Drishtee Foundation

“Section A - Governing Body and Management. Line 2 - Did any officer, director, trustee, or key employee have a family relationship or a business relationship with any other officer, director, trustee, or key employee? There are 7 Governing Body Members in the Organisation,Mamta Mishra, Nitin Gachhayat, Swapna Mishra, Partha Das, Pranav Kumar, Sarika Ramteke, Kingshuk Nag, Swapna Mishra is the Daughter in law of Mamta Mishra.”

“Did the organization have members or stockholders?”

“Did the organization have members, stockholders, or other persons who had the power to elect or appoint one or more members of the governing body? The organistion has 7 Members, viz. Mamta Mishra, Nitin Gachhayat, Swapna Mishra, Partha Das, Pranav Kumar, Sarika Ramteke, Kingshuk Nag. As per Clause 14(b) of Rules and Regulations binding the Organisation, every member has a vote at the General Meeting and has the power to elect the governing body of the organisation.”

“Reconciliation of Net Assets. Explain any other changes in net assets or fund balances reported on line 9. Changes in Net Assets or Fund balances amount to USD 3999955 which is comprised of 5 items, (1) Addition of USD 2925514 to Corpus Fund Grant, (2) Reduction of USD 201749 for Expenditure from Corpus Fund (3) Reduction of USD 87168 for Endowment to Deuka Association (4) Addition of USD 1473300 to Spandan Endowment Fund (5) Reduction of USD 109942 on account of Foreign Exchange Rate Difference between 31st march 2024 and 31st march 2025.”

“Statement of Program Service Accomplishments - Details of Swavlamban Program Swavlamban is an approach to bridge access gap among the rural women for skills, financial capacity and opportunities and facilitate theirjourney towards becoming successful entrepreneurs. An integrated model of, Skill development and Channel Promotion for Sustainableimpact on Self-reliance of the community through Local Livelihoods & enterprise development.Swavlamban is an approach of Drishtee to prepare rural community groups to combat the challenge of sustainable livelihood 1- Trust - Women can be entrepreneurs. They can come forward and take the lead as entrepreneurs 2- Self-Belief would grow because they would come together as an enterprise group and work through the ecosystem support being facilitated to them 3- Sharing responsibility- Community can take up the role of enabler of ecosystem for nurturing the village enterprises Trust (based on Sat truth that is in everything), Self-Belief (based on Chitt- awareness or believing and expanding your Consciousness) and Sharing or Happiness (based on Anand- happiness through care and share). Such an ecosystem not only enable marginalized rural women to become economically and socially less vulnerable but also provides them a platform to cater to the unexpected needs and growth of their family.Drishtee works on SO & WT strategy taking the inherent strengths and opportunities of village like natural resources, local knowledge, skill & human resources, being a community etc. as the pivot around which the enabling platform is built for harnessing these strengths and opportunities for moving towards livelihoods, community building and self-reliance - the Swavalamban approach. Swavalamban offers a facilitating platform provides 4C support in form of Capacity, Channel and Capital to the Community. Women groups are encouraged to form a Micro Enterprise Group (MEG). The group works on locally available raw material procured from the Farmers and with training intervention facilitated by a Local Training Facilitator they develop products in any of the following categories Roti, Kapada and Makaan. The critical market linkage is facilitated by local resources (Vasuki & Dhavak) to help find & deliver products to B2B & B2C customers.”

“Details of Sakhi Swavlamban Program Sakhi-Swavlamban is an approach to bridge access gap among the rural women for skills, financial capacity and opportunities and facilitate their journey towards becoming a successful entrepreneur An Integrated model of, Skill development and Channel Promotion for Sustainable impact on Self-reliance of the community through Local Livelihoods & enterprise development Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in womens economic participation have remained deep and persistent in India.It is aimed at economic empowerment of the most disadvantaged sections of society, i.e., Women, especially in rural India, through grassroot capacity building.A Response to Rural Need- Sakhi- Swavlamban is a joint initiative of PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Limited and Drishtee Foundation with the aim to create community led and managed business ecosystem and self-reliant, sustainable economic and social solutions for marginalised rural women as a response to their need and mechanism to combat their challenge for not only implementation but also scaling up in other locations as well.Damini Learning Centre facility developed at Varanasi can be leveraged to provide all the necessary support to the VAANI (Capacity building)content and planning and Vaibhavis being developed, would be the key to enabling more efficient Sakhi Swavlamban implementation at Gorakhpur.”

“Details of Women Empowerment Project JIVIKA A. Drishtee Program Responsibilities Responsibilities expected of Drishtee: 11) SHG Engagement and strengthening - This would involve Identification of new SHGs/women and enrolment in Project JIVIKA Strengthening of SHG associated with project JIVIKA Cpacity building of the SHG (Self Help Groups of Women) Handholding support to the SHG Organising exposure Visits 2. Support in Livelihood Intervention: To support the community for being self-reliant and self-independent by exploring opportunity for livelihood generation on various products as mentioned below. Mushroom Spawn Production Oyster/Milki/Paddy Straw Mushroom Cultivation Mushroom Bi-product Development (Dried Mushroom, Mushroom Pickle, Mushroom Badi) Production & sale Textile (Nighty, Petticoat, Salwar, Kurti etc.) - Bamboo based handicrafts - Phenyl Puffed Rice. 3. Skill Building and enterprise development : - Set up of 5 Model Center product specific 1 Agarbatti unit 1 Surf and Soap production unit 1 Terracotta unit 1 Ceramic unit Training on various Skill sets Mobilize the resources from Governmment as well as from community and convergence with Govt Schemes wherever its possible . 4. Micro-Enterprise Centers setup: Establishing and hand holding Micro Enterprises Acts as an aggregation / packaging point for the Products to be marketed 5. Market and channel connect - Develop supply chain in all the intervention village Registration of rural products in various market apps for market connect Create retail customer database for rural produce”

“Form 990 Review Process Drishtee Foundation as established the following review process to ensure that the information reported is complete and accurate. Form 990 is prepard by an outside accounting firm tax specialist and reviewed by Compliance Officer. Prior to Submission, it is reviewed by the Governing Body members.”

“Drishtee Foundation has in place a conflict of interest policy which it monitors and enforces annually and the governing body oversees its execution. Governing Body, all members and all staff annually sign a conflict of interest policy and disclose any potential conflicts that may exist.”

“Process for Determining Compensation Drishtee foundation has established a compensation policy for its leadership committee to follow in establishing the compensation for its President, Secretary, Vice President and other Governing Body Members. Governing Body Members also have the option to waive any compensation with due regards to the social work done by the Organisation.”

“Annual Reports of Drishtee Foundation along with this years Form 990 can be found on the website www.drishtee.org Governing Documents (MOA and Rules/ Regulations), Conflict of Interest Policy are also available on the website upon request.”

“Details of Women Empowerment Project JIVIKA As per Schedule O (Attachment III) 19704. 0. 31724.”