What the library covers
The library connects memorial writing, organizational context, method, and present-day pathways for research and collaboration.
- Narad Sharma
- Sahakarmi Samaj
- FEST (Facilitation for Empowerment and Social Transformation)
- Community empowerment
- Transformative community development
- Research and learning materials
Foundation publications
These pages establish the Foundation's identity, memorial context, and editorial voice.
Foundation page
About Narad Sharma Foundation
Sets out the Foundation's purpose, work areas, and public identity.
Read about the FoundationFoundation page
Narad Sharma Legacy
Brings together the memorial, educational, and community-facing threads of the story the Foundation is preserving.
Read the legacy pageFoundation page
Memoirs and Tributes
Adds personal remembrance and public voice to the broader record.
Read memoirs and tributesFEST resources
This part of the library gathers the materials and reference areas most useful for understanding FEST.
Reference page
FEST Approach
Explains why the Foundation studies FEST as a serious way of understanding Narad Sharma's approach to community-centered change.
Explore FEST ApproachReference area
Distinctive features of FEST
This area gathers ideas the Foundation meets again and again in its reading of FEST: facilitation, reflection, agency, relationship, and community responsibility.
Research and learning materials
FEST in teaching and practice
This area brings together the questions most useful for researchers, facilitators, and educators who want to study FEST as more than a phrase.
Sahakarmi Samaj resources
These materials help readers understand the organizational context, working principles, and community practice behind the archive.
Reference page
Sahakarmi Samaj overview
Provides organizational and practical context for many of the ideas connected to Narad Sharma and FEST.
Read the Sahakarmi Samaj pageReference area
Working principles and accompaniment
Focuses on the principles the Foundation reads most clearly in Sahakarmi Samaj: accompaniment, listening, trust, dignity, and local leadership.
Archival focus
Organizational learning and community practice
Brings together materials that show how organizational context and reflective practice shape community work.
Community development resources
The library connects historical learning to current questions about research, education, and community support.
Foundation page
Programs & Support
Shows how the Foundation carries research, education, and community support into present work.
View programs and supportReference area
Community-centered development themes
Collects the ideas that hold this archive together: facilitation, empowerment, reflection, accompaniment, and locally rooted change.
Archival focus
Education, support, and local initiative
Connects historical learning to the Foundation's interest in education, community support, and aligned partnership.
Research and learning materials
These routes help readers move from study into conversation.
Research path
Work With Us
The main route for researchers, universities, NGOs, development practitioners, donors, and community organizations who want to engage the Foundation.
Work With UsGeneral contact
Contact the Foundation
A direct contact route for questions that do not fit the collaboration pathway.
General ContactReading path
Foundation story and context
The About, Legacy, FEST, and Sahakarmi Samaj pages together provide the core route into the library.
Start with AboutRecommended reading
For readers new to the library, this sequence moves from identity to context, method, and collaboration.
Step 1
Start with AboutFor a clear overview of the Foundation's purpose, work areas, and public identity.
Step 2
Read LegacyFor a respectful memorial summary that frames the archive around ideas, institutions, and continuing work.
Step 3
Study FEST ApproachFor a direct explanation of Facilitation for Empowerment and Social Transformation.
Step 4
Read Sahakarmi SamajFor organizational context and working principles connected to this body of work.
Step 5
Continue to Programs & SupportFor the Foundation's current areas of work and support pathways.
Step 6
Use Work With UsTo begin research, academic, NGO, donor, or community partnership conversations.
Archival materials
The Foundation is gathering writings, memories, summaries, and references across several areas of the archive.
Archival focus
Narad Sharma materials
This area covers memorial, interpretive, and documentary materials connected to Narad Sharma's work and legacy.
Archival focus
Sahakarmi Samaj materials
This area gathers organizational context, working principles, and records that help explain Sahakarmi Samaj's place in the archive.
Archival focus
FEST and community development materials
This area brings together method, reflective practice, facilitation, empowerment, and social transformation within the Foundation's learning mission.
Research collaboration
The library is meant to be read, used, and discussed. Researchers, universities, NGOs, development practitioners, donors, and community organizations are welcome to engage the Foundation through its collaboration pathway.
Research pathways
Researchers and partner organizations are welcome to engage.
If you are working on archive development, source review, FEST learning, teaching, or related collaboration, the Work With Us page is the best place to begin.