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Ashraf Patel is the founder of Pravah (1992)[1] and ComMutiny - The Youth Collective (2008)[2], Indian non-profits working on education and livelihood from New Delhi.
Pravah
Pravah is a youth-development nonprofit operating across 15-plus Indian states that builds young people's leadership capacities to drive social change. Its programmes span adolescent life-skills development, youth civic engagement, early-stage social-entrepreneur support through its Changelooms programme, and capacity building for partner organisations, reporting reach to over 500,000 young people.
Pravah reports the following, on its own site:
- PrayaSapna curriculum run across 1,860 NYKS teen clubs, impacting 35,000 adolescents across 5 states (with UNFPA)
ComMutiny - The Youth Collective
ComMutiny - The Youth Collective (CYC) was registered as a trust in 2008, formed jointly by Pravah and Sir Ratan Tata Trust to bring together development organisations and educational institutions working with young people. It functions as a community of practice for youth-work organisations across India, aiming to develop self-aware, proactive young citizens it calls 'Jagriks'. In 2019 it established the cross-sectoral vartaLeap coalition, partnering with development organisations, government bodies, media, corporations and UN agencies to mainstream youth-centric development.
ComMutiny - The Youth Collective reports the following, on its own site:
- ComMutiny - The Youth Collective's ecosystem in 2024-25 comprised 2,240+ members and 154 partner organisations across 19 states, coordinated through vartaLeap
- Organisations
- 2
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 1992, 2008
- Press
- 3
References
- [1] “Arjun Shekhar Founder , President of Pravah Board” — Pravah. Source
- [2] “Arjun Shekhar, a prominent figure in the vartaLeap Coalition, stands as a co-founder of Pravah and ComMutiny - The Youth Collective, alongside being the visionary founder of Vyaktitva, a distinguished performance support consulting firm.” — ComMutiny - The Youth Collective. Source
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