3rd NGO visit

As it is a last month of fellowship fellows are still very eager to visit NGO's and get more clarity of their dream or future goal. Cohort 5 fellows decided to visit Baal Balaga school by getting inspiration from Sanjeev Kulkarni who is the founder of this innovative school. where children which has been "Kali Nali" method from the beginning even we can say before government start. Here student decide what they want to learn and how they want to. By this students are comparatively matured and intellectually very powerful. Even hundreds of parents are convinced and sending their children to this school. For more information of school please visit this site http://baalabalaga.org/

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2nd week Cricket

Happy to say that we won the match on Sunday 20th Feb, in IMSR ground. The match was DF v/s UNIFIED Softech. DF team did bating first and scored 185 runs for 12 overs. later UNIFIED was all-out for 51 in 9 overs. Man of the match was achieved by Sunil Cohort 5 batch fellow by making 105 runs. Ravi Chavan and Sunil were the best peer of this match and the team expectations are gone higher for next time. Really it was an fantastic game, We wish them best luck for the next week.

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Career Fair

On 19th Feb we started with the registration of the participated NGO's. It was an good output that we had 17 NGO and our fellows had Skype interview with some other organizations like Karadi tales, Lets Dream etc. It was an great opportunity of their life where they attended 3 to 4 interviews. They were very excited and eager to interact with NGO people. After the Career Fair we requested the NGO to give us a feedback that we should improve the Career Fair next time. In the opinion of people this is a good platform to find suitable person for their organization. Some of the NGO's have hired fellows from previous batch and they feel they are the exact people whom they were figuring out.

We feel Proud of fellows because they have created this standered for the fellowship program. We look forward for the same support from all the NGO's.

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Corporate Cup 2011

Even though having busy schedule fellows are involved in the day-to-day practice for the cricket match. They are preparing themselves for the corporate cup 2011.Match has been organized by TiE Hubli (Corporate Trophy) Sunday their was a first match, DF v/s Sankalpa at morning 7 at IMSR ground. Sankalpa won the toss and elected to bat first,their score was 78 for 7 wickets in 12th over. Later on our team won by 5 wickets in 11.3 overs.

Program is very happy to announce that DF has own the first match and wish them all the best for the next match on Sunday 20th with other team at 11AM. People are welcome to be a part of it.

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Career Fair

Fellows are back from the Eco-tourism and immediately they have started working on their Career Fair, Resume writing and editing, interacting with each other to work out what are the areas they need to work on. Other are working on their business plan. After Eco-tourism they are fresh and they are more clear about how a tourism can be a enterprise. Now on wards they will be doing their market research along with the modules. which will help them to identify the trend of their product in market and decide whether they can continue with plan or not? almost our other modules, 5K, sub sector analysis, MOVE had given them the test. now its a time for the real show. All the best fellows for the career fair and Business plan.

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Eco-Tourism

Cohort 5 fellows Have left for the Eco-tourism to Kerala, Kannur. This is a part of their learning, This module introduce the Tourism sector and other fields by which it is directly and indirectly getting effected. on this thousands of families are surviving. As India is one of the famous place for tourism and we need to improve our stranded as we are getting people all around the world. This trip will give them practical learning from all the aspects. It may be accommodation, food, Transportation and livelihood opportunities to forest dwellers. Introducing rural handicraft to the tourism places, giving them the market it may be anything. It is left to the individual who want to start an enterprise. Here they work in committees by taking responsibilities and at the end of the trip they realize what should be done to present in a better manner (whatever experience they get by performing some role in committees.) It is going to give a picture that what is Eco-tourism and how it should be? As a entrepreneur how i can intervene in this business? Each one will be able to answer these question It will be a great experiential learning for them.

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Swara Ganga Compositions and Saptasitaravadhana

It was an fund raising event conducted by a group of fellows from Cohort 5. Santosh S, savita W, Manjunath R, Bhagyshree, Chetan, Virupaxa and Geetanjali has taken this initiative. This Swara Ganga compositions and Saptasitaravadhana had 3 categories like

Classical and

Semi classical (sugam snageet and Bhaktigeet)

Instrumental (Sitar, Tabala and Violin)

It was an effort by fellows to give an honor to Indian Classical music or Indian Tradition. It was really appreciated by people, It was an great opportunity for the people to showcase their talent. More than 35 participants from Belgaum, Gadag, Haveri, Hubli and Dharwad From Different music school participated. Deshpande Fellowship Program Congratulate them on their success. This was the result of their effort and coordination. This event will be the foundation to them to organize an event and manage it in their future, and the confidence they have got from this will inspire them to set the big task in future. We wish them all the best.

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Alumni of the Week #21: Thriveni Gandhi

Our Twenty first “Alumni of the Week” title goes to Thriveni Gandhi of Cohort-I, who has refereed applicants for the Deshpande Fellowship Program and also spoke to the DFP on behalf of the Alumni and encouraged them sharing her personal growth and application of the DFP learnings in the field. We appreciate her support to the DFP & also congratulate her for receiving this Alumni of The Week Award.

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Career fair

Deshpande Fellowship Program proudly announce career fair for the 5th Batch. In the 6th month of the fellowship they attend the career fair and remaining one month they work on building their capacity to fulfill their job expectations. Deshpande fellows are trained in highly professional, entrepreneurial skills and are able to work in any sector. Here we welcome all the profit and non profit organizations to attend the career fair on 19th February 2011 in Deshpande Foundation Hubli.

For more information please feel free to contact us on

9740011883 Mr. Chinnababu

9686113995 Miss. Uma

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Development Dialogue

This was a great opportunity for Cohort 5, 6 and DSF fellows to be a part of Development Dialogue. Cohort 5 fellows played an important role in all committees. They were the leader for the group of volunteers in the particular committee. Initially they came up with their own to do list and what they can do to fulfill the expectation of the role which they are handling. During the DD fellows were able to attend some of the case studies, Keynote speaker sessions, in which they are interested. Even fellowship program was able to have people who are experts, successful entrepreneurs as a guest speaker in this busy schedule in a formal way. Really in this Development Dialogue Deshpande Fellowship Program has leveraged the opportunity, and the response of people was positive.

Deshpande Fellowship Program appreciates the participation of fellows in DD and congratulate them.The expectation of people from this DD was more than the last year and fellows proved themselves in their role. We thank DF also for giving a big responsibilities to the fellows to realize their potentials.

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