Insights
December 2024
Catch all that’s happening with our wonderful scholarship-givers, students and thriving volunteering community.
Scholarship-Founder
Spotlight
Customer Success
We’re celebrating Kavita and her deeply inspiring scholarship made in moving memory of her mother. From our very initial conversations, Kavita was clear that her scholarship will celebrate the values that her mother represented.
Her rich global experience in human resources coupled with a deep understanding and empathy for the students, and her gracious interest in reaching out to more students has made her a scholarship-giver who brings so much more than just funding for her scholarship winners and our community.
Her scholarship supports excellent and deserving students in high school as well as students pursuing engineering & medical sciences.
Thank you, Kavita!
Scholarship Picks
Recent initiatives powered by Impactis!
GC Jain Memorial
Scholarship
Manohar Lal Jakhodia
Scholarship
Founder Nidhi Jakhodia
Regional Vice President, Diners Club International
For students in class XI & XII
Smt. Gulabi Shetty Memorial
Scholarship
Founder Prakash Shetty
Managing Director at Gasotech Consultancy & Marketing Services
For bright engineering students
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Scholar Sparks
Student Welfare
Abhishek is a proud recipient of a fully funded merit scholarship instituted by Teotia Foundation, and is studying at NIT, Trichy.
November was a life changing month as Abhishek suffered a stroke and was rushed to the hospital ICU for urgent care. Throughout, Abhishek maintained a calm mind. Even when he was in a subconscious state, he used hand-gestures to continue communicating with care staff and family, providing big relief and faith for the family and care givers alike.
We were also moved by the way his alma-mater CSRL Super 30, NIT Trichy and well-wishing supporters at Impactis came together to support his treatment and recovery. The biggest credit goes to his CSRL batchmates who took charge and really displayed the value of care and camaraderie.
Abhishek is back in his home town at the moment. He cheerily shared his updates and had a conversation with us and the Teotia Foundation founders.
His response reminds us all of the choices we can make while handling adversity and the far reaching effect it can have on those around. Abhishek’s stoic resolve and courage is inspiring. But it is now time for him to take good care of himself and focus on his recovery and wellness.
At Impactis, we are blessed to have seen Abhishek’s journey of growth over the last two years and we have full confidence in his positivity, resilience and courage to overcome whatever comes his way. Teotia Foundation and the Impactis family are with him all the way!
Impactis is continuing to create a reserve to support Abhishek’s care and contributions can be made
From the Scholar Verse
Anuj Kumar Kshatriya
IIT Gandhinagar, Civil Engineering,
2nd Year
Recipient of DBM Memorial Scholarship
- Secured an internship offer as a Full Stack Developer at the start-up IntentSignal.co, showcasing expertise in web development.
- “This month was fine for me, I managed to get good grades while managing my freelance work. Last month was very productive as I learned how to manage multiple things such as my studies while applying to many internships, out of which I got selected for one as a full-stack developer”
Pulin Taye
IIT Madras, Mechanical Engineering,
3rd year
Recipient of Teotia Education Grants
- Co-founded a startup named ProfitONN along with two classmates, incubated under NIRMAAN, Pratham.
- “This month was very exciting for me because we built the first working prototype of our website, this was a very proud moment for me and my co-founder because we had been working on the website for months, before the deadline we had set. I balanced my end sem exams alongside my website.”
Ayush Adhikari
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,
Class XII
Recipient of Teotia Education Grants
- Represented Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) at the Regional National Congress as a member of the National Hockey Team.
- “This month I learned how to communicate better and present myself in front of others. I worked on my focus and started meditating. I have also been enjoying Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography, ‘Playing It My Way’, which has taught me the power of hard work and determination”
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Volunteer Voices
Corporate Partnerships
Reimagining the Volunteer Practice: A Journey of Impact
We started Impactis with a belief that scholarships need to be more than just financial aid for our youth to be the change makers of tomorrow. Through interviews with students and pilot projects, we realized the key to truly empowering students lay in assessing not just merit or need, but also potential—their ability to grow, learn, and seize opportunities.
Evaluating character and uniqueness is nothing new. They are common to the admission process at the best colleges and can help us improve outcomes by matching limited scholarship funds to the best student.
But we faced a challenge: how could we ensure fairness in something so subjective? Our answer was to introduce personality-based evaluations that involve diverse voices. By engaging multiple volunteers from different professions and backgrounds (verified by their company), we could average out evaluations and get a balanced, accurate measure of each student’s potential.
At the same time, we wanted to make volunteering accessible. Traditional corporate volunteering often requires significant time and effort, but we envisioned a lighter, virtual model. Volunteers could contribute from anywhere, in small, meaningful bursts of time, all while experiencing the joy of making a difference.
In November 2023, we launched this initiative, and the response has been inspiring. With seven top corporates and nearly 1,500 volunteers, we’ve clocked over 25,000 evaluations and 2,000+ hours of service. And we are just getting started!
As we look to 2025, my dream is to grow this community—not just as evaluators but as mentors, guides, and supporters who help these students thrive. This is more than a volunteering program; it’s a movement to create brighter futures and lasting change.
Thank you to all companies and their wonderful employee volunteers for being part of this incredible journey. Let’s make 2025 a year of greater impact, together!
Curious how your company can enroll as a
volunteering partner?
Impactis helps companies strengthen employee involvement and volunteering hours.
Our community of reputed NGOs work with us to have your employees give discounted scholarships (memorials, legacy & in gratitude) with eligible tax and other benefits.
Centerstage
Business Growth (India)
We were honored and thrilled to be covered in Economic Times Education by Yasmin Taj, Editor (exact designation) as she interviewed CEO, Pankaj Asthaana.
The interview covers the big trends and challenges surrounding higher education financing in India, the opportunities represented through scholarships, the role of technology, what makes Impactis’ solution interesting, as well as Pankaj’s own personal journey and commitment behind Impactis’ vision for scholarships.
In the words of Economic Times, Education:
“It’s inspiring to see how Impactis Global is transforming the scholarship landscape by making education more accessible and bridging the financial gap for students across diverse backgrounds.”
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We’re imagining a world where all students, everywhere have access to inspiration, guidance, funding and opportunities – where no one is limited by the accidents of their birth.
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