31Jul 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Providing right educational infrastructure to rural children

digital education, digital empowerment, Education, helping, humanity, NGO, Uncategorized
When our internet is not working we feel, "oh well, if it was working i would have completed my presentation for tomorrow".  That  moment we realize that to function and give our best in our day to day life we really need to have  access to best infrastructure with us required to complete that job. Rural children too have lot of potential and if provided with right educational infrastructure they can do so much to reach there full potential. Thanks to our more than 50 regular individual donors and other anonymous, corporate, organisational donors who are doing exactly this  job "providing the right educational infrastructure at right time for rural children" by supporting StudyMall. StudyMall is providing infrastructure like books, games, arts, crafts , digital learning , computer learning etc…
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17Jul 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Success stories of your donation for better rural education

digital education, digital empowerment, helping, humanity, NGO, rural education, studymall, Uncategorized, VILLAGE EDUCATION
I am personally charged up every time i have chance to visit our StudyMall projects location. It really makes me happy to know how StudyMall is helping rural children in making there learning journey more enjoyable. So i thought of sharing few examples with you, the donors and supporters of StudyMall to make you happy equally like me. Our first project StudyMall at Surungali village is operational since Sep 2013. It is always a surprise and pleasure to meet children of Surungali village and see them grown up bit more every time. One of our frequent StudyMall user Shraddha who was in 5th std and now in 9th std, has grown up so much. In one of our recent visit, she shared me so many ways StudyMall helped her. She…
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03Jul 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Let’s “Transform Maharashtra” with youth and CMO of Maharashtra

action for collective transformation, akshay kumar, digital education, digital empowerment, Education, transform maharashtra, Uncategorized, youth power
Our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad was one of the Jury member  for the much acclaimed and celebrated event #Transformmaharashtra  initiated by our Chief minister of Maharashtra  Mr. Devendra Fadnavis at Mumbai on 01 May 2017. Mr.Santosh being one of the youth icon working and helping in transforming rural education of Maharashtra  himself was given this opportunity to be the jury for category Moulding the future: reform rural education in this event. 'Transform Maharashtra’ event provided an opportunity to college students in Maharashtra to put their heads together and come up with policy and/or programme level solutions to 11 critical challenges being faced by the State at present. The award winning solutions  will be implementable by the Government. The challenges were the 11 themes of event where students were asked to find solutions for…
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08Jun 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments
Thinksharp Foundation awarded Social media for empowerment award

Thinksharp Foundation awarded Social media for empowerment award

digital education, digital empowerment, Education, facebook, instagram, milaap, NGO, social entrepreneurship, social media, twitter, Uncategorized
ThinkSharp Foundation was one of the finalist for Social Media for Empowerment Awards 2017, (SM4E2017) held on 29 April 2017 at Delhi. We were nominated as finalists  out of 162  entries  from  South Asian organisations. Our project StudyMall for its unique and innovative social media marketing on various platforms such  Facebook Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Milaap, Bitgiving etc was nominated in Crowdsourcing, Crowd Economy and Crowd Funding category at SM4E2017 awards. [caption id="attachment_237" align="aligncenter" width="463"] Dr.Shraddha our volunteer accepting the SM4E2017 award on behalf of all Thinksharp Foundation team[/caption] But what is the story here ? Is it relevant to you ? Well if you love Facebook, Twitter , Instagram etc then yes its relevant to you........ [caption id="attachment_240" align="aligncenter" width="258"] Our Loved new friends..why do we need them?[/caption] Everybody loves…
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02Jan 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Our Founder’s view on Social Entrepreneurship at launch of E-cell event

ADMI, Alkesh Dinesh mody institute, E-CELL, Education, entrepreneurship courses, helping, humanity, Mumbai University, NGO, social enterprise, social enterprise courses, social entrepreneurship, Uncategorized, Wadhwani Foundation
We are very proud to share that our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad was invited as guest speaker at inauguration of E-cell at ADMI. Mr.Santosh is a firm believer of concept "social entrepreneurship". Mr.Santosh is a Social entrepreneur himself  who is constantly in search of different entrepreneurial ventures to help his society. Currently through his NGO Thinksharp Foundation's "StudyMall" project he is helping approximately 1700 village children. StudyMall helps village children  read, learn and play by  providing them  better educational infrastructure. [caption id="attachment_202" align="aligncenter" width="766"] Mr.Santosh Phad as guest speaker at launch of E-Cell ADMI[/caption] On 22nd August 2016, E-Cell i.e entrepreneurship cell was successfully launched in Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial & Management Studies, in association with Wadhwani Foundation's NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network). Wadhwani Foundation is an philanthropic organisation which…
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07Nov 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall received Digital Trail Blazer Award 2016.

Education, helping, humanity, NGO, Uncategorized
Our project “StudyMall” received Digital Trail Blazer Award at Digital India Conclave event . This Award was presented by Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr.Devendra Fadnavis  for bringing digital education to rural children of Maharashtra. The Digital India conclave was presented by HP India in association with India Today Television and KPMG.  The Digital India Conclave is India's first conclave that brings together the best of minds, talent and people with a varied range of expertise in the digital field from all over the country. We were honored to share the award with 4 other esteemed organisations. 1) AAPLE SARKAR APP, DEPARTMENT OF I.T - GOVT. OF MAHARASHTRA initiative which address public grievances while ensuring participative governance. The 'Aaple Sarkar' portal and app are monitored by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in Maharashtra and is a platform for citizens…
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01Oct 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall project presented at CSIM (Centre for social initiative and management)

Education, helping, humanity, NGO, Uncategorized
A room full of enthusiastic social change makers and experienced professionals along with their teachers and mentors ready to listen about Thinksharp Foundation "StudyMall" on a Saturday evening was a sign of there commitment towards there passion of starting something to help society.  Students doing course on NGO management and social  entrepreneurship were excited to listen what I have to tell them on managing StudyMall project under Thinksharp Foundation. We Thinksharp Foundation team was invited by CSIM Hyderabad to speak about our journey and management of NGO to students of CSIM this year in month of June. As our Founder was on not available, this great opportunity came to me to present StudyMall to CSIM students. CSIM launched a centre in Hyderabad in 2002, by networking with Dr.Reddy’s Foundation. This…
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15Sep 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments
StudyMall nominated for SWAG 2016 Awards in education category

StudyMall nominated for SWAG 2016 Awards in education category

Education, helping, humanity, NGO, Uncategorized
Thinksharp Foundation's project "StudyMall" was nominated in education category for the SWAG (Social Welfare & Growth) Awards, 2016 initiative by The CSR Journal http://thecsrjournal.in/ . We received the appreciation  and participation trophy by chief guest Mr.Sushilkumar Shinde,  Former Union Minister, Government of India at this prestigious event .   The CSR Journal is an online portal which connects the NGO / Social enterprises on a single portal. And also they connect this NGO/Social enterprises  to the companies/corporate  who are ready to help them through CSR . However the work of The CSR Journal goes much beyond that, they motivate, inspire and act as social change makers themselves by putting all this social stories together. The CSR Journal team is acting like a catalyst to speed the good work done in society.…
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06Aug 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments
Together “we” can do- StudyMall at Sandbox Samvidha,Hubbali

Together “we” can do- StudyMall at Sandbox Samvidha,Hubbali

Education, helping, humanity, NGO, Uncategorized
Thinksharp Foundation team has another proud moment as its achievement this year.  Our project "StudyMall" was selected among all the other NGO's from India to be presented at Sandbox Samvidha, Deshpande foundation. One of the most exciting and motivational factor  for us about this event was a chance  to meet Dr.Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande sir. Words might fall short to describe. Dr. Deshpande, Founder of Deshpande Foundation, Hubbali. He has pursued an entrepreneurial career for the last three decades.  He is involved either as the founder, a founding investor or chairman of several companies.Dr. Deshpande lives in Boston and serves as a life-member of the MIT Corporation, and he is responsible for MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at Massachusetts. Deshpande Foundation has three other centers. He  co-chairs as a National Council to support…
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19Apr 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall – Digital classroom for village vangani childern

Education, helping, humanity, NGO, Uncategorized
What do you picture an second year engineering student studying in metro city like Mumbai? Attending classes, struggling with studies, keeping up peer pressure by attending movies, Whatsapp, Facebook,Instagram, showing his art in annual functions? Yes i thought too. But dimensions changed when we, ThinkSharp Foundation team met Saurabh. [caption id="attachment_67" align="alignnone" width="224"] Saurabh Mangrule- dearest Dada for vangani children[/caption] Saurabh is an youngster who goes beyond only educating himself. He is educating 200  children by bringing better educational resources in their school at Z.P.School vangani village. But his social work is not limited to this but covers a lot of things like working for water shortage in drought areas , spreading social message via videos etc. Vangani is a village which is in close proximity to Mumbai, 1.5 hrs only…
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