FAQ’s
At The Third Eye Foundation, we believe that transparency, clarity, and open communication are essential to building trust and long-lasting relationships with our supporters, volunteers, and beneficiaries. This FAQ section has been thoughtfully created to address some of the most common questions about our mission, ongoing programs, volunteer opportunities, donations, and the various ways individuals and organizations can support our work.
Whether you are exploring how to get involved, seeking details about our initiatives, or looking for guidance on contributing to our cause, we hope this section provides clear and helpful answers. If you don’t find the information you’re looking for, please feel free to reach out to us directly—our team is always happy to assist and guide you in any way we can.
We believe that unless members of the civil society are involved proactively in the process of development, sustainable change will not happen. Believing in this principle of ‘Civic Driven Change’ The Third Eye Foundation sensitises the civil society in order to make them partners in its mission.
India has about 11 million children living on the streets and 14 million children working as labours. Only 60% of children have access to education despite having a national policy on compulsory elementary education. The time to take collective as well as individual responsibility to remedy the current situation is here. Right now!
The Third Eye Foundation is a national level development organization with its welfare projects spread across India.
The Third Eye Foundation’s mission is to empower underprivileged children, youth and their families and community through relevant education. We aim to deploy best possible methodology and technology for achieving ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice and promote good governance, to link business competitiveness of the corporate with social development initiatives and to sensitize the privileged section of society to promote Civic Driven Change.
The realization of a group of young corporate professionals, that it was their Social Responsibility to give back to the society, laid the inception of The Third Eye Foundation. The Third Eye Foundation is managed professionally by a Board of Advisors, comprising individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise, followed by an Executive Committee and a well defined professional workforce.
Education alone has the power to liberate people from the vicious cycle of poverty – not only in terms of earning a livelihood but also in becoming aware of the rights and freedoms that a citizen is endowed with. Thus empowering individuals and making them self-sufficient.
The Third Eye Foundation works primarily in the thematic areas of education and blood donation. Through our education initiatives, we strive to provide learning opportunities and resources to underprivileged children, while our blood donation programs focus on ensuring timely and life-saving blood support for patients in need.
The Third Eye Foundation operates under two models: Social Venture Philanthropy (SVP) and Outreach. Through the SVP model, we support long-term, sustainable initiatives by providing strategic funding, mentorship, and capacity-building to partner organizations. Our Outreach model focuses on direct, on-ground interventions, enabling us to reach communities through education support, blood donation drives, and immediate assistance where it is needed most.
Around 70-80% funding support of the organization comes from corporates; the rest comes from PSUs, individual donors and private institutions.
There is a user friendly application form available on our website that an NGO can fill. Apart from that we put notices in all our internal modes of communication like our website, mailers, etc. whenever there is a requirement for a partner in any particular geographical area under our various programmes.
Children, their families and the communities are the target groups of The Third Eye Foundation with children at the center stage. The organization believes that a child’s education cannot be taken care of without taking care of the family, especially the mother, and the communities they belong to.
In our journey so far, we have received immense support from numerous individuals, many private and public sector companies, development agencies, educational institutions, public figures and the mass media. One can associate with us in any of these above mentioned ways. Please visit the contact us or get involved section of our website for more information on the possible ways of being involved in our journey.
You can go to Donate Now section of The Third Eye Foundation’s website and donate online. For other donations related queries please write to donation@thethirdeyefoundation.org
The donor gets an instant acknowledgement mail along with an SMS. On receiving the reconciliation statement from the bank, a receipt is sent via e-mail immediately, followed by a hard copy by post (within India). The receipt is accompanied by a ‘welcome pack’ which is also a token of appreciation. The donor receives a birthday wish, wishes on important festivals, programme updates and an annual impact report during a year’s time.
As soon as the donation through cheque or online is reconciled by the bank, the amount is allotted to the specific programme, which it has been meant for. The utilization and results are managed, monitored and audited. The outcome is reflected in the annual impact report, which is shared with the donors.
There is no specific amount that should be donated. However all the programmes have a detailed breakup of the expenditure displayed online.
As a credible organization, we honour the privacy of our donors. The donor data is not exposed or shared with any external agency under any circumstances. We have a robust in-house mechanism and server system where the records are kept safe. The entire setup is protected with password and is guarded by surveillance software. The data is kept strictly confidential and only authorized staff with a special non-disclosure bond have access to it.
Yes, we accept the donation in kind as well. The things raised through in kind donation are distributed to the poor children enrolled through the different programme.
While you can visit the school where the children you support are studying we do not encourage donors to directly meet the beneficiaries as we do not want to give special treatment to any child.
Yes, the website is safe for any kind of transaction. Also any information exchange is kept safe and in no condition gets disclosed. Also the payment gateway is a third party payment gateway recognized by the financial institutions under the government of India. So any transaction also is thoroughly secured.