About

Background & Values

“make education fun & relevant”

While helping his daughter, Sanjay observed that there are a lot of good quality and free videos on the internet. Videos help in Visualization and better understanding. He decided to curate and catalog these videos in an open library so that it would be significantly more useful for a large population of students. Thus tickLinks was borne.

In 2017, Sanjay started to evangelize tickLinks into schools. Schools could provide benefit of world class videos to large number of students through network effect. Also these would create conversations and discussions in the class – which would help children to learn articulation skills and build perspective and confidence by listening to other questions and observations.

However, despite availability of computers in schools and good quality content – the adoption is a challenge because of multi-layered issues like last mile IT issues, learning new practices and habits, energy required for change etc.. Open Links Foundation was founded in 2017 to address these issues.

vision

Drive Fun and Relevance in education

mission

Drive Tech and fun in low resource classrooms

OUR VALUES What do we care about ?

OPENNESS is the cornerstone

OPENNESS

We are looking to make a large Social change by using Open Content, practices, teams, collaboration and data & software

Open for us does not mean un-directed or un-organized. We organize open source content. We create and organize teams to curate and catalog the open content in the best possible manner. We further build and organize teams to disseminate this content and practices for most effective and affordable use.

Open for us does not mean poor quality. On the contrary – we believe it brings in more creativity, variety and experiences. This is true of the content and also for the volunteers – who bring variety in experiences and practices. This enhances learning experiences and makes it more dynamic and affordable.

Openness is the cornerstone to improving QUALITY & EQUALITY in education.

JOYFUL

We look for good in every situation by expressing our inner happiness & contentment

PURPOSEFUL

We believe in being purposeful, patient and active.

OPENNESS

Openness is the cornerstone to improving QUALITY & EQUALITY in education.

COLLECTIVE

We generate mutual support, shared benefits and promote independence.

OUR TEAM

Committed & Professional

Offices

Ahmedabad

RTE Resource Center,
Ahmedabad 15

Chennai

Surya Bldg, Seethammal Ext,
Chennai 18

Pune

U-17, Sacred Heart Town,
Pune 40

Team

Sanjay Dalmia

CEO & Founder Trustee
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IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad
Over 25 years of corporate experience

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Srikant Sahoo

City Director, Chennai
Founding Team

B Tech
Teach for India Fellow, 2016

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Ashutosh Gharde

City Director, Pune
Founding Team

BE Nagpur University
Teach for India Alumunus

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Nikhil Rai

Director, Saarthi & Atharva
Founding Team

B Tech, IIT Varanasi
Teach for India Alumunus

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Rajeev Kumar

Advisor - Strategy & Networks
Advisor

MS, MBA Boston University
Chief Customer Office, Appirio, NY

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Tushar Trivedi

Advisor – Marketing Strategy
Advisor

BSc, MBA NMIMS
over 25 years of Global Banking

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Ashish Ranjan

Advisor

B Tech, IIM Ahmedabad
Co-Founder of NGO - RTE resource

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Raj Subramaniam

Advisor
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BSc, IIM Ahmedabad
Co-Founder CashTech.

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Sameer Pandya

Advisor
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BE, Ahmedabad University
over 25 years of Corporate Experience

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OUR IMPACT

“make education fun and relevant”

IMPACT

Our goal is to make all children confident and articulate through understanding and discussions in the classrooms.

We are working with three key stakeholders to achieve this goal – Atharva club students, Atharva program schools and the Saarthi Volunteers. The impact on each of them and their members are outlined.

Apart from the above there is also a systemic impact because of the alumni from the community of members who participate into the program at various times.

STUDENTS

of Atharva Club

Story telling, Visualization and Confidence

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SCHOOLS

of Atharva Program

Regular use of Technology to Improve Learning outcomes

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SAARTHI

Volunteers

The teacher also learns & grows to becomes a messenger for mission.

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SYSTEMIC

Together we multiply the impact.

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DONATE

DONATE to OPEN LINKS FOUNDATION

In 2018 we are looking to work with 50 schools and will directly touch lives of more than 5,000 students in secondary schools. Our mission is to mobilize and inspire a wider movement for the same transformation for all children in the country. Your donation will fuel a movement to reach technology and openly available Videos into classrooms. Contribute and join the movement to fight for educational quality and equality in India.

We are looking to build a large part of the organization based on volunteer efforts – so that we can reach a large number of schools and beneficiaries. The team at Open Links Foundation will focus on building the program and monitoring the program. We will directly execute in few places to learn and modify our program and practices as per the need. You donation will support the salaries of the young members of the team who have committed their careers to this cause. The donation will also be used to cover other expenses such as marketing and outreach expenses, travel, software etc.

Open Links Foundation is a registered Public Charitable Trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950 on 28 Jul 2017. We are a 12A registered society. We have applied for Section 80(G) status of income tax act and our request is under process. Our financial records are audited annually by Kailash R Malpani & Co.Open Links Foundation follows all financial regulations set forth for non-profits by the Government of India..

Bank Details BANK NAME: ICICI Bank ACCOUNT NAME: Open Links Foundation ACCOUNT NUMBER: 646105052690 ACCOUNT TYPE : Current account IFSC Code: ICIC0006461

NOTE : We are not eligible to receive funds from foreign sources outside India

DONATE to SCHOOLS

We frequently come across schools – who need some IT investments to use what infrastructure they already have. The may have computers – but some projectors or an internet connection or some licensed software can create a large impact on the overall use of IT in classrooms. Please write to us at contact@OpenLinksFoudnation.org if you are interested in supporting a school.

With involvement of Open Links Foundation we assure you that your donation to such schools referred by us will be well utilized for the benefit of the students and the investment will not lie idle.

PARTNERS

Charitable Trust

Managing Schools

You own or manage schools or provide teachers to improve education

Educational Inst e.g.

Engineering College

Charter for doing community work in neighborhood schools

Charitable Trust

Others

e.g. Teacher Training, Community Center etc..

Others

India / South Asia

Working in education space and are keen to work together.

If you are working with schools/community centers to improve education OR if you run schools - we can work jointly.

For inquiries contact@OpenLinksFoundation.org