Khan Academy’s “India Talent Search”

Khan Academy launches India Talent Search

Enter Khan Academy’s India Talent Search, and you could be their next video star! They’re looking for amazing explainers to help build the world’s most comprehensive, engaging library of videos. Don’t miss your chance to win INR 1 Lakh, be considered for a video creation contract with Khan Academy, and meet Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy.

They’re looking for submissions primarily in math and science, in English and/or Hindi. If you have a passion for teaching and a knack for making challenging concepts seem simple, send in one of your videos! All entries are due by Dec 12th.

Click here to enter the contest – www.khanacademy.org/r/indiatalentsearch

Contribute to iVolunteer’s research

IN 2004, A STUDY ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 16 MILLION INDIANS VOLUNTEERED. WHAT ABOUT NOW ?

As announced during the iVolunteer Awards on September 27th, iVolunteer is launching a country-wide research, the first of its kind, focusing on recent trends in volunteering in India. Through testimonies form individual volunteers, NGOs, and corporate leaders, combined with multiple surveys and an analysis of the literature, the study will establish a comprehensive overview of the volunteering sector in India.

What differentiates volunteers form non-volunteers, and regular volunteers from occasional volunteers? What makes employees engage within their company’s volunteering programme? How can organizations increase the impact of their volunteers? What are the constraints for individuals? NGOs? Companies? Schools?

These are a few of the questions we wish to answer. To do so, we are gathering your opinions and experiences through a survey. We will study your responses and the analysis will be part of our upcoming report on volunteering trends in India.

Make your voice heard

The survey will take you approximately 10-15 minutes, and it is open to volunteers and non volunteers alike. All information collected will be kept confidential and used by iVolunteer only.Please help us by sharing the survey with your friends, family and colleagues.

For more information about our research, please write to [email protected]

Thank you!

Reading activity during Daan Utsav 2016 | Kolkata

Read a book to a child. To the child, the activity is not just to stimulate the habit of reading but also to inculcate the value of giving. To the volunteer the activity is meant to be an eye-opener to the disparities in the education system in India.

Date: 8th October
Venue: Sealdah Area
Time: 730 AM Onwards

Daan Utsav 2016

Activities Format: Name | Date | Place | Link

NATIONAL

  • Audio book recording | Oct 2 to 8 | Your own home or office | Details here
  • Blood Donation pledge | Oct 5 | Your own home or office | Details here

BANGALORE

  • Swatch bharath | Oct 2 | Majestic bus terminus | Details here
  • Seva sandwich | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Reading activity | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here

CHANDIGARH

  • Cleanliness drive | Oct 2 | Gov.Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 Chandigarh, | Details here
  • Reading Activity | Oct 4 | Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12, Chandigarh | Details here
  • Tree plantation | Oct 7 | Senior secondary school, Phase 3B1, Mohali | Details here
  • Sewa sandwich | Oct 8 | Gurudwara sahib (tentative) | Details here

CHENNAI

  • Clean up after dark | Oct 1 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Beach clean up | Oct 2 | Labour statue to Akkarai | Details here
  • Traffic awareness campaign |  Oct 2 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Audio book recording | Oct 2 to 8 | Home or office | Details here 
  • MURAil (Railway station beautification) | Oct 2 to 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Volunteer for  NGOs | Oct 2 to 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Scribe | Oct 3 | Presidency College, Beach Road | Details here
  • Magic collar | Oct 5 | Soon to be fixed | Details here 
  • Tree plantation | Oct 6 & 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Puppy bath & shelter cleaning | Oct 8 | Blue cross of India, Velachery | Details here

DELHI

  • Cleanliness drive | Oct 2 | Rajendra Ashram | Details here
  • Tree plantation | Oct 6 | Sector 6 Park, Near Sector 15 Metro, Station Noida | Details here
  • Blood donation camp | Oct 7 | Tower B1, Spaze IT Park, Sector 49, Sohna road, Gurgaon | Details here
  • Paper bag | Oct 8 | Rajendra Asharam, Pandav Nagar, Near Akshardham, Metro Station Delhi | Details here

INDORE

  • Swacch Bharat | Oct 2 | Nehru park, near regal square | Details here
  • Animal feeding & Magic Collar | Oct 4 | Nehru park | Details here
  • Traffic Awareness | Oct 6 | Report at MTH compound | Details here
  • A day at old age home | Oct 7 | EVENT CANCELLED | Details here
  • Seva Sandwich | Oct 8 | Soon to be updated | Details here

JAIPUR

  • Swach Bharat | Oct 2 | Jln Marg | Details here 
  • Tree plantation | Oct 2 | Shipra path and Madhyam Marg in Mansarovar | Details here
  • Reading story | Oct 8 |  Multiple locations | Details here
  • Seva sandwich | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here

KOLKATA

MUMBAI

PUNE

  • Food & clothes donation | Oct 2 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Pedestrian day | Oct 2 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Cleanliness drive | Oct 2 | Swargate bus stand | Details here
  • Traffic control | Oct 2 | Dagdusheth Temple | Details here 
  • No smoking & spitting campaign | Oct 2 | Deccan, FclC road, JM road, Apte road | Details here
  • Mehendi /Tattoo stall & Social awareness | Oct 2 | MG road | Details here
  • Seva sandwich | Oct 8 | S.P college Tilak road | Details here
  • Food donation drive | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Story telling session | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here

Project Goodbook – Survey for Volunteers & Donors

We are students of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. We are currently developing a platform to help prospective volunteers and donors to explore the myriad of NGOs available in the Indian scene. On that end, we would be grateful, if you could forward the following surveys to people who have either volunteered or donated in the past for their feedback and their experience in exploring various NGOs.

Click here for survey form for Volunteers

Click here for survey form for Donors

Details of the platform: The platform, currently codenamed ‘Project Goodbook’ will be a social network of sorts for various volunteers and donors to easily explore the various NGOs currently working in the fields of their choices. The platform will allow donors to easily donate and track the receipts of their donations. The volunteers can volunteer for various organized events by the NGOs and the platform will also allow NGOs to find sponsors for their events as commercial organizations can make accounts to sponsor various events. We are currently looking for features to include in our platform so as to make it fruitful for the users of the platform.