The Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship Presents….

the DESHPANDE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Steps Towards a New Glocal:
Hello and welcome to the June 2010 issue of the Deshpande Fel-
lowship Program’s 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, shifting
focus 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-

JUNE | 2010
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Thus, the Deshpande Fellowship Program welcomes submissions

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Regards,

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Inside this issue:

Modules 2

Guest Speakers 3

Activities: Walk-a-thon 4

Activities: 5K Challenge 5

Leadership Activities and NGO Visit 6

From Top to Bottom: 1) Spreading awareness and
collecting pledges for Walk-a-thon, 2) Sign at Bala Features and Editorials 7-8
Balaga School, 3) Special Guests at Walk-a-thon
Event, 31st May, 4) Fellows pile in for NGO Site Alumni Section 8
Visits
 Modules
Market 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 isn’t 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, customer’s 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 did
a 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 (santosh.p@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
IN THE CLASSROOM
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 various
kinds, and to distribute them among different groups. It also
helps us to find the right opportunity.
Anita Hiremath (anita.h@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
Logical Framework Analysis
Dr. Prakash Bhat, BAIF
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 to
work 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 (shankar.s@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
Eatery Challenge
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 didn’t
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 didn’t 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 (laxmi.rasalkar@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
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 Guest Speakers
Shri 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 and
their 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.
IN THE CLASSROOM

Shalini G. L. (shalini.g@dfmail.org), 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. R.N. Tikot, Vidya Poshak Noel De Villiers, Ashoka Fellow
Professor Tikot had many things to teach us. He said that
for a successful person body language, eye contact, voice Noel de Villiers
modulation is very important. While speaking, our voice
should be clear. We should show our emotions while pre- Ashoka Fellow shares his experience empowering
senting. Confidence is essential, and we should speak by
heart. He also told about his experience and his opinion of the rural populations in Africa
the education situation in India at present. Professor Tikot
said that at this time, skills and attitude are absent from Noel de Villiers is a creator of opportunities in the vast land of Africa that is
schools and colleges. 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.
His speech really made me think about starting an organi-
He has the vision of creating social and economic growth by boosting the
zation and what are the problems or challenges involved.
tourism sector for the underprivileged communities in Africa.
Things like money, opportunity, clarifying ideas, transpar-
ency, human resources, fear of failure, competitors, loca- Mr. Noel’s session was very inspiring as it gave us an expansive idea about
tions and partners all need to be considered or confronted. social entrepreneurship and all it involves including identifying problems,
I learned that knowledge, skill and attitude are all very finding innovative solutions, taking risk and challenges, and making critical
important. Skill and knowledge come with time, and it is decisions to help bring about social change. Social entrepreneurship is a
important to invest time to develop them. Good attitude is continuous process, it has no end. However, in order to be successful, social
essential, and it is important when starting an organization entrepreneurs need to work with not only their brains, but also their hearts.
not have any inferiority complex. Successful entrepreneurs follow their dreams and heart. He gave the advice
that the people who work for you must share your passion, dedication and
More than anything else, I learned that it is important to
devotion for the project and thus should be carefully selected.
invest time for developing the skills and maintaining the
standards, and that we should not come out of our princi- He was quoted as saying “Entrepreneurs can only see profits, but social
ples. It was a great session and all fellows learned a lot. entrepreneurs can feel it”.
Kartik Devmane (kartikswami.d@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Radhakrishna Nayak (radhakrishna.n@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
Fellow 3
Walk-a-thon: Tobacco Awareness
Cohort 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 (anindita.d@dfmail.org), Walk-a-thon 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.”
ACTIVITIES

The Challenges of Tobacco Change: The Fundraising Experience:

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
don’t 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 (santoshimata.p@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
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 really
thankful 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 (shivkanya.bhujbal@dfmail.org), Event Organizer
and Cohort IV Fellow
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 5K Challenge
The 5k Challenge is one of the core activities of the
C h a l l e n g e. . .
Fellowship program, and is a week of great learning
Learnings from a failure pave the way to success
and transformation for the Fellows. In teams of
5k Challenge has been the best learning experience of my life. First
day, my colleague and I started egg rice business; we prepared the rice
two, Fellows are given Rs. 5000 and within one
in hostel and sold the rice at the bus stand and railway station. Our week have to turn a profit. Cohort IV’s 5K was the
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
most profitable in the history of the Fellowship,
in our product; perhaps they weren’t confident with the quality. They with Fellows earning more than Rs. 27,000/-.
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 in
this 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’
Risk...
mindset. One Fellow puts it all on the line for a new idea
Madhusudhan B (madhusudhan.b@dfmail.org), 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 didn’t
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
ACTIVITIES

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

n’t 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 won’t. I didn’t 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 it
at Rs. 5900 that same evening. It was a very good, new, differ-
ent experience for me.
Success... Nagaraj Kori (nagaraj.kori@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
Risks reap big rewards
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 worked
in before. I learned how profit is made in this business. My team’s 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 and Avinash accepting their 1st prize reward
Anita Kulkarni (anita.kulkarni@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow 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. That’s why I thought: many birds die because of only
this reason. So, I came up with a new idea of Bird Protection. I
made 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 how
to 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 (satyappa.m@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
Book Distribution to Slum Children
In 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 don’t have financial prob-
lems. Their children are getting good education. They have many
books, but their children don’t 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 don’t 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 I’d 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
(rajeshwari.laddi@dfmail.org),
Cohort IV Fellow

Satyappa assists in the installation of one of his birdfeeders

NGO Visit
Bala Balaga School
Fellows are inspired by an innovative style of
teaching and learning teaching and learning
Bala-balaga is one of the action oriented school. Here the teaching
system is very different, based on “learning by doing.” In this school,
ACTIVITIES

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-
dren’s performance, and also gets the parents involved in their
children’s 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. A break from the rigors of the Fellowship at Neer
Hanamaraddi (hanumanth.reddy@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow Sagar provides Fellows with lifelong memories
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 Neer
Sagar.
Shivaprasad G (shivaprasad@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow

A very special thanks also to Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), Bhoruka Charitable Trust (BCT),
and the Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) for hosting DFP this month. 6

Skills We Should Have
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
FEATURES/EDITORIALS
Innovations: New in Cohort-IV
Star of the Week Program
I 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 (chinnababu@dfmail.org), DFP Program Manager

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 many
different 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, it’s important to practice every day.
Vishwanath Kudrimath (vishwanath.bk@dfmail.org), Cohort
IV Fellow
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 (radhakrishna.n@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
Global Guest Speakers brought to DFP through
Skype
Skype 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 and
an 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 13 th 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 (sunil.patil@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow

Realizing the Full Potential of Our Skills

This 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 (uma.patil@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow

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The Importance of Self-Learning
One 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-
lowship’s 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 3-4
hours 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 I’ve done and set goals for what to do the
next day.
I’ve 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 (roopa.m@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
ALUMNI HAPPENINGS
Alumni News
• 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 24th
• Madhukeshwar Bhat married Jyoti of Haveri on 30 May in Dharwad
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
May’s notable Alums:
Jagadish Katkar
Veeresh Poojari
Pramod Kumar
The Situation Can Change the Goal
A Fellow’s 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 instructor’s 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 one
hundred 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
I’d 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. It’s unbelievable for me, but it’s true.
Uma Patil (uma.patil@dfmail.org), Cohort IV Fellow
June’s Glocal Editors
Vishwanath Kudrimath
Cohort IV Fellow
vishwanath.bk@dfmail.org
Elisha Clark
DFP English Instructor
clark.el@husky.neu.edu
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