Karthik, Sorry for the delay in reply.
As I said I read your mail, gone through the excel sheet and also the URL. Typed my reply in the group page itself and lost the content due to power cut. The excel sheet consists of the organizations who are into Education and few who offer support in other areas as well. If we classify: Education to: Children of culprits (both parents in jail) ---- English medium schools child labour, bonded labour ------ vocational training slum children of Kukatpally ---- ASHA is trying to help set up/administer a school SOS Village doesn't need grants at all. It is a well run organization and our member Sravan Kumar Patnaik told me about this one. The URL Consists of 56 organizations and I think most of them are registered. What we need to do? Classify them and see where they zero in on like I did for the organizations you mentioned in the excel sheet. Group all the organizations working on one specific area and prepare a list Mail to each organization about our objectives of developing a common platform Links in our Web site How we will differentiate than the listing in that URL is that --- we will group the organizations based on their area of work I think we will list those organizations who share common interests, match our criteria. We have to make a good study What next? Preparing a list of unregistered groups Registered groups operating without publicity CSR wings of the companies Actually there are many unregistered groups like us who are doing the service. WWHY is unregistered. SHiFT and Trinanda are registered but they are not in the URL. Spandana is one such group, formed by Verizon employees. Group of students from Osmania University who are working on the village Arkapalli and who wants to replicate the model in other villages around Hyderabad. Manam Social Welfare Organization --- Dileep is one of the members here. He couldn't make it to the meetings but he met us. Myself, Dr. Sundar, KK garu (Krishna Konakanchi) discussed with him. Ehsaas - A group that takes one old age home and serves food there on the first Sunday of every month. Kiran from ADP working for blind people by providing them food and other help This way there are many many groups. Most of them are youth -- below 30 or at the max. below 40. We need to make a list of all these groups. Everyone of us should provide you the details of the organizations they know and the contact details. If we can get more details on each group and their main area of interest and the mission, vision etc., that would be fine. To get information about Yahoogroups, knock Nachaki (Sarvantaryami of Web). We will organize a meeting with them and tell them about our idea of the necessity of the co-ordination and the possible results. With those who come forward, we will form a board. CSR wings of the companies Separate excel sheet for these people. To forward any cases that would be of interest to them. People who expressed their interest in the ideology and also ready to co-operate with us Bhumika Magazine and CSIM. Both know different organizations who are genuine and sincere in service. Immediate Benefits We can make the Used Dress Distribution regularly Similarly, we can do FDP, where needed. Long Run Benefits To run a newsletter specific for NGO Co-ordination and to publish the same in Bhumika magazine or to send that to any other media. People will know various cases at one place and also the efforts by different groups. They will try to help wherever they can in whatever way they prefer. My idea is to support Cheneta workers. If we can convince the CSR wings in various organizations to have a stall once in a month and encourage/inspire people to wear Cheneta dresses, that would be of immense use to the Cheneta Community. They are the skilled workers and they are dying. If we can form a big platform and if we continuously bring the news letter, we will gain enough strength and support to request the govt. to buy and use Cheneta only in all govt. offices. We may not go for shopping and we might buy impulsively when we go out. But when particular variety is being sold in our office, we may buy. Similarly we can organize stalls wherever possible. Also we can campaign for Thalassemia, Organ Donation and Eye Donation. We will have larger reach through this newsletter and the network No need for a single organization to bear the entire cost of a project or raise funds. We know whom to forward a case as we identify and will have a list of organizations working for specific causes. I hope there might be many other benefits too. Thank you. with regards, Prasanthi.
