Philanthropy is not merely nor exclusively limited to financial contribution. Sometimes a more powerful impact can be created by giving one’s time, talent and skills to a cause. - Rakesh Bharti Mittal (Vice Chairman & MD Bharti Enterprises & Co and Chairman, Bharti Foundation)
Joining Hands have identified some NGOs where business strategies of some Income Generation Programs, run by beneficiaries (mostly women), can be developed and supported.
Joining Hands aims to bridge the distance between people by providing opportunities to corporate sector to influence positive social change through an exchange of ideas, knowledge and skills. NGOs have the vision but not necessarily the skills, to realize their goals. This need is specially felt in the field of income generation as the beneficiaries do not have the advantage of professional training to help them market their products. Under this program, the volunteers from corporate, who are the experts in their fields, can play a facilitating role. This also gives the organizations and individuals a great learning opportunity and also a chance to contribute to positive social change through capacity building.
Concept:
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Entrepreneurial/ Strategy development real life business case in an income generation program with scope of improvement of an NGO |
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Work closely with the members of the concerned organization |
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On the spot situational analysis and research |
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Participants experience the ground reality of the project’s issue and give their inputs in order to take the project forward |
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Provide tangible solutions |
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Enhance and improve existing status of a program |
The Benefits for Corporates:
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Fulfills Corporate Responsibility: opportunity for participating organizations to realize their CSR goals |
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Management/ People Skill Development: good opportunity for training of employees, especially for leadership development, emerging markets, entrepreneurship and general management |
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Honing Learning Adaptability: employees get exposed to different work environments and become adept at working under varied conditions, thereby enhancing their ability to provide solutions. |
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Assessment/ Evaluating/Hiring Tool: This could also be used as a real life case which could assist in assessment of employees (both old and new) capabilities and skills as they would work in a new and challenging environment with limited resources |
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New Markets: By improving the income of the beneficiaries they are increasing the buying capacity for their own products |
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Interactive growth – By building a meaningful relationship between the corporate sector and communities. |
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Building team spirit – Increased interaction between people of the same and different departments of the corporation and also employees get a chance to work with a team from diverse work ethics to achieve a common goal. |
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Recreational Value: Reduce work stress and would give an opportunity to do something new and interesting and to learn new things |
For more information, you can write to us at info@joininghandsindia.org or call us at 011-46562485. |
