Introducing New Junior Fellow

Deshpande Fellowship Program Wel-comes Caitlin.She has joins the Fellowship Program as a Junior Fellow. This fellowship is part of her studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. At Northeastern she is studying Communications as well as Global Social Entrepreneurship. She is very excited to be working at DCSE as well as excited to get to know India. We really congratulate her and we look forward for her efforts which will be visible in the performance of Fellows. She has already started working on what she can do and planning for that. All the Best.

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Introducing New Junior Fellow

Caitlin joins the Deshpande Fellowship Program as a Junior Fellow. This fellowship is part of her studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. At Northeastern she is studying Communications as well as Global Social Entrepreneurship. She is very excited to be working at DCSE as well as excited to get to know India. She has started to plan and work with fellows on some specific things. Deshpande Fellowship Program and Deshpande Foundation Welcomes her. Will look forward for her efforts which will reflect in fellows performance. All the best.

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Cracking the code

We, Deshpande Fellowship program proud to announce that Cohort 5 fellows participated and won in Cracking the Code Competition. first prize won by the "Francis Jaqui Haranodkara" On his innovation idea. Third prize has been won by Sandeep Hegde. we congratulate them on their success. Here below link has been provided please go through it.

“Heavenly Headrest: KSRTC Travel Made Easy”

“Dream Connection”

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Interview For Fellows

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Sub sector analysis

It was very good to listen to the presentations of fellows on their sub sector analysis study and on the logic of a organization to intervene in the project area, according to fellows after this they came to know how does the organization work with internal and external environment and how does it works on the portfolio of the people with whom they plan to work, how they plan strategically to use the internal and external resource.The teams which did study on products (sub sector analysis) was very interesting. They were able to explain the channels through which product enters the market and the players who enters the market with their own value additions to the existing product. What is their profit range, how much the person is getting who is really involved in the production process. and how the wholesalers are able to make more money easily out of that etc..

If they want to start and enterprise or a organization where they find their intervene point. Really the field experience they shared was enough to explain their learnings.

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Leadership Activity Which brought change....

Mahantesh S Y is a fellows DFP he applied under RTI act to know about a school construction which was sanctioned by the government around 6 lack rupees. The children suppose to sit in a class room were use to sit in temple.After putting RTI application to know what happened with the money & construction,within a month engineers appeared in that slum to measure and scale the land for school construction. Mahantesh took up this activity as a part of his Leadership activity. which every month all the fellows should work on. It is depend on the fellow that which problem they want to focus. like this other fellows are concentrating on their interested sector or field. The are contributing to a big change in different manner. All the best fellows. The Program Hartley congratulate Mahantesh S Y for his effort which brought change in slum children educational life.

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Guest Speaker : Ramakrishna

Yesturday it was our

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Opportunity as a test of Learning

Here DFP planned to celebrate the success of fellows in 5K. by giving a small trip to Sirsi. This included an opportunity for some initiators who were very eager to jump and be a responsible member in a committee which supposed to work on task and had some responsibilities. From organizing the trip, fixing the place, food responsibility, security of fellows, finance, everything was done by fellows. after the trip they were able to explain the learnings of respective committee. What better they can do if they do the same thing again what are all correction they are willing to do.

As a part of trip they visited the Charaka (Desi) they saw how the process goes and how the women co-operative society is managing it. The way they organization is being run by them was very impressive for fellows. Even the small things are given equal importance to maintain process properly. How the technology has been included in to the production process etc.. Now the fellows are much eager to take responsibilities for Eco tourism.

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An opportunity to intervin on the ground

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Alumni of the Week #20: Drishya M

Our Twentieth “Alumni of the Week” title goes to Drishya M of Cohort-III, who has refereed applicants for the Deshpande Fellowship Program from Mysore. We appreciate her continued support to the DFP & also congratulate her for receiving this Alumni of The Week Award.

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5K Presentation

Woo!! It was great to see fellows talking about the investment and business terminologies. Till now they acted as a buyer. but they understood that as a seller how it is difficult to convince customers. They explained how they felt when people rejected to see even their product, bargaining with women is the biggest challenging thing for all of them. Their expression was the merrier to show their experience. They have Broke the record of senior fellows by earning around 37.000/- rupees in 7 days by investing 95.000/- rupees. They say life long they will remember the experience and now they are able to find the value and real price of the things or product.

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Case study

On 4th December Miss. Aliza (sandbox fellow) taught about case study to fellows. It was an very interesting session for fellows. During the session fellows where involved in some group activities through which they understood which type of questions will take them in-depth of a problem. How can we see the impact of an organization which has been intervened in the life of beneficiary. which type of question will help us to assess the impact of an program or activity etc. At the end of the session fellows were able to explain what is case study? How it should be? which type of questions should be framed and asked? why case study is important etc.

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