Budget – How to Prepare

Budget: Budget is a financial plan. All of us know what is budget as we do make our financial plans in our personal life also. Planning is an important part of budget and unless it is done in a systematic and planned way, the project may end up with shortage of funds or under-utilisation of … Read more

Capacity Building

Very often we hear about capacity building in an organisation, institutes, factories and many other work places. Now a days we see every organisation gives priority to capacity building. What is capacity building, and why is it necessary and for whom this is necessary. We also talk about accountability – accountability to whom and the … Read more

Grants

Grants are non-repayable funds disbursed by one party (grant makers), often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of “Grant Writing” often referred to as either a proposal or an application … Read more

Funds or Funding

Funds or Funding As per Wikipedia Funding is the act of providing resources, usually in form of money (financing), or other values such as effort or time (sweat equity), for a project, a person, a business, or any other private or public institutions. The process of soliciting and gathering fund is known as fundraising. Sources … Read more

T.M.Krishna – Carnatic Singer – Roman Magsaysay Award

Congratulations to T.M. Krishna (Thodur Madabusi Krishna, born in 1976) is a Carnatic music vocalist. Hailing from a family of music connoisseurs, he was exposed to the south Indian classical music at an early age. His first concert was at the Spirit of Youth series organized by the Music Academy, Chennai (India). T.M. Krishna was … Read more

Job Descriptions

Job Descriptions: For each position an organisation needs to prepare a written job description. These Job Descriptions needs to be reviewed from time to time. This is needed because at the time of recruitment you may have prepared the JDs as per your project requirement. While implementing the project at times when you do the … Read more

Cost to Company (CTC)

Unless one is fully familiar with the terms, we often wonder what the terms refers to.  Once such term is Cost to Company (CTC) When a Company/organization calculate the total expenditure they incur for a staff member for a particular year/period they take into consideration not just the salary but also various other components alongwith the … Read more

Bezwada Wilson – Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner

Congratulations  Bezwada Wilson on winning the prestigious Magsaysay Award.  Keep continue your good work. Bezwada Wilson  is an Indian activist and one of the founders and National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), an Indian human rights organization that has been campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging. He is well known as one … Read more

Team Building Games

You may have noticed that when a training or workshop is conducted for an organisation to do the team building exercises, most of the time the team building  games are used. Outdoor games are also practiced where you will have sufficient space around the place where you are conducting the Team Building Workshop. In a … Read more