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Crowd Scholarships is a concept that allows the student to encourage large amounts of people to give small amounts of money. This term originates from the term Crowd Funding, which is the concept that an entity can raise a significant amount of money by receiving relatively small contributions from a large amount of people. Typically these people are from inner circles of friends or social networks. An example of this would be raising money for a cause whereby an individual has a network of 1,000 individuals. Out of these 1,000 individuals, if only 100 of them each contribute only $50 to the cause, the total contribution would be $5,000. This is the power of Crowd Funding. BrainFund takes this concept even further and specializes it for college students. We connect donors and students in one central web based community, empowering the student by allowing that student to set up a profile that utilizes a student’s current network to attract donors, who are able to donate to a specific college student of their choice through our unique patent pending process. We will also attract outside donors from corporations to give to students that they can search for by their own alma mater, degree, key words, and more! Corporations will be able to sponsor giving campaigns and encourage their employees to give to students on BrainFund.net to provide a tremendous impact on our nation and economy. Companies will participate in partnering with BrainFund, because it promotes great corporate responsibility for the future of our nation and our economy!

1. Fresh as well as experienced unorganised workers can register with www.labourconnect.org, service providers, and job trainers can also register in the same way. Registration is free.
2. Since many candidates looking for jobs in the unorganised sector might not be proficient in using the internet and thereby creating their profiles properly, our field workers and vocational training institutes should submit the details on their behalf.
3. Currently, the portal offers information about jobs in Delhi NCR area only, in other states we are creating database of job seekers at the moment.
4. Labour Connect is building an online data repository to provide labour intelligence on blue collar jobs in India. It is intended to help participating organizations visualize the current and near-future size of the demand for blue collar workforce, while being able to populate the repository with their own data. The data is aggregated, anonymized and syndicated* for participants to gain from an overall perspective of the demand for blue collar workforce in their geography.
The value that labourconnet offers to both its employers and job seekers is in its ability to provide access to critical job and job seeker information through various technology platforms. By leveraging web and mobile technology, labourconnet is able to scale and engage a wider audience creating greater efficiency for employers and having a social impact on job seekers. Employers can conveniently browse job seeker profiles based on salary, location, languages, employment background, skills and references.

Meet Pavi - 26, a graduate student at Concordia, and the founder of ‘Grounds’, an organization focused on sustainable consumption.

Using an approach centred around the individual and focused on social and experiential learning, we develop emerging leaders like Pavi into agile high-impact catalysts. Here’s how it works:

1.Cx People + Projects: Every year, we give out 300 Cx Awards, recognizing Canada’s top emerging leaders like Pavi and giving each $2,000 for an impact project they are passionate about

2.Cx Learning Process: For the following year, Pavi and fellow catalysts go through a series of multi-dimensional discovery and learning experiences:

a.Self-learning: Through a weekly digest and Cx Online, a hub of resources and opportunities, Catalysts widen and deepen their perspectives on topics on their own schedule

b.Project learning: Through regular peer brainstorming and reflection sessions, Catalysts learn about effective ideation, project execution, and evaluation using their own projects

c.Peer learning: Through intentionally designed interactions with other Catalysts near and far as part of local and national events such Cx Hubs and Cx Conferences, Catalysts are connected to a network of incredible support, ideas, beliefs, and experiences.

d.Organizational Learning: Through opportunities to take on leadership roles for Cx Hubs, Cx Conferences, and Cx Impact Fairs as well as involvement in the Cx National Team, Catalysts are connected to unique experiences of organizational leadership that otherwise may take years for them to come across.

Let’s use John Taka as an example - a Spark* Changemaker from Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country that is off track on all eight of the UN Millennium Development Goals. John was IDENTIFIED by Spark* as an exciting emerging leader in 2011 (he was 23 at the time). He attended the four day Spark* SUMMIT and connected with other inspiring young leaders in PNG. After the summit, John went back to his village (where only 5% of the kids were attending school) and brought everyone together to talk. He LAUNCHED a community sweet potato farm, with all profits directed to paying for school fees for all of the children in the village. John stayed connected through the Spark* NETWORK and continued to refine his model. After a strong first harvest, Spark* provided USD$700 of funding to expand the farm, followed by a second grant of USD$4500 to expand the project significantly. Every child in the village will be in school by 2014. John is scaling his project and is now also a mentor and support facilitator at the Spark* Summits.

I. Daily interviews will be held to identify emerging/struggling minority and immigrant small businesses who are reliable.
2. Packets requesting documented data on previous tax returns, financial records, company preparedness,growth and stability will be completed.
3. Connections with reliable financial institutions willing to use the "collateral free, credit score free" micro-financing system will be made with local banks who have expressed interest. This system used by Muhammad Yunus, the banker of the poor, had documented data for close to 40 years which proves it does work.
3. A legal contract tailored to the specific needs of the borrower will be signed by Five Flags Company, Inc., the Five Flags attorney and the bank.
4. Borrowers may be individual owners or teams of owners, two to five on a team.
5. If any member of the team fails to pay the bi-weekly payment, the loan is stopped; borrowers are denied all future loans. Legally, the team is still responsible to work out a more extended payment schedule for the loan.
6. Five Flags Company, Inc. conducts bi-weekly meetings with each of the five prototype companies counselling employers and employees to ensure a strong, compatible working environment that honors Five Flags values of integrity, mutual respect, accountability, transparency, and purpose; that is, to strengthen minority and immigrant small businesses and to maintain and create jobs.

II. Grants from government, foundations, philanthropists and concerned citizens, fund-raisers and sponsorships will supply scholarship funds. Social media will be used

We have specific students who enter this program because of a friend at their high school, and they are simply joining in to see what the Company Program is all about. The students are initially shy, unmotivated, and unsure of what to expect when it comes to this venture. What remarkably happens next is the students come up with exciting ideas that begin to foster the internal entrepreneur that was initially buried within. An example of a stellar product that the students created was this product called MagiTips. The company took old Crayola crayons, and melted them down into these crayon discs that were affixed to clothlike rubber bands. The purpose of this product was aimed at pre-school-kindergartern students to figuratively get them to crayon with their fingers without the mess!
We found that ventures like this really increase the confidence in young entrepreneurs, and gives them the confidence and ideas to begin their own start-up compnay when they are finished with the company program. The program offers the student the chance to begin their own company, with the security blanket of a large team, and professional mentorship.

Depending to which target group the potential entrepreneur belongs, he or she will be conducted to the appropriate support program.

If he/she is a young unemployed under 28 years, he/she will enter into our “enterprise” support program. Here the entire program is specifically adapted to the needs of young unemployed. The process is divided in four phases: to oriented (assessment of personal aptitudes), to plan (training and business plan), to start (implementation of the business), and to grow (coaching, further qualification, networking).

If the potential entrepreneur intends to start a social enterprise, then he/she will enter into our “social impact enterprise” program. Here the potential entrepreneurs will compete in our Idea-pitch events to get in our program. Those who get in will get four months of free coaching, advice, mentoring, training, access to networks and co-working space in our “social impact lab”. After these four months they will have to demonstrate the feasibility of their concepts in front of a jury of renowned actors in the social business scene. For successful social enterprises who already have demonstrated their financial and social viability on the market there is the option to enter into our “social impact localizer” program, where the aim is to geographically scale social enterprises.

“enterability” for people with disabilities and “Lotsendienst” for migrants follow the same basic support concept as those described above. Additionally, a great effort is made in our policy advisory work to create the best framework for these groups.

Naveen Krishna, alumni of Dasra Social-Impact Cohort 5, hails from the rickshaw-pullers community in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India and was moved by the plight of these rickshaw drivers. He started by working for various NGOs trying to answer the needs of rickshaw pullers, until he realized that a market based approach would help empower them. He attended DSI in 2010 and voiced the inability of rickshaw pullers to purchase their own rickshaws. To address this issue, he devised and pitched his idea of providing them with an alternative payment scheme. He used the DSI program to build networks, and incorporated the feedback he received from peers and mentors. Navin has leveraged the knowledge and skills of the wider Dasra team to help him create additional resources and templates for his organization. Naveen was voted by his peers as the winner of Village Capital and received USD 75000 in funding. This was further supplemented by another USD 255,000 through the program. Over the years, Navin has continued to make the best use of these resources.

Non profit groups spend an exorbitant amount of time and resources making applications to many funding organizations or even just to many programs within one funding organization. This archaic process wastes time of the applicant and the funder as they review multiple applications for each project.
The model entains having a regional funder/supporter (like a public trust or foundation) to support the development of an online application and reporting structure with a centralized database, accessible to all internal community liaisons, grant program managers and other key granting staff. Depending on the type of funding program or amount requested, the applicant could ‘check’ separate boxes if they wish to be considered for multiple programs. In the instance of a larger grant, more questions could ‘pop-up’or be revealed as needed.
At the conclusion of the project, an online reporting template would be standardized. And again, with a robust platform, the reporting process could become more sophisticated depending on amount granted. This standardization will also facilitate knowledge sharing among project proponents, funders and communities in the region.
Later, this database of applications could be made accessible/searchable by region for other local funders. (Eg. If an application from a Golden-based organization, or for a project in the Golden area, is made to CBT, the applicant can also check a box to allow this application to be available to other Golden-based funders, which would eliminate the need for those other funders to have a separate call for applications.)

The Cross Stitch Project has served 36 girls in Kolkata and 20 girls in Atlanta over the course of the 2011-2012 school year. The girls in Cross Stitch follow a curriculum that includes peer-to peer communication with students in the U.S. via social media, spoken English tutoring, computer skills training, video camera operation and editing workshops and a shared sewing and design project.
Based on a social issues and self-expression curriculum, we assist girls to exchange ideas, information and tips and techniques over a private social network with girls in the U.S.
Our locally based tutor supervises and teaches that curriculum in an NGO in place. TCSP provides computer equipment, technical training and ongoing support. Short workshops reinforce and supplement the video, art, design skills.
While observing the benefits of this program over the past year, TCSP founders have realized that the path to higher education is not likely for most of our participants, and jobs outside of the slums are too difficult due to travel and social constraints. But, Traditional education is not entirely necessary when one can harness the power of the Internet and community: learning to learn and learning to teach. Our phase 2 is to create a portable computer center contained in a small suitcase filled with a wireless modem with a USB Internet key and some small laptops or tablets. Each suitcase will travel with a technocraft trainee who will take it to her local alternative school to train girls to use technology and connect with the CrossStitch community in the US for support.

The model will entail establishing a solar powered digital learning space with desktop computers and digital cameras for training girls and women in ICT and citizen media tools for access to world news, information and sharing through online publishing, marketing, mapping, communication and networking. This will therefore, ensure ICT literacy among girls and women, strengthened capacity to educational information on various issues affecting them including health and nutrition, girl-child education and entrepreneurship skills among others and encourage online public participation in lobbying and advocacy on various ongoing discussions.
Activities will therefore include;
a) Formation of a project management team including representatives of girls' and women of Mageta Island and Ecofinder Kenya team.
b) Training of girls and women in ICT and citizen media tools.
c) Online publishing and sharing of information and stories about places, products services and the transformed girls and women of Mageta Island.
d) Provision of affordable internet services to visitors to visitors and other community members for income generation among girls and women.

Qeyno is a classroom product that uses game-like rewards to introduce young millennials to career possibilities with the help of professionals as subject-related mentors (micro-mentorship), a mission/badge achievement system, and a challenge-board where they can compete and win prizes, internships, and scholarships.