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= Kakatiya Sandbox = Kakatiya Sandbox is a Non-Governmental Organization, founded in 2013 by Raju Reddy, former CEO of Sierra Atlantic and Phanindra Sama, co founder of Redbus, primarily operating North Telangana. It describes itself as an ecosystem for long term social impact through innovation and entrepreneurship in rural Telangana. A sister organization of the Deshpande Foundation, Kakatiya Sandbox provides a rich and flourishing environment for entrepreneurs to grow and nurture their business.

Kakatiya Sandbox has around 51-200 employees and is current;y operating from Nizamabad, a district in Telangana

The Place Nizamabad was chosen for it's agricultural based community and it's proximity from major cities

The ecosystem allows for sharing, networking, collaborating and deliberating ideas with other catalysts.

The Sandbox Approach
Kakatiya Sandbox describes it's approach as the sandbox approach. This is where they not only provide financial and monetary relief to their partners, but also come up with ways to help them through out the process. These may included, but not limited to strategic support, challenging them to impact to impact larger populations and work more efficiently through modern methods and approaches.

A 'bottom up' approach is applied to build scalable solutions that actually have an impact.

Kakatiya Sandbox works to create an effective ecosystem where resources are put to use through entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability. At the bottom of sandbox approach is the quest to create critical mass to take up entrepreneurial solutions of various magnitudes and scope.

Initiatives
Kakatiya has many initiatives to help implement a diverse ecosystem for businesses to grow and help develop a viable and long lasting ecosystem for actual social impact

Micro-entrepreneurship
The Micro-entrepreneurship Initiative at Kakatiya Sandbox ensures that budding entrepreneurs are well trained and perfectly setup to help see their businesses to success. Entrepreneurs are trained and mentored by Industry experts throughout their journey and are trained on a variety of topics ranging from the banking system to social media marketing.

Micro-entrepreneurship initiative helps entrepreneurs to outreach their business visibility through various modes of promotional programs.

This helps local & small entrepreneurs thrive by providing training, handholding and mentorship by enabling micro-entrepreneurs to scale better and faster.

It primarily supports entrepreneurs, especially women and small-scale producers. Its approach provides a learning platform and a support network for budding entrepreneurs.

Micro Entrepreneurship Development Program trains entrepreneurs to excel in best business practices and then assists them in scaling up their sustainable enterprises.

This was launched by the Deshpande Foundation in 2011 to nurture entrepreneurs from rural and peri-urban areas by providing mentorship, credit, marketing and business guidance.

Agriculture Initiatives
Agricultural Initiatives at Deshpande Foundation is an ecosystem that brings together the best practices in water management, sustainable cropping and soil analysis.

They aim at transforming agriculture ground-up by collaborating with farmers and partner organizations to build sustainable farming practices throughout the crop production cycle.

Their initiatives for farmers include construction of farmer ponds for fisheries and crop irrigation, setting up of farmer producer organizations to support farmers, BCI - IDH Sustainable Trade Initiatives for farmers to better sell their produce.

Skilling
Skilling is a pioneering residential skill development organization that was started by the Deshpande Foundation in 2010

It was born out of the pressing need for skilled human resources to power the growth of the 100+ social impact organizations. It is mainly focused at educating the rural youth along with equipping them with a problem-solving mindset.

It also training budding students about a variety of topics that ultimately help them in their journey

These include various residential and non residential training programs that


 * 1) Koutilya Fellowship: The Koutilya Fellowship (Kautilya) program is geared towards enhancing applied skills for potential accountants and commerce students. within Koutilya, the Deshpande Educational Trust creates quality accountants in third tier cities, which is critical in building new social enterprises. Koutilya strengthens the ecosystem by producing ready and efficient accountants for new entrepreneurs to employ
 * 2) Skill In Village: Skill in Village is an after school program for students enrolled in vernacular medium government schools. The programme focuses on grades 6th to 9 th (Upper primary and secondary) to equip the rural students with English communication skills to begin with. Later the content is expanded to the other 3C's mentioned in the global P21 framework - Critical thinking, Creativity and Culture
 * 3) Susnadhi Fellowship: The Deshpande Susandhi Fellowship program is four-month residential training which is geared towards enhancing applied skills for Inter Degree (B.Sc, B. A & B.zc & any graduates) students who have passed out from various colleges. Presently we have a multi-skill training facility for Graduate students on any graduates are provided practical experience in Effective Communication, Information and Communication Technology, Reasoning and Aptitude, Basic of Accounts, etc.

LEAD Program
LEAD stands for 'LEaders Accelerating Development' it is a program that fosters innovative and entrepreneurial thinking within college students by exposing them to social issues and by encouraging them to volunteer their time and effort into the community. Through the unique platform provided by LEAD, more than 39979 students from more than 192 colleges throughout Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab are implementing bold solutions to small and big problems in their communities while simultaneously building their self-confidence and developing important leadership skills. LEAD believes in shaping the youth's personality to be a great human by building the LEADership qualities. This process involves several aspects. With numerous concepts to support the leadership growth and entrepreneurial ability among college youth, LEAD organizes value addition programs and various events to mark its achievements.

What it stands for
Kakatiya Sandbox is an ecosystem for long term social impact through innovation and entrepreneurship in rural Telangana. It provides a place for impact catalysts to test ideas, make changes and eventually develop truly scalable solutions. The ecosystem allows for sharing, networking, collaborating and deliberating ideas with other catalysts. The value of the Sandbox lies in its ability to identify synergies and explore potential collaboration among the catalyst network.

Media Presence
Kakatiya Sandbox also has a rich social media presence on YouTube, Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and LinkedIn

It is based in Nizamabad