Becky Blab

My post on mobile for social change is up on Wiser Earth’s blog! Whether it’s to deliver accurate crop prices to farmers, or assist health workers to collect better data, the use of mobile applications is growing among civil society organizations. More importantly, they are starting to help more and more not for profits save [...]

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Yesterday I met Kavita Srivastava, a well-known activist in Jaipur. She was meeting a street artist, who was presenting all of his clay sculptures to us and explaining very animatedly the stories behind each piece. She is planning to help him set up an exhibition, and I offered to help with any publicity, even starting [...]

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JRF communications strategy View more presentations from Becky Jain. I have almost completed the first stage of my consultancy project at Jaipur Rugs: formulating a communications strategy for Jaipur Rugs Foundation. See the above first draft which I just presented on Saturday. These past weeks I have had many informal meetings with employees from various [...]

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Since I’ve come back, I’ve been inspired to put into action what I learned from the Networked Nonprofit in Jaipur. This is not an easy task, considering that Jaipur is pretty technologically prehistoric. Nonetheless, I have had a fun time trying to put all of the scattered pieces together… As I posted last week, I [...]

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As the Indian government has announced today the Right to Education Act, Isha Vidhya celebrates the possibility of opening its 7th school! From the director: Isha Vidhya, with all your patronage and blessings, has, from one school in 2006, grown to six schools presently. Close to about 2000 children (70% under scholarships), have made rapid strides in [...]

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