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NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2012

Spark your innovation with NASSCOM Foundation’s 4th edition of the NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours NASSCOM Foundation, in association with Genpact opens entries for India’s most impactful social enterprise projects, using technology to solve India’s social and environmental issues. The awards aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices in using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) [...]

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Mobisy – free mobile software application offer

This is a cross-post from Samhita. An NGO based in India worked for the benefit of cleft lip patients. Field agents of the NGO used to travel to remote villages and collect information on cleft lip patients and forward the information to the hospital for surgery. It took them almost 2 months for one such [...]

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Samata, an NGO working to protect rights of mining affected communities, is hiring

Samata, an NGO with a consistent track record of successful interventions to protect the human and democratic rights of communities adversely affected by mining, is hiring. It has vast knowledge and experience in policy making, capacity building, networking and monitoring mining/mining related projects. Please find the detailed job descriptions here and in the following documents: [...]

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Nonprofit Leaders: Apply for a Paid, Overseas Fellowship Position with Atlas Corps

Atlas Corps is an international network of nonprofit leaders and organizations that promotes innovation, cooperation, and solutions to address the world’s 21st century challenges. Our mission is to address critical social issues by developing leaders, strengthening organizations and promoting innovation through an overseas fellowship of skilled nonprofit professionals. Atlas Service Corps seeks nonprofit leaders from [...]

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Deadline for the Hari Chopra Social Awards extended!

Samhita is pleased to announce an extension for the application deadline, previously covered here. NGOs now have until September 5th to complete their application. If your projects focus on the girl child and if you have still not applied for the award, you can register on www.samhita.org to become eligible for: Unrestricted grants of up [...]

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Trusts and foundations say yes to organizational support: Survey

This post is contributed by Team Samhita. Findings of the Samhita fundraising survey speaks of the kind of support trusts and foundations provide to NGOs and the feedback mechanism they prefer to follow. Nearly 45.8% of the NGOs who took the survey say they approached the trusts and foundations via personal contacts. 34.5% used online [...]

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Individual donor base most critical for NGOs: Survey

This post is contributed by Team Samhita. A detailed online survey conducted by Samhita reveals that individual donations are the most critical source of funds for Indian NGOs. This survey was conducted to understand the fundraising practices of Indian NGOs. We hope that the results will help NGOs customize their activities based on popular practices.    The [...]

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Indian Government calls on NGOs for partnership

The Planning Commission of India has been actively making calls to NGOs and Voluntary organizations to participate in its “NGO Partnership System (NGO-PS)”. In this call, the Planning Commission encourages the NGOs and VOs to sign-up on NGO Partnership System. This a free facility located in the Planning Commission in association with National Informatics Centre [...]

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[TC-I Call to Action] Learning Communities Field Coordinator

This post is directly from the organization that is the subject of the post. Dreamcatchers Foundation is uniquely positioned as an incubator for developing and nurturing programs that provide the opportunity for a transformative experience for young people that serves as a turning point in their lives. The Leadership Institute and the Community Youth Institute [...]

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[TC-I Call to Action] Learning Communities Development Associate

This post is directly from the organization that is the subject of the post.  Dreamcatchers Foundation is uniquely positioned as an incubator for developing and nurturing programs that provide the opportunity for a transformative experience for young people that serves as a turning point in their lives. The Leadership Institute and the Community Youth Institute [...]