Thinksharp Foundation

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…

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…

08Jun 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

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…

02Jan 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

StudyMall awarded National Digital Trailblazer award 2016

digital education, digital trialblazer, Education, helping, HP India, humanity, India Today, KPMG, NGO, social enterprise, social enterprise courses, social entrepreneurship

Our National Story- National Digital Trailblazer award We are happy to share that, we have received National Digital Trailblazers Award at Digital India Conclave, Delhi on 30th Nov 2016. Award presented by Hon'ble Union Minister for Electronics and IT for ( Gov.Of India ) Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad for our project StudyMall for bringing digital education to rural children of Maharashtra. [caption id="attachment_208" align="aligncenter" width="766"] StudyMall awarded National Digital TrailBlazer award. Award was presented by Mr.Ravi Shankar Prasad Union minster for Electronics & IT (Government of India)[/caption] The Digital India conclave was initiated by India Today Television in association with HP India & KPMG. The digital conclave was conclusive event of 8 such conclave's carried out in 8 states of India in 2016. Digital Conclave is a very good initiative by India Today which traveled to 8 states of India that were Jharkand, Andhra Pradesh, Rajashtan, Gujrat, Odisha, Telengana, Chattisgarh and Maharashtra . In simple words, Digital conclave selected individuals…

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…

01Jan 2017 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

Fourth StudyMall at Village Chikatgaon launched

digital education, Education, NGO, social enterprise

With a great sense of achievement and pride on behalf of all Thinksharp Foundation team we announce successful launch of StudyMall in fourth village "Chikatgaon". In the year 2016, after the launch of third StudyMall project at Village Vangani, we were contacted by one of our local volunteer Mr.Rahul regarding need of StudyMall in village named chikatgaon which is 70 Km from Aurangabad. Miss. Ashwini Chikatgaonkar helped us in our pre- visit to this Chikatagaon. Miss. Ashwini is an successful lawyer and has her roots from Chikatagon village. She wanted to help her village. We were very impressed by her passion and dedication to work for her improvement of her village. [caption id="attachment_181" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Chikatgaon StudyMall[/caption] Chikatgaon is a village where the approximate population is 4000 to 5000 . The…

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…

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…

15Sep 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

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.…

06Aug 2016 by Thinksharp Foundation No Comments

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…