Our project teams are often involving people with passion & commitment but relatively far less expertise & experience than our well-resourced ecosystem community has. Hence, there is plenty of opportunities for advising & mentoring project teams. Your time involvement will be per your preference and the project’s needs. Please share the following information to enable us to align your interest, capacity & availability with your desired mentoring needs:

There is often no better way to get that real ‘feeling’ of an impact than being an active member (in some capacity) of the project that touches you deeply in some ways (because of its location or domain or technology or nature of impact or just the sheer hurdles that project needs to overcome). Volunteering with WHEELS can be in all different flavors – whether on the ground with a project implementation team or remote participation or in many key business functions (e.g., outreach & communications, fund-raising, operations). Please share the following information to enable us to align your interest, capacity & availability with your desired volunteering needs:

Youth participation is vital to WHEELS sustained growth, leadership capacity, and relevance. Internships with WHEELS are available during summer as well as during regular school/college/university calendar. What WHEELS interns can expect is an opportunity to get an amazing experience of learning across a wide variety of areas (whether business functions or technologies or geographies or impact models or cultures) along with a deep sense of purpose and impact. An opportunity to see and play a vital part in the transition of the old world of pure-profit drives corporations and pure philanthropy to business models that bring the best of both worlds through modern social enterprise structures. Please share the following information to enable us to align your interest, capacity & availability with your desired internship needs:

Not only individuals in WHEELS family can make a direct impact, but there may also be an even bigger opportunity through the leverage of resources an individual’s employer has. These resources could be many different types, e.g., products & solutions that can augment existing WHEELS projects, innovations that can fill in critical gaps, distribution channels, or delivery capacity. Often corporations encourage their employees to take time off to work on social impact projects and/or contribute in other ways. The corporate world is far bigger in its capacity, resources, reach, and innovations and hence bigger the opportunities for leverage. IIT alumni are almost in sizable numbers in almost every medium to large corporation in the world, especially those that are technology-driven. Please share the following information to enable us to leverage your proposal involving your employer’s resources:

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs are rapidly becoming commonplace in most corporations worldwide due to their strategic value (e.g., attracting & retaining talent, brand image, community engagement). While CSR pool of funds is optional in some countries, in others (e.g., India) they are a regulatory requirement, and thus present a powerful opportunity to drive WHEELS mission. WHEELS alumni and the ecosystem community are the best channels to tap into these funds in the best way possible. These CSR funds will often be the anchor resource that makes it possible to attract other sources. Please share your recommendations to tap into the CSR funds for WHEELS mission:

Many corporations have matching programs to encourage their employees to contribute and impact their favorite social causes. Further, some of the corporations also support fund-raising campaigns within the corporation to support worthy causes. Both of these are important opportunities for WHEELS alumni & ecosystem members to inquire and leverage at their employers. Please share your recommendations to tap into the Corporate Giving programs for WHEELS success: