- ABOUT US
Surge Impact Foundation (SIF) is a Section 8 Company based in Hyderabad working in the areas of nurturing Social Impact Ecosystem, Social Enterprise development, CSR, Social Impact Advocacy and Advisory.
Surge Vision is to create
“A world where everyone contributes to sustainable development”
Our Mission is to enable everyone to contributes to sustainable development by
- Working with all stakeholder to increase coordination and efficiencies
- Create sustainable intervention that empower the grassroots beneficiary
- SUCCESS STORIES
COVID-19 Relief Activities
As the PMU for the state government, during the COVID-19 crisis, Surge Impact has emerged as the most credible organisation. Access to direct communication channels with the state machinery helped Surge expedite the relief works substantially in the state in coordination with a network of civil society organisations. Surge Impact is acting as a nodal agency andChanneling relief efforts to avoid duplicates and streamline data
Coordinating with various government offices-NGOs-Corporate-Donors
Providing relief directly and through partners.
For more details of Covid Related work click hereT-SIG
As the official CSR Cell for the Department of Industries, Government of Telangana T-SIG aims to make CSR interventions across the state effective and sustainable by connecting all the stakeholders, facilitating knowledge sharing and building synergies among them.Major activities of T-SIG include:
TSIG has organized multiple roundtables meeting consisting of Govt representatives, Corporates and Grass roots organisations on following Themes:
Partnerships with Industry Associations
Lake Restoration
Haritha Haaram
Bio-Methanation
Livelihood Training for Women at Shelter Homes and Bharosa Center
Education and Livelihoods for Youth and Women
Women Empowerment with Corporates
Aspirational District Development
Secondary Education for Girl Students and Job Oriented Vocational Training for Adolescent Girls
Secondary area Traffic Reduction Plan – High Level meeting
Give Up To Give Back with WWF India
CSR Contribution in Technology Incubators with T-Hub
Various Govt Departments engaged include- GHMC, WCD, HMDA, Telangana State Police etc
SIG Dashboard has Facilitated CSR Projects worth ₹ 953.40 Lakhs from Croporates like HSBC, Ascendas, Novartis, IBM, Huawei etc
Social Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program.
SIFhas run three cohorts of its flagship Acceleration Program. Through this program, we have supported a diverse cohort of Social Enterprises working in the area of Women Empowerment, Education, Healthcare for all, Environment, etc. We have:Supported 36 Social enterprises from over 8 cities
Impacted more than 3,00,000 people.
Some of our Startup entrepreneurs are
SIF is Program Partner for The First Job Fellowship, an initiative of The Deverakonda Foundation. It is an after-education program providing focused and sustained support in training and employment of graduates hailing from socio-economically weak backgrounds of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states. As part of this in the last 6 months we received 650 applications and are:
Working with 50 students directly to provide Professional training courses in fields like Software/IT, Mechanical, civil - autocad, Finance and accounting, Pharma, ECE, HRM etc. for free .
12 out of these 50 students have been provided with free accommodation to help them complete the training.
3 students got placed in Fixflyer (Software) and Deltacon(Civil industry) for Rs 15000/- per month in the probation period
Facilitating employment of 15 (In final rounds of interview) in companies like Infosys, TCS, Sid’s Farm, ELICO, etc.
SIF and TDF have created a network of 20 trainers and skill enhancement partners including CV Corp, ABC, Mind Map, CAD Desk etc and also identified 150 potential employers.
Volunteers from corporate companies like Cognizant, Novartis, Hexagon, Optum, Ernst & Young, and organisation like TS MEPMA , other NGOs and Educational institutions like Symbiosis law college have participated as interview panelists and helped us in analysing the students.
- OTHER ACTIVITIES
SIF and IIITH successfully applied for and were selected under Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, which culminated in the establishment of AIC-IIITH Foundation, an Incubator for Tech-Based Social Enterprises in April 2019.
Melaa - Facilitating market linkages for local artisans
SIF and its partners also started and operated a platform, Melaa to facilitate market linkages for local artisans. The platform has:Organised over 22 stalls in various corporates
Impacted the lives of 65 artisans by improving their sales on average by INR 4000-5000/- per month.
Advocacy for CSR investments on secondary education (SE) and job oriented vocational training (JOVT) for girls
SIF was the advocacy partner for influencing CSR investments on secondary education (SE) and job oriented vocational training (JOVT) for girls with Mahita, Deloitte and Plan International. As part of this project, through T-SIG SIF:
Organised a round table meeting where 30 CSR heads from different corporates participated.
Conducted a youth conclave, in association with Mahita, where CSR Heads had direct interactions with the beneficiaries.
rought about CSR policy changes with almost 35 corporates, urging them to focus on the need for attention in SE & JOVT for adolescent girls and young women.
Interaction with Students:
SIF partnered with Skilled Impact to provide expertise for their Young Changemakers in India program and conducted workshop on SDGs and Social Entrepreneurship for approx 30 French students in 2 batches in 2018 and 2019
Conducted Workshop on SDGs and Social Enterprise with 900 students at Vardhaman Engineering college in 2018-19.
SIF has been the Cause patner for Freedom Hyderabad 10K Run for 2017, 2018 and 2019. The aim of this partnership was:
Promoting SDGs
Creating awareness among the communities
Working towards achieving specifically 4-SDGs ‘Quality Education, Healthcare & Well-being, Gender Equality and Climate Action
We have under this partnership:- In 2017:
Help raise about Rs. 6,00,000+ funds
Facilitate 3000 runner registrations
On boarded 31 Impact organisations
Run parallel ‘Reason To Run’ campaigns both Online and Offline, giving the people of Hyderabad a strong reason to run.
- In 2018
Run parallel ‘Reason To Run’ campaigns both Online and Offline, giving the people of Hyderabad a strong reason to run.
On boarded 23 Impact organisations
Facilitate 5000 runner registrations
Help raise Rs. 7,50,000+ funds
- In 2019
Run parallel ‘Reason To Run’ campaigns both Online and Offline, giving the Hyderabad people a strong reason to run.
Help raise Rs. 6,50,000+ funds
Facilitate 3000 runner registrations
On boarded 12 Impact organisations
Our Team
Founders and Directors
Ravi Mantha
Co-Founder, Director
Ravi a Portfolio Manager, Corporate and CEO-level Advisory with specialisation in Political Affairs and Public Policy, Board member of Corporate and NGO and Author. He continues to advise corporates at the Board level, and serves as an independent director on several boards. Ravi is a mentor and investor at JFDI, Singapore’s leading start-up accelerator.
Srikanth Bolla
Director
Srikanth is CEO and founder of Bollant Industries. He was the first international blind student to pursue engineering at MIT. Bolla started a Braille printing press in the Samanvai Center for children with multiple disabilities in Hyderabad, India, which provides accessible educational material available to disabled students. Bollant Industries received with funding from Ratan Tata.
Rajkumar Janagam
Founder, Ex-CEO and Mentor
Rajkumar is a Business Coach, Investment Advisor, Leadership Consultant, Social Entrepreneur, Civic Entrepreneur, Serial Entrepreneur based in Hyderabad who is founder Impact Foundation as the Founder CEO and have previously set up UnLtd Hyderabad. At present he is Founder, CEO of AIC-IIITH Foundation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janagam/
Management
We've got a top notch team!
Shravan Kasam
Head of Projects
Shravan is a postgraduate from Kingston University London and has 9 Years of management experience and over 10 years of volunteering experience, working for social causes with different organizations such as Cancer Research UK, Nirmaan Organization, Youth 4 Seva, ShopNShare and with proven abilities in Project Management, Team Building, Fundraising, Strategic Planning and Business Development. He is adept at managing complex multifunctional projects working to the highest standards.
Shravan has designed and developed the state-initiated and funded CSR platform, “T-Social Impact Group (T-SIG),” closely working along with the IT E&C Department, Government of Telangana.
Debanjali Saha
Project Manager
Debanjali Saha is a post-graduate in Women’s Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Following the completion of her course, she joined Surge Impact Foundation as a Program Manager for the state-initiated and funded CSR platform, “T-Social Impact Group”. As a Program Manager, her primary roles and responsibilities include lead generation, communications and building relationships with CSR teams of corporates and aggregators. She is also involved in organizing focus group discussions and working sessions between corporates and government officials, content development and preparing reports of the platform. Debanjali has previously worked with organizations such as IT for Change, Bangalore and Save the Children, Hyderabad on gender issues. She has an avid interest towards conducting action research on women’s issues and has prior experience of advocating for girl child education, women’s and refugee rights through her research work based on Rohingyas settled in Hyderabad.
