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Secret Formula to a successful NGO – Corporate Partnership

15th February saw an interesting session on “Presenting your Strategy to Corporates”. Through this GYAN training, NGOs were keen to understand the corporate perspective on social responsibility and how they could derive maximum from the business world. Dhruvi Shah (AVP – Sustainable Development, Royal Bank of Scotland) agreed to volunteer for the said session. Dhruvi […]

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iVolunteer – Kolkata NGO Meet

8th April, 2014 iVolunteer – Kolkata Centre We are pleased to announce that we accomplished half day workshop on “Creating greater Impact using Skilled Volunteers” to orient Kolkata NGOs with our effective programmes for connecting skilled volunteers (skilled professionals and corporate executives) who can help them as advisors, as hands-on trainers in small groups and, as implementers to […]

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“Be a leader” – says Mr Pradeep K Banerjee at GYAN session

Pradeep Kumar Banerjee dons many hats. He is a leadership coach, a graphologist & mind therapist and founder of Mindzone, Kolkata. Pradeep joined iVolunteer early 2011 and since then he has taken numerous guest lectures on personality development for youth with our partner NGOs working in youth welfare. Here he shares with us the experience […]

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“POWERING YOUR PRESENTATION” – a short history of an empowered PowerPoint by Roma Mehta

On 29th January 2014, we accomplished GYAN on “Creating a Powerful PowerPoint Presentation” at VRC – Saltlake  and the session was piloted by Ms Roma Mehta About Roma Mehta: She is from Living Design [www.livingdesignindia.com] – a design house that believes that design and creativity elevates communication. She has created promotional material in print and […]

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“I consider volunteering as part of ISR, i.e. individual social responsibility.”

This is Denny John, Dy Director-Implementation Micro Insurance Academy. His Linked In profile gives a preview into his professional achievements, however we are glad introduce him as our Whiteboard and GYAN volunteer. As a resource person for  GYAN, a volunteer led initiative of iVolunteer aimed at building capacity of NGO’s, his session on one of […]

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10 tips I learnt on Social Media Marketing for NGOs

I recently had the opportunity to organize (and learn) from the recent GYAN session on ‘Social Media Marketing’ at Bangalore after which I was convinced that NGOs and social enterprises need to use social media tools like facebook, twitter, blog etc more effectively. Alister D’Monte and Aditi Devanathan from Milaap shared their experience and practical […]

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“I strongly feel that support to Non Profit sector is not necessarily only by donations, the sector can also benefit a lot from volunteers “

 Introducing  Mr Vijay Ladha,  a Chartered  Accountant since last 30 years. A first  generation  Entrepreneur running his own venture and at the  same time  spearheading the Bangalore Division  of Make A Wish Foundation of India  since 2008.  For him, Volunteering  is his duty towards the  society and his first GYAN session in Banaglore on “Seeking support from Donors […]

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Reduce recruitment cost by effective employee engagement!! GYAN Mumbai

Volunteer ‘Surbhi Srivastava’ has been volunteering with iVolunteer since over a year now. Her volunteering includes teaching children at Ashadeep Association. She has also managed the volunteering team effectively by scheduling volunteering assignments for her fellow volunteers at Ashadeep Association. Surbhi brings with her over 10 years of experience in various HR functions and has […]

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“The GYAN session on data management will help me a lot in future! – Zaid Sayed, Program Coordinator, Peepal Foundation, Pune

“It was my pleasure to attend GYAN session on data management organised by iVolunteer. I had lots of expectation from data management workshop. Training fulfilled many of my expectations. Our trainer, Ms. Janet Joe, was good. She gave equal attention to each and every participant. Because of limited number of participants it was possible for […]

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“Volunteering, for me, is an opportunity to indulge in areas that my professional work does not allow me to”

Meet Manosh R. Sengupta, our Banaglore based volunteer for Whiteboard, GYAN, Joy of Giving and a Guru on “Brand & Marketing”. NGO’s in Bangalore have found his GYAN session on “Building your Brand“extremely useful. The following interview shares his unique perspective on volunteering  in his very own words & style. Tell us something about yourself ( […]