India
Diwali campaign: support a child’s education for one year
A forgotten cause with a low profile and limited visibility in the public eye managed to raise awareness and much-needed funding.
7days7gifts – part of Give India’s ‘joy of giving’ week.
Can one person really change the world? Well, as this exhibit demonstrates, he can certainly make a very good start. This is a wonderful example of how one man’s idea can motivate many.
The India Giving Challenge
By harnessing a competitive element to fundraising, GiveIndia were able to provide a new and unusual opportunity for all involved.
Save the Children India: the ‘Every One’ campaign to reduce child deaths.
Nearly two million children in India die every year from easily preventable diseases. Through online and face-to-face contact, the EVERY ONE campaign aims to raise awareness about this by focusing on child mortality.
Riverside School: the Design for Giving contest.
An inspirational initiative from Riverside School designed to encourage India’s young people to come up with solutions to the sub-continent’s great challenges.
Youthreach ‘If I were rain’
This book poignantly captures how children retain their intelligence and innocence despite the most trying circumstances. This book transforms lives. And raises money too.
Akshaya Patra, India - winners of an international competition to change the world
A prize-winning initiative from India. Akshaya Patra has, quite simply, set up the world’s largest school feeding programme, providing more than one million school dinners every school day. This vast undertaking clearly has appeal to corporate donors, for it attracted the attention of American Express when they were running a competition to find projects that have real impact.
Dream A Dream’s evenings out at the Little Theatre, Bangalore
An inspirational guide to nights out at the theatre, courtesy of Dream A Dream, Bangalore. The annual theatre production is a classic example of an exchange model, where all participants gain value through the collaboration. The audience, adults and children alike, enjoy an entertaining play by a leading theatre group. Dream A Dream is able to raise funds for its development activities.
The Magic Bus: corporate customers pay for a facility that helps poor kids
How corporate customers enable an innovative charity to raise money to pay for a unique development facility for disadvantaged youngsters.
Goonj..: dignity through recycled clothing
Collecting clothing for distribution or resale is one of the most ancient and venerable of charitable activities. The charity gift, or thrift, shop concept is built upon it. So SOFII is delighted to honour this enterprising initiative from Goonj.., the first organisation in India to address the issue of decent clothing.
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