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Note from President’s desk - Ramesh Gajaraju

NISVARTHA FOUNDATIONHalf Yearly Report 01-Apr-14 to 30-Sep-2014

Dear Well-wishers,

Nisvartha Foundation continued to progress on the committed path of supporting under privileged but academically inclined students. Current year with the strength of few more Corporate sponsors and continued support from individuals, the Foundation has been able to induct more students for scholarship. The foundation has changed over 350 students and has been successful in taking 23 students to the completion of education. Many of them are today employed with handsome salary. Their families are very delighted on the outcome and have expressed their gratitude to the sponsors of Nisvartha Foundation. This is the end goal that was in the plan and it gives us a great sense of accomplishment to be part of this noble journey.

Year on year the number applications that reach Nisvartha Foundation offi ce have increased and it has been a very diffi cult task to reject so many of them due to limited funds. This year the students as per process were identifi ed, spoken to and shortlisted. Close to 175 students have been inducted the current year, the highest ever so far since inception of the Foundation.

The fi fth Annual day event was well attended, we had a full house and some of our key corporate donors namely Mr. Tendulkar andMr. Sumant T from Hewlett Packard, Mrs Vasundara Bagmane from Bagmane Group, Mr. Narsimhan from ANZ and Mr. Rohit Shetty

from Centrum graced the occasion. A heartfelt thanks to all the above mentioned dignitaries and their kind support to Nisvartha Foundation.

Nisvartha Foundation has slowly increased the wings outside Karnataka also. There have been few friends who wished to execute similar best practices in Tamil Nadu and Few colleges have come forward to support students shortlisted based on Nisvartha Foundation processes and help them complete the courses. Mr. Madhusudhanan has been key in establishing this initiative and this process has come a long way. Details are covered in the Newsletter.

It is very painful to reject any application that reaches Nisvartha Foundation offi ce, every student is equally valuable and highly deserving. The current years high number of induction of students is purely due to the kind support extended by the Well wishers of Nisvartha Foundation including Corporates and individuals both in India and Abroad. Thanks to all of you, this has brought in smiles for many students today. Please continue the sponsorship and spread the word, your connects and support is what can sustain the smiles that these students today carry.

“ He who opens a School door closes a prison Door ”- Victor Huge

Team NisvarthaNo. Name Designation1. Sri. Ramesh Gajaraju President2. Sri. Raghavendra Prasad Secretary3. Smt. Roopasri Jayanth Joint Secretary4. Sri. Sathyendra Pai Treasurer5. Sri. Hemkumar S MC Member6. Sri. Mohan B S MC Member7. Sri. Ravichandran K S MC Member8. Sri. Manjunatha CK MC Member

No. Name Designation9. Sri. Ravi N B MC Member10. Sri.Ganapathi R Co-opted Member11. Sri. Vijay C G Co-opted Member 12 Sri. Srinivas Jayanth Head Induction and Mentoring13. Sri. Chaitra Nailadi, Head US center14. Smt. Chitra Srinivas Head Communication15. Sri. Anand Murthy Raj Head Students Data base16. Sri. Madhusudhanan B Tamil Nadu Operations

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Update on Students / MentorsIt is indeed a great pleasure for me to share the efforts of the Students and Mentors with you all.

Let me begin the updates by thanking each

and every Volunteer, Sponsor, Mentor and all the donors, individuals who are supporting the endeavor of Nisvartha, year on year for being able to accomplish what Nisvartha is today.

We had a wonderful Annual Day celebration as the fi rst event in this Fiscal 2014-15, on Jun 15th, 2014. The event was well attended by a record 850+ including students, parents.

For the fi rst time the test for the committee to host such a big event, being fully managed by Volunteers alone, turned out to be another feather in the cap for Nisvartha. Guests of honor really expressed their happiness over seeing such a stupendous performance by Students of Nisvartha and also the arrangements right from Registration to Award ceremony followed by sumptuous lunch for all.

On the Annual day, which is basically to celebrate and Reward the high fl iers, a whopping 53 awards got distributed to the Toppers in various section under different category. This is a testimony of the Nisvartha Students’ accomplishments, which showcased 300 fold increase in terms of Rewards and Recognitions compared to the last year. It needs a special mention here that more than 10 students won Centum awards (scoring

100/100) in PUC 2.

We had a very tough time in shortlisting Students for Induction in to 2014-15 with respect to the number of Applications received. Around 350 plus applications were received from which, it was even tougher to select only 55 based on the fund fl ow forecast. There has been several students who are deprived of the support from Nisvartha just because of the challenge in mobilizing funds.

I REQUEST all - Corporates and Individuals to extend their fi nancial support in sustaining the expense in meeting the ambition of deserving students, especially considering steep hike in Fee structure for all streams including professional courses.

Srinivas Jayanth – Director, Mentor Program

Happy to share here that a couple of new

Mentors have willingly joined us to strengthen

the committee to hand hold and guide the

students in the right direction. Few of the

Mentors also got retired due to pre-occupation

and work pressure in the professional front.

As the number of students are increasing, it

is a necessity to have a web based Tool to

manage the back end operations of Students’

records. One of our Mentors with the help of a

designer has been working out the modalities

in developing such a tool to be put in to

operations shortly. This facilitates capturing

the students’ progress and ease of Reporting.

We also had an All Mentors’ meet, in August’14

to share the Goals of Mentor and also to align

our focus towards helping each and every

student of Nisvartha.

Again, I make humble request to the interested

individuals to help Nisvartha by becoming a

Mentor to reinforce operations. Thank you !

Students’ Base at a glanceYear of Induction 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Studying Completed TotalMedical 1 2 2 1 6 6Engineering/MCA 4 8 27 1 4 44 9 53CA 2 1 1 1 5 5Degree 7 14 19 3 8 51 8 59Preuniversity 2 20 39 61 61Diploma 7 3 3 13 6 19SSLC 120 120 120Parent Transfer 15 4 9 28Total 29 27 67 30 175 300 23 351

Mentors 1. Sri. Srinivas Jayanth 2. Sri. Ramesh Gajaraju 3. Sri. Anand Murthy Raj 4. Smt. Roopasri Jayanth 5. Sri. Ravichandran K S 6. Sri. Rajendra B 7. Smt. Chitra Srinivas 8. Smt. Sapna N 9. Sri. Shekarmurthy V 10. Smt. Prathibha

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First student contribution to Nisvartha Foundation

Budding Corporate Connections - Hem Kumar S, MC Member

Dear Nisvartha Foundation,

“Sandeep V , an employee of Cisco” , this phrase is the reality of my life today,

because of the contribution by Nisvartha Foundation in the past.

Nisvartha foundation fulfilled my dreams of pursuing my studies and instilled

in me the sense of social responsibility that I owe to my society.

Today , I am glad and honored to join Nisvartha through my small contributions to a make a

difference in the life of less deprived but aspiring students.

I am grateful to Nisvartha for embracing me and letting me be part of their family.

I sincerely hope this noble cause of spreading knowledge brings continued success to the

organization.

Thank you,

Sandeep VContact No: 8861264334

As the intake of students, programmes and projects of Nisvartha Foundation expand, the need for funds becomes all the more critical. As a result of continued focus for fund raising from Corporates and other Associations, Nisvartha Foundation has been fortunate enough as these Corporates and Associations after completion of due diligence have been kind enough to come forward and share their part of responsibility by extending their support. These Funds have enabled more deserving students aspire their dream of continuing professional academics. The list of Corporates and Associations are as follows

Indian AmericanStudent Association

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Hewlett Packard has been great strength of support to Nisvartha Foundation. As a corporate HP has contributed year on year. In addition, there have been contribution from Diksha the CSR wing of HP. Volunteers from HP spend a lot of hours supporting Nisvartha Foundation Initiatives. In addition HP granted 10 PC’s to benefi ciary students of Nisvartha Foundation. Nisvartha Foundation is very thankful to the Management of HP for their whole hearted support.

FOSSIL Foundation have extended a helping hand in the current Financial year. It is a great sense of accomplishment for Nisvartha Foundation to have been chosen for support by a multinational premium brand FOSSIL. Nisvartha Foundation has received Financial aid as well as volunteering support from FOSSIL Foundation. We are thankful to Mr. Jeff Tsui, Ms. Emily Beason, Ms. Janiece Evans-Page,Mr. Achint Naveen, Ms. Apoorva Mishra and the entire Management staff of Fossil for their fi nancial support.

HDFC Bank has extended a helping hand to support Commerce professionals. In addition, they have extended fi nancial support to Nisvartha Foundation on a continued basis. This has helped Nisvartha Foundation to increase the number of students being supported. Thanks to Musrat Pathan & Managing team of HDFC Bank

Centrum has provided fi nancial support to Nisvartha Foundatio. We thank Mr. Guruprasad,Mr. R P Shetty and the management of Centrum for the support extended to Nisvartha Foundation.

Bagmane Group has extended fi nancial assistance year on year. Mr Raja Bagmane and Mrs Vasundara Bagmane have been part of the activities of Nisvartha Foundation. Their involvement has added fi nancial strength to Nisvartha Foundation. Nisvartha Foundation thanks Bagmane Group and management to have shared the podium with Nisvartha Foundation during the gathering of eminent golfers in the Bagmane Golf Tournament hosted by KGA, Bangalore in 2014.

Knight Frank as an organization hosted a marathon in Mumbai and for the fi rst time ever in Nisvartha Foundation history that we did a fund raising and awareness campaign outside Karnataka. Thanks to Knight Frank, in addition to this awareness event, Kinght Frank has offered Nisvartha Foundation a platform to share the accolades of Nisvartha in their events. We are thankful to Mr. Shishir Baijal, Mr Satish, Ms. Sukanya Chakraborty and the Management of Knight Frank for the fi nancial support and volunteering.

Nisvartha Foundation has been selected for support from IASA Michigan USA. This organization is initiated by the India students studying in the University of Michigan. This connect is a refl ection the culture of Indian hearts wherever they are, they extend a helping hand to the needy. These students raise funds for NGO’s worldwide and donate them year on year. Nisvartha Foundation is very thankful to Ms. Namratha Sathish and the Management Team of IASA for selecting Nisvartha Foundation for the current year support.

Indian AmericanStudent Association

Kannada Sangha of Sacramento again is a group of Kannada folks settled in Sacramento. They have come forward to support Nisvartha Foundation. We may live thousands of miles apart, but the heart reaches out to your home land and brethren with same mother tongue. This group of Kannadigas have decided to extend support to Nisvartha Foundation. Nisvartha Foundation is thankful to Mr Ashoka and Mr Harish who have been helpful in getting this connect in place. In addition a heartfelt thanks to the Management and the Kannadigas of Sacramento.

Kannada Sangha– Sacramento USA

Milana is a association of Kannadigas who are settled in Wisconsin, USA. Their motto is to bring Kannadigas together. True to their motto Milana has extended a helping hand to Nisvartha Foundation. Thanks to Mr. Pavan Nagaraja and management team of Milana for their fi nancial support.

“As part of their CSR initiative, Sonus Networks India Pvt Ltd selected Nisvartha Foundation as one of the organizations they wanted to support. For the year 2014-15 they have sponsored the education of Seven PUC students. Nisvartha Foundation would like to express their gratitude to the Management and CSR team of Sonus Networks”

After Evaluating Nisvartha Foundation, its mode of operation etc, ANZ Team has internally published to their employees on the activities/support that Nisvartha is providing to students. ANZ has thus shorted Nisvratha Foundation for monthly salary contribution by employees.

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Update from Tamil Nadu Center - Madhusudhanan B

1. Request engineering colleges to sponsor free seats with waiver in tuition fees, Hostel fees and mess fees.

2. Form clubs in college to cultivate Individual Social Responsibility among students and drive fundgeneration through membership and workshops.

3. Identify and speak to teachers in rural areas to identify deserving students.

4. Global Institute of Technology, Vellore Willing to donate atleast 7 seats

The process of reaching out to the Government High Schools that Nisvartha Foundation is associated with, has been completed. The students who would be appearing for the fi nal exams of Class IX and Class X in March 2015 have been shortlisted and invited to the Nisvartha Foundation 5th Annual Day event on 15th June.

In order to reach out to other Government High Schools across Karnataka, an article inviting applications from the deserving students was published in leading Kannada Dailies. We received an overwhelming

response from all parts of Karnataka. High performing and deserving students from remote locations of Bijapur, Koppala, Bagalkote, Belguam, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Tumkur, Haveri, Chikkabalapur, Mandaya, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Mysore and Bangalore were shortlisted and selection was made based on their merits and economic status after a detailed due diligence as defined by Nisvartha Selection Criteria. In total, over 50 students from SSLC and PUC streams were selected during the second week of June 2014.

Students Selection Drive for 2014 -15

Annual Day Event on Sunday, 15th June 2014

The fi fth annual day of Nisvartha Foundation was conducted on Sunday, June 15th, 2014 that was witnessed by 850+ audience consisting of students, parents and the Nisvartha family.

The annual gathering of the Nisvartha family is a special day that brings benefi ciaries, their families and the Nisvartha team together and provides a common platform to network with corporate sponsors. The most interesting part of this event is the talent recognition program that celebrates the achievement of students for the academic year. This is one such occasion where one gets to see the joy and sense of satisfaction in mentors’ face when their students are presented with awards for excellent performance.

The Guests of Honor included eminent personalities such as Mrs Vasundara Bagmane, Director Bagmane Group, Mr. Tarigopula Sumanth, Vice president Hewlett Packard Global Soft Pvt LTd., , Mr NVP Tendulkar Director, Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt Ltd., Mr. Narasimhan, Vice President, ANZ and Mr. RP Shetty , GM, Centrum.

The program started with a prayer following the tradition and lighting of the lamp by the Guests.

Followed for briefing on the progress of Nisvartha Foundation by President Mr. Ramesh Gajaraju

Each guest expressed their support to Nisvartha foundation

Each of the award winner students is honored by the Guests a total of 53 students received the awards in various categories.

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Nisvartha was started with handful of students five years ago. The strength is growing year on year with the patronage of corporate sponsors, individual donors and well-wishers. It is touching to see that elderly citizens have contributed to this initiative from their pension fund and few young children have made a donation from their pocket money. We are very grateful to every individual that has made a contribution in any capacity. We have made a huge commitment of running Nisvartha on Zero Administration cost. We continue to operate on this model although the capacity (number of students) increases year on year. What remains in constant in Nisvartha is its operating model, mentor program and holistic development of the student community. We hope to see the children of Nisvartha scaling to greater heights in the coming years!

Books and Stationery were distributed to all the Nisvartha Students. Fossil team had an interactive session with the students and distributed welcome kit to 15 students.

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Getting continued support from the existing is critical for sustain and growth of the foundation. We are proud to announce the below list of corporates and individuals who are supporting continuously to Nisvartha foundation.

Continued contributors to Nisvartha Foundation

In the last six months Nisvartha team is expanded by 9 Patrons, 11 Associated Members and 48 Donors.

New joiners to Nisvartha Foundation

Corporate 1. Bagmane Developers Pvt Ltd

2. HDFC Ltd

3. YEFI

4. Sonus Networks India Pvt Ltd

Patron 1. Ranganathan Doraiswamy

2. Atmakurisrihari Rao

3. Chandan Pahuja

4. Chandru B Lohana

5. Krishna K

6. Nitin Kaulavkar

7. Sandeep shenoy

8. Sathyendra Pai

9. Sreehari S

10. Srinath S

11. Suhas Bhat

12. Sumanth kumar T

13. Umakanth V

14. Varatharajan Rengarajan

15. Vikram Shah

16. Harsha V

Associate Member 1. Balaji S V

2. Bhaskar Saha

3. Jayanth Suresh

4. Jyothi Parampalli

5. Krishna RV

6. Mahesh Kumar R G

7. Neeraj Sethi

8. Packrisamy S

9. Sapna D

10. Seetha Narayan

11. Shalini BM

12. Shylaja A M

13. Sonali Jain

14. Sowmya G

15. Sridhar Reddy

16. Sridhara N D

17. Suraj Prabhu

18. Usha Raman

Donor 1. Ashwin Kumar A

2. Basanth V

3. Lakshmi Narayana Bhatta

4. Senthil Murugan

5. Sri Lakshmi Gaggara

6. Vasagiri Raghuteja

Patron 1. Guruprasad S 2. KS Dinakar 3. Prasad D 4. Mr. Waman Parkhi 5. Babu K S V 6. R.J. Reddy 7. G. Shivadass 8. Charan 9. Madhusudhan B

Associate Member .1. Arumugham Nagendran 2. Rajasekhar R Nandyala 3. P.A. Panduranga 4. Basanth V 5. Ajay Srihari 6. Krishnakumar M 7. Rohit Tandon 8. Akeela ASP Rao 9. Anantha Padmanabha rao 10. Madhavan 11. Sandeep V

Donor 1. Anand G 2. Anuradha Kallahalla 3. Aparna 4. Arasaiah Gangaram 5. Arun Ganapathi 6. Bai G, Veena 7. Chandrappa Prashanth 8. Dev Das Wagle 9. Diljeet Singh 10. Dinesh Kumar AS 11. Gajanana Hegde 12. Ganesh Balakrishnan 13. Hari Prasad 14. J Rajashekar 15. Jyothsna S 16. K N Manjunath 17. Kannan Balakrishnan 18. Krupadevi M 19. Manoj N 20. Mukunda Krishnaswamy 21. Nagesh 22. Nandan bhat 23. Narasimha Murthy 24. Naveen Kumar Secutity

25. Omkar Gundu Rao 26. Pradeep Rangan K R 27. Purva Varma 28. Raghavendra TN 29. Raghu Samaga 30. Raghutej V 31. Bhaskar Suryanarayana Rao 32. Rohit N 33. Sanjay S 34. Satishkumar T 35. Saurv Biswal 36. Senthil Murugan 37. Shiva Subramaniam 38. Shivakumar Reddy 39. Sowmya Ratna Poojari 40. Sri Lakshmi Gaggara 41. Srinivasan Sankaran 42. SriRam 43. Swathi HR 44. Vamsi 45. Varalaksmi V 46. Vasagiri Raghuteja 47. Vijaya Suresh 48. Yogesh V Bhat

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A “Nisvartha” day with children was spent on 9th July 2014 at HP EC1 Campus in true spirit of the word Nisvartha which means selflessness.

Over 125 students from two government schools took part in this event that was packed with fun, learning and most importantly, offered a unique experience to children and volunteers. The teaching staff who accompanied children to the campus were all praises for the green campus.

For children, it was a dream come true to have visited a place that they described it as “heaven on earth”.

Over 95% of the children studying in government schools are from low economic zones. Based on statistics, more than 80% of the children drop out of school after grade 10 due to fi nancial constraints. The most heartening part was that most of the government school drop-outs hold excellent academic track record. The prime reason why Nisvartha Foundation was formed in 2009 was to extend fi nancial support and mentorship to merited and underprevileged students from Government schools. As of today, over 351 students spread across 23 districts of Karnataka are pursuing higher education supported by Nisvartha.

Students participated in a drawing competition. The theme of the competition was “Ecological imbalance and its effect on nature”.

Visiting HP’s campus fuelled the dreams of students to pursue higher education and be part of an organization like HP in future. Nisvartha team is committed to conduct similar programs in the future.

Note Books and an English Grammar book to help students to have better skills in the language was provided to each and every student.

Students participated in an interactive session with HP volunteers on soft skills and made a note of quick tips on life skills. The program concluded with lunch.

Teachers and students conveyed their heartfelt thanks to HP for etching unforgettable moments in their minds!

Heartfelt thanks to HP Social Impact team for all the support. The volunteering team in HP is an asset that can make a difference to many.

“Nisvartha” day at Hewlett Packard

1. Distribution of ZEN books to SSLC students2. Conduct the student event in January 2015

3. Students data on line 4. Short list New Government Schools

Registered Office: Nisvartha Foundation,# 15, Shiva Nilaya, 4th Main, Madiwala Extention Bengaluru – 560 068. Karnataka. INDIA.

Branch Offices:Nisvartha Foundation, # 106, 1st Main, CHBS III Layout, Vijayanagar, Bengaluru – 560 040. Karnataka.Nisvartha Foundation, # 201, Ensemble, Ponnagar 1st Cross, Next to VVV Theatre, Trichy – 620001. TN.

E-Mail : n isvar tha@gmai l .com URL : www.nisvartha.org FaceBook:www.facebook.com/NisvarthaIndia

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