Looking for Angel Donors to set up a “Social Sector Business School for grassroots change agents” and a chain of “Golden Age Retirement Homes for Senior Citizen” in India on revenue sharing or stakeholder basis. Contact me at [email protected]
Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:13:am | History

Prof. Swapan Garain, is a Social Entrepreneur, Professor, Social Work Educator, NGO Consultant, Non-Profit Manager, Social Business Mentor, Trainer and Guide to charitable and volunteering work. He has been active in the Indian voluntary sector for more than twenty-five years. He has been engaged in teaching university students, training change agents, action research, writing and field action. He has worked in setting up and managing NGOs, guiding corporate for its social responsibility initiatives, consultancy, networking among social sector stakeholders and promotion of social entrepreneurship, involved in facilitating government policy making and appraising projects for funding. Dr Garain has been a member of the Government of India’s Planning Commission Steering Committee on Voluntary Sector for the 10th (2002-2007) and 11th (2007-2012) Five year plans and also member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Dr Garain has received education from Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences at Mumbai, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies of University of Mumbai, Indira Gandhi National Open University, and Johns Hopkins University at USA. Dr Garain has been associated with Tata Institute of Social Sciences since 1985. Dr Garain has also worked fulltime with S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) as Professor and Founder Chairperson of its Centre for Corporate Citizenship, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. He has traveled extensively in most part of rural and urban India and parts of United States, Russia, Northern Ireland, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Turkey, China and South Africa.

I offer personalized professional inputs in the following areas:
(a) Social Sector / NGO Projects – NGO identification and assessment, project formulation & appraisal, project planning & development, monitoring and evaluation,
(b) Research guidance to young researchers, MPhil and PhD scholars
(c) Organizational designing & restructuring nonprofits, CBOs, co-operatives, trade unions and academic institutions
(d) Conducting baseline socio-economic/ household/ livelihood survey in villages and urban communities for planning development projects and implementation
(e) Documenting development work - process documentation, preparing and designing reports and information brochures, MOU/TOR, legal framework, etc.
(f) Preparing Rehabilitation and Resettlement Action Plan for infrastructure project affected persons and for involuntarily displaced people
(g) Helping start, run and manage NGOs, trusts, co-operatives, beneficiary organizations, chamber of commerce and other form of organizations
(h) Setting up offices for international aid agencies in India, managing charity/project partner portfolio for donor agencies and philanthropists in India; Scanning opportunity for social sector invest opportunity in India; volunteering opportunities for international volunteers in India;
(i) Helping donors, investors, business houses and NGOs to invest in charity, social enterprises and social sector in India and South Asia
(j) Managing family trust & donor fund, charity/project partner portfolio for donor agencies and philanthropists in India for social work, scholarship, awards, etc. on behalf of the donor
(k) Organizing and conducting training workshops on fundraising and resource mobilization, organizational development (OD) process, corporate social responsibility, starting a social enterprise/trust, legal framework for NGOs, Project formulation, business plan development, project monitoring and evaluation, project management, volunteering, etc
(l) Social/Non-Profit Sector career opportunities - job inquiries, expertise requests, consulting offers, new ventures, business deals, reference requests, getting back in touch

Looking for Venture Philanthropists, Angel Donors and Business Partners to set up a “Social Sector B-School” and a chain of “Retirement Homes” in India. The Retirement Home will provide for oldage care and assisted living, The “Social Sector B-School” will provide for entrepreneurial, vocational and livelihood training in the emerging areas of business for rural, tribal and urban youth, particularly the girls, It is proposed to integrate the two projects into a self Sustaining Humanitarian Village. Anyone interested may contact me at [email protected]