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Namya Mahajan
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Namya Mahajan

Rocket Learning

Rocket Learning is one of India’s leading nonprofits focused on catalyzing early childhood education and community engagement by distributing research-backed pedagogy focused on cognitive, numeracy, and literacy development

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ABOUT

  • ISSUE AREA: Education
  • ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET: $1,500,000
  • GEOGRAPHY :India

KEY FINDINGS

  • Main focus in the next 3-5 years is expansion into 6-8 Indian states following the passage of India’s New Education Policy Act of 2020 in addition to expanding into “Global South” countries
  • Currently testing and running large-scale behavioral change campaigns to build broad-based support for early childhood education and engagement; they would like to develop partnerships with celebrities to move the needle on this front
  • Focused on securing multi-year unrestricted grant support and donations from high net worth individuals (only accounting for about 9% of their total budget)
  • Could use support getting people to understand their work beyond the digitized elements of engagement (“another WhatsApp conversation”)