FUEL
FUEL
Business Model: citizen sector
Annual Budget: $100,000 - $250,000
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Created: May 28, 2012
Last Update: October 28, 2012
FUEL (Friends Union of Energizing Lives) is a registered NGO which started in 2006.
FUEL assists in understanding the available career options post-secondary education and ultimately, helps children to choose a meaning career path. FUEL has a very systematic way of reaching out to student with good amount of data, statistics and documentation which is generated with hundreds of hours of R&D in various streams.The program is very important for rural & urban students.
FUEL has reached more than 4,10,000 students through its Force Multiplication Model of Partnership with Policy Makers and local Education Department.
Problem
Students need the correct & unbiased information about the various courses and the education related opportunities. Why are we needed? •Too many careers and their entrance exams •Too many ways of pursuing a particular career •The formalities for each of them is more complex in nature than the rest •Private counsellors are biased as they advocate some or particular institutes. Hence all of those give different opinions and guidance •No single point source of information about all the opportunities *To select a career of choice, students must first know the options that are available to them.
Solution
The Educonnect Program provides •Unbiased and right educational information to students about entrance exams, careers and application formalities on a timely basis so that students do not miss the application form deadlines due to lack of awareness about the exams & explore the careers of their choice. •Assist students in filling application forms so that their application forms are not rejected. • Well documented fact sheet on all courses/careers and colleges. •Drastically reduce the number of applications getting rejected due to reasons like incomplete & incorrect forms thereby bringing an end to the intense trauma that students face leading them to habits like smoking, drinking, narcotics and even suicides. •Help them in improving their socio-economic status by better education.
Example
MP /MLA Educonnect is an initiative to spread education awareness among students, in partnership with and by using the ground network of Members of Parliament (MP/MLA). The initiative covers all students of Class 7 to Class 12 from all schools in the MP/MLA’s constituency by providing them with knowledge of all opportunities they can pursue in their educational and professional lives. Officials of FUEL visit all schools in the constituency and guide students on various opportunities available to them. At a broader level, Educonnect becomes a social development initiative of the MP /MLA in education for the progress of his/her constituency. This also gives MP/MLAs a chance to interact with students and youth in the constituency and understand their views, which can be useful in their political careers. MP/MLA Educonnect also builds an ecosystem of interaction among principals of schools in the constituency and also for their interaction with their public representative, with a broader aim of educational development of the constituency.
Marketplace
If we take into consideration substitutes for us, they would be Google Search, web sites of colleges, social networking sites, web site of Directorate of Technical Education and seniors. These are either very complex to use, unreliable or misleading. 1.Internet & Google Search: Extremely complicated to use when it is about searching for Cut Offs or for genuine information about colleges, courses, facilities etc. Besides, there is no reliability about the information. Colleges advertise that they have excellent infrastructure, 20 storeyed building and when students actually visit the premises; they get to see a 2 storeyed building there and a board hanging alongside with text like “Other storeys are under construction. Work expected to be completed by 2018”. 2. Web sites of colleges: A web site of college is controlled by the college itself. So, it is up to the college authorities what information they want to show and what do they want to hide 3. Social Networking Sites: These can be a good source of information if used properly. But these sites can provide information only about those institutions that are pretty old and have a good alumni base. 4. Seniors: Seniors can be a good source of information however; the case isn’t the same everywhere. Generally, students try to find out from the seniors which are the good colleges. However, they do not take into consideration the difference in their scores because of which, a college which was good for senior may not be good
For your Reading our Beed Seminars Impact Report.
Students reached : 15000 plus
FUEL (Friends Union of Energizing Lives) is a registered NGO which started in 2006. FUEL NGO works with a vision to bring education and career awareness for Class 7 to Class 12 children to bridge the rural & urban gap. This assists in understanding the available career options post-secondary education and ultimately, helps children to choose a meaning career path. FUEL has a very systematic way of reaching out to student with good amount of data, statistics and documentation which is generated with hundreds of hours of R&D in various streams. The program is very important for rural...
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Thank you for your participation in AFI Growth Prize Competition. We have a key question for you: how does your innovation fundamentally change the system for advancing to college, and what is your strategy for spreading this innovation by scaling-up or replication?
Please post your response as comment here before Dec 15, 2012 to be considered for final evaluation.
Our innovation which fundamentally changes the system for advancing to college:
In all these years of our existence, we have been able to bring about the following quantifying changes,
• We worked with 1500+ schools and colleges across India. Touched & changed lives of more than 4.10.000 lakh students, Educonnect project is being run in states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
• During the interaction with students we not only guide them but brainstorm them to think about the different careers which suits their skill sets.
• Students will be shown the demo of filling different application forms through projectors to minimize the errors while online filling up the forms.
• Every student will be provided by the career kit which includes the updated information about different careers and various colleges they can get admission.
• Most of the students who attend the seminar will call our helpline no. to know about career options we receive min of 10 calls per day. Students after getting their results announced will visit our organization hundreds of students get free counseling from our experts.
• Sms alerts will be sent for each students respective to their fascinated careers mention in the feedback forms .
• E.g. if xyz student have a dream of joining Army we send the alerts such as the deadline for applying for NDA exam , the syllabus, date of commencement of examination and the date of declaration of results.
• We have made engineering and medical aspirant’s to find their dream colleges and branch easy by developing the cutoff software free of cost for all students, where in students after their CET/AIEEE examination can just enter their rankings and find out nearly 100 available options to make their choice better.
Facts & Figures
• Increase in applications for entrance exams, by 30-50%.
• Change in policy decision of Domicile Rule in Maharashtra.
• Helpline centre sponsored to FUEL.
• Rejections of applications reduced by 28%.
Our strategy for spreading this innovation :
The unique strategies we have concentrated for spreading our innovation are
• MP- Educonnect program,
• Cutoff software,
• Education Helpline service,
• School Chale Hum,
• Ahead Of Times fellowship program
• Fuel’s career magazines .
• Nurture merit scholarship.
MP –Educonnect
Initial days of our organization we used to find it difficult to deliver seminars for 3 schools a week , this was because the noncooperation of school HM’s /Principals
And the mission is to reach 1 crore students of India , which seemed not possible
Than we came up with a unique strategy named MP/MLA Educonnect and FUEL’s program with policy makers helps for force multiplication and effective reach of students
MP- MLA Educonnect is an initiative to spread education awareness among students, in partnership with and by using the ground network of Members of Parliament (MP/MLA) . The initiative covers all students of class 7 to class 12 from all schools in the policymaker’s constituency by providing them with knowledge of all opportunities they can pursue in their educational and professional lives.
At a broader level , MP/MLA Educonnect becomes a social development initiative of MP/MLA in Education for the progress of his/her constituency, This also gives Policy makers a chance to interact with students and youth in the constituency and understand their views , which can be useful in their political careers.
A quick glance of our project’s:
Karnataka
1. FUEL has Reached 40,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri Suresh Anagadi , MP , Belgaum Constituency Karnataka
2. FUEL has Reached 40,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri Shivakumar Udasi,MP, Haveri Constituency Karnataka
3. FUEL has Reached 15,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri Basavaraj Bommai,MLA, Shiggaon Constituency Karnataka
4. FUEL has Reached 5,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri H Halappa MLA, Soraba Constituency Karnataka
Maharashtra:
1. FUEL has Reached 50,881 Students under the support of Hon. Mrs. Supriya Sule, MP, Baramati Constituency, Maharashtra
2. FUEL has Reached 13,693 Students under the support of Hon. Shri.Sharad Pawar Minister for Agriculture, MP, Madha Constituency, Maharashtra
3. FUEL has Reached 1,00,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri Sameer Bhujbal, MP , Nashik Constituency, Maharashtra
4. FUEL has Reached 5,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri Sanjay Nirupam , MP, North Mumbai Constituency, Maharashtra
5. FUEL has Reached 54,000 Students under the support of Hon. Shri Jayadatta Kshirsagar, MLA, Beed Constituency, Maharashtra
Andhra Pradesh:
1. FUEL’ has Reached 5,000 Students under the support of Hon. Dr. Shri Vivekanand Gaddam,MP, Peddapalle Constituency, Andhra Pradesh
Cutoff software:
Find your dream college using our new and improved Cutoff Helpline!
Cut off helpline is a project from FUEL to help Class X (Class 10th or SSC) and Class XII (Class 12th or HSC) students find which colleges are they eligible to get admission through the centralized admission process, based on their marks in their board exams and entrance tests.
Website: http://cutoff.fuelhelpline.org/
Education helpline:
Students those who are Worried about missing an exam notification and those who are confused about which college & branch will they get and those who want to know what are the different exams
Can Register their mobile number with us and relax. When an exam is notified in newspaper, FUEL will inform them about the exams, their forms; last dates etc. by SMS so that they can concentrate on studies and not worry about remembering dates.
School Chale Hum:
This is one of the unique programs introduced by FUEL where volunteers can get back to the School they have studied to deliver the seminar and the necessary materials will be provided by our organization, which is been running successfully through our organization.
Ahead of Times fellowship Program:
Most of the graduates even after securing good marks are not fit for employment because they mostly lack hands-on-training and even basic skills.
Addressing this problem we every year, chose 30-60 fellows, based on their willingness and seriousness of making a successful career in their lives. We train them on various skills in communication, IT, verbal ability, teamwork, analytical, English, lateral thinking, creative thinking, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, social responsibilities, corporate insights, leadership, cyber security, etc. Renowned industry experts share their exemplary experiences with the fellows. Under the fellowship program called Ahead Of Times
For further details visit http://www.aheadoftimes.in/
FUEL career magazine:
We have three magazines-
Students FUEL magazine, Cut-off magazine and Factsheet
These are not just magazines on exams. We aim to bring every little aspect of the every exam of undergraduate level under one big umbrella, in the form of a year-book.It has information such as tentative date of notification, application submissions, eligibility, test-design, number of seats, reservations, syllabus etc. and is presented in a very simple and illustrative manner in the book.
Nurture Merit Scholarship:
Channeling donors' funds to needy students using scientific identification process.
FUEL, in association with Vidyaposhak, Dharwad has come up with a nurture merit scholarship program which helps the students by providing financial assistance, provision of books, proper training.
For further details visit: http://www.vidyaposhak.org.in
Today FUEL's has scaled :
• From 1 state to 3 States
• From 001 to 4, 10,000+students reach has been achieved.
What's Next!
“FUEL’s mission is to reach 1 crore students of India”
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