User:Ekjaa/sandbox

Ekjaa is a Persian name which means “Unanimous” It is the first crowd sourcing portal to implement Donate and lend model on the same platform. It is registered in the Ranga Reddy district at Hyderabad. It was initially incubated at IIIT-Hyderabad. Ekjaa was the top 30 social ventures in ISB iDiya. Ekjaa supports different projects run by Non-Profits (NPOs) & Social Investing organizations (SIO) which comprise of Micro Finance Institutions & Mutually Aided Corporative Societies. Ekjaa was founded on 30th November 2010 by Harsha Mukherjee  who was awarded NSEF Fellow in 2011 & Tanmoy Mukherjee.

Social Monitoring: Ekjaa widely works on social monitoring concept. It performs pre-disbursal and post-disbursal social monitoring of each project via its nationally available volunteers & consultants. Till date it has successfully performed pre-disbursal monitoring of reputed organizations such as OLPC-India – Khairat district Maharastra; Naandi, Nirmaan Foundation, NPdO & Shekinah Foundation – Hyderabad; APOWA – Orissa; Samadhan - Delhi to name a few. In pre-disbursal monitoring it performs cause-related marketing as well as evaluate the need of each project. Ekjaa concentrates on Social Impact of every project it undertakes.

Ekjaa Campus Leader: Ekjaa Campus Leader (ECL) is an initiative of Ekjaa to engage youth & corporate employees in social welfare activities. In this program the Leader forms a group of Task managers and choose a project they are inclined too. The group who undertakes chooses the project Own the Project on Ekjaa.

Ekjaa Campus Leader was first initiated at IIT-Mumbai by Aditi Jain & Suyash Dusad and has a widespread reach at a national level now.

In this program, the youth learns to screen NPO projects by learning the legalities, performs pre-disbursal monitoring by taking interviews of the end-beneficiaries and making videos, raise funds for each project and thereon perform post-disbursal monitoring.

Events: Ekjaa also organizes charity events & promotes Corporate Social Responsibility actively via IndiaCSR. The first event organized was for differently abled people at Hyderabad in the 2nd month of its launch. The latest event Ekjaa was part of was International CSR Conference in India.

Reach: In a short span of time it has covered the projects in wide regions in India such as Delhi, Orissa, Manipal, Mumbai, Banglore, Pondicherry, Bihar, etc.