Whether it is Corporate or Corporate Foundation or Funding
Agency or Philanthropist with talent & experience,
they know how to select NGO partners. In the volatile
situation that the world is facing now, they are more
careful.
They know the unfortunate fact that NGOs dont have succession
planning. So in case the founder leaves the NGO because
of age or accident or leaves the world, the NGO collapses
immediately or in a year or two, if it has no succession
plan. And the founder's daughter or son may not be capable
to handling the NGO because they have to professionally
manage funds and not emotionally handle funds because
the funds are given by corporates or FAs or philanthropist
or retail donors for the community using the NGO as
media. That is why founder Sanjay Kumud Moreshwar Bapat
whose one son is disabled and the other is a doctor,
wont give CSR Consulting or Developed Nation Network
Trust to any of his sons but to professionals who will
do their role of helping the world through CSRidentity.com
and not those who pay the money to get more money.
How
we select NGO Brands ?
We think all NGOs are brands.
But know the NGOs are started by humans, so like corporates
or media or any organisation, some NGO Brands are good,
some dont use the funds for communities or some use
for anti government or religion promotion or give some
moeny back to donors for the purpose both of them know.
We thought of NGO Credibility checking but founder was
part of a team which debated about NGO Credibility in
India in 2001-2002 and within IndianNGOs.com, we had
a team which looked at various criteria to look. And
we realised it will take 3 to 6 months to study an NGO
character in detail by visiting the NGO, the communities
they serve, the related media or the funding agencies
or corporates financing them, the related government
authorities ....
It
is not at all practical to do it in a large country
like India and now that we plan to cover all countries,
it is not right to even think that we can do it. So
saying it or taking money to do 10 NGO's credibility
in a year, is wrong.
So
what is the way out because we plan to share 25000 NGO
Brands issuewise and countrywise in 2022-23 ?
The best is
How
we select NGO Brands
There are millions of NGOs in this world.
If the charity is good and works in a small village
or location or in forest, they work on multiple issues.
If the charity of NGO is in city, they focus on 1 to
3 issues or maybe 5.
These NGOs or charities work on multiple issues
We
invite donors (Corporates, Corporate Foundations, Funding
agencies, Philanthropists, celebrities) just share the
name of the NGO they are partnering with alongwith Issue
the NGO partner works and the related country.
We also invite organisations which give fellowships
to individuals like Ashoka or Ted to share the related
info. Ashoka has about 3500 fellows from 90 plus countries
(founder got Ashoka Fellowship in 2005).
We
know we cant check credibility of 50000 NGOs in one
year or 20 years or 200 years because credibility depends
on the leaders who govern the NGO.
Bhau
& others postponed founder's death on 28.08.2013
maybe because he has not served Mother Earth enough.
Life with responsibility is joyful living.
And
the fun is if the NGO receives fund without knowing
who promoted them.
But let the NGOs dont know our name, we want funders
to know us, so that they can share free the NGOs they
fund.
So promoting NGO Brands is a selfish motive because
founder wants to enjoy satisfaction of helping without
noticed.
And
the NGO can be anywhere in the world.
So
the best way is
1) Let Corporate, Corporate Foundation, Funding
Agency, Philanthropist (from any country), who have
CSR Budget or Funding budget of Rs 1 crore or USD 0.13
million share the names of NGOs.
They dont have to give any amount to us. We share the
NGO Brands with link to their website on related issue.
They just have to share a link on their official website
which gives names of their NGO Partners.
(We dont want letters because then it becomes a personal
thing, they should share related link)
Some celebrities may not have their own website but
have facebook or whatsapp pages. In such cases, a personal
letter is required because in faebook or other such
portals millions of their followers write various non
NGO related things and we dont want people to come to
us to see that, it is better they go to such pages on
their own.
2)
If the NGO founder is selected by Ashoka for fellowship.
Ashoka has about 3500 plus fellows in 90 odd countries
(Founder is fortunate to be an Ashoka Fellow for his
social enterprise IndianNGOs.com which is the parent
company of CSR Consulting which takes care of CSRidentity.com,
a social enterprise whose canvas is this world &
universe)
3)
If the NGO founder is invited on TEDX or organisations
which directly dont collect money for NGOs
4)
An enterprise started by our global example, Venkat
Krishnan or NGOs recommended by him (ideally we think
world will be great if we have one Venkat type person
for each continent or greater if each country has Venkat
type fellow but we know it is toooooooooo much expecting
to have such greats. So let it be a dream)
Note
Having talked with some corporates, funding agencies,
we will not share NGOs which are working on politics
or with naxalites or terrorists or promote sex or promotes
criminil activities (of course we will support NGOs
which work with people within Jail to ensure their change
of behaviour or taking care of their parents, spouse
and children and are thinking of helping Thane Jail
directly as well as through some others)
Of
course we will promote NGO Brands to donors by investing
our time.
But money can help us promote these brands with more
professional organisations in different countries. That
is why we want organisatons to support social, health,
climate issues.
Responsibility
is to help all NGO Brands and not just 1.
NGOs within the country are shared alphabetically.
No
NGO can come in the top 10 even if their corporate partner
pays several times more because we have to take care
of all NGO Brands responsibly and our NGO, Developed
Nation Network Trust will come in D in the issue it
supports not first or last NGO.
Email
to Datacentre
Give
billions of dollars but ensure that it has impact.
Just emotion driven giving can be just a percent of
your total giving.
99% of your donation must be impace driven.
And when you are emotionally driven, let the charity
or the NGO which received the donation be professioanal.
It has to be a social enterprise for its own sustainability
because the giver will expire one day but the charity
or the NGO should not expire if the donor (and yes,
if the founder) expires.
From
the donors look at the ROI.
ROI is not financial returns.
Here R = Returns (Satisfaction)
O = Opportunities to help social cause
I = Impact of donation
Politicians,
Political parties & Thane
Our global example is Thane and many think Thane plays
great role in Politics.
It is interesting that we have dealt with politicians.
Founder's school mate Rajan Vichare is Member of Parliament
of India (twice as of now)
Founder took some session and used to know Shri Vinay
Sahastrabuddhe when he was Director General of Rambhau
Mhalgi Prabodhini. Today, Vinayji is MP, Rajya Sabha
The
Thane Municipal Commissioner, T Chandrashekar, who launched
founder's portal on Thane in his office, has a political
party in Andhra Pradesh.
The Joint Commissioner of Police of Thane, V V Lakshminarayana,
who used to volunteer for an NGO Hostel in rural Thane
and founder used to meet him there, is now a politician
in Andhra Pradesh.
The former MP from Thane, Late Prakash Paranjpe used
to stay close to founder and founder with his family
(he has a son with disability Rohan) stayed at Prakashji's
Delhi house.
Founder
has many classmates who are at top positions in corporates
in India, USA, Germany, Australia ... but the non financial
power of elected politicians is far higher than the
power of any corporate. So founder is keen that school
bright students think of politics. But he knows politics
is a field which 99.99% cant handle as leaders.
Having
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