About RURAL Foundation in 79/4, Silva Complex, Kankanady bypass Road, Mangalore

Vision of the Foundation
The Rural Foundation sees itself as flag bearer of participative skill development and effective entrepreneurship among youth and women.
Work Statement
1. To pursue the some critical development indices like unemployment, lack of skilled labour, livelihood, and women empowerment to achieve large scale penetration and participative citizenry.
2. To engage SVP (Social Venture Philanthropy) model by working hand in hand with grassroots organizations, building their capacities, giving strategic directions, sharing resources and knowledge, upgrading technology with the aim to achieve scalability, accountability, sustainability and leadership.
3. To promote and practice good governance in every sphere of its activities and inculcate the same among the grassroots partners; to build trust and credibility with all stakeholders.
4. To source and implement suitable technology of relevance across its operations for optimization of management and operation bandwidth.
5. To form alliances with the government, national and international institutions, bilateral and multilateral organizations to share resources and knowledge, and to complement and supplement the efforts of these institutions.
6. To engage the corporate sector in the welfare initiatives by linking their business competitiveness and social contributions, wherever befitting, to make the engagement sustainable.
7. To link business necessity with critical development indices in alignment with Rural Foundation agenda and expand programme coverage in the rural outreach to achieve integrated social development.
8. To sensitize the privileged citizens including opinion makers, mass media and to encourage them to participate in the civic driven change through various forms of engagement.
9. To promote and imbibe social sensibility among youth and women to help them emerge as responsible citizens and also participate in Civic Driven Change.
10. To develop a management bandwidth which can, not only support the broad vision of the organization but also will strive for excellence, innovation and institution building.