The CAP Foundation is a registered Trust, initiated as an innovative public private partnership to demonstrate a model to address poverty alleviation through linking learning and livelihood needs of working children and disadvantaged youth at risk to equitable qualitative learning and promising labour market oriented vocational training opportunities. The Foundation specializes in working with the most deprived, vulnerable and difficult to reach sections among women and the young in poor urban and semi-urban communities at risk and has a very strong gender perspective.

In 2005, it has been registered as a not-for-profit “SCOPE” in the USA and in 2007.

Initiated as a successful rapid learning program for children working in hazardous conditions and school drop outs, CAP has now moved to provide comprehensive academic, vocational and occupational/ employability training interventions including life skills, career exploration, Spoken English and computer skills for in-school, out-of school and post-high school students and young adults between 13-25 years of age.

It has a staff of nearly 450 members including senior management team consisting of Urban planners, Social workers, Management graduates, Gender specialists, Educationists, Media & Communication specialists, centre facilitators and community development field workers.

Currently, with a budgetary support of over Rupees Seven crores from large and medium corporate businesses, international and bilateral donors and government agencies , CAP’s programs and activities are spread across Assam,Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, National Capital Region of Delhi, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Its international projects are in Egypt and Sudan.

Key partners of CAP can be categorized into the following categories:

CAP offers its services to both direct program implementation and capacity building of its local partners for program implementation.