One Day Workshop on Fundraising

One day workshop on fundraising was held at NBJK, Ranchi with support of The Resource Alliance, New Delhi on 30^th January. 22 NGOs of Jharkhand have shared the event as per initiative of NBJK through its network partnership. Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) has welcomed Maj. Gen. Surat Singh Sandhu (Chairman, TRA) and all member representatives from voluntary sector in Jharkhand. He praised Gen. Sandhu and The Resource Alliance for awareness building among NGOs over changing trends of philanthropy and social work across India. Mr. Satish has put a brief introduction of Gen. Sandhu with Helpage India, the organization he headed and strengthened earlier by innovative fundraising initiatives. Maj. Gen. S. S. Sandhu said with Section 135 of the Companies Act 2013 getting effectively implemented from this year, more than 16000 corporates will have to dole out 2% of their profit towards corporate social responsibility (CSR). “It’s going to be huge amount, somewhere around Rs. 20,000 crore and here lies an opportunity for the credible NGOs to take the money and help in nation building,” he said. Due to dearth of such NGOs many corporate are setting up their own foundations but NGOs with lot of experience and community involvement have far more ability to assist corporate in delivering their CSR activities, opined the TRA Chairman during this workshop. He suggested the NGOs or VOs to come forward with suitable work model and communicate more like participation in events as India NGO Award with many more. Maj. Gen. Sandhu has stressed over the need of Fundraising organizations for resource mobilization as well as of grass root organizations to work with community deeply. The program was applauded widely by VOs in the state.