Aug 2010, Issue 10 Monthly news letter of LEAD, Deshpande Foundation

LEAD Times
Complaints… Start with ‘They’, Solutions… Start with ‘I’
Independence
Day Special!

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Independence day 1
LEAD celebrates Independence Day
celebration

LEAD Faculty training 2

LEADers meet the Chief 3

Minister
Guest Speaker and 4
partnering colleges

Tagline competition 5

New journey of LEAD 6 LEADers with Mr. and Mrs. Gururaj Deshpande and LEAD team

On 15th Aug, 2010 LEAD celebrated the 63rd Independence Day of

India at DCSE. LEADers attended the 7:30 am flag hoisting on the
DCSE campus by the Director Mr. Naveen Jha. As a part of LEAD’s
2010 inauguration, 15 innovative LEAD projects were showcased to
LEAD AT A GLANCE Mr. Gururaj Deshpande, Mrs. Jaishree Deshpande, and over 200 visi-
tors from Hubli. The event was concluded by inspirational speeches by
6 LOCAT IO N S Mr. and Mrs. Gururaj Deshpnade where they encouraged and appreci-
23 REGIST E RE D ated the LEADers for their initiatiave in solving our societies biggest
COLLEGES problems.
200 REGI ST E RD
LEADERS LEAD NGO Partner– AkshayaPatra
AkshayaPatra provides free mid-day meals to over 12 lakh Govt. school
children across the country on all school days. These meals act as an
incentive to bring children back to school. AkshayaPatra Hubli is the
largest kitchen in the world which feeds nearly 1, 80,000 children of
surrounding Govt. schools.
It is a great opportunity for LEADers to explore their skills by
Are you creative?
Want to win a volunteering with AkshayaPatra in their service.
diamond ring? Interested students can register with LEAD: lead@dfmail.org or
See page 5 for
contact LEAD Office: 0836-2378500/2378525
details!

Know more about

AkshayaPatra at:
http://www.akshayapatra.org/
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LEAD Faculty training in Hubli and Bijapur

On August 7, 2010, LEAD organized the college fac-
ulty training program in order to involve them in the
process of creating LEADers.
17 lecturers from 11 colleges of Hubli participated in
the training program which started at 9 am and con-
cluded at 2 pm at the DCSE campus.
The training focused on the LEAD cell process, crea-
tivity, innovation, and IT training.
Trainers: Ajay Suman, Program manager (LEAD),
and Annie Vijaya, Program Manager (LEAD)
Faculty were oriented on LEAD Cell process that will
be carried out in their respective colleges. Using dif-
ferent tools faculty were trained on innovation and
idea generation. Faculty were excited to implement
these tools in motivating students to join LEAD and
come up with innovative solutions to their communi-
ties’ prevailing problems. They were also trained on
using social networking sites to promote LEADers
and projects. LEAD appreciates all the faculty for
their active participation and valuable contributions
in making this training a grand success.

On August 6th, a similar faculty training program

was held at BLDEA's KCP Science college, Bijapur.
8 faculties from 4 colleges participated in the
training.

On 28th, Aug 2010 over 15 Master LEADers from different colleges of Hubli were
trained on IT and LEAD cell management.

LEAD NGO Partner– Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM)

SVYM runs number of programs focusing on youth development, community organization, sanitation and
education. They also offer number of custom made courses for youths and professionals. With DF, they are
implementing a project (YES) in Dharwad focusing on - A) Youth Training and development B) Improve
Education status through arresting dropout rate and C) Improving sanitation status in villages.

Let us pull our talents to help transform

Indian rural youth!

Know more about SVYM at:

http://www.svym.net/
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LEADers meet Karnataka Chief Minister Shri. B.S Yaddyurappa

The Chief Minister of Karnataka visited Deshpande Foundation on Aug 25, 2010 to felicitate Dr. Gururaj
Deshpande for his appointment as Co-Chairman of US President Barack Obama’s National Council on
Innovation and Entrepreneurship. During the evening, the Chief Minister visited the LEAD stall and inter-
acted with the LEADers. Over 10 selected LEADers shared their projects with him and he openly com-
mended their work, especially the 600 mt road construction in Hospet. During the program LEADers met
many other delegates such as Mr. Darpan Jain: DC, Mr. Manivannan: Former Commissioner, Mr. Ramji
Raghavan: Founder, Agastya International Foundation, MLAs, and many successful industrialists and
NGO heads. This event has inspired the LEADers to continue their passionate efforts for a better society.

“Youngsters in LEAD have

taken initiatives in solving
the problems of the society
instead of complaining.
They are the role models
and people should learn to
take initiatives from
them”- Gururaj „Desh‟
Deshpande during the
LEADers explaining their projects to Chief LEAD team with Mr. Darpan Jain, DC,
conversation with the Chief
Minister B.S Yaddyurappa and Dr. Gururaj Hubli– Dharwad
Deshpande Minister

“I am very much overwhelmed to be a part of this event.

Being a LEADer, this is my greatest achievement to meet
the Chief Minister and interact with him. The delegates
showed keen interest while I was explaining the project.
This event has left in me a great sense of excitement to
achieve lot more things in life!. Thanks to LEAD.”
– Aruna Kulkarni, Master LEADer from JGCC, Hubli

LEAD NGO Partner– Grama Shikshana Foundation!

Established in 2006 and registered in 2008, the
trust focuses on youth health issues; mainly on rais-
ing awareness about the ill effects of tobacco.
Grama Shikshana Foundation has trained over
12,000 youths and sensitized over 500 teachers
about the ill effects to tobacco. GSF conducts many
smaller, but equally effective programs to educate
people of the harmfulness of tobacco.
Lets join hands in reducing the use of tobacco as
we save people from cancer!
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LEADers interact with Mr. Shikhar Ghosh,

Professor, Harvard Business School
Mr. Shikhar Ghosh, a very successful entrepreneur
and professor at The Harvard Business School, USA
recently paid a visit to Deshpande Foundation where
he interacted with the LEADers. LEADers shared
their projects and ideas as Mr. Ghosh gave them valu-
able advice for the challenges they are overcoming.
Mr. Ghosh also shared his experiences as to what it
takes to be a truly innovative entrepreneur. He in-
sisted that the LEADers think with an entrepreneurial
mindset to make their work sustainable and more im-
pactful. Some LEADers who already had business
ideas were very much motivated by Mr. Ghosh to
start their enterprises very soon.
―You don't need experience to be
an entrepreneur. Most of the suc-
cessful enterprises such as Micro-
soft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and
many more were started by people
with no experience. All you need is
an Idea and passion‖.
—Shikhar Ghosh to LEADers

Registered partners of LEAD

1. Shri Kadasiddheshwar Arts College & H. S. 12. BLDE's SB Arts & KCP Science College
Kotambri Science Institute, Hubli 13. BLDE’s Polytechnic College, Bijapur
2. KLE Society's J. G. College of Commerce, Hubli 14. SECAB Institute of Engineering and
3. KLE's College of Business Administration - Technology, Bijapur
BBA, Hubli
15. Bellary Institute of Technology and
4. KLE Society's K.L.E. Institute of Technology,
Management, Bellary
Hubli
5. Institute of Business Management & Re- 16. Malik Sandal Polytechnic College, Bijapur
search, Hubli 17. Chetana BBA and BCA College
6. Oxford College, Hubli 18. S. U. B. N. Theosophical Women's College,
7. Dr. K.S Sharma College of Computer Applica- Hospet
tion, Hubli 19. Kumari G. Sudhashankar Goud Memorial
8. SDMCET Alumni Association, Dharwad Theosophical College of Management,
9. Kittle Science College, Dharwad Hospet
10. Sana Educational Charitable Trust, Hubli 20. B. K. Arts Science & Commerce College,
11. Anjuman Science, Arts & Commerce College, Chikkodi
Bijapur 21. MES College of Commerce, Sirsi
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Be creative and win a diamond ring!

Tagline competition
Udaganis Rajarajeshwari Jewellers (URJ) is a registered family partnership firm, which started in
November 2009. The firm is opening a new retail jewelry outlet at # 6, 1st floor, Eureka Corner,
Koppikar Road, Hubli. The store will offer a wide range of gold & silver jewelry, diamonds &
gemstones (precious & semi precious), silver articles, designer jewelry and much more.

URJ is looking for an impressive tagline to go with their logo.

Open to all students of

LEAD, EA
(Entrepreneurship
Academy) and
Deshpande Fellows!

Terms and conditions

Prize: A diamond ring!
Competition is open from 7th to 17th Sept.
Submit your creative tagline to: lead@dfmail.org on or
before 17th Sept, 2010.
Late submissions will not be accepted.

Please mention your name and affiliation: LEAD, EA or DFP in your submission.

Mr. Raghavendra S. Udagani, Managing partner of Plagiarism is strictly

URJ, is a certified Gemologist, Diamond Grader and prohibited and sub-
Jewelry Designer. He also has a manufacturing unit in ject to rejection.
partnership, which specializes in manufacturing All the rights of the
diamond, designer and gemstone jewelry. winning tagline are
reserved for URJ.
 LEAD inauguration at The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad
On August 17, University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad held Gururaj ‘Desh’ Deshpande guest
speaker session on "Grassroots innovation". During the program, LEAD was also introduced in the
University. Ajay Suman, Program Manager (LEAD) presented LEAD focusing on how the young-
sters can solve grass root problems through innovation. 2 LEAD alumni from Sirsi, Sandeep Hegde
and Geetha Hegde shared their project and experiences in LEAD. Mrs. Jayshree Deshpande, Dr.
Chetty; Dean, UAS, Dr. C. Mansoor; NSS coordinator and several other were present in the program.
Over 80 students were present in the session and were inspired by Desh’s speech. LEAD is looking
forward to partnering with the University.

LEAD 2010– A new journey

LEAD began the process through college registrations and
orientations to students. Over 25 orientations have been done and
more than 200 students from Hubli, Dharwad, Bijapur and Bellary
have registered with LEAD to become LEADers. Over 20 students
have registered to be Master LEADers whose role is to manage their
college LEAD cell and guide new LEADers. Many colleges are yet to
be covered and LEAD is looking forward to having a storm of excited
LEADers who wish to bring positive changes
in the society.

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