Posted On: 2022-04-15 23:55:37
What is Filaantro?
Filaantro is a crowdfunding platform that ensures people’s exceptional ideas and donations requirement for a genuine and noble cause to be fulfilled and can lead to the betterment of humankind. It is an initiative to make this world one community, where everyone can grow along with one another by helping each other. Filaantro has completed more than 500 partnerships and won the trust of individuals and social enterprises within a very short period. Filaantro believes and accepts one's ideas, reasons, and goals and helps in achieving the same. Anybody looking for crowdfunding can easily create an online campaign on Filaantro which takes only a few minutes.
With a vision of connecting individuals and communities through our platform and inspiring them to raise funds for the greater good. Understand more about crowdfunding and Filaantro.
Why partner engagement/collaboration is important.
Partnerships expand your knowledge, expertise, and resources, allowing you to create better goods and reach a larger audience. All of these factors, when combined with 360-degree feedback, can propel your organization to new heights.
The major goal of firms that use this partnership agreement is to establish an environment that satisfies both the buyer's and seller's needs. When customers and firms have a simple relationship of selling and buying goods and services, the relationship becomes exceedingly weak. In this case, the buyer will begin to see your product as one of several on the market. In the long run, this is not the best way to transact, and they will quickly understand that there are other companies from which they can purchase. It's critical to use the benefits of collaboration to make your products and services your consumers' top priority for a successful business. In comparison to other competitors in your sector, the customer churn rate will be reduced, and the lifetime value of consumers will increase. To understand more about Why Collaborations are essential, Click here.
Raise To Win
‘Race to Win’ (RTW) contest, initiated by Filaantro to help NGO partners and Campaign partners to start fundraising online for any cause, project or passion with an opportunity to supplement their fundraising efforts with additional grants support for successful fundraisers (Both NGOs and Individuals) by participation in the contest. It’s easy – register, start a fundraiser, spread the word about your work and funding requirements among your donor base and create awareness in them on the need to donate to your NGO through the Filaantro crowdfunding platform. The 'Raise To Win' season 1 had come to an end on 11th March 2020 with more than 2.5 lakhs rupees raised in 45 days. There were three winners in this contest who won extra cash grant support and campaign partnership for the coming seasons of RTW.
Winners of the Season
Auxilium Skills Academy
Skill Development is a very important activity for training youth by providing those skills which enhance their Employment / Self-Employment opportunities. Auxilium Skills Academy is fully convinced that there is a need to empower our underprivileged and vulnerable youth to mould a generation of committed citizens. Education is the powerful key to building a better nation with the demeanour and contributing succour. Hence the NGO Auxilium Skills Academy has started classroom-based training for the two courses of Digital Marketing and Beauty and Wellness. Currently, there are 200 students enrolled on each of these courses. With the help of Filaantro's RTW contest, NGO Auxilium Skills Academy raised ? 1,29,499/- for completing their mission to promote the advancement of vocational and technical education for the marginalized and school dropout youth, rag pickers, migrants, sex workers, transgenders and orphan youths spread in four South and East Indian states.
With the Partnership through the RTW contest, now, there will be a change in the lives of these underprivileged to acquire life-supporting skills offered by Auxilium Skills Academy.
Shramik Kisan Seva Samiti
Shramik Kisan Seva Samiti is an educational society founded by well-known social worker Mr Nandkumar D. Mohite who is well conversant with the difficulties faced by poor and needy children of laborers, especially the farmers and the fishermen. They aim to offer high-quality education to all at a low price is extremely difficult. Running an institution with nearly 1000 students who are taking education in our school within our area. The educational scenario in Ratnagiri has changed. They wish to fulfill the dreams of the people so that their children will be well educated and good citizens of our country. As plenty of students are there in the village and the land is available for the project but the cost of construction of the building, other infrastructure, laboratory, playgrounds, libraries, workshop, and classroom equipment is beyond the capacity of the NGO. Hence participating in the RTW contest they were able to raise ? 89,900/- for their project and still aim to raise more.
Hanuman Ashram Seva Trust
A Mumbai based NGO has been working for the cause of welfare of the tribals for several years and during the Covid pandemic has started a Gaushala which houses 25 cows to support the tribals through Dairy farming. The Gaushala will provide a self-employment opportunity for these tribes as they can earn from sales of dairy products like milk, yoghurt and ghee. The NGO is currently running the operations from its funds but would not be able to do so permanently.
They are planning to Keep Street Cows & helping them with Medicinal care & feed. Hence they were and still seek support from donors who support these innocent animals. With collaboration, they have raised more than 60 thousand to date and seek to raise more. Partnering with Filaantro helped them communicate their goal and pursue the support from the donors.
Khushiyaan Foundation and Roti Ghar
Khushiyaan foundation along with the Child Help Foundation started the relief work to provide support, the teams have hit the ground carrying this operation with precautions and providing Ration kits, Soaps, sanitary pads and medicines to those affected. With feeding, the team also takes care of their basic hygiene & education by mentoring them. To help as many people as possible the NGO aggressively scaled up the projects in association with Filaantro, Ananta, Dil Se, and Child Help Foundation and started serving fresh meals to more than 2000 kids every day in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Odisha & Delhi.
One Village One Teacher
The project One Village, One Teacher (OVOT) is supported by all the authorities of the village including the Sarpanch. Professional Trainers are provided to support village teachers to raise the educational standards of children. The main activities are supervised by our expert staff who work tirelessly from our Ekhlahare Center(It is the training center for village teachers). This programme is accepted by the village students very well. With the help of Filaantro, more than 1 lakh has been raised for this project.
Partner Engagement Award' for the year 2022
Corporate Social Responsibility Awards: Filaantro was awarded the 'Partner Engagement Award' for the year 2022.
It was a special day for the team and we thank each and every one of you for your support, love and donations. Without you, Filaantro wouldn't have achieved this milestone.
To summarize, all firms should seek the ideal strategic relationship that complements their operations, since this is a proven method to propel any company ahead. If huge global organizations such as Google, Apple, Luxottica, and others still regard strategic partnerships as a method to develop and extend their company horizons, then there should be no reason for any business owner to ignore the benefits of a well-aligned collaboration.
Author : Lubdha Dhanopia
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