Six commitments, and nothing beyond them.
A college that hosts an ARISE club gives its students a formation no timetable carries — structured growth, real responsibility, and a disciplined, safeguarded body working in the institution’s own good name.
Official recognition
That the club is recognised as a club of the college.
A Faculty Advisor
One or two members of the college’s own faculty.
A slot to present
A slot to present ARISE to all the students of the college, and leave for students to encourage their fellow students to join.
A place to meet
Approval for the club to meet on the college premises, and to invite guests.
Leave for the mentors to sit in
Leave for Rebuild India mentors, including the Club Mentor, to sit in and guide the associates.
Permission to run a Nurture Centre
Permission for the students to set up and run Nurture Centres — on the college’s own campus, where the college considers it feasible.
What is not asked: money. The college pays nothing and receives nothing in money. No fee, no funding, no sponsorship, no contribution — and no condition attaches to the nil fee. Nor are your students, or their parents, ever asked by us for money.
No facility is asked for beyond the meeting slot — and, where the college finds it feasible, a room for the centre.
How much staff time this actually consumes
The students run the club. Not the faculty, not the mentors, not the Foundation. That is deliberate and it is the entire point of the design: they learn by carrying it.
The Faculty Advisor is an officer of the college, not a session leader. The Club Mentor — the Rebuild India observer — sits in on meetings and guides the associates in running them, and holds no decision-making power.
The Centre Mentor at a Nurture Centre is appointed and screened by the Foundation, is not a member of your staff, and is not an associate.
Will this bring politics or religion onto our campus?
No. ARISE is apolitical and non-sectarian by its own constitution. It admits no party politics and no sectarian preference, and excludes no person on the ground of belief.
It is at the same time rooted, without apology, in the civilisation of Bharat — and it holds the two together without contradiction, drawing on sayings whose reach is universal: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the world is one family; Sarva Dharma Samabhāva, equal respect for all paths.
Where the movement speaks of the spiritual, it means inner growth — meaning, values and purpose, open to all — and never the practice of any religion. The movement’s public language is bound by a written framing guide, and no overtly religious symbol is used in its public insignia.
The Faculty Advisor is the college’s own officer.
One or two members of your faculty. They are the institution’s eyes on the club, and their duties are defined and finite.
What a Faculty Advisor actually does
They are the point at which the club and the institution meet. In the club’s first year, they and the mentors facilitate — the associates contribute to activities and vote on decisions at the weekly meeting in their presence.
They supervise the secret ballot by which the associates elect their President, together with the Centre Mentors.
They confirm the centre’s record annually. The Centre Mentor signs each session on the day; the Faculty Advisor confirms the year. Neither is an associate, so neither validates their own hours, and no associate signs the session register.
A new associate is introduced to the Faculty Advisor and the Centre Mentor within thirty days of joining.
From the second year, the elected board conducts the club’s process and makes its decisions, and the advisor and mentors take observer positions.
Your campus is preferred. A school campus is excluded.
A Nurture Centre may stand in any suitable location, and a college campus is preferred where the college finds it feasible. A school campus is expressly excluded — that is a prohibition, not a preference.
The Foundation is the sole party
The Rebuild India Foundation is the sole party to every centre-hosting agreement and the sole holder of every liability arising under it. The club is named as the operator of the centre; it is never the principal. No college, no faculty member and no student carries that liability.
The campus annexure
Five matters, written into the agreement and complete before the centre opens — a defined footprint, two named adults from fifteen minutes before to fifteen minutes after, attendance called at arrival and departure with no child released except to a parent or named person, a lit supervised waiting area, and a named adult responsible for the last child to leave.
No centre opens before that annexure exists. This admits of no exception, and is not relaxed for a timetable, a launch date or a gathering.
Who supervises, and who pays for the centre
Every centre is supervised by a Centre Mentor: a screened safeguarding professional appointed by the Foundation, who is not an associate and not your employee, and who is the Youth Protection Officer for that centre. Up to eight may be appointed to a club.
Nobody has contact with a child until their screening file is complete, and no adult has unsupervised or sole-adult contact with a child before their Police Clearance Certificate has issued.
The Foundation bears all the costs — premises where that cost falls to it, materials and utilities. Neither the children, nor their families, nor the associates, nor the host of the premises pays anything, at any stage.
A centre is a standing programme, approved once at establishment and reviewed annually. It does not close for terms, for vacations or for a change of leadership.
Open-ended until revoked — and the exit is stated unprompted.
The memorandum of understanding has no fixed expiry and remains operational until it is revoked. The club is intended to become a permanent part of the college’s ecosystem, so it is not written as a pilot with a renewal date to negotiate.
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The term
No expiry
Open-ended until revoked. There is nothing to renew and nothing that quietly runs out.
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The exit
At your choice, on notice with reasons
A college may exit at its own choice, on notice stating its reasons, and continues to host the club to the end of the club term following. Nothing is contested and nothing is penalised.
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The club term
1 July – 30 June
The club term runs 1 July to 30 June, and the memorandum carries those same dates. Offices of the movement run on the same year.
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After an exit
The children are not left without a centre
The movement’s obligations to the college end. The associates remain associates and move to a Community Club. The Nurture Centres continue to operate — if the premises are lost, the Foundation relocates the centre rather than close it.
What is in the agreement, and who executes it
Every partnership of every category is recorded in writing on twelve standard headings — parties and purpose, term, non-exclusivity, commitments, central custody, brand use, youth protection, data and privacy, the terms special to the category, confidentiality, termination, and dispute resolution.
A mutual-validation licence may be granted: reciprocal, royalty-free and non-exclusive. You may state that you host an ARISE club, and the movement may state the same fact. It extends to that statement and nothing further — no endorsement, no approval of any product, no sub-licence — and it ends on exit, each party withdrawing the other’s marks.
No partnership is entered until a seven-enquiry due-diligence examination is complete and certified.
The agreement is executed by the Centre for the Rebuild India Foundation, and only after review by qualified counsel.
Twenty-five constitute a club. There is no season.
Twenty-five associates constitute a club — that being the number required to operate one Nurture Centre properly. Fifty is the target, and more is welcome.
To constitute
The founding number — enough associates to run one Nurture Centre properly. Below twenty-five, how a centre may be operated is set centrally and published before it applies.
The target
What a healthy club aims at. More is welcome, and no club is capped.
Board seats
Three officers and seventeen portfolios, elected on the club’s own clock and taking office at the ARISE Year.
When would we need to decide by?
There is no date to decide by, because there is no deadline to work back from. Colleges are onboarded continuously, and clubs are founded rolling, all year round. There is no chartering season and no batch.
The sequence is simply this: the agreement creates the club, and the charter registers it. A club begins operating the day its memorandum is signed — it presents to the student body, opens applications, qualifies its associates, opens its centre, and is chartered whenever it meets the conditions.
The one national gathering, the Rebuild India National Convention of 12 January 2027, is a celebration and not a deadline. Whatever clubs are chartered and whatever centres are running by that day form part of it; a club not yet ready comes to the next one.