prajnya 2012 fundraising appeal

PRAJNYA needs your help

…and this is why

In four years, you’ve enabled:

The Prajnya 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence, 2008-2010

The Prajnya Intercollegiate Quiz on Women in South Asia, 2008-2011

Oral history interviews The Prajnya Archives and the Rainmakers exhibition Short research projects including a directory of

Chennai women’s organizations The Women’s History Roundtable series

and much more…

We approach 2012-13 with a budget of Rs. 800,000/-.

This covers the cost of all our research, public education and network building activities and a

few administrative costs which we now must take care of ourselves.

Take a look a what we hope to do in the coming year.

Prajnya Resource Centre on Women in Politics and Policy

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Prajnya Resource Centre on Women in Politics and Policy We think it imperative to record and preserve the

experiences of women in the public sphere, and encourage documentation of their work.

Systematic cataloguing and storage of the oral history recordings and transcripts we have.

As the number of recordings mounts, we need the resources to back-up, store, transcribe and edit our interviews.

Enriching the collection of Prajnya Archives. Calls for photos and ‘collection camps’ at different

locations.

Gender Violence Research and Information Taskforce

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Gender Violence Research and Information Taskforce

2012 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence, which is our most expensive public education activity.Gender violence awareness workshops at more locations (with costs of materials, travel covered), both general and on specific forms of violence.Research towards the Gender Violence Report and other information initiatives, and publication-sharing costs.

Education for Peace Initiative

Without sufficient resources, we’ve written and presented papers and articles, organized small programmes but want to start our long-term activities in 2012-13, with no further delay.

School workshops on “Teaching Peace.” Research towards a series of storybooks with a peace theme.   

Administrative Costs

So far, we’ve worked with borrowed space, volunteers, underwritten and donated materials.

Any money we raised has gone into research and programmes.

But, it’s time we started paying our way a little.

You can help us

By suggesting potential donors. By conceptualizing fundraising activities for us. By spreading the word about our work. By donating.

Would you please help us reach our target of

Rs. 800,000/- by March 31, 2012?

Just so you know

The Prajnya Trust was registered under section 12AA of the Income Tax Act 1961 (695/06-07).

Donations to Prajnya now qualify for tax deduction. Donations to Prajnya from 01-04-2008 to 31-03-2011 qualify for deduction under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as per I.T. Dept. Notification DIT (E) No. 2(573)2006-07 dated 26-09-2008. Please note: In view of the amendment brought about by Finance (No.2) Act/ 2009 regarding automatic renewal of exemption u/S 80G, approval granted earlier to the Trust is valid in perpetuity.

Also, for your information

We include our financial reports

in each of our Annual Reports.

All of these are available online at this link:

http://www.prajnya.in/reports.htm

How to donate

You can send a cheque or DD (drawn on Chennai) payable to “The Prajnya Trust” to our registered office address. Email us at prajnyatrust@gmail.com for the address, please.

Details for electronic transfer: Account name: The Prajnya TrustBank & branch: HDFC Bank, T.Nagar, Chennai 600 017Account number: 02062560002557RTGS/ NEFT IFSC: HDFC0000206Please email us to inform us of your donation, donation date, amount and transaction details.

We prefer not to accept cash donations.

How to reach us

Email us at prajnyatrust@gmail.com

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