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the DESHPANDE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship Presents.

JUNE|

2010

From Top to Bottom: 1) Spreading awareness and

collecting pledges for Walk-a-thon, 2) Sign at Bala

Balaga School, 3) Special Guests at Walk-a-thon

Event, 31st May, 4) Fellows pile in for NGO Site

Visits

Steps Towards a New Glocal:

Hello and welcome to the June 2010 issue of the Deshpande Fel-

lowship Programs Glocal Newsletter.

As you go through this latest issue, we are sure that you will note

various changes in the newsletter. This is the avatar of a new Glo-

cal news. Glocal is now in the process of transformation, shiftingfocus away from information and towards learning and sharing,

away from description and towards reflection, away from some-

thing made by fellows, for fellows and towards a publication pro-

duced by the whole of the DFP community, for a global audience.

We hope that all of DFPs stakeholders will join us in this en-

deavor. Alumni, partners, friends and fellows can help to make

Glocal great by contributing their own learnings or reflections on

experiences, in whatever form that those may take. Editorials,

book reviews, case studies, lettersall are welcome. Our vision is

a newsletter that does more than document learning, but also

creates it, bringing in new knowledge and inspiring curiosity

amongst all of its readers.

Thus, the Deshpande Fellowship Program welcomes submissions

from all members of its community. If you have questions about

the kind of material were looking for, please feel free to get in

touch with one of the editors or the DFP staff. We look forward to

working with you to help this publication to reach its full potential:

a gold standard within the development community.

Regards,

The DFP Team

Modules 2

Guest Speakers 3

Activities: Walk-a-thon 4

Activities: 5K Challenge 5

Leadership Activities and NGO Visit 6

Features and Editorials 7-8

Alumni Section 8

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ModulesMarket Oriented Value

Enhancement (MOVE)

Meera Halakatti, Best Practices Foundation

MOVE, or Market Oriented Value Enhancement, is a marketing

program that explores income generating activities for the poor,

landless, and illiterate. Here Fellows learned that without mar-

ket survey, the right product isnt produced and they will lose

their money. They also learned not to manufacture a huge prod-

uct. First they have to survey the market, understand the de-

mand, customers needs and wants. Then they have to produce

the product in a reasonable quantity. They learned how to verify

the quality of the product by selling some sample to customers

and then collecting feedback.

As part of the module, Fellows were also responsible for con-

ducting one small business; they sold some eatery food and

earned more money. This is one activity that helped to under-

stand the customer and the seller. These experiences helped me

in 5K Challenge also. For example, before investing money I dida survey. I asked the customers what they wanted and then I

supplied the goods accordingly. I understood the customer

need. I collected orders and then I invested the money. Because

of the experience and learnings from MOVE, I was able to

achieve success in 5K Challenge.

Santosh S. Padatare ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Economics

Abhijit Mahalingashetty,

Global Exchange Fellow

As we are aiming to become entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, it

is very much necessary for us to have some basic knowledge

about the subject called Economics. In the last week of May the

Economics module had been taken by Mr. Abhijit. It was an

informative session with him.To have the knowledge of Economics helps us to understand the

market and participate in it for longer time; and this helps us on

the sustainability side. We should have a clear picture of micro-

economics and macroeconomics. It focuses on the things like

factors influencing the growth of economy, resource mobiliza-

tion, commodity market, financial market, government policies

and regulations. Having a basic understanding of such segments

will make us better Entrepreneurs. For example, by knowing

about concepts like consumption, investment, government

spending, export and imports, entrepreneurs can take major

decisions.

The module supports the practical experience in social entrepre-

neurship we Fellows get at the Foundation. Economics is the

study of how societies choose to use scarce productive resources

that have alternative uses, to produce commodities of variouskinds, and to distribute them among different groups. It also

helps us to find the right opportunity.

Anita Hiremath ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

In preparation for the MOVE module all Fellows participated in an

eatery game. It was a very nice experience for me. We all know some

things about the market, for we all go there and purchase things. But,

when we have to sell things, particularly eatery things, it was very

difficult.

Everyone was given Rs 500. In my group were five members: Mad-

husudhan, Sunil, Satyappa, Anita Hiremath and myself. We didnt

know what to do and we were very confused in the beginning. Then

we got the idea to choose one recipe. It was a traditional food and

every one liked that. We purchased the raw material and as a group

we stayed up until 2 am preparing seange holige. It was a funny ex-

perience, all of the boys in the group did not know how to prepare

and they all sat together and learned. Also, our instructor from Bos-

ton stayed up with us and also learned how to prepare. When we

were finished, we sold at the market. We faced a lot of problems in

the market. However, the customers liked the product and gave

feedback. I learned in this activity how to make a business. Before

this I didnt know anything about the market, price analysis, how to

sell a product and how to make the maximum profit. In this activity

we made profit of 89%.

It is activities like this that provides us opportunities to become en-

trepreneurs. In future I want to start my own enterprise, and this

game will be helpful to me. When I do business I will study the mar-

ket and market price before entering these are the things that will

help me to be a success. This activity and these understandings made

me think that I could be interested and successful in starting my own

hotel business.

Laxmi Rasalkar ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Eatery Challenge

Logical Framework Analysis module taught Fellows about pre-

evaluation of organizations and in-depth analysis of projects.

In LFA, the subject which was given to me has to be identifying the

problem of youth organizations.

I studied a village called Amblikoppa. In Amblikoppa there are youth

groups but they are un-organized. My LFA project was to analyze

the groups, and to build the utilization of youth groups in that vil-

lage. I used the problem tree sketch learned in the LFA module

and from there I was able to figure out the causes and effects re-

garding the youth groups and how they functioned.

Our LFA describes goal, purpose, outputs and activities. In one pro-

ject these things have to be analyzed, and LFA gives us the tools to

do this. Goal is beyond the project and long term period, its pur-

pose is to establish within a particular time what needs to be

achieved and what activities or action plan need to be carried out.

LFA is very necessary for us in any field. In future as I am going towork in an organization, there could be a project on livelihood, or

anything else. Before going to work on the project I need to plan, I

need to analyze the various prospects in order to ensure that the

project is as successful as possible. The skills learned in LFA will be a

great help to me then.

Shankar Singh ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Logical Framework Analysis

Dr. Prakash Bhat, BAIF

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Guest SpeakersShri Chaman Lal

Renowned IPS Officer and Padma Shri Recipient discusses efficacy in the social sector

Shri Chaman Lal joined IPS on 30 June, 1964 in Madya Pradesh. Besides holding

important posts at different ranks in his parent cadre, he has served on deputa-

tion BSF, ITBP, SPG, and the Shah Commission of inquiry into emergency excesses.

He was a member of Punjab police and Nagaland police.

I was inspired by C V Chamanlal. Hearing about his work experience really moti-

vated me to firmly stick to my goal: cracking the IAS examination. After his retire-

ment he has been working with the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement. The

session of Sri Chamanlal was very admirable. His words made the fellows to think

about social causes and solutions. He explained if we want to fully understand the

development in our country, we have to concentrate on Human Resource Index

rather than GDP. He explained to us how volunteer organizations work and the

problems regarding them.

The present condition of most of these voluntary organizations is not favorable

because still they are following an approach that results in a lack of accountability

and efficiency. Most of the NGOs are still dependent on grants from the other

organization and they are not sustainable. Our judgment about village people andtheir lacking of cleverness is wrong because we have to learn the indigenous

practices, which will help us to deal with them more easily. He also told that the

concepts of Leadership and Management are different but should complement

each other; the leader should have managerial skills. By his session I learned very

much that efficiency and effectiveness can be maintained in the government

sector also, and I am sure that I will apply many of his insights should I work in the

government in my future.

Shalini G. L. ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Professor R.N. Tikot

Insights on starting an enterprise

from Vidya Poshak founder and CEO

Professor Raghvendra N. Tikot is founder and CEO of the

Vidya Poshak NGO, which is geared towards providing

access and support in order to promote an effective higher

education, especially to the underprivileged. He has 28

years teaching experience in a college. He is a very good

social entrepreneur, who has combined education and

entrepreneurship.Professor Tikot had many things to teach us. He said that

for a successful person body language, eye contact, voice

modulation is very important. While speaking, our voice

should be clear. We should show our emotions while pre-

senting. Confidence is essential, and we should speak by

heart. He also told about his experience and his opinion ofthe education situation in India at present. Professor Tikot

said that at this time, skills and attitude are absent from

schools and colleges.His speech really made me think about starting an organi-

zation and what are the problems or challenges involved.

Things like money, opportunity, clarifying ideas, transpar-

ency, human resources, fear of failure, competitors, loca-

tions and partners all need to be considered or confronted.

I learned that knowledge, skill and attitude are all very

important. Skill and knowledge come with time, and it is

important to invest time to develop them. Good attitude is

essential, and it is important when starting an organization

not have any inferiority complex.

More than anything else, I learned that it is important to

invest time for developing the skills and maintaining the

standards, and that we should not come out of our princi-

ples. It was a great session and all fellows learned a lot.

Kartik Devmane ([email protected]), Cohort IV

Fellow

Noel de Villiers is a creator of opportunities in the vast land of Africa that is

rich in culture, heritage and natural resources. He has shaped a wide net-

work of rural and urban tourism routes that are locally owned and managed.

He has the vision of creating social and economic growth by boosting the

tourism sector for the underprivileged communities in Africa.

Mr. Noels session was very inspiring as it gave us an expansive idea about

social entrepreneurship and all it involves including identifying problems,

finding innovative solutions, taking risk and challenges, and making critical

decisions to help bring about social change. Social entrepreneurship is a

continuous process, it has no end. However, in order to be successful, social

entrepreneurs need to work with not only their brains, but also their hearts.

Successful entrepreneurs follow their dreams and heart. He gave the advice

that the people who work for you must share your passion, dedication and

devotion for the project and thus should be carefully selected.He was quoted as saying Entrepreneurs can only see profits, but social

entrepreneurs can feel it.

Radhakrishna Nayak ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Noel de Villiers

Ashoka Fellow shares his experience empowering

the rural populations in Africa

R.N. Tikot, Vidya Poshak Noel De Villiers, Ashoka Fellow

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Walk-a-thon: Tobacco AwarenessCohort IV Takes On Tobacco

The Walk-a-thon held on 30th

May 2010 was organized to call attention to reduce individual tobacco-dependence and pledge against the

use of tobacco in honor of World Anti-Tobacco Day. As we all know, each year tobacco accounts for approximately 1 of every 5 deaths, or

about 4,380,000 people. We also know that tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking

being a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic pulmonary disease and cancer.

Our main objective for organizing the Walk-a-thon was to make people aware of the ill effects of tobacco consumption and to reduce

tobacco-dependence that we believed affected not only the person addicted but their friends too. We wanted to help these people help

themselves as well as their near and dear ones.

To make the Walk-a-thon more effective we fellows started creating awareness camps three days before the walk. Fellows divided into

two groups and spread all over Hubli. They performed skits, street plays and cycle rally against tobacco. Fellows collected pledges from

people in and around Hubli who promised to fight against tobacco. Fellows put in their best efforts to reach as many people as possible,

and not only during the day. When the sun went down, fellows went with the same enthusiasm to the slums and educated them about the

ill effects of tobacco consumption. Through this event fellows learned many skills such as multi-tasking and quick decision making, and

were exposed to the difficulties involved in approaching people for sponsorship.

In the span of just 3 days, more than 1200 pledges were collected. The final day was warmly received, with an anti-tobacco street play

performed by fellows, followed by the inauguration of the walk by Dr. Gururaj Deshpande and Mr. Jagadish Shettar, Honorable Minister

for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. The walk itself started from Durgad Bail at 5:30 pm and went to Chennamma Circle in Hubli.

Anindita Deb Roy ([email protected]), Walk-a-thon Organizer and Cohort IV Fellow

The Challenges of Tobacco Change:

Awareness vs. Implementation

The Walk-a-thon rally was a completely new experience for me; I had

never in my life attended this kind of event. On 27th May we went for

collecting pledges. At that time I observed so many people who were

chewing Tobacco = I met one person who told that daily he chews 50

packets, and the cost per packet is Rs 10. After hearing this, I asked

why he did not leave the habit. He said, I know because of tobacco

my mouth is day by day becoming smaller, and its effecting my health

also. But I am not yet ready to leave it or reduce If I leave it I be-

come mad, and it is impossible to function.

I met so many people while collecting pledges for the event. One auto

driver, his earning is Rs 100 and he pays Rs 60 daily to Siddu Gutaka.

He maintains his home on just Rs 40 per day. When we asked, Why

dont you stop? he told, I want to stop, I know its effect on my

health, but it is very tough for me and if I leave it, I will lose my

strength.

I realized that many of these people are fully aware of tobacco and its

effects, but still they are not ready to leave the habit. They know all of

the problems they are facing and the information that we are giving.

The experience made me believe that simply giving awareness to the

public will never solve the problem, rather it is a matter of personal

responsibility actual implementation within the public is most im-

portant.

Santoshimata ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

The Fundraising Experience:

Putting Away Your Pride

For the Walk-a-thon event, there were four event organizers and

I was one of them. My role in that event was to approach people

for sponsorship and participation. Primarily, I approached Hubli

Champions, parents associations, TiE members and doctors. I

approached these people because they associated with the

Deshpande Foundation.

Approaching people was a very difficult job, and I am reallythankful to the people who helped, especially one business man

who gave me contact information for the doctors. It was difficult

because when you approach people, some respond very roughly,

some are not ready to speak, and some are not available at all

due to being out of station. Some people were ready to attend

the event but not ready to pledge. It made me very much appre-

ciate the doctors, businessmen and TiE members who did sup-

port us with pledges.

In the end, just 50 people of the 1000 that we expected attended

the event. Walk-a-thon made me realize that organizing any

event is a very tough job, however now I have more knowledge

as to how to manage time, how to maintain finances, and so on. I

learned that it is necessary to forget our shame at the time of

asking any pledge or donation. I know that I did my job well,

despite all of the challenges. This was my first event as an organ-

izer, and an unforgettable experience.

Shivkanya ([email protected] ), Event Organizer

and Cohort IV Fellow

Walk-a-thon made me realize that organizing any event

is a very tough job, however now I have more knowledge

as to how to manage time and how to maintain finances.

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5K ChallengeThe 5k Challenge is one of the core activities of the

Fellowship program, and is a week of great learning

and transformation for the Fellows. In teams of

two, Fellows are given Rs. 5000 and within one

week have to turn a profit. Cohort IVs 5K was the

most profitable in the history of the Fellowship,

with Fellows earning more than Rs. 27,000/-.

C h a l l e n g e. . .

R i s k . . .

S u c c e s s . . .

5k Challenge has been the best learning experience of my life. First

day, my colleague and I started egg rice business; we prepared the ricein hostel and sold the rice at the bus stand and railway station. Our

expectations were high as we expected to sell the rice easily; however,

we found it very difficult to sell the egg rice. The people did not believe

in our product; perhaps they werent confident with the quality. They

are not ready to buy our product and even though we stood at the bus

stand for 2 hours, we did not manage to sell a single product. Our frus-

tration increased when we were unable to sell our rice to the local

vendors as they had already prepared their own rice; we ended up

wasting the food. We were depressed because of the waste.

Yet, all was not lost as I learned from this activity that analyzing the

market is really important: we should know how to convince the peo-

ple; proper planning, time management, and selection of place are all

important. After the first day, I started selling T-shirts. In that time, I

was using what was learned in egg rice business and I was successful. I

am happy to say that I got Rs. 750 profit in this 5k challenge. Totally inthis 5k challenge I learned many things like how to convince the cos-

tumers, bargaining for the products, convincing the wholesalers,

proper planning, place, confidence for selling, overcoming hesitation,

marketing skills, and the importance of understanding customers

mindset.

Madhusudhan B ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow In 5K Challenge, when I was given the Rs. 5000 and told that

within one week to somehow earn 1500 profit, I was inspired by

a new and different idea. I decided that I would market a buf-

falo. I already had a little bit of knowledge in the area of animal

marketing, and using that experience I purchased one buffalo in

one village. The cost of that buffalo was Rs. 5000 the entire

amount given to us in the challenge. It was a very funny experi-

ence to me because when I purchased that Buffalo I got very

nervous because it was not easy to sell in the market. If I didnt

sell it, what would I do?

Morning to evening 4 pm I stood in the animal market with my

buffalo. I took care of the buffalo. I cleaned dung. I washed the

buffalo in a village lake. All of these are experiences that I had-

nt had before.

The experience also taught me some new skills or tricks that go

along with the animal business. For example, in animal market-

ing they have one different way to fix the rate of animals. The

marketing agents and selling persons put their hands in one

cloth and they tell amounts in code using their fingers, every

one finger has its own fixed amount. They negotiate inside and

when they have fixed the amount and the party is ready to pay,

they will tell orally. Otherwise they wont. I didnt know fully of

this decoding system and because of that I went through agent..

After purchasing my buffalo, I took it to the market and sold itat Rs. 5900 that same evening. It was a very good, new, differ-

ent experience for me.

Nagaraj Kori ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

When we were given the assignment for 5K I was shocked and had no idea

what to do. After thinking for a little while, one idea came to sell a Scooty

secondhand. This was the first time that I had done that kind of marketing,

and it was a problem that I was a new person in the field, who had only been

doing that work for a short time. It was very intimidating to me at that time.

Purchasing the vehicle and going to garages was a great experience but very

difficult, as was selling the Scooty and convincing the customers. The first

two customers refused to take the Scooty, which made me very nervous. But

after that, I managed to convince a customer and I sold. I sold two Scooties

in just one week, and by this I made a profit of Rs. 4000. Through this experi-

ence I learned about the auto consulting business, which I had never workedin before. I learned how profit is made in this business. My teams success in

the 5K Challenge led to us winning first prize and the Star Performer of the

Week award. Now I am confident that I can do any business in my future life.

Anita Kulkarni ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Learnings from a failure pave the way to success

One Fellow puts it all on the line for a new idea

Risks reap big rewards

Anita and Avinash accepting their 1st prize reward

for 5K Challenge

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Leadership Activities

Bird Protection Program

I have conducted this leadership activity near to Shivaleela hostel

and also Sai Nagar. This activity is meant to give protection to

birds. Nowadays we are not seeing as many birds because of the

mobile tower range (network) and also air pollution in the envi-

ronment. Thats why I thought: many birds die because of only

this reason. So, I came up with a new idea of Bird Protection. Imade one iron ring for pot support, which I built into the house

and then put some rice and food grains, such as peanuts. In the

evening, birds can easily see and then come for food and shelter.

Many people said that this is a good idea and that we are doing

good work. They promised that they will continue to put some

grain for birds.

We have convinced local people of the cause and have built the

houses. Also we have to convince people, identify specific homes

and gave awareness about Bird Protection. In this activity I faced

lot of challenges, for example, some people told that we are not

free to do this work. They were not ready to accept our program.

Some of them told that we forgot to fill grains in the pot. But, also

some people told that this is a good activity. We will continue to

feed birds. Definitely it will protect the bird population.

In this activity I learnt lot of new things. I especially learned howto encourage people and what are the opinions of the people. I

think that the key to this activity is encouraging participation. It is

one good experience of mine and I would do this work every day.

Satyappa Madar ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Book Distribution to Slum ChildrenIn the Fellowship, Leadership Activities make us come up with solutions

to many kinds of problems. In thinking about Leadership Activities, I

thought of one problem, which was lack of books among the poor,

which I decided I would try to solve. I collected books from city people.

There are so many people who are rich and dont have financial prob-

lems. Their children are getting good education. They have many

books, but their children dont use all of them, so I asked them to do-nate.

After, I visited slum area in Old Hubli. There are so many children there

who dont have books. But their parents, and the children, want to get

more knowledge. They are not able to purchase books. I went with my

group to the slum, and gathered the slum people. Then we distributed

the books we had collected to the children. They were very happy. I

saw at that time that they were dancing, and proudly showing what

they had gotten. They were happy that they had gotten new knowl-

edge. It made me feel good, and very proud of what Id done.

In these leadership activities I learned how to seek out and find solu-

tions for the problems in society. I believe that every problem has a

solution, even if it is a difficult

one. Only those who take risks

are called leaders.

Rajeshwari Laddi

([email protected]),

Cohort IV Fellow

NGO Visit

Satyappa assists in the installation of one of his birdfeeders

Bala-balaga is one of the action oriented school. Here the teaching

system is very different, based on learning by doing. In this school,

class rooms are like GURUKUL SYSTEM (one of the famous educa-

tion systems in India), or open class room system. Students enjoy

this system, because in this campus there are some different struc-

tures like sand ponds, a small swimming pool, fish ponds, caves and

tunnels and a small hanging bridge. In this school they introduced a

new system for teaching. Parents will come as guest speakers, and it

really inspired me lot. This helps parents to understand their chil-

drens performance, and also gets the parents involved in their

childrens learning. In this school exam system is a bit different.

When they are conducting tests, the question paper will be pre-

pared by students. These new strategies are really creating a new

design in the modern education system.

Bala-balaga School is really wonderful. I was very inspired by this

school activity. Here children are really enjoying learning.

Hanamaraddi ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Bala Balaga School

Fellows are inspired by an innovative style of

teaching and learning teaching and learning

Neer Sagar is a place near Hubli. We had not planned to go to Neer

Sagar, but unexpectedly we went after finishing the NGO visit to

Bala Balaga school and it turned into a very funny and nice experi-

ence. All the Fellows swam in Neer Sagar, and the Program Manager

also, which was inspiring to me. At first, some of the Fellows were

not ready to swim but all encouraged them and eventually, every-

one swam. Even the ladies joined, despite no one having a change

of clothes. We all swam for more than two hours we played water

games and enjoyed the fun break from our long day. When the

swim was finished, all Fellows were hungry and all were tired, but

all enjoyed a lot and I know that I will never forget our time at NeerSagar.

Shivaprasad G ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

A break from the rigors of the Fellowship at Neer

Sagar provides Fellows with lifelong memories

A very special thanks also to Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), Bhoruka Charitable Trust (BCT),

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Star of the Week ProgramI wanted to see everyone competing to be the Best in fellowship, so in order

to improve the self competitiveness and improve the performance of fellows

we started this Star of the Week program. The Star of the Week goes to the

fellow with the top performance or the great accomplishments of that week.

The one who gets the star of the Week gets motivated to continue their best

performance in Fellowship, and other fellows are challenged to gain this

award. In representation of the Star of the Week the Best performer gets a

badge with Star sign, and a small amount of Rs. 500 is given as an incentive.

The First star of the week was awarded to Mr. Avinash & Mrs. Anita Kulkarni

for their exceptional Job in Rs. 5k marketing where they made the maximum

profit of Rs. 8,250/-. Then Sunil got this award for the organizing Skype Guest

speaker sessions and so on, I feel this as a way of motivating the Fellow to

perform better and better every day.

Chinnababu ([email protected]), DFP Program Manager

Innovations: New in Cohort-IV

A New Way of Delivering Feedback

The idea of feedback bag struck to me during one of the presentations in the

class. I saw many of the Fellow felt de-motivated when feedback was given.

Sometimes giving direct and open feedback to a person may hurt him/her.

Instead I thought what if people could give feedback without hurting anyone

and yet it would still be able to have an impact. My first idea was to create

feedback bottles, but as DCSE is a plastic free zone I decided to go with the

paper bags instead. Now, each Fellow has a bag carrying his or her name in

the back of the DFP Classroom. The bags are just like post boxes people can

write and drop in their feedbacks at any time.

Radhakrishna Nayak ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

Global Guest Speakers brought to DFP through

SkypeSkype is a technology that reduces the time and money spent on communica-

tion between people over large distances. As we have guest speakers from

USA, UK and many parts of world and we have lots of guest sessions, it oc-

curred to me that we could expand our guest list by using technology and

save time and resources. I was enterprising and immediately sent a mail to

Mr.Noel N de Villers, a great experienced entrepreneur from South Africa andan Ashoka Fellow. Having met him at Development Dialogue and having

stayed in touch with him since, he was very happy of the innovative idea and

he welcomed giving a session over Skype. I just told my program manager

about this exchange and he too was very much interested. And on 13th

May

2010, we had our first pilot of Skype Guest Speaker. I was really tense and

heartbeats were high when the session started; but as it proceeded I grew

confident. All the Fellows were very happy with the session and appreciated

me for the work. The lesson I got from this was innovation is very important

in this world and with hard work, ideas can become reality. I was humbled

when I was rewarded the STAR PERFORMER OF THE WEEK because of this

effort. If there is a will there is a way.

Sunil S. Patil ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

On 5th

May Mr. Chinnababu, our DFP Program Manager, took

class on life skills that we need to work on developing within

ourselves. We can develop these skills by using available

resources; it may be a book reading, talking with others,

sharing knowledge, etc. Apart from those he explained about

5 points which I realize now will help me in the future a lot.

Those were: Multi tasking, English, writing and reading, Tech-

nology skills and finally information gathering along with the

capacity of analyzing any situation or problem.

Multitasking is the skill that helps to keep an Entrepreneur

working simultaneously at different tasks. It improved the

capability of the entrepreneur to cope with different prob-

lems at the same time, and to solve those problems. In the

future, being able to successfully manage multiple tasks while

implementing several projects and doing administrative work

for my company is grounds for promotion. Giving good out-

put for every task even when very busy is important.

Talking English is the most important thing; it helps to build a

network with different types of people. This will help us in

many ways, including expanding our business. In the future,

speaking English will help me work as a top-level manager, as

it opens many doors and allows you to interact with manydifferent people from around the world.

Reading and Writing are the basic skills and also necessary for

every individual. Reading helps us to gain knowledge and

understand information, and writing helps us to express our

knowledge and communicate effectively, which is very neces-

sary in management and elsewhere.

Technology also opens a lot of doors. Through our technology

skills we can find an opportunity in any field or sector for a

job, and also by this we can build our knowledge. The tech-

nology that I have learned through DFP has allowed me to

build a large social network far beyond what I had before,

which will surely help keep valuable contacts in the future.

In the process of problem solving or analyzing situations, the

main thing that we need is information. In this context, gath-ering information plays important role. Analyzing problems

and situations require a set of skills that allows us to identify

the root of a problem and thus solve it .

As a budding Entrepreneur I really need such skills and I have

involved some of them in me. It totally made me to change in

my personal improvement.

In my professional carrier, I want to involve these all the

skills. As I am learning these skills, it will take me at higher

level in my professional journey. Finally, in order to perfect

these skills, its important to practice every day.

Vishwanath Kudrimath ([email protected]), Cohort

IV Fellow

Skills We Should Have

Realizing the Full Potential of Our SkillsThis month we had a talent presentation. DFP Program Manager Chinnababu gave an assignment in which we had to come up with a business

based on one of our talents, and then give a presentation. It was nothing but turning our skill or knowledge into business. It was very interest-

ing to see. That day all Fellows presented their skills and it was amazing to see how everyone could make use out of them.

I am good at training people. I have the capacity to prepare a training module according to the need and situation. My plan was to start a

training institute where I can train people in agriculture and health, because I have some experience in these sectors. Through this I can train

NGO and Government people and can have a contract with different departments for training staff.

I was planning to include some other people with me who would be experts in different sectors or fields, with the idea that it would help to

expand my business. However I received the suggestion from Chinnababu and other Fellows that if I were to concentrate on one topic and

make myself an expert in one module, it would be better. Experience and expertise can beat the competitors. So now I am thinking about that.

After this presentation only I came to know that to be successful businessmen/women there is no need to have any type of risk or fear. The

most important thing is to just use your skill and love the work, whatever you do. Make yourself perfect in your skill. We have to plan, and

build our own capacity in that way.

Uma Patil ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

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FEATURES/EDITORIALSContinued

The Importance of Self-LearningOne Fellow shares how she has continued to improve

her English after Pre-Training

I had never used the English that I learned in school before the Fel-

lowships 45-day Pre-Training. I thought then that my main problem

would be, how do I learn English in such a short a period? Learning

English is very possible but also it will take time, like as per day 3-4hours of reading.

Then how to learn English? As much as possible I would read some

easy English books, magazines, stories, and articles. Daily also I

watched the JTS spoken English videos, which was very helpful. I

realized that all of these were things that I could continue myself

after Pre-Training, because always we can improve more. Daily, I

read minimum 2 hours. I interact with whoever is speaking English

and always talk with fellows in English only. I practice outside of

class by giving presentations, writing my daily learnings. I found that

in class skits were very helpful, because I could understand them

easily, for this I involved myself in as many skits as possible. Every

day I look back over what Ive done and set goals for what to do the

next day.

Ive realized that if we really want to learn and improve, it is our

responsibility. Previously, I would speak only in Kannada but now

whenever it is possible, I speak in English. Speaking and listening

allow me to search errors and see how to speak correctly. I know

that I have to be alert in order to catch my own mistakes, and fix

them. I have continued these habits after Pre-Training and I know I

must work hard continuously if I want to become perfect.

Roopa Hiremath ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

The Situation Can Change the GoalA Fellows reflection on how her Social Entrepreneur-

ship learnings may have changed her path

Situations can change the goal. I read this quote in a questionnaire

one day, and it made me think. After I got my instructors help to

understand what it really meant, I looked back on how my goals have

changed in the past several months, and realized that it was onehundred percent true.

When I was working with an NGO, I planned to have my own organi-

zation. I did it, with the help of my friends. I thought that finding

projects would be easy because I had some existing networks. After

joining Deshpande Foundation, the Social Entrepreneurship module

with DCSE Director Naveen Jha helped me understand what entrepre-

neurship and social entrepreneurship really were. Mr. Gururaj

Deshpande later came and gave a guest speaker session in which he

said that having our own enterprise would make us more confident to

do social entrepreneurship.

A network of donors can provide funds, giving the ability to run an

organization, but the sustainability will be not ensured. To have sus-

tainability for our organization, running our own enterprise is very

important. This is what the Small s and Big E concept relates to (sE

social Entrepreneurship). After beginning my Fellowship, the idea that

Id had for 8 years totally changed in only 18 days.

Even other modules like MOVE and the Sub-sector Analysis made me

think about business critically. Now that I am planning to start a busi-

ness, the last module of the Fellowship program will help me to finish

it. Really, my experience in the Fellowship has tremendously changed

the way I think. Its unbelievable for me, but its true.

Uma Patil ([email protected]), Cohort IV Fellow

ALUMNI HAPPENINGS

Alumni of the Week

DFP is very happy with the enthusiasm that the new Alumni

of the Week Program has generated among the alumni com-

munity. Keep up the good work, and congratulations to

Mays notable Alums:

Jagadish Katkar

Veeresh Poojari

Pramod Kumar

Alumni News

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Junes GlocalEditors

Vishwanath Kudrimath

Cohort IV Fellow

[email protected]

Elisha Clark

DFP English Instructor

[email protected]

Dont forget to check us out online!

www.facebook.com/deshpandefellowship

www.df-fellowship.blogspot.com

Ashutosh has been elected President of the Gold-Rated Net Im-pact@ISB. Net Impact@ISB is the only Gold-Rated Chapter in Asia.

Tippanna joined Government sector as Panchayat Development Offi-

cer (PDO) in Belgaum District

Chandru joined Government sector as (PDO) in Tadas

Lakshmish accepted job from Bhoruka Charitable Trust, based in Sand-

box

Veeresh joined HLP Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust,

Bangalore as an Outreach Officer

Darshana expanded the Samarathanam BPO Call center training (Tech

Vision) to Hubli

Mallavva expanded the Samarathanam BPO Call center training (Tech

Vision) to Gadag with 48 students being trained right now

Priyanka joined Sakhi organization as Admin incharge in Hospet

Soujanya has joined for job in Udyog kathari yojana in Chikamangalore Sucheta Bhat married to Raghavendra of Bangalore on June 24

th

Madhukeshwar Bhat married Jyoti of Haveri on 30 May in Dharwad

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