-Saksham operates as a nonprofit organization funded through domestic and international donations. The organization accepts financial contributions through Give Campaign (domestic donations) and Benevity Campaign (foreign donations), enabling supporters to build corpus funds for the mission.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

I-Saksham Education And Learning Foundation runs the 2-Year Edu-Leader Fellowship Program, which identifies, trains, and deploys young women from marginalized rural communities in Bihar as community educators and change leaders. The foundation directly recruits, trains, and supports these fellows in delivering education and development interventions in underserved villages.

Product overview

I-Saksham Education And Learning Foundation operates primarily through its 2 Years Edu-Leader Fellowship Program—a single, comprehensive program that develops young women in rural Bihar as leaders of change. The program has three integrated pillars: Personal Leadership (building individual skills and confidence), Educational Leadership (driving educational inclusion and life-skills delivery), and Community Leadership (fostering grassroots change agents). Fellows join the WAYAM Alumni Network after graduation to continue their development. The organization also publishes annual reports, impact reports, and research papers documenting program outcomes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Edu-Leader Fellowship Program: 2-year fellowship program that empowers local young women as edu-leaders solving education and gender challenges
• WAYAM Network
• Project Maitri

Products and services

• 2-Year Edu-Leader Fellowship Program

Quantifiable outcome

• 88% of young women aged 16-24 in rural Bihar drop out of formal education (National Family Health Survey-5)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Government of BiharcoreOthers
• JEEViKAcoreOthers
• PradancoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner
• PrathamcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner
• Azim Premji UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development Partner
• Partner Organizations (logos displayed)minorOthers

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Pratham Education Foundation: One of India's largest education NGOs operating across multiple states including Bihar, focused on improving learning outcomes for underprivileged children. Highly comparable mission around educational inclusion and life-skills delivery in government schools, though at substantially larger scale and broader geographic scope.
• Room to Read: Global education nonprofit operating across multiple countries including India, focused on literacy and girls' education. Comparable in its focus on girls' education and life-skills, though operating at international scale with a different funding and program model.
• EkStep Foundation: Indian philanthropic foundation working on open digital infrastructure for education and learning. Comparable as a fellow education-focused Indian foundation, though with a technology-platform orientation rather than direct community-based delivery.
• Azim Premji Foundation: Large Indian philanthropic foundation working on education and livelihood development across rural India, including Bihar. Directly comparable in education-and-gender focus and rural footprint; i-Saksham is listed as a partner, but the foundation operates at vastly greater scale.

Direct peers

• Barefoot College: Rural development organization that trains local women from marginalized communities as solar engineers, teachers, and health workers to drive grassroots change. Highly comparable in deploying local rural women as change agents and the empowerment-through-skills model.
• Teach For India: Fellowship-based nonprofit that places young leaders in low-income schools across India. Comparable in its 2-year fellowship structure, leadership development framing, and alumni network approach, though focused on urban/ peri-urban classrooms rather than rural Bihar communities.
• Educate Girls: India-based nonprofit focused on enrolling and retaining out-of-school girls in rural and underserved communities, with explicit gender-equity and community-volunteer mobilization models. Closely comparable to i-Saksham in target demographic (marginalized rural girls), geography (Bihar/Rajasthan/MP), and outcome theory of change.

Regional players

• Mann Deshi Foundation: Maharashtra-based nonprofit focused on rural women's entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and leadership. Comparable in targeting rural marginalized women for economic empowerment, but geographically focused on Western India.
• SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association): Women's empowerment organization focused on informal-sector women workers across India, with strong presence in rural and semi-urban geographies. Comparable in targeting marginalized women for economic and social empowerment, but operates primarily in Gujarat with national reach.

Others

• Dasra: Indian strategic philanthropy foundation that supports and accelerates growth of nonprofits, including in education and gender equity. Comparable as an ecosystem peer—Dasra has worked with gender-equity nonprofits in India—though it is a funder/incubator rather than a direct program operator.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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