Our Partners

Teach for India(TFI)

Every year, since 2011, we have 2 fellows from TFI working with us and teaching assigned classrooms at educo. The TFI fellows add value to educo classrooms by offering skills and capabilities of qualified and trained profession who support us in delivery of 21st century education. We have developed deep bonds with these fellows who choose to stay connected and continue to support us in all manners possible. Vishaal Db, TFI fellow 2015-17 worked with us as Programme Coordinator for 3 years after completion of his fellowship. Keya Banerjee, another TFI fellow from previous batch continued to conduct arts programme for our students after her fellowship.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

We are professional field work partners with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, one of the top notch social work colleges in the country. Every year we have 2 TISS student social workers who are placed at educo to gain professional exposure to the functioning of a social organization. They are embedded into our day-to-day functions ranging from direct programme delivery to school support and fundraising & compliance. They come with a range of professional skills and bring fresh perspective to our ways of work. Their insights contribute our feedback systems that we use to continuously improve our work.

Enabling Leadership (Just For Kicks)

Just for KicksEnabling Leadership, previously known as Just for Kicks, is a social organization that uses football as a medium to teach life skills to children from low-income families. They provide professional coaching and tracking of children’s competencies. Their expert coaches teach Educo students to play football and organize sports tournaments all across Mumbai. The children participate in various competitions ranging from government managed ones to the Milind Deora League. Once a year, Educo students take part in a national football league where all the Just For Kicks partner schools of India compete against each other. uses football as a medium to teach life skills to children from low-income families. Just For Kicks provides professional coaching and tracking of children’s competencies. The expert coaches teach Educo students to play football and organise sports tournaments all across Mumbai. The children participate in various competitions ranging from government managed ones to the Milind Deora league. Once a year, Educo students take part in a national football league where all the Just For Kicks partner schools of India competes against each other.

MGuru

mGuru is an education technology company that builds learning apps for kids focused on literacy and numeracy skills. Educo has piloted the app with hundreds of its students and facilitated student testing that was critical to the app’s creation. Educo and mGuru have also partnered to put together a study that establishes that learning improvements of students who use the mGuru app. Looking forward, both organizations will collaborate to build tools that increase learning outcomes and make them more available to students at SBMPS and the broader Mumbai public system.

Nalanda

The Nalanda Project, under the RG Manudhane Foundation for Excellence, has worked with Educo since 2015 to improve the children’s education by helping them use technology to take charge of their own learning. It engages students from grades 3 to 9, teaching them how to use its offline technology to solve mathematics with the help of tabs. It has helped more than 400 students so far. Teachers are also empowered to be more tech-friendly and conduct independent classes with technology.

NASSCOM Big Tech

NASSCOM Foundation’s BigTech program endeavours to build the capacities of the non profit sector. As an NGO in India we receive the latest in technology as donations thereby conserving & diverting our budgets for other better use! We can install or upgrade our currently installed technology to scale-up our operations and create a greater impact! Current Donor Companies – Microsoft, Adobe, Quickheal Anti virus, Eagle Conferencing, BUSY Accounting, Bytes of Learning

Life Labs

Life Labs aims to provide cognitive, physical, emotional, social and creative learning experiences through engaging media. Life Lab designs inspiring and curriculum-aligned products for education purposes. The innovative study materials have been utilized in science classes. Life Lab also shares user manuals for teachers to demonstrate the most efficient ways to use the study materials. They track and monitor classroom progress.

Atma

Atma is a Mumbai-based accelerator for NGOs working in education. Educo graduated as a part of the three year Atma Accelerator program. Through the programme we received management expertise to multiply its impact. In the Atma Accelerator program, NGOs get support in organisational development areas such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Human Resources, Fundraising and Marketing. Atma helped educo streamline various processes. Atma has also helped Educo prepare a policy documents for the whole organisation.