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About
GENESIS "Sustainability, social equality and the environment are now business problems. And corporate leaders can't depend on governments to solve them." - Peter Senge, founder of the Society for Organisational Learning (SOL). Senge's principles find an echo in the ideologies behind Smile Foundation formed in 2002 by a group of corporate professionals who, decided to finance, handhold and support genuine grassroots' initiatives targeted at providing education and health to underprivileged children. In the process, becoming the first ever grantmaker and changing the face of thousands of lives.

Vision

As a catalyst to bring changes in the lives of millions of children, youth and women, who are not privileged, by addressing the real need at the grassroots level and also enabling the civil society across the world to engage proactively in the change process following the philosophy of Civic Driven Change and adopting the highest standard of governance and thereby emerging as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organisation from India.

Mission

Smile Foundation is to empower underprivileged children and youth through relevant education, innovative healthcare and market-focused livelihood programmes. Smile to deploy best possible methodology and technology for achieving ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice and promote good governance. To link business competitiveness of the corporate with social development initiatives, also to sensitize privileged children, youth and citizens in general to promote Civic Driven Change.

NGO - A Basic Overview

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NGO means Non-government organisation Any organisation who is doing non profit activity is called NGO The aim to make NGO is to do social activities These organisations do not involve in commercial activities NGO collects fund through donation The source of fund may be private or govt NGO are also known as Private Voluntary Organisation

It is estimated that 40000 NGO are working internationally and more than 1.5 million NGO are only in India. Primary purpose of an operational NGO is the design and implementation of developmentrelated projects

Types of NGO
INGO means international non govt. organization e.g :- UNO and ILO

BINGO means business oriented international NGO e.g :- CARE, REDCross & Green peace ENGO DONGO GONGO QUANGO CSO TANGO means environmental NGO e.g :-Global 2000 means Donor Organized NGO means govt. operated NGO means quasi autonomous NGO e.g :- ISO means civil society organisation means Technical assistance NGO

Objectives of NGOs
Improving the welfare of the disadvantaged Support to poor children Old-age Home To Provide Medical Services To Reduce poverty Increase employment Animal Care Encouraging the observance of human rights Other social welfare activities Improving the state of the natural environment

History of NGO Activity in India

Concepts of daana (giving) and seva (service). During the second half of the 19th century Friend-in-Need Society (1858), Prathana Samaj (1864), Satya Shodhan Samaj (1873), Arya Samaj (1875), the National Council for Women in India (1875), and the Indian National Conference (1887)

Government
The Societies Registration Act (SRA) was approved in 1860 to confirm the legal status of the growing body of non-government organizations (NGOs) The first Five-Year Plan stated, Any plan for social and economic regeneration should take into account the services rendered by these agencies and the state should give them maximum cooperation in strengthening their efforts. The Central Social Welfare Board was established in 1953 to promote social welfare activities and support peoples participation programs through NGOs

The establishment of the National Community Development Program and the National Extension Service were early steps in this direction in 1950 A.D. International NGOs entered India in significant numbers to provide drought relief during two consecutive agricultural seasons, 19651966 and 19661967. CAPART was formed by mandate of the 7th Five-Year Plan in 1986 as a nodal agency for catalyzing and coordinating the emerging partnership between voluntary organizations and the government for sustainable development of rural areas. In May 2007, the cabinet of ministers of the Government of India approved the National Policy on the Voluntary Sector12 as the first step in a process to evolve a new working relationship between the government and

Methods in which NGO operates a) Lobbying b) Other Social welfare projects like project for providing food, drinking water, and poverty alleviation.

Role of NGO in Consumer awareness NGO plays a very important role in the consumer awareness. NGO are created for providing awareness to consumer with the help of print media , seminars & work shops. These NGO are also helpful to give remedies to helpless consumers. Large no. of advocates and legal experts work voluntarily in NGO

NGOs Today
Today, about 1.5 million NGOs work According to a survey conducted by

in India Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 73.4% of NGOs have one or no paid staff More than 19 million persons work as volunteers or paid staff with NGOs. 26.5% of NGOs are engaged in religious activities. While 21.3% work in the area of community and/or social service. About one in five NGOs works in education. While 17.9% are active in the fields of sports and culture. Only 6.6% work in the health sector.

why should NGOs get involved in markets

Firstly, there is increasing recognition (although not universal acceptance) that improving access to markets for small producers in low-income countries is a route to poverty reduction It is argued that NGOs have a better understanding of and ability to represent the needs of the poor (Farrington and Lewis 1993) Because they are driven by their mission rather than profit or vote-seeking, they should be able to command more trust from the potential beneficiaries of their actions.

NGO ACTIVITIES

Its activities can be summarised as: Trade Support Influence

NGOs Problems

Inadequate market information, Limited bargaining power, Lack of access to credit, High transaction costs

NGOs marketing strategies: innovationidentifying new approaches and models for specific development activities and drawing upon their close knowledge of local communities; accountabilityhelping ensure that project components are implemented as envisaged and planned; responsivenessencouraging the implementation of projects to respond to local needs; participationserving as bridges between project authorities and affected communities, and providing structures for citizen participation; and sustainabilitynurturing continuity in project work, especially when the implementing agencies lack capacity or when staffing changes.

NGOs role in the business environment

International arena campaigning around international trade rules, ethical initiatives, corporate social responsibility etc. National arena advocacy for policies and regulations that support poor producers, create a better investment climate, development and capacity building of appropriate institutions, representative organisations etc. Local arena interventions to influence official attitudes and practices, demonstration projects aimed at changing cultural assumptions (e.g. gender-based constraints)

NGOs role in facilitating business services

Producer extension services support or facilitation of input and service providers serving small-scale producers / farmers. Value-chain services support or facilitation of service providers serving buyers, traders and other intermediary actors in the value-chain

Role of NGO

The following ten NGO roles can be distinguished at the marketcivil society interface 1. BONGOS (Business Oriented NGOs). 2. PONGOS (Partnership Oriented NGOs) 3. BINGOS (Business Interested NGOs e.g :- CARE, RED Cross &
Green peace

4. SHANGOS (Shareholding NGOs). 5. STRONGOS (Strategic Stakeholder Oriented NGOs). 6. BRONGOS (Broker Oriented NGOs). 7. SUNGOS (Supervisory NGOs). 8. DONGOS (Discussion and Dialogue Oriented NGOs). 9. WONGOS (Watchdog Oriented NGOs 10. DANGOS (Direct Action oriented NGOs

NGOs can be cost-effective because the altruism of NGO staff, motivated by the organisations mission rather than financial gain, could imply lower labour costs or higher quality, than for a comparable private firm (Scott and Hopkins 1999). NGOs have greater potential for innovation and flexible responses to changing external pressures