Deshpande Foundation, Hubballi, in association with Arcmind Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru had conducted the CSR CONCLAVE 2019 at Hotel Royal Orchid Regenta, Bengaluru on July 23rd, 2019. The theme of the conclave was Inclusive Growth - Equitable Development and Sustainability. These topics occupied special attention to gathering through two separate panel sessions. The conclave was attended by more than 100 participants, mostly represented by CXOs and CSR Heads of Corporates.

The CSR Conclave is a platform to take forward the vision of ‘New India 2022’, by collaborating to co-create higher-order social impact through investment in scalable and

sustainable socio-economic development models. The Conclave brought together exponents and seasoned practitioners of CSR and Sustainability in a power-packed and focused deliberation, for collective contribution to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Inclusive Growth - Equitable Development and Sustainability. The forum attempted to highlight the importance of dismantling invisible barriers to the flow of capital in

Mr. Sunil K Chakrapani, Vice President and Head, CSR & Relationships, welcomed the gatherings.

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Mr. Vivek Pawar, CEO, Deshpande Foundation gave an introductory note about the Deshpande Foundation and the objectives of the Conclave. While he also explained the decade-long achievements of four Impact Units - Agriculture, Edu-Skilling, Entrepreneurship and Micro-Entrepreneurship to the gatherings “India’s problems’ being huge needs scalability of successful initiatives through collaborations of like-minded CSR companies and NGOs. Thus the conclave was intended towards the objective of collaboration to deal with poverty, unemployment and agricultural crisis” stated Vivek Pawar.

He also mentioned the existence of 3.2 Million NGOs in India (more than per capita hospital beds), of which only around 1.5 Lakh is active. This gained the attention of an NGO rating in the future, to identify the transparent, effective, competent and scalable NGOs to solve the country’s problems through CSR funding.

The first panel session on ‘Equitable Development’ was moderated by Nikhil Pant, Chief Development Officer, REACHA. The panelists were Dr. Ram Turaga, Chief Development Officer, Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, IISC; Abhijit Ray, Co-Founder & MD, Unitus Capital; Santhosh Abraham, VP, NASSCOM Foundation; Sanu Mathews, CSR Head, GMRVF.

The panel discussed how India can hope to play a crucial supplementing a role for sustainable and equitable development with a new stable majority government at the center for the next 5 years.

The second-panel session on ‘Sustainability’ was moderated by Mr. Manoj Chakravarti, COO, Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship, IIM - B and the panel was represented by Sangeeta Robinson, Head Sustainability & Inclusion, PVR Limited; Abhishek Kumar, Co-Founder, Ripples Learning; Abhishek Ranjan, Associate Director, CSR, Brilio. The panel discussed how corporates can continue to function with a balanced stakeholder scenario. The importance of digital technology transformation was felt like an important aspect of sustainability.

Mr. Vivek Pawar introduced the new rental model project of farm ponds - its unique value proposition being an asset-light model compared to the earlier model which was asset-heavy. He welcomed the gathering to participate in the Social Immersion Program, which is a one-day exposure visit to Hubballi Social Innovation Sandbox’s entrepreneurial and innovative initiatives.

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SANDBOX STARTUPS

Deshpande Foundation’s Sandbox Startups had organized a small get together for all the Entrepreneurs, stakeholders, students and Foundation’s members at Sandbox Startups on July 18 on the occasion of its first anniversary.

During the celebration entrepreneurs who incubated in the ecosystem expressed their gratitude by sharing their experience with Sandbox Startups. Also, our incubated company nanoPix generously donated Rs.10 lakh on that occasion to the startup ecosystem.

During the get-together Mr. Sasisekar Krish, CEO and Co-Founder, nanoPix shared his experience and said, “The Sandbox Startups provided mentorship, space to grow, training to hone skills and capabilities, a confident environment for the startup team and the required discipline needed to achieve success.'’

Shekar, Founder, Widemobility shared that, “Sandbox Startups came in when we were at the cocoon stage, our idea was strong but we just had a limited understanding of building a startup. Sandbox brought in an understanding of building a startup. Their periodic tracking systems, enriched guidance on how to make a business and how to connect the dots between the ‘Concepts to Product’ all pushed us to reach our goals.

EDGE - cohort 5 commenced on July 27th

To help first-generation entrepreneurs to test, validate and improve the business idea from the idea stage to proof of concept the Edge program was designed. It is a 12-week intensive p rog r am cen t e r ed on customer discovery where entrepreneurs are expected to interact with their customers, gain insights and keep pivoting and iterating their ideas.

Startups go through the s c h e d u l e d s t r u c t u r e d program to validate their ideas. In the 5th cohort, 10 aspiring entrepreneurs joined the program with great zeal. Mr. C.M. Pat i l , CEO Sandbox Sta r tups and Mr. Vivek Punekar, Startup

mentor briefed about the entire Sandbox ecosystem during the welcome session. Mr. Man jun a t h Gog i , Program Lead, Sandbox Startups explained the entire 12-week schedule. Mr. Rohan Kulkarni, Founder F r e s hboxx s h a r ed h i s experience of starting his venture and identifying the initial customers. Sessions and hands-on workshop were conducted on problem unders tand ing, market s e g m e n t a t i o n a n d understanding their end customers.

The 5th cohort will complete his training in the first week of November.

Celebration time: Happy First Anniversary!

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Collaboration with team NABARD

Representing Deshpande Foundation’s Sandbox Startups

Mr. C.M. Patil, CEO, Sandbox Startups attended a panel on July 12th at National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Office in New Delhi. The agenda of the panel was creating an appropriate eco-system to establish rural enterprises by bringing positive change and upbringing rural entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Mr. Hemant Songadkar, General Manager, NABARD;

Mr. Rajesh Rajan, CEO, Nabventures were also part of the panel discussion.

As a follow up to the penal Mr. Hemant Songadkar, General Manager, NABARD; Mr. Rajesh Rajan, CEO, Nabventures visited Sandbox Startups, Hubballi on June 14th to have one-on-one meetings with Agri-tech startups. The 22 Agri-Tech startups showcased their product to NABARD team and explained in detail about the solutions they are creating. The team’s visit gave a promising reinforcement to the incubatees that they are in the right direction. The team’s

primary motto was to look for new tech development in the space of agriculture also Mr. Rajesh Rajan had visited to see if there are any potential startups that could be invested.

Impressed with the Sandbox Startups ecosystem and efforts of the incubatees for finding solutions in the agricultural sector, the talks have advanced for further details and collaboration.

Insights from the experts

For the Sandbox Startups incubatees one-on-one session was organized with Dr. Gururaj Desh Deshpande and Dr. M.B. Chetti, Vice-Chancellor, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad on July 15. During the sessions incubates grasped the insights on how a startup can scale and make its mark in the business and help society.

Mr. J V Ramamurthy, Senior Advisor, HCL Infosystems Ltd; Ms. Sheela M Bhandarkar, Dharwad District Development Officer, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and others were part of the session and interactedwith startups Founders. There was also a Q&A session where startup founders cleared their queries from the mentors.

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Yet again our incubatees had made us proud by winning “ELEVATE - 2019 Awards”. Among 14 startups who pitched their ideas at the Elevate 2019, 10 made it to the final round and won the prestigious awards. ELEVATE is a state government initiative and organized by the Department of Information Technology and Bio-Technology. At the event juries will observe and identify the startups which provide the best solutions and look into its whole science and technology from an ‘idea to proof of concept and then grant funds. It’s the 3rd consecutive year that our incubates were bagging the highest number of awards from a single incubator.ELEVATE - 2019 provides a platform to identify local talent and provide them with the required nurturing, mentorship and initial funding so that startups can take their business ideas and products to the next level.

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A promising "National Summit" for the micro-entrepreneurs

Team Navodyami organized two day National Summit on July 18th and 19th at Deshpande Foundation’s Sandbox Startups, Hubballi. The theme of the National Summit was “Building potential partnerships to impact a billion people through micro-entrepreneurship in India”. Dr. Gururaj Desh Deshpande, serial entrepreneur and Founder, Deshpande Foundation inaugurated the summit by welcoming the guests and set the context of the summit.

Ms. Leena Johri, Joint Secretary, National Rural Livelihoods Mission, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India was one of the chief guests who presented the key insights and achievements of the government initiatives.

Mr. Hemant Songadkar, Chief General Manager, Off-Farm Development Department, NABARD spoke on the topics - banking, financial assistance for holistic and sustainable development in the unorganized sectors of Indian economy and the way ahead.

The National Summit witnessed 37 national and regional institutions' participation. Impressed by the insights and takeaways from the summit, participants (both organizations and micro-entrepreneurs) proposed to the guest that they will organize the national summit every year at Hubballi on June 27th, which is also known to be Mico Entrepreneurship Day (MSME day). On the basis of commendable work done by the participating organizations at the summit, National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) will provide institutional assistance.

During the summit Smt. Leena Johri said, “I met a lot of women Aari workers, who are middle-aged and want to make something of their own. This two-day journey with Deshpande Foundation has been very motivating and worthwhile. I am happy to come across that the foundation

is working for rural India which is the real India. This country can never develop without the progress of villages.

Expressing his views Mr. Hemant Songadkar advised the participants to keep up the good work without losing their hearts. To have patience, perseverance to achieve the desired success. NABARD and Deshpande Foundation are jointly trying to build an ecosystem for the budding micro-entrepreneurs. So, let us all work together for the growth and development of better India and it can be achieved through synergies and networking.

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A fare of appreciation - Santhe

Navodyami team organized ‘Santhe’ (exhibition-cum-sale) in

two different places in the month of July. More than 50

micro-entrepreneurs benefited from the Santhe. The overall

turnover business of the Santhe was Rs. 10,39,000.

Every month the footfalls of the Santhe is increasing. The

varieties of products ranging from textiles, handicrafts, food

products are gaining traction. The two locations where

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Malamaddi, Dharwad & Akkamagadevi Kalyana Mantap,

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‘Mobile Santhe’

Mobile Sante is a new initiative from the Navodyami team. In a short span, it has gained popularity and demand too. Our micro-entrepreneurs from the Hubballi Sandbox are utilizing it at their best to sell their products in their respective areas and they get access to a larger audience in terms of product sales and marketing. So far 12 Mobile Santhes was organized and it has made the overall sales of Rs.1.63 lakhs and more than 11 micro-entrepreneurs utilized this platform.

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Artwork training at its best

The team organized designer blouse, Fevicril and Aari work training in the month of July at different locations which include Dharwad, Uttarakannada and Belagavi. Smt. Leena Johri, Joint Secretary MoRD, Government of India visited one of the venues where Aari work training was conducted to the budding women entrepreneurs. Leena Johri also interacted with the participants.

Ms. Susana Dasar trained 14 participants on the designer blouse, Mr. Sunil Hiremath trained 26 participants on Fevicril and Ms. Archana trained seven participants on Aari work.

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AGRICULTURE

Agriculture Program of Deshpande Foundation has organized training for the Farmer Producer Organization’s Sustainable Agriculture Promoters on “Standard Operating Procedures”.

On July 13 training was conducted at the Seminar Hall, Deshpadne Foundation’s DCSE premises. Around 20 SAPs attended the training.

Mr. Shridhar Deshpande, Chartered Accountant from Connect and Mr. Vijay Kumar Koppad, Assistant Chartered Accountant, Connect trained the SAPs on accounting, bookkeeping. The training helps SAPs during the sales, purchases, stocks and other compliances along with increasing the business and take the FPO to the next level by following all the necessary procedures.

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The unexpected natural disaster has left the people vulnerable in the north Karnataka. The flood has devastated the lives of many innocent rural people. LEADers from different locations of Karnataka came forward to help the flood victims.

The LEADers are providing moral support and also being with the flood affected villagers to make their lives better to an extent.

The students actively took part to help the flood affected people by covering the districts - Vijaypura, Belagavi, Dharwad, Hubballi , Ballari, Chitradurga and Davangere.

With lot of efforts LEADers were able to raise the overall amount of Rs.4,40,222; gathered relief materials which was the need of the hour worth of Rs. 4,25,000; the number of villages students reached were 22. Thanks to 321 LEAD volunteers who were able to impact 1,035 flood victims in different parts of Karnataka.

Deshpande Foundation thanks to all those colleges and parents who supported their students and children to take up these noble cause and reach those needy.

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We are witnessing climatic catastrophes one after the other in multiple parts of the world. Heavy rains wreaked havoc in the northern parts of Karnataka. Karnataka received a record 279% more than normal rainfall in August first & the second week, the highest amount of rainfall the state has recorded in 118 years. More than 4.7 lakh hectares of crops were reportedly affected by the rains while 18,000 km of roads, 650 bridges, 58,620 houses and 54,000 electric poles were also damaged in the state of Karnataka. The villages were submerged causing loss of lives and livelihoods. It is a great challenge and a humongous task for the government and other bodies to rehabilitate all those affected people and come back to the normal situation.

Around four lakh people have been displaced across the state due to the heavy rainfalls, subsequent floods and landslides.

The torrential downpour was also witnessed in parts of Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in India. Even Hubballi has been the victim of heavy rains, the Unkal lake overflowed, creating flood-like situations in many residential areas in the city.

This is a time when we should help our neighbors, our people by contributing in whichever small way we could. This could be in the form of monetary assistance, tangible relief supplies or by being physically present during the relief operations. We urge all our readers to be kind and cooperative during these hard times.

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