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In
This Issue
Top 10 NGOs who received funds in
August
Renewal Donation Information
First Givers Summit 2011
News from Partner NGOs
NGOs
listed in August
Vidyanikethan
Annual Report
2010-11
Click on the image to read GiveIndia's comprehensive annual report for
2010-11.
Fund Raising
Information
The International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM) Asia 2011
will take place from 25-28 October 2011 at Hotel Ambassador in Bangkok,
Thailand.The aim of the IWRM Asia is to enhance the ability of Asian
NGOs to mobilise resources for their causes. For registration form and
details of who should attend,
click this link. For any other
queries,
write to IWRM Asia team or call
+91 11 4135 4766.
SAFRG
Institute of Fundraising in association with Care and Concern
Foundation, announces a 20 days full time Certificate Course in
Fundraising & Communications from 5th to
27th Sep 2011 at the insitute campus in
Peeraghari, New Delhi. Fee for this non residential course is Rs.27000.
Contact Vandana at +91 11 2518 5110 / +91 9540057641 or write to
course@safrg.org.
The Innovation for India Awards was institutionalized by Marico
Innovation Foundation [MIF] in 2006, with an aim to recognize the
innovations in India. This year the various award categories are
Business, Business for Social, Social (Non-profit and For-profit) and
Public Service. Write to the outreach partner
IDOBRO
or
Marico
Innovation Foundation for further details.
Gul Panag, actress and model invites NGOs to tap into a world of
volunteers who can help you in making a difference by giving of their
time, talent or treasure! Log into
SOAP-Social
Outreach Accreditation Program! The ‘facebook’ of volunteering where
you can build your own profile, post projects that require volunteers
or expertise to help you, along with funding to get these projects off
the ground. You can access both short and long term volunteers for a
range of support for your NGO. Volunteers that provide ‘hands on deck’
or key ‘skills and expertise’ to support you.
3 ways
social sector can innovate- tip from Harvard Business Review
The social sector is not known for
big innovation. It could be because of limited resources or because the
consequences of failure are so high. Take small but meaningful steps
toward innovation:
Question what
you do
Encourage everyone to ask the
question: Is there a better way to do this? This creates a culture of
evaluation and new ideas.
Engage
members
Don't leave staff to figure it out alone. Ask donors, board members,
and clients to brainstorm with you about how your organization can
improve.
Partner,
partner, partner Chances are that others in your space are strapped
for resources like yourself. There's no reason to be proprietary over
innovations. Bring together partners to discuss new ideas and share
resources to test them out.
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India Giving Challenge 2011 |
It's time to set up your iGive page for the
India Giving Challenge
In the previous edition of our newsletter we had informed you that the
India Giving Challenge will be held from September 6th to October 20th,
2011. To help NGOs understand the concept of this online fundraising
event, workshops were conducted in 9 cities across the country and were
attended by 520+ NGOs.
Well, the workshops are now over and it's now time to set up your iGive
page for the challenge. Here's a step-by-step guide that will
help you in doing so. View
this PDF to understand how the
different fields will be displayed on your iGive page.
Remember, fundraising for the challenge begins on September 6th, so be
prepared with your iGive page in time!
5 good reasons to
participate in the India Giving Challenge?
-A great opportunity to raise money for
your cause
-An opportunity to re-engage with old donors
-Ability to tap new donors and alliances with corporates
-Organise and motivate your best and largest fund raisers to raise
money for your cause
-Matching funds from GiveIndia will enable you to raise even more!
To make most of the challenge we urge you to check your emails
regularly as we will be updating and guiding you about the challenge on
a frequent basis. Get in touch with rakhee@giveindia.org or
tarika@giveindia.org to learn how you can set up your iGive page for
your NGO.
As
you might be aware we are in the process of reviewing our listing
criteria. As part of this, we conducted a donor survey in April, 2010.
One key result of the survey was that many of our donors would like us
to visit an NGO as part of our listing due diligence. During the course
of our random verification visits of NGOs, we're also encountering many
situations where the reality on the ground doesn't match with the
claims made in the Donation options or other documents. We have
therefore made a visit mandatory for any NGO wishing to be
listed/listed on the GiveIndia website. Our listing donation of Rs.7500
would not cover the cost of an NGO visit and therefore we increased the
same to Rs.14000 in May, 2011.
For already listed NGOs, we are increasing the Renewal Donation to
Rs.8000 from the current Rs.5000 to help us partly cover the visit
cost. The additional Rs. 3000 will help subsidize cost of travel, stay
and honorarium/time cost of the assessors. We understand that this is a
very steep hike in the renewal donation, and we deeply regret the
inconvenience. If partner NGOs feel this additional cost makes listing
on GiveIndia un-worthwhile, we totally understand your concern.
We intend to undertake visits to each NGO (office & every
program field area which covers all donation options listed on our
website). In preparation of this visit we are reaching out to all Tier
I NGOs (some of you have already been contacted by us
& others will be contacted in the next few weeks) to fill out a
DO Form. Please write to Valli at listingsouth@giveindia.org if you
have any questions.
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A legal checklist for donors & FCRA 2010 |
Pls click on the links below to read a
legal checklist for Donors and
important issues related to FCRA 2010.
The second annual First Givers Summit on 1st
of August was a success. The event was attended by about 60 members of
the club comprising of CXO's of various companies, businessmen and
industrialists. The members ranged from a group of experienced givers
in the field to anxious new givers. Mr.Azim Premji was present over
video-conference and shared his thought process, his ambitions for the
University, and finally his learnings over the years emphasizing the
importance of committing time along with money. Mr. Premji mentioned
that he personally commits 50% of his time to the work of his
foundation and plans to increase it as it starts to achieve scale. Mr.
Rakesh Jhujhunwala who enlightened the members with his views on
philanthropy pledged to give away 25% of his wealth during his
lifetime. Dr. Banerjee, founder MIT-JPAL spoke about measuring impact
followed by Ramji Raghavan Founder, Agastya and Shaheen Mistri, CEO
Teach for India talking about the way they look at impact and the
challenges in measuring the same.
More news ....
The 5th Foundation Day function of
Shoshit Seva Sangh was held on
16th July, 2011. The students of the school gave an impressive cultural
performance. Joanna Stone from Philadelphia conducted a 4 day workshop
for the faculty.
G.Mallikarjuna, President of
SERUDS has received commendation
certificate from the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh on the eve of 65th
Independence Day on 15th August 2011 for rendering excellent social
service to the underprivileged children, disadvantaged women, dalit
widows, rural development in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh.
The Ma Foi Foundation is delighted to share that Sornammal
Matriculation Higher Secondary School has achieved 100% pass results
this year in the 10th and 12th standard. Over 450 Disha scholars in X
Grade and 32 students in XII Grade students scored above 80%
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