Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our Peace Education Program is expanding rapidly. Since the first pilot in late 2012, the program has been presented in 94 countries and translated into 37 languages. TPRF oversees the training for program presenters and supplies the materials. Among our current challenges are: • Developing new materials for people wanting to continue with peace education after completing the first four courses; developing a course specifically for use in high schools, including activities for teacher use; creating peace education courses for use on tablets in prisons. • The need to initiate studies on the effect of the program. A study of the impact of the Peace Education Program in correctional facilities in 4 continents is underway to be released in 2020. Our Food for People Program (FFP) is in the process of adding educational courses in computers and other skills for students and adults at each facility.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Food for People
Food for People (FFP) is a food-aid program designed to help rural communities emerge from the downward cycle of poverty. The program works out of three facilities: one that opened in 2006 in Bantoli, India; one that opened in 2009 in the Dhading District of Nepal; and one that opened in 2012 in Otinibi, Ghana. By the end of 2020, the FFP program had provided over 4,100,000 meals to children and ailing adults with the objective of enabling children to go to school and malnourished adults to gain strength needed to return to work. In all three areas, school enrollment has at least doubled, and for the first time, village students in Nepal and India are completing grade 10 and passing the School Leaving Exams to go on to higher education. In 2018 students from Otinibi reached regional levels in sports competitions and in 2019 the first graduate from the Basic School completed his secondary education and entered university. Covid-19: As of June, 2021 Ghana is the only open facility.
Peace Education Program
The Peace Education Program is an innovative series of video-based workshops that help people discover their own inner strength and personal peace. The program gives participants the opportunity to focus and reflect on their own humanity, and their inner resources such as choice, hope, and dignity. Rather than describing or defining personal peace, the program empowers individuals to reach their own understanding. Everyone can benefit. The program has proven effective in a variety of settings including community centers, youth groups, schools, adult education programs, veterans’ groups, healthcare settings, senior centers, homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation facilities, and correctional facilities.
Since 2020 four courses have been available, with a fifth being piloted in four countries.
Four impact studies have demonstrated that the program has been significantly helpful to participants in correctional facilities, schools, homeless shelters, and a variety of community groups.
Public Events and Forums
TPRF regularly supports international events and forums with government, education, and business leaders to promote understanding of individual peace as the basis for world peace.
Disaster Relief
TPRF regularly provides disaster relief in partnership with other nonprofit organizations, especially addressing underserved areas. In addition, TPRF continues to fund eye clinics in rural areas of India and Nepal that provide eye exams, eye infection medications, and corrective lenses at no charge to people who could not otherwise afford them. In 2020 humanitarian aid grants totaled $400,000 to address natural disasters, hunger, lack of eye care, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since inception the Foundation has made over 40 humanitarian aid grants totaling over $5,000,000.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsPeace Education Program Attendees
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Adolescents
Related Program
Peace Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Peace Education Program is a 10-session series of video-based workshops that help people discover their own inner strength and personal peace.
Peace Education Program Attendees Since Inception
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Adolescents
Related Program
Peace Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Peace Education Program began in 2012.
Countries in which Peace Education Program has been offered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Adolescents
Related Program
Peace Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
From 2019 to 2022, the Peace Education Program was offered in a total of 58 countries on every continent.
The number of Food for People (FFP) meals served in all facilities.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Adolescents, Seniors
Related Program
Food for People
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Steady increases except in 2020 when facilities were closed due to the pandemic.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
TPRF has two main focuses: The Foundation's primary purpose is to promote world peace by helping individuals find personal peace in their lives. The Foundation pursues that goal through its Peace Education Program, which is active in 40 countries and by sponsoring forums for leaders of governments, industry, education, and other sectors of society to explore the possibility of peace.
The Peace Education program is a curriculum for discovering personal peace designed for use in a wide variety of settings: education (high schools, colleges, and adult education), community groups, health and wellness, corrections, rehab centers, senior centers, and homeless populations, etc.
TPRF's second purpose is to develop model programs for people caught in a downward cycle of poverty that provide a means for them to shift out of that cycle and build a different future for their children and grandchildren. To this end, the Foundation has developed the Food for People program (FFP), now operational in Bantoli, India; Tasarpu, Nepal; and Otinibi, Ghana.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
FOOD FOR PEOPLE (FFP): The strategy is to continue to provide other support for student success and community prosperity as suits each area. For instance, after the Nepal facility neared its serving capacity in 2017, it began a program to deliver meals to eight area schools too far from the facility for students to walk to it. That program served over 166,000 meals in the first six months of 2021. Currently both the Nepal and India facilities are closed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Each facility has offered educational opportunities to their constituents. In late 2017, TPRF sponsored computer labs and computer education in six schools in Nepal, with 18 computers per school. A computer lab has also been set up at the India FFP. This innovation offers students the opportunity to develop the essential skills they will need as they go on to higher levels of education. In 2019, the FFP in India added sewing classes for girls and adult women, adding an important life skill and opportunity to bring in income. In Ghana, the first student in Otinibi entered university. Others have proceeded to secondary education. The Foundation is also aiming to document the success of the three current programs so that other organizations or governments can use the FFP model as a basis for increasing health, literacy, and prosperity in impoverished communities.
PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM (PEP): TPRF is increasing its volunteer staff to meet the growing demand for the program in new areas, continuing translation into new languages, and developing better systems for reporting results. In almost every country where the program is active, the trend is for staff of large organizations, such as schools, hospitals, prisons, and rehabilitation centers to present the program themselves. Training in the course facilitation is available free of charge. During the global pandemic, the program has been offered virtually across the globe.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
One of TPRF's greatest assets is that, although it is based in Los Angeles, it enjoys a broad international support base of both donors and volunteers. TPRF's virtual office brings the management team close together regardless of where they live. Among the volunteers are a large number of experienced men and women who have made available considerable time to help with the management of the Foundation and implementation of its programs. As new volunteer needs arise, role descriptions are created, and qualified people respond with the offer of their time and talent. Managers make the selection much as would be done for new hires. The atmosphere of teamwork and valuing each person's contribution makes volunteering for the Foundation enjoyable as well as challenging. These factors lead to efficiency, not just because of low overhead, but because non-competitive teamwork is very effective.
TPRF's Food for People program in Bantoli, India is now completely self-supporting, and the Nepal facility is partially self-supporting. All staff is local to the region of each facility, in line with the Foundation's intention to build facilities and work with communities and countries to make them self-sufficient.
PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM (PEP): TPRF is increasing its volunteer staff to meet the growing demand for the program in new areas, continuing translation into new languages, and developing better systems for reporting results. In almost every country where the program is active, the trend is for staff of large organizations, such as schools, hospitals, prisons, and rehabilitation centers to present the program themselves. Training in the course facilitation is available free of charge. During the global pandemic, the program has been offered virtually across the globe.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
With the first Food for People facility opening in 2006, the second in 2009, and the third in 2012, it has already become clear that the program has both an immediate and a growing influence on the communities they serve. As time goes on, students in local schools begin to perform better and show interest in going on to higher levels of education. Students begin to think in terms of careers beyond hard labor for survival. Understanding of the importance of hygiene spreads from the children to their families, and incidence of disease is beginning to decrease. The local doctor serving the area of FFP India reports that malnutrition among the children has decreased from 30% to 2% since the facility opened in 2006. The importance of close cooperation with each community has been reinforced over the years of experience. Increased community involvement is beginning to stimulate support, both in money and in-kind services, from the local area.
Progress has already been made toward the goal of self-sufficiency. We now have a formula for success for these facilities, including management, community involvement, and health standards. As current facilities become fully funded and managed locally, TPRF will be in the position to start new ones.
The success of the Peace Education Program has led to increasing demand for more materials for a growing number of people who have completed the 10-week course and want to continue on. For example, in Colombia, the program is part of the school curriculum in three departments (equivalent to provinces). Agreements have been made to include the program in correctional institutions in Italy, homeless shelters in South Africa, and prisons across São Paulo, Brazil.
As of mid 2021, the Peace Education Program has been completed by over 160,000 participants in over 70 countries, in 30 languages.
TPRF now has four Peace Education Programs courses to address this new demand and the variety of participants. A new course designed for high school and university students that includes educational activities is being piloted in four countries. For ongoing development of course materials and their translation, additional funding will be needed.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Suggestion box/email, Help Desk,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve,
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our staff, Our board,
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, Translation of feedback in other languages,
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The Prem Rawat Foundation
Board of directorsas of 01/20/2023
Linda Pascotto
The Linda and Alvaro Pascotto Charitable Foundation
Term: 2001 -
Linda H Pascotto
The Linda and Alvaro Pascotto Charitable Foundation
Daya Rawat
No Affiliation
Amar Rawat
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Edd Hanzelik
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Stephen Sordoni
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Matt Altman
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Bruce Keenan
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