SRTT – CPOD
With a substantial increase in the number of large scale non-profit organizations, the scope of OD initiatives has widened. A need to build on the existing knowledge available in the sector, has led to the establishment of a Community of Practitioners of Organizational Development (C-POD) to share experiences and learn from collective reflection. An outcome of this effort was the documentation of examples of OD efforts in the development sector. The first volume of 5 case studies titled, “Roopantaran – 3D views on Institution Building” is under publication. Work on the next set of case studies revolving around the theme of challenges in CBO development is in progress.

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SOCIAL IMPACT INDIA
Social-Impact is a new international professional development program. Their goal is to accelerate growth and increase impact of social entrepreneurs' projects and/or organizations.

ThinkSoft Consultants is the strategic partner for Social-Impact International on its Professional Development program for Social Entrepreneurs in Hyderabad. We provide local partnership needed for training coordination and technical assistance to 15 selected Social Entrepreneurs for scaling up their business plans.  

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON – ‘GENDER AND SANITATION’
The University of Southampton commissioned a study on ‘Gender and Sanitation’ in two Municipalities adjoining the city of Hyderabad.

ThinkSoft carried out the field work and analysed the findings to identify issues. We took up an examination of the gender impact of the DFID (UK) funded APUSP on the implementation of the Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Programme (ILCS) of the state government. The study identified the problems of poor women in urban slums in the face of inadequate sanitation infrastructure and services.

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SATYAM FOUNDATION
Satyam Foundation is the corporate social responsibility arm of Satyam Computer Services, the fourth largest IT company in India. The services of Thinksoft were retained by Satyam Foundation for a period of two years. The brief was to help scale up activities and design programme initiatives. During the period of association the Foundation grew from a fledgling initiative aimed at involving the families of employees to a mature organization offering services in six domains. Today the Foundation has the largest structured corporate volunteering programme in India.  The Foundation won the FICCI award for Best Corporate Social Responsibility in 2006, and has incubated two major initiatives in Emergency Management and Health care.