VISSION
PRISM would like to create a space to facilitate the process of development – “By the People, Of the People and For the People.”
Our Vision involves the existing as well as the prospective partners from all walks of life towards their moral, physical and social well-being. Our broad vision also includes creation of alternative and replicable models to combat the impediments in conventional and contemporary development initiatives.
MISSION
Our mission is to ‘develop and implement solutions that balance the need for food, shelter, income and environmental quality’ for all people.
GOALS
- To undertake research and action programmes for integrated development of the marginalized sections of the society in both rural and urban areas so as to empower them for a better standard of life.
- To create awareness among the people about developmental activities, social change and various forces acting in the process and to enable them to participate in these activities to their best advantage.
- To help initiate activities/impart skills for strengthening institutional development.
- To work towards a just and egalitarian social order with a synergistic approach.
Number of Full Time Volunteers: 16
Year of Establishment: 2000
ORGANISATION PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION:
As per the International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (ICNPO).
• Philanthropic Intermediaries and Voluntarism Promotion
ORGANISATION HISTORY
A team of local youths formed a Science Hobby Centre named The Young Men’s Science Organization (YMSO) at Gobardanga (Gobardanga Yuba Bijnan Sanstha) in 1967 with an aim to disseminate scientific knowledge among general population. It started with developing Teaching Learning Materials as a supplement to what the students learn in their books. With the changing scenario in the 1990s, when it became difficult for an unregistered society to continue its activities, a few like minded volunteers got together to set up a professional institution. Professional Institute For Development And Socio Environmental Management was formally registered in 2000.
STRATEGIES
The central theme of the strategies is capacity building and a process of empowerment to enable people to manage the activities by themselves, during and after our intervention. As a facilitator PRISM views its intervention as tool for capacity building and focuses on institution building and human resource development. Groups and institutions of the neediest and the marginalized are supported to increase their participation and enable them plan, prioritize and implement actions at their own pace.