FOR ME BY ME FOUNDATION

ABOUT US

Our organisation is incorporated on 23rd December 2019. Main motto is to provide economic empowerment and skill development opportunities to deserving women entrepreneurs. We want to provide a platform for women entrepreneurs to promote and support them. Also, we would like to provide training facilities for female students and new women entrepreneurs in near future. It is the brainchild of founders who have been working with real life women entrepreneurs for the last few years in collaboration with USA.

MEET OUR FOUNDERS

Ms. Abira Roy is the founder Director of “For Me & By Me Foundation” in Kolkata, India. She hails from Kolkata and brought up in an urban atmosphere. She has completed her undergraduate education from prestigious Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata and received her Master’s Degree in Economics with specialization in Econometrics from University of

Calcutta. After completing her master’s, she had joined “Centre For Studies in Economic Appraisal (CSEA)”, a nonprofit organization, based in Kolkata.

To her credit, she had efficiently handled several governmental and non-governmental projects as Research Associate in CSEA for more than 10 years. She had been working with various eminent private organizations like Child Rights and You (CRY), Development Research Communication and Services Centre, Kolkata (DRCSC), Child in Need Institute (CINI), United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and Plan Kenya.

As a research associate she had dealt with various alarming issues such as child labour in India, street food vendors, organic farming, calculating infant mortality rate, analysing the effectiveness of various schemes of West Bengal and fighting violence to ensure education for all in Kenya The main jobs performed by her in these years were data handling, maintaining liason with government officials, conducting meetings with officials, handling and training survey team, preparing questionnaire, teaching survey team initially to run questionnaire and find out the truth, data analysis in SPSS, preparing power points and report writing.

She was also involved in various projects of West Bengal Government as well as Central Government (Academic Staff College of India (ASCI) in the capacity of program coordinator.

She joined Global Links Program (a public private partnership initiated in 2011 between the U.S. Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, Rollins College, and Tupperware Brands) as Graduate Assistant in 2015. She gradually became Program Coordinator in the next phase of the Global Links program in 2017. Being passionate about working with women entrepreneurs of the society she started working with the Global Links program for four years. This was an opportunity to interface with other stakeholders. Her special job responsibility in this program was selecting students from different Colleges to work with

real life entrepreneurs, mentoring students, working with real life entrepreneurs, maintaining liason with USA counterparts and India based NGOs, organising seminars and workshops,preparing reports, power points and process documentation.

Her zeal for working with real life entrepreneurs, understanding their challenges and trying to find a best possible solution put forward the idea of “FOR ME & BY ME”. She, along with two of her colleagues came forward with the unique idea of helping deserving women entrepreneurs and interested female students. FOR ME & BY ME Foundation is an oorganization to help grow local communities and enrich the lives of children, female students, women entrepreneurs with dysfunctional families.

She is a person who is passionate about reading books and travelling to new places. She loves to interact with new people tries to maintain a good public relation with people. Her fondness of always extending a helping hand to others has been the main drive towards the inception of FOR ME BY ME FOUNDATION

Dr Rumpa Chakraborty is the founder Director of “For Me & By Me Foundation” in Kolkata, India. She is a lecturer in Commerce at Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata, India. She has a Bachelorand Master’s degree Commerce, Bachelor of Education and PhD in Management from the University of Calcutta. She is also having a Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial relation and Personnel Management. Also to mention that she has been recognized as a Certified Entrepreneurship Teacher by The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Her teaching areas include Management, Cost & Management Accounting, Auditing and Entrepreneurship. Her research area includes Organizational Behaviour. Under her mentorship, many students have done their academic projects on different areas of Management and Entrepreneurship. As a faculty of a only girls’ college, she took the initiative to start an Entrepreneurship Cell at her institution – Shri Shikshayatan College in 2008 to provide training to young girls’ with a focus to empower them to become a ‘Job giver rather than a Job seeker’.

Under her guidance and support students of Shri Shikshayatan College actively took part in various entrepreneurial activities and skill development programs and a number of student entrepreneurs have come up with beautiful and innovative ideas. She is an active member of National Entrepreneurship Network since 2008. She has completed prestigiously the Orientation and Foundation course organized by National Entrepreneurship Network. Recently she took the initiative to start an Entrepreneurship course for the students in collaboration with National Entrepreneurship Network within Shri Shikshayatan College premises.

Dr Chakraborty regularly participates as an esteemed jury member in a global student venture

evaluation program through YouNoodle Startup Platform, which is used to evaluate student

ventures under Wadhwani Foundation Entrepreneurship courses

As the 2017-2018 Global Links Scholar, Dr. Chakraborty commissioned local students to

mentor women entrepreneurs who were seeking to strengthen their small businesses. Global

Links is a three-phase cross-cultural exchange programme for fostering social entrepreneurship

knowledge and skills of female professors and their students in emerging economies. The impact

of the program-based learning was transformational, as the entrepreneurs were able to scale their

enterprises and outreach within the community and even beyond. The students expanded their horizons by learning to empathize with women from marginalized communities by understanding the pain-points and hurdles they face and how they work to overcome them.

Since childhood Dr Chakraborty loves to take active part in various social works for the

betterment of the society. A number of times Help Age India has honoured her effort as an active

social worker. She had also received a letter of appreciation from former Honorable Chief

Minister of West Bengal Mr. Jyoti Basu for her contribution to flood relief fund.

Good music and a cup of black coffee is what she needs to relax and reduce boredom. Opportunities for travelling are a temptation for her which she cannot avoid.

OUR TEAM

Ms Sangita Sen

Founder Director,

Bharat Rays Solutions International

Entrepreneur , Trainer Advisor,

FOR ME BY ME FOUNDATION

Dr. Rumpa Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Sri Sikhshayatan College Director, FOR ME AND BY ME FOUNDATION

Ms Abira Roy Director, FOR ME AND BY ME FOUNDATION

Vision

* Helping women entrepreneurs to become economically empower by providing a

philanthropic platform.

* Promote, assist and support women entrepreneurs engaged in arts, culture and

handicraft to elevate their lives economically.

* Providing women/female students with various training workshops for developing

handwork skills.

Vision

* Helping women entrepreneurs to become economically empower by providing a

philanthropic platform.

* Promote, assist and support women entrepreneurs engaged in arts, culture and

handicraft to elevate their lives economically.

* Providing women/female students with various training workshops for developing

handwork skills.

Mission

Improve society by helping women to realize their strength and make the world a better

place to live in.

Mission

Improve society by helping women to realize their strength and make the world a better

place to live in.

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PRESENT ACTIVITIES:

● Organising Trainings, workshops and exhibitions to provide selling platforms to women entrepreneurs.

● We provide free stalls during our offline exhibitions to NGOs and also to women who belong to grassroots level.

● We also promote business of women entrepreneurs through social promotion, along with individual selling of products through Facebook live and word of mouth.

● FMBM has also come up with a unique idea of ‘Goody Basket’ for all occasions. Through this basket/tray/bag FMBM is selling products of different entrepreneurs together and customers are given a chance to customize the baskets according to their choice of products.

● We have collaborated with Wadhwani Foundation and our entrepreneurs are getting an opportunity to get training from experts of Wadhwani Foundation to upscale their business.

● We are providing entrepreneurship courses to the interested students organized by the colleges where our experts are helping the students to give shape to their dreams.

● We have initiated a programme “Dream Chasers” where students are engaged with entrepreneurs as interns so that they can mutually help each other.

PRESENT ACTIVITIES:

● Organising Trainings, workshops and exhibitions to provide selling platforms to women entrepreneurs.

● We provide free stalls during our offline exhibitions to NGOs and also to women who belong to grassroots level.

● We also promote business of women entrepreneurs through social promotion, along with individual selling of products through Facebook live and word of mouth.

● We have collaborated with Wadhwani Foundation and our entrepreneurs are getting an opportunity to get training from experts of Wadhwani Foundation to upscale their business.

● We are providing entrepreneurship courses to the interested students organized by the colleges where our experts are helping the students to give shape to their dreams.

● We have initiated a programme “Dream Chasers” where students are engaged with entrepreneurs as interns so that they can mutually help each other.

FUTURE PLANS:

● In the near future we have plans to start an e-commerce platform so that our women entrepreneurs benefit from that on a bigger scale.

● A large part of entrepreneurs belongs to the rural area where they have very little exposure to selling platforms. We have plans to promote them by building awareness of self-empowerment & also giving them opportunities to earn.

● We also have a dream to promote entrepreneurship as a solution to the unemployed youth by giving them opportunities for new projects, businesses alliances.

FUTURE PLANS:

● In the near future we have plans to start an e-commerce platform so that our women entrepreneurs benefit from that on a bigger scale.

● We also have a dream to promote entrepreneurship as a solution to the unemployed youth by giving them opportunities for new projects, businesses alliances.