<h1>Private management institute honored for long-running community mentorship program boosting education, skills, and sustainable livelihoods for underserved children</h1> A private management institute received an industry federation's Higher Education Excellence Award in the Institutional Social Responsibility (Private) category for a long-running community program that provides mentorship, after-school enrichment and financial support to children in an underserved Mumbai ward. The program, integrated into the institute's postgraduate curriculum, reports multi-year outcomes including thousands of student mentors, over a thousand beneficiary students completing schooling or entering higher education or work, and recent innovations in community partnerships, design thinking and entrepreneurship training to support sustainable livelihoods.