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Deshpande Fellowship Program

2012-10-20T02:55:00.000-07:00

Deshpande Fellowship Program is now receiving applications for tenth batch. Deshpande fellowship program was begun in order to empower a major untapped resource in the development field: hungry young people with plenty of potential to go for in their field who are held back only by their skills and self- confidence. DFP seeks change that and help participate to realize the true potential and ambitions.

This rigorous 7½ month residential leadership development program,Through NGOs visits, village studies, entrepreneurial and Leadership activities and intensive course work, fellows gain skills needed to become true leaders in their chosen field.

With a concentration on social entrepreneurship and innovation, the DFP has transformed over 200 fellows into entrepreneurial young leaders. Kindly spread the words with your colleagues, friends and who interested to become part of the Fellowship Program.

Interested one apply directly by using attached application or can be downloaded from online-http://www.dfp.org.in/

For more information you can reach us at fellowship@dfmail.org or 9740011883

Master of Social Entrepreneurship program

2012-07-11T22:04:00.000-07:00

Master of Social Entrepreneurship program launched by Deshpande Education Trust’s Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Hubli, India

The Deshpande Education Trust (DET) announces the launch of its Master of Social Entrepreneurship program. The Master of Social Entrepreneurship (MSE) is a two-year residential program affiliated with Karnatak University Dharwad and approved by the Government of Karnataka. MSE offers students essential skills in social innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership development and business practice taught by scholars and practitioners who actively engage in leading enterprises and promoting entrepreneurship. Applications for the program are due July 30^th 2012 and courses will begin August 22^nd 2012. For more information on the program and admissions process: www.detmse.com

What makes MSE program special? With an aim to demystify social entrepreneurship for young and creative minds this residential program is carefully designed from a practitioner’s perspective. MSE is hosted by Deshpande Center for Social entrepreneurship (DCSE) that has been a breeding ground of several start-ups, an international network of enterprises and concrete partnerships with over 100 for profits and not –for profits who all are engaged in solving social issues with a compassionate heart and entrepreneurial mind set.

Two year program is packaged with 25 different courses that blend with cutting edge practical experience as well as personal mentorship through real entrepreneurs. Our international experience in US and Canada where Deshpande centers have been launched in renowned universities with a sole objective to make “learning relevant and responsive to real time challenges” and embark on an even more ambitious aim to help students not just ‘learn’ about entrepreneurship but find the inspirations and tools of becoming an entrepreneur themselves. Learn more about our international work at http://www.detmse.com/network.html

Faculty Profile: One of the distinguishing factors of the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship is its faculty and resource personals. DCSE is gifted with passionate faculty with substantial experience in the social enterprise and related sectors at a global level. For more information http://www.detmse.com/trainer.html

Who should join MSE? Graduates in any field who are looking to step into creating or managing a social enterprise themselves. People who are passionate about social issues but still possess an entrepreneurial acumen to venture into innovative and yet sustainable initiatives. We are pleased to share that being located DCSE MSE program brings an added advantage of possibility of getting incubated in our Entrepreneur in Residence program, an incubation centre where several other start-ups will accompany you as you chart the journey of developing a small idea into a big impact. Through our established network of organizations, placement support will be provided to students in both for profit and social enterprises.

How to apply?

Application can be downloaded at our website. For complete details please visit www.detmse.com . Seats are limited and deadline for us to receive application is 31^st July 2012.

2012-07-11T21:27:00.002-07:00

What is a Social Entrepreneur?

2009-06-13T22:26:00.000-07:00

Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.

Each social entrepreneur presents ideas that are user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement with it. In other words, every leading social entrepreneur is a mass recruiter of local changemakers—a role model proving that citizens who channel their passion into action can do almost anything. Why "Social" Entrepreneur?

Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better. While a business entrepreneur might create entirely new industries, a social entrepreneur comes up with new solutions to social problems and then implements them on a large scale.

2009-05-11T07:01:00.000-07:00

Eco Tourism

2009-05-10T19:49:00.000-07:00

Entrepreneur Activity

2009-03-22T06:02:00.000-07:00

Today I am very happy because I completed entrepreneur activity successfully. Really I didn’t expect that all products will be sold within a day. This is best opportunity to learn marketing skill through this activity. Today I sold Gokak Special sweet (karadant).

I Invested money on the product Rs. 1280

Money returned 1556

Invested money on the product 1280

Gross Profit ( 1556-1280) 276

Deduction (Transport Charge+Table and Chair charge) 276 – 110= 166

Net Profit = Rs. 166

Strategy:-

1) Identify the right place

2) I kept one packet for demo

3) Put/show of products in different angles

4) Put written board of product

5) Tried to sell two packets to each person

Challenges:-

1) Meet the college student by product

2) Convince people to buy product

3) Selling all the goods within a day

Lessons Learnt:-

1) Most of the boys prefer purchasing on girls shop not boys.

2) Both fellows together hire chair and table or place.

3) Before selling any product in any place, identify which category people are more and their wants.

4) More concentrate on all people uses product

Next time if were to do the same marketing job what would like to change

1) Not only put sweet items with also some other items.

2) Try to reduce bus fare and hire of the chair and table

Right to Information

2009-03-06T10:41:00.000-08:00

Right to information Act enacted 12th October 2005, this act applied overall India expect Jammu and Kashmir, because it is exempted from few constitution.

Information – According to Right to information Act Information means Document, Report, Record, Circular, Memo, E-Mail, Loge Book, Press Report, Advises, Suggestion, Papers.

Right to Information- 1.Means inspect ion of work, Document, Record, report, and taking notes 2.certified copy of the report and document.

Information will be obtained though- Photo copy, by mail, CD, Floppies, Tapes, Video, Other electronics records.

Time limit

30 day from the date of application

48 hours concerning the life and liberty

40 day extinction if had forward to another organization

Public authority:-

By any other Law made by parliament

By under the Constitution

By State Legislature

Low made by appropriate government

Importance of the RTI

1) To Help make accountability

2) Helpful to eradicate corruption

3) To obtain Transparency

4) Empower the citizens

Sue- motu 4(1) (b)-

Every public authority to make suo-motu disclosure in respect of the particulars of its organization functions duties act. As provided in section 4 (1)(b) of the act. This is cover 17 points.

Section 6 (1) :-

Under this section everybody can avail specific information from a Government Department. It does not have separate form; it can be written in plane white paper and submitted along with RS.10 postal order. At the time of document is issued, fees to be paid as per prescribed and for BPL card holders it available for free of cost.

Village Study Report

2009-03-05T20:07:00.000-08:00

Name of the Village: Veerapur

Team Members : Lingaraj and Jagadeesh

We went to Veerapur to do village study for three days from 17 to 19 February 2009. School is situated in the beginning of the village and there we met Head Master of the school and spoke about the purpose of the village study. He arranged our accommodation, later we collected the primary information about village from Anganwadi Teacher. During post lunch we started transact walk, interacted with villagers and observed house structure, colony water facility etc and also we went to see the lake and this is the second largest lake in the Dharawad taluk.

On the next day we went visit to houses and interacted with villagers to get information about their day to day activity. Number of the family members, occupation, source of income, cultural practices, agricultural methods, crops grown, life style, availability of water sources, information on sanitation etc were collected. Later we went to Ramapur because Veerapur belongs to Ramapur Gram Panchayth and gathered some information about village and returned to veerapur. Then we discussed with SHG member and got the knowledge about their activity. Later we conducted sports activity for the school children. Followed by this, conducted a discussion with unemployed youth and gave some suggestion and information about career opportunities.

Village particulars

This village has 648.37 hectares of land

Cultivated land: 567 hectare

Irrigated land: 200 acres

Total population of village: 946 nos

Males -483 Females- 463

Caste	No of Families	Population
SC	5	23
ST	20	101
Minority	5	28
Others	175	794

Village Study

2009-02-15T10:58:00.000-08:00

Participatory Rural Appraisal PRA is a method to know the reality of villages and the clear picture of all resources and facilities available there. I attended four days PRA theory sessions facilitated by Dr. Prakash Bhatt. On 10 February, Tuesday I reached ‘Gram Chetana’ training centre, Soorashettikoppa with my all co fellows for village study. We were told that this training centre is made by participatory efforts from villagers and this is an entrepreneur of BAIF (Bhatia Agro Industries Foundation) organization. BAIF is a leading organization in rural development field that is working since 1967 and founded by Dr. Manibhai Desai. Journey of BAIF in Karnataka started from 1980 and working is 20 Districts.
At evening I visited villageKamplikoppa with all. Here we were welcome by Village people. We used tools like- Venn Diagram, Seasonal Mapping, Focus group Discussion for Dairy and Milk, Matrix Ranking for Vermi Compost, Time Line for Sanitation and Disease and Resource Mapping.
On second day we were divided into separate groups for village study. I was in the team for Bommasamudra village study. We were four members (lakshmish, Jagadeesh, Meenakshi and Ajay) in our group.
I reached village after walking about 8 kames. Here one facilitator Mr. Shettappa from AME Foundation helped us in first hand interaction with villagers. We have a meeting with about 30 people where we introduced with then and told about our objective. In this meeting they told us that they all are busy from morning to evening in farming. So we decided to collect demographic information of the village and we enquired people and visited Junior High School (1 to 8th) and Aganwadi worker. Here we get the information regarding village.

Information about Village
} Its 13.5 k.m. away from Hubballi city.
} Population of around 1519.
} Main source of income is agriculture.
} It has Palya to its East, Kardikoppa to West, North-Balagali and Varur to South.
} Around 300 families stay in the village.
} 100% households connected by electricity.
} 70% are pakka and rest is kaccha houses.
} Only 30% houses have Toilet rooms facility.
} Contains 60% Kurubas, 30% lingayath, 10% - Badigas, SC/ST, Muslim and Valikar.
} 5 water tanks with 7 bore wells, out of which 2 are not working.
} Many youngsters are into driving profession.
} Rest does agriculture and works in making Cement blocks.
} PHC is situated 1 km away from Bommasamudra at Harlikatte.
} Around 98% deliveries are done in Hospitals.
} Malaria is commonly seen during rainy season.
} “Mid day meals is contributing for children’s participation and healthy development” – Head Mistress.
} TB (2-3 cases) and HIV (1 male & 1 female).
} Around 21 disabled are found that includes mental and physical disability, duff and dumb etc…
} The village has an Anganwadi and a school that teaches till class 8.
} School has 230 children and 7 teachers.
} Main crops: Jawar, Soya Beans, Cotton, Groundnut, Paddy, Chikku, Maize, Sunflower
} The area is surrounded by Black and Red Soil
} Agriculture, Carpentry, Petty shops, Coolie, Khanavali is the main source of income.
} Natural sources: 2 ponds, one is of Government and one is private, 120 acre of fodder.
}
At evening time because most of the villagers used to come back after their work. But we had to go back Gram Chetana. So we did two personal Interviews and left the village.
Second day we started with Transect walk and during the day we used PRA Tools like: Resource Mapping, Matrix, Venn diagram, Family visits and collected the related information.

Important Learning:

Castism is not followed by villagers, they celebrate all festivals. Women and Men both use to work in farms and go to markets. Language is important for mingled up with villagers. Villagers have talent but they are not getting platform to enrich their uniqueness. Attitude and thinking towards women is Gender biased. Cattles are much costly comparison to North India. Pre-planning and some knowledge about villages should be.
Challenges:
Could not involve women for group activities with men. Gathering people as much as required for participation. Villagers’ expectations.

APJ Abdual Kalam

2009-02-09T10:04:00.000-08:00

Today is unforgetabli day in my life because today I met great personalities like former President, Great scientist, one of the best teacher Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and Infosys founder Narayan Murty and also his wife Sudha murthy.
We all Deshpande Fellows took photo with Dr.APJ Abdual Kalam, Gururaj Deshpande,Jayashree Deshpande, Sudhamurthy and also Mysore District Commissioner Manivannan.

Kalam Speech involed creative leadership could find effective solution for the pressing probems of the country. The world leadership has become ineffective in solving the burning problem. Kalam said Only creative minds can solve problems and take the country to the right path. Everybody have Plan, acquire knowledge, hard work, Prescience . he give another two heart teaching point “ Small aim is crime “that’s why very body should have big aim and makes effort to for achieve the aim. And I can do, we can do, India can do.
Dr.APJ mentioned in his speech about vision 2020. It is time bounded vision it include value addtion to agriculture product, education for women, easy access to science and technology for every one and improvement in infrastructure and independence in technology. Kalam gave the example quality of leader. Leader take responsible of the failuer and when we get success then that’s team work
Sudha Murthy Impressed us by speaking in kannada she spoke husaband wife relationship and express her opinion about BVB collage.

Development Dialogue

2009-02-09T09:31:00.000-08:00

Development Dialogue was one of the best programs for us because we met so many NGO leaders. It was one an opportunity to build network with entrepreneurs and NGOs. Development dialogue program was started on 27th to 30th January. We all fellows participated actively and we had some role and responsibility in Development dialogue. All fellows were categorized with different responsibilities and were assigned in committees like Food committee, Registration committee, Transportation committee and Class room committee. So I was in class room committee to take care of it.
First day 27th January 2009 Program started through registration and breakfast. Then all delegates from around the word went for site visits. I too went with delegates who were interested for getting knowledge on livelihood. First we visited a school they adopted rain water harvesting technology for storing the water then we went Haveri for visit activity sites of NEEDS NGO that is working different sector.
In afternoon there was a LEAD mela of LEAD program students where LEAD leaders decorated their respective stalls to present their Projects. At the end of the day prize distribution was done for first five best Teams. I visited some of the LEAD stalls with my co fellows and felt very happy by listening their experiences and ideas. Here I want to mention some of the interesting projects those have done by students such as
Ø Blood line
Ø Cloth bank
Ø Medicine bank
Ø Teaching Tech
Ø Energy consumption
Ø Women empowerment
Ø Quiz for school students
Ø Development aid for disabled children
Ø Ball cock

Second day 28thjanuary 2009 program started through innovative case studies around BVB collage within 10 classrooms in different locations. Case Studies were based on like Agastya internationaional foundation, BIEF, Deshpande fellowship Program, Karnataka health Promotion Trust, Mann Deshi, Technology in the sandbox, Samraksha, Technoserve, TIDE, Water literacy Foundation. I took responsibility of TIDE case study for taking notes. In auditorium hall there was introduced the platinum program by Gururaj and Jaishree Deshpande. Gururaj Deshpande shared few words about ups and downs of his life. Head of the R&D,Google india , Mr. Prasad Ram talked about how create operational tools solution for solution for the development sectored.

In the lunch all delegates enjoyed north Karnataka food. After lunch I went to Technoserve case study for note taking it completed at 4.30. At evening we all had our dinner at hotel Naveen and enjoyed local dance.
29 January I attended Ashoka social entrepreneurs Fellows presentation on their great efforts of entrepreneur. They shared their challenges and innovation in the social sector. In afternoon there were case study sessions. For night dinner I went to hotel Trupti and joined all, here I enjoyed cultural songs and performance performed by Kalakeri Sangeeth Vidhyalaya.

EDI

2009-02-02T19:23:00.000-08:00

EDI( Entrepreneur Development Initiative) case study: Rural Marketing Support Center

ü EDI is promote rural entrepreneurship in send box
ü Costing and Promoting these are crucial role in Marketing
ü Make nominal charge
ü Produce goods but unable to sell that’s way we make promote is missing.
ü To give focus on online marketing I.E e-commerce because it is growing trading tool. It was argued that in rural area whether online marketing works, because computer literacy and access to Internet is a issue. But it was concluded that having online marketing helps organisations to display there products and services to founders in a better way.
ü Suggestion was given to diversify the service of rural marketing support centre other than marketing to have more sustainability for the program.
ü It was also suggestested to develop ICT material of different durations and offer them with collaboration with the educational institutes.
ü Using management student for marketing purpose was also suggested.
ü Identification of rural entrepreneur pricing to be fixed for the services and the timing of the course was also discussed.
ü Activity of the Rural Marketing Support Center- Marketing clinic Franchise marketing support services, Retail marketing, Short duration curses on rural marketing, Marketing consultancy, BDS Provisioning, Social Marketing, Commercializing Rural Innovation, Providing Distribution network support.
ü We can understand what is our limitation that’s way we going to only one district in initial stage.
ü How you reach the people? Through industry base association
Organization conduct program
Individual conference
ü It is affordable which can be measure focus illiterate people also.
Challenges – Lot of awareness
Build relation in rural area
ü Who have passion to work in rural area contact collage this is also one of the suggestion.

2009-01-23T23:43:00.000-08:00

M.S Venugopal

2009-01-23T23:37:00.000-08:00

Guest speaker Prof. M.S .Venugopal who is retarired professer of JSS law collage Mysore .
He held seccsion on 24-1-2009 at 2 to 5 PM.

Brief biography of the Guest lecture:
Educational Qualification : M.A. (Economics) in 1967 - University of Mysore.
B.Ed in 1969 – University of Mysore.
LLB in1977 – University of Mysore
LLM in 1981 – University of Mysore.
M.A. (English) ICC, Mysore.
Teaching Experience:
Ø As a lecturer in Junior College Matru Mandir
Ø As a Lecturer in Cauvery College, Madikeri
Ø Teaching experience in JSS Law College
Ø Retired as a Professor in Law from JSS Law College in 2003
Ø As a Director in Vivekananda Institute for Leadership Development (MNPM), Mysore
Ø Now he is working as a guest faculty in JSS law collage.

Prof.M.S Vanugopal started session through asking the name of the fellows and also asked interested field. Forget your name and assume that you are another person and speak out as him by whom you have been influenced. that was very nice they were not teaching anything they made all thing through activity. They gave some group work that main intention is How to face problem in future as entrepreneur. They made another activity In this activity they coverd, in initial stage mainly entrepreneur face problem how to attract community to solve the problem.

Deshpande orientation program

2009-01-23T10:42:00.000-08:00

20th January 2009 started our orientation program. First taryn took ice breaking session we all are introduced our self through different methods.

Deshpande Centre For Social Entrepreneureship ( DCSE) Director Naveen jha held session .They held pertaining model of the fellowship program what gives to us after completed this session taryn got information about what we expectation from DFP.
Afternoon chinna babu held class about preparation poster session and also they cove rd policies and guidelines of the deshpande fellowship program. Evening some LEAD students has share their activity. After, organisation has arranged dinner.
21th taryn took ice breaking session. And she asked us to draw picture on paper and we drew some picture on page and gave it back. And she told us to explain about those pictures and we replied. We prepared chart about our selves and sticked it on the wall. We explained it to the sand box fellows.Afternoon we visited sub jail and give some performance in front of prisoners.
23th 5.30 we ware visited Akshya patra foundation that is very wonderful expense to us as well as same day we were visited Agastya foundation that is basically working for provide practical experience to the school children.

Akashya Patra foundation

2009-01-23T03:53:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we met Akashya patra foundation. Akashya patra foundation have biggest kitchebIt is proved meals to the Government school children. This is very help to the children because now day children nutrition level is increase as well as participation in class activity also nice.