Abu Saleh: Fwd: Announcement: India NGO Awards 2014-15

India NGO Awards 2014-15

Celebrating Success…. Rewarding Excellence

Greetings from the Resource Alliance!

EdelGive Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Resource Alliance invite applications for the India NGO Awards 2014-15. The knowledge partner for the India NGO Awards 2014-15 is Grant Thornton.

The Awards, as you may be aware, were instituted in 2006 to recognise and honour those organisations that have demonstrated best practices in governance, financial management, creative resourcing and impact in the community.

Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from across the country are encouraged to send in their entries under one of the three categories, based on their annual budget (income) for 2013-14.

Categories
- Small: Annual budget less than Rs 1 crore
- Medium: Annual budget between Rs 1 - 5 crores
- Large:    Annual budget over Rs 5 crores

Criteria
Organisations will be evaluated on demonstration of good governance practices, transparency and accountability, the effective and sustainable mobilisation of resources, the demonstration of efficient management of resources and the impact of their work in bringing about tangible benefits to its target communities.

New Award Introduced

We have introduced new award this year called the Big Idea, Small Budget Award. Organisations which have introduced a successful new fundraising idea or a stream of revenue on a small budget in past 12-24 months can compete for this award..


Attractive Benefits

·         Future Leaders Programme 2015:  All the 30 shortlisted organisations will be given an opportunity to compete for an exclusive 5 day residential course "Leadership Essentials" at Oxford University.

·         The three national winners will receive a trophy and cash prize of Rs 4,00,000/- each to be used 'to strengthen their internal systems and processes',

·         The Rising Star Award and Big Idea, Small Budget winners will receive a trophy and cash prize of Rs 2,50,000/- and Rs 1,00,000/- respectively.

·         Workshops on resource mobilisation, communication, governance and financial management will be organised across the country.

·         All finalists will be profiled in a casebook, which is widely disseminated.

·         Finalists will be offered 2 days of (one to one) mentoring to strengthen their internal systems and processes.

·         International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation (IWRM, Asia) 2015: Three applicants from small and medium category NGOs will be offered above bursarys.

Attached is the brochure along with the application form for the India NGO Awards 2014-15. You may also download the entry form from http://www.resource-alliance.org/pages/en/india-ngo-awards.html.



The deadline for applications to reach us is 28 February 2015.

For any further information on the Awards, please email us at indiangoaward@resource-alliance.org or contact Santosh/Jahnavi at 011-41354766, 011-46061326.

We look forward to your participation this year!