CSAS Ta'leem — an initiative of the Center on South Asian Studies
Bridging the gap
between needs
and resources
CSAS Ta'leem funds education across Indian Muslim communities — from a child's first classroom to community leadership. Your contribution directly supports educational needs, ensuring every rupee goes where it can make the greatest impact.
Six ways to educate
Provide access to education to individuals, institutions, and communities in ways that strengthen the long-term capacity of Indian Muslims.
Whether we help educate a child, support a university student, publish research, train leaders, improve journalism, or advance health literacy, we are fulfilling the same purpose.
Six ways we educate
Our work looks diverse, but it shares one purpose. Every program is educational.
Primary & Secondary Education
Expanding access for children through schools, curriculum development, teacher training, and technology-enabled learning — preparing the next generation
Higher Education & Academic Advancement
College access, scholarships, faculty development, and research opportunities — creating scholars, professionals, and future educators.
Research & Publications
Producing scholarship, preserving history, and generating evidence that informs public policy and public understanding.
Leadership Development
Training and workshops that equip leaders with knowledge, ethics, management skills, and civic responsibility to lead effectively.
Media & Journalism
How we educate the wider public — strengthening credible journalism, media literacy, and documentary and digital storytelling.
Health & Young Women’s Well-being
Health literacy, awareness, and training for young women — daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers, the backbone of any healthy society.
How we work
CSAS Ta'leem funds and strengthens programs — we don't run them on the ground. Execution needs different skills and resources than we bring. Instead, we follow five steps.
Identify
Existing programs worthy of support, capacity-building, or expansion.
Diligence
We evaluate each organization, its leadership, and its performance.
Prioritize
The most creative, future-ready projects.
Fund partially
By design, so no program becomes wholly dependent on us.
Fill gaps
For a critical gap, we partner with experts to launch a new program, then hand it off through a build-operate-transfer model.
We bring expertise and funding to proven programs that need both — and, where a critical gap exists, we seed new ones and hand them off.
Partner with CSAS Ta’leem
Support proven educational programs, seed new ones, or give directly — and help strengthen the long-term capacity of Indian Muslim communities.