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Happy New Year to all our well wishers, donors, volunteers and friends! 2020 should be an exciting year for ILP in more ways than one. It marks our 30th birthday! We want to cap this milestone with an even more impressive achievement - Reaching a million children!

We have been making steady gains in this arena since our inception and rounded out 2019 supporting 750,000 children. A million is definitely within our grasp. With all your help and support we will scale new heights this year.Our annual benefit dinner in November was a resounding success. Much gratitude is due to all of you who came out in large numbers to support us. We also added another feather to our hat last year - we are now a Platinum Guidestar non-profit.

The 1st Beacon of this year brings you a round-up of our 2019 projects, our ongoing Career Guidance efforts and a special focus on activities in Karnataka. We also delve into one of our Key Performance Indicators (KPI) - Attendance.

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ILP is Platinum!
ILP has attained Guidestar’s Platinum Status! GuideStar's mission is to revolutionise philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.

By reporting metrics through GuideStar's Nonprofit Profile, ILP has received a Platinum Seal of Transparency—GuideStar's newest and highest level of recognition. 
 

National Projects Roundup
by Sumita Jayaraman & AL Rangarajan 
Year 2019 saw ILP making great strides in expanding access to quality education to those that need it the most - Tribal communities, Economically and socially weaker populations,  Linguistic minorities in inter-state regions and Migrant brick kiln worker populations.  These projects are spread across Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Also of note - a project that targets higher girl-child dropout areas. ILP has successfully incorporated activity based methods of learning and career counseling into education curriculums. 
 
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Metrics Unbound: Attendance  
by Subhash Pochareddy   
In this in-depth review read about how ILP gets a handle on “Attendance” - one of our Key Performance Indicators and how getting a measure of this “seemingly simple” metric gets complicated by ground realities.

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Career Guidance: Beyond Schooling and Learning
by Suchitra Rao   
ILP extended its outreach amongst the most vulnerable children of Karnataka, by conducting workshops on career guidance and counselling among the major stakeholders of Child Care Institutions, through a joint venture between various state and non-governmental bodies.

The children under the patronage of these institutions face odds like forced marriages and domestic violence and many belong to under-priveledged migrant families of daily wage workers. The participants included officers and counselors of the 30 district child protection units.

They appreciated the hands-on approach of the training and acknowledged that it better enabled them to guide children with various available academic, and vocational career routes.
 
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Karnataka Highlights
by Pramod Sridharamurthy           
ILP spent the last year enabling the education of 750,000 children across 8 states in India, and as a new year dawns we look back and reflect on what we were able to accomplish.

We have partnered with existing organizations to aid enrollment, developed innovative learning tools for children, and fostered among them the ability to make informed career decisions.

Few key highlights of our journey have been MoUs with the Government of Karnataka to include resources developed by ILP in classrooms and teacher training alike, and collaboration with Dell to establish a center where children can evolve their computer, communication, and life skills.

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Upcoming Events
  • ILP Relay Lunch | April 25th | 11 am - 3 pm @ Los Altos Youth Center
  • Team ILP @ Golden Gate Relay | May 2 & 3
    Walkers/Runners join us! See poster for details.
  • ILP Race | May 24th 
  • ILP Youth Talent Show | June 7th | 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm @ Garden House Shoup Park
  • Youth Volunteers Needed! (Age 12 -17).
We would love to hear from you. Give us your feedback by simply replying back to this email. Let us know what you would like to hear about from the ILP Team.

You can also contact us at ilp@ilpnet.org

Kind Regards,

ILP Newsletter Team - Minnie Uppuluri, Nidhi Rai and Suyash Nigam

Opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily those of ILP. Please send articles/suggestions to the editor. Readers may note that contents are filtered from third party sources. All Brand Names & Trademarks are acknowledged.
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