PURE - PEOPLE FOR URBAN AND RURAL EDUCATION INC
Educate.Empower
Mission
People For Urban and Rural Education promises to be the bridge connecting individuals, groups, organizations with the urgent needs of the world’s Children. PURE pledges to facilitate sustainable empowerment through quality education with complete transparency and accountability to the sponsors.
Ruling year
2016
Founder/CEO
Shyla Talluri
Main address
155 Bartram Market Dr Suite 135, PMB144
Saint Johns, FL 32259 USA
EIN
81-2726747
NTEE code
Youth Development Programs (O50)
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (B12)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Addressing the gaps in the infrastructure in public school system in rural India, to eliminate the hurdles in a child's path to getting a quality education. Addressing Girl Children Education with focus on period poverty in India, Uganda, Ethiopia. Street children reintegration to the mainstream education system. Quality life and education for parentless children.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
PURE Schools
Improve infrastructure of rural schools to transform them into clean, safe and quality learning environments
PURE Femme
Menstrual hygiene awareness workshops & facilitating toilets, sanitary pads,incinerators to prevent school dropouts and to help a girl child manage periods with dignity
PURE Sponsorships
Aide in higher education goals of financially challenged and at risk young adults
PURE Youth
A program aimed at developing leadership skills in Highschool and college students in USA and also providing a way for these kids to connect with projects in India and Africa
PURE Abhyasa
Reintegration of street children (beggars, panhandlers, rag pickers, homeless)
PURE Horizons
Adoption of financially struggling orphanages to better the living standards and undertake the educational needs or the parentless children
Where we work
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children who received school supplies
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Orphans
Related Program
PURE Schools
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Schools have largely been closed, learning turned digital. More than supplies we distributed smart phones, laptops and tablets. In lieu of notebooks, worksheets to help students follow online classes.
Number of children and youth who have received access to stable housing
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Out-of-home youth, Low-income people, Orphans
Related Program
PURE Sponsorships
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Supporting shelter homes has been one of the primary areas due to COVID financial distress faced by these homes.
Number of children who have access to education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
PURE Schools
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
School closures in 2020 have an impact on the numbers.
Number of braille books distributed to blind and visually impaired children and their families
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
PURE Schools
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
With COVID 19, schools, hostels and shelters were closed all year.
Number of health education trainings conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Children and youth, Adolescents
Related Program
PURE Femme
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Menstrual Hygiene Workshops in schools, hostels, schools &colleges for the blind
Number of youth who volunteer/participate in community service
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents, Preteens, LGBTQ people, Women and girls, Men and boys
Related Program
PURE Youth
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
PURE Youth - Highschoolers and college kids based in USA who run PURE chapters , strategezine, olan, fundraise for their projects in USA, India, Ethiopia and Uganda
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Empowering thru education, help fight poverty by putting a child on a path to higher education . Prevent school dropouts, child marriages and child labor.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. Turn public school into quality learning centers by improving the infrastructure thru a phased approach - basic amenities, technology and tutoring
2. Learning centers to prep street children
3. Adoption of orphanages
4. School adoptions especially in tribal areas
5. Using technology to reach remote areas thru digital learning
6. Menstrual hygiene awareness and facilitate products to manage periods with dignity
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
With almost no overheads thru virtual offices and leveraging technology to avoid brink & mortar offices, engaging volunteers instead of paid staff, PURE is capable of stretching a dollar very far.
Social media and highschool volunteers in USA are PURE's fundraising strength.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In the three years since PURE came into existence, 320 schools have been reached in India, 3 in USA, 2 in Ethiopia being fundraised for.
65000 girl children reached in India, Nepal, Uganda thru PURE Femme, an initiative focussed on alleviating period poverty.
Two orphanages adopted. Street kids school pilot and two more centers in the works.
100 plus semi-orphans and orphans sponsored including medical students.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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PURE - PEOPLE FOR URBAN AND RURAL EDUCATION INC
Board of directorsas of 04/18/2023
Shyla Talluri
PURE
Archana Purini
PURE
Deepa Kamalakara
PURE
Hema Kanthmneni
PURE
Vijay Ramireddy
PURE
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Not applicable -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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