GuideStar India (www.guidestarindia.org) is happy to invite you to the Joy of Giving Week workshop organised by GiveIndia. Please read below the Hyderabad workshop announcement from GiveIndia and confirm your participation to jgw@giveindia.org. They will soon be organising similar workshops in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata.
GuideStar India is managing NGO registration for the Joy of Giving Week. After you confirm participation with jgw@giveindia.org, we will send you the registration form.
Joy of Giving Week, Sept 27 - Oct 3, 2009
A Unique and massive Opportunity for NGOs to raise money, resources and awareness, brought to you by GiveIndia
Hyderabad Workshop on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
After bringing the idea of "fundraising through marathons" to India through the Mumbai and Delhi marathons, GiveIndia now presents NGOs of the country a BIGGER platform- The Joy of Giving Week, September 27-October 3, 2009. The Joy of Giving week is a huge national platform that will bring 2 crore Indians together to engage in conscious acts of giving- money, time, skills, donations in kind. From a panwalla in Muzaffarpur to a billionaire in Mumbai, school children, college goers, factory workers, housewives, autorickshaw walas, celebrities and corporate honchos…just about everybody will participate through this platform. Above all, it creates a platform for NGOs to fundraise with zero fees payable- 100% of what is raised through an event goes to the NGOs!!
We invite you to a free of cost meeting and discussion on this new national movement and how you might leverage the opportunity to increase the visibility of your work and raise funds for your organisation.
Venue: Press Club, Opp. Nizam College (near LB Stadium Gate), Basheerbagh, Hyderabad.
(It is before the Basheerbagh Flyover, on the First Floor)
Date: July 22, 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 noon
Please carry your visiting cards with you to facilitate follow-up contacts.
Register now to confirm participation. Limited seats available on First Come First Served basis. Workshop open to all NGOs of Andhra Pradesh. Separate workshops are being done in other cities for the other states. Please email
jgw@giveindia.org to confirm participation.
Travel Directions:
If you are coming by a train or bus, please get down near Nampally Railway Station (or Nampally Bus Stop.) The workshop venue is only 1.5 KM from there. By walk it would take you around 15 mins, else you can take a auto rickshaw for 10-15 Rupees. Also, please find attached to this email a direction map from Nampally to workshop venue.
If you are having any queries/doubts, please call
# 99631 06032 (for mode of communication in Telugu)
# 99082 16677 (for mode of communication in English/Hindi)
More Information on the Joy of Giving Week
Several large national initiatives are already in place-
1. The School Design Challenge will inspire children aged 10-13 from over 35,000 private and government schools all over India to design solutions to India's problems and implement them during the Week. Presented by Riverside School, NID, Stanford Design School and IDEO (the world's #1 design firm), in partnership with hundreds of educational NGOs and schools across India.
2. The College Joyfest will reach youth from 3000+ colleges all over India, and get at least 300 colleges to partner with local NGOs and organise "Joy Festivals" in their colleges. Youth will also be encouraged to volunteer in various community initiatives during the week. The event is being promoted by JAM and supported by MTV.
3. Goonj will run a massive Clothes Collection Drive in 25 cities all over India, targeting to collect at least 1 crore units of clothing during the Week.
4. The Battle of Buffets events in Chennai and Hyderabad will see their biggest 5* hotels coming together and offering their best buffet spreads free of cost in large public fundraising events, and NGOs in the city can benefit by selling donor passes to the “zero cost fundraising event”.
5. Stars4Charity, a fundraising event choreographed by ace director Farah Khan in Mumbai will help the Jai Vakeel Trust to fund raise.
6. A "CEOs Walk the Ramp for a Cause" event by Toofles Foundation will be hosted by the Taj Hotels in Mumbai during the Week.
HYDERABAD is having events like Love 4 Buffet - which presents opportunity for fund raising at Zero Percent Cost, Shadow A CEO, etc. Many NGOs locally are planning and working on huge fund-raising and awareness events during the Joy of Giving Week.
Besides this several individuals and organisations across the country are creating events and opportunities for people to participate in giving and volunteering. Several companies have come forward and offered space for hosting events, providing technology support, free branding and visibility, media coverage, etc. For further details, visit
http://www.joyofgivingweek.org/About GiveIndia:
GiveIndia is India's largest 'philanthropy exchange' that connects donors directly with NGOs. Founded in 2000, our flagship Payroll Giving programme and other activities together channeled Rs26.7cr from 150,000 individual donors to more than 200 NGOs in 2008-09 alone.
The NGO workshop held at Dell Computers in Bangalore had 116 participants from NGOs in Karnataka and Kerala. The second session at Resource Alliance's IWRM the same day spread the message to another 63 participants from different parts of the country.