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Global Entrepreneurship Week is here

Gear up for India’s flagship events for Global Entrepreneurship Week being held by the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) on 21st and 22nd of this month in Delhi, Pune, and Bangalore. Recognizing GEW’s theme of unleashing ideas and speed-networking, these events, entitled Unleash it!, are designed to bring together students, industry leaders, and experts to facilitate a free exchange of ideas and opinions.

More details at: http://www.unleashingideas.org/country/IN

FoodieBay ties up with Pankhudi

FoodieBay has tied hands with Pankhudi Foundation to generate funds for the NGO's cause. Starting November 11th, FoodieBay will contribute Rs.3 to Pankhudi for every new visitor who hits FoodieBay.com.


FoodieBay is an amazing website, which lists more than 1200 restaurants in the New Delhi NCR area with menus, contact numbers, ratings and reviews. The website is sorted by zones and subzones in Delhi, so that you can easily find places in and around the locality you live/work in.

 

Perfect website when you are looking for a menu to order food from or when you are just looking for a new place to eat and want to check out their wares beforehand.

 

VISIT FoodieBay via Pankhudi Website and help generate funds for underprivileged children.

Teach for India Fellowship 2009 - Apply now

Teach For India Fellows

The Teach For India Fellowship will probably be the most challenging experience of a Fellow's life and likely the most transformational. As a teacher, every day will give Fellows multiple opportunities to confront and tackle challenges, motivate diverse stakeholders to work hard toward a shared vision, create and adjust plans to move further towards goals and gain the confidence they need to succeed.

Role of TFI Fellows

Every Teach For India Fellow will have two main responsibilities, through which he/she will learn leadership skills in a hands-on, results-driven environment.

• Classroom Instructional Leadership

  Fellows will be full-time teachers in English-medium government or low-income private schools for two consecutive academic years (June through April). Fellows are expected to lead students in their classrooms toward academic achievement that defies traditional expectations. Fellows will foster this achievement by getting to know their students in and out of the classroom; creating instructional plans to match the whole class's and individual student's needs; delivering instruction in an engaging manner; working with other teachers, administrators and community members to build skills and obtain resources for the classroom; and administering and analyzing assessments to ensure that students are progressing towards their academic goals.
  

• Classroom/Community Transformation Project

  In the second year of the Fellowship, in addition to teaching, Fellows will implement a project in the school and/or students' community. The project will seek to tackle a principal challenge to students' achievement. To carry out this project effectively, Fellows will research and plan the project; amass resources necessary to implement the project; invest students, families, teachers, administrators and/or community members to help implement the project; and troubleshoot the project in its execution phase.

For more details: http://www.teachforindia.org/applynow.html

 

"Right to Education" Bill finally passed by Indian Govt.

The Union Cabinet in India has cleared the long-pending Right to Education Bill, which promises free and compulsory education to every child. The move should provide a much needed boost to the country's education sector.

Key provisions of the Bill include:
1) 25% reservation in private schools for disadvantaged children from the neighbourhood, at the entry level. The government will reimburse expenditure incurred by schools.
2) No donation or capitation fee on admission.
3) No interviewing the child or parents as part of the screening process.

http://infochangeindia.org/200811047453/Education/News/Right-to-Education-Bill-cleared.html

http://educationforallinindia.com/RighttoEducationBill2005.pdf

Pankhudi Bangalore features in Wall Street Journal (Live Mint)

Pankhudi has no employees and every individual associated with it works only as a volunteer

Pankhudi was founded in April 2005 by Shahzad Wakeel, who had then just passed out of IIT Mumbai. The foundation started as an Orkut community comprising young professionals with day jobs who were keen to contribute to society’s well-being. Pankhudi has no employees and every individual associated with it works only as a volunteer. Volunteers with the foundation in other cities work towards the education and health of street children and children living in slums.

Most volunteers with the foundation learnt of its existence through friends already working with it, or have chanced upon its website (www.pankhudifoundation.org). Volunteers in a particular city are encouraged to keep in touch via group mail or email. If a volunteer shifts to another city where Pankhudi is present, she just has to send an email to pr @ pankhudifoundation.org and she will be put in touch with local workers.

If you want to volunteer
Volunteers can teach, organize activities for the children, contribute towards the Pankhudi newsletter, or just choose to help during collection drives such as the recent Bihar flood relief drive. Pankhudi invites volunteers in seven different cities (Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkotta and Chennai) to teach and work on health care drives in slums. For those who want to make contributions in kind to SRMAB, the school needs computers, headphones, sports equipment and tape recorders. They can teach or organize activities for the children.

Full article at Live Mint - Wall Street Journal.

Your Last Chance to win $10000 and expand your Social Venture

Only few days left to apply for the Best Buy @15 Challenge to win $10,000! The Application Deadline is Monday, October 27th.

For more details, check out http://www.genv.net/bestbuy or contact 1-866-788-1628 / bestbuy15@youthventure.org

 

 

REMINDER: There is only a handful of days left to apply for the Best Buy @15 Challenge to win $10,000! The Application Deadline is Monday, October 27th. CLICK HERE to watch the video and learn how you can win $10,000 to expand your Venture!   For Questions about the @15 Challenge or the Application go to www.genv.net/bestbuy or contact 1-866-788-1628 / bestbuy15@youthventure.org