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Diffusion: Business Skills for Non profits

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Net Impact Hyderabad Chapter Launch

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The Net Impact Hyderabad Professional chapter was launched with the help of ISB Net Impact graduate chapter on 24th Oct 2010. The event saw some eminent personalities like Dr. Jai Prakash(Leader, Lok Satta party),Mr. Robert Katz(Acumen Fund), Mr. Sanjeev Jain(GE) and Mr. Shantanu (Naandi Foundation) as the guest speakers and many others who had come forward to join hands in their efforts for a better world. The two hour event was dotted with presentations, speeches, discussions and most importantly the giving away of Bandhan Scholarships to 25 students from 6 schools on a need-cum-merit basis.  The Hyderabad Professional Chapter aims to bring together the local professionals seeking to network and take action to foster a new generation of leaders who use the power of business to create a better world.  On the occasion, Jai Prakash the founder of Lok Satta party congratulated and wished the team for achieves higher social impact, he succintly highlighted the issues in national devel

Lighting up lives( write up by fellow classmate Julian)

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Sunday October 24 th , 6pm. We are back on the decrepit government bus which takes us to the main city, Visakhapatnam from where we will catch our night train to Hyderabad.  Obscurity has fallen on the green hillsides that border Araku valley. A few words spoken in Telugu and the old bus is plunged into darkness. There, carried away by the movements of the road, each of us relives the incredible week-end that is slowly wearing to an end. Now and then, faded horn sounds reach up from the bottom of the valley. At the back, Ko, Keisuke and Marc have fallen asleep, Bart dozes off or thinks. Arvind, Sudhir and Shiv, the three NGO members are conversing quietly. Somewhere in the front, the two girls on our small team, Muyura and Deepa, are eating bananas in silence. One must admit that these two days have been emotionally intense and physically grueling. And while we are here, seating on the bus, our spirits are still out there, wandering about the tortuous footpaths of Araku’s jungle. Ar