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ObjectivesTo orient socially conscious individuals to the opportunities and needs in the social sector through customized training programs on social entrepreneurship.

To demonstrate the potential of social entrepreneurship amongst the NGO fraternity to address organizational and resource challenges.

Generate awareness on budding social entrepreneurs through publications and public events.

Facilitate transparency and professionalism amongst social enterprises through Social Accounting and Audit.

RemembeRing ShRi P.n.DevaRajan

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An equitable world through social

entrepreneurship.

MissiOn

To be a learning hub for social change agents and

enable them to ideate and implement their social change ideas / enterprises.

values

Social Consciousness Empathy Excellence Continuous Learning

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There is nobody in this world who can fill the void created by our dearest founder Shri. P.N. Devarajan. A humble, compassionate and inspiring person, a strong believer of equality and equity, it was indeed a good fortune for all of us at CSIM to be mentored by him. ‘Network is Networth’ was the mantra he lived by and he also ardently taught all of us to follow the same.

He would constantly tell us that Social Entrepreneurship is an inner call to manage the gap between the have and the have-nots. He regarded social entrepreneurs as next to God for the selfless work done by them. Hence, CSIM is all about facilitating and celebrating social entrepreneurship and helping social change agents evolve innovative and inspiring change ideas.

It’s really hard to accept sudden death like his, and we will never get accustomed to it. Certainly, the precious memories of PND will remain in our hearts. We promise to continue with our mission of creating an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship the way PND envisioned.

Your memory is our keepsake from which we will never part,God may have you in his keeping, but we still have you in our heart. - Latha Suresh

Genesis

CSIM is a pioneer in offering social entrepreneurship training programs in India that ensures, and enhances the quality of delivery in social change agents. CSIM pursues this mission by offering a wide range of training programs that advocates the principles and practices of social entrepreneurship.

Established in 1999, as a project of Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani Trust, it has contributed in the areas of training, research, capacity building, and social audit for development organisations as well as corporate houses all over India. Over the years, CSIM has emerged as the leading institution, especially in the field of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Audit.

Started in 2001 in Chennai, CSIM has now branches in Bangalore, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, and Hosangabad.

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What We do

CSIM offers specialized courses on Social Entrepreneurship:

PGdsiM — Post Graduate Diploma in Social Initiative and ManagementPGdseM — Post Graduate Diploma in Social Enterprise Management seoP — Social Entrepreneurship Outlook Programme e-seoP — Social Entrepreneurship Online Programme

se - skill Lab — Social Entrepreneurship Skill Lab social Connect Programme for college students

cOuncil MeMbers

chairManMr. P.n subramanian, Global VP-HR, Utopia Global

& Managing Trustee, Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani (Parent Body of CSIM)

GoverninG CounCiL MeMbers

Mr. Chandra sekaran, Executive Vice Chairman, Cognizant Technology Solutions

dr. C.K. Gariyali ias, (Retd.) Former Secretary to Governor

dr. M. Kandasami, Chartered Accountant

dr. Lalitha balakrishnan, Principal, MOP Vaishnav College for Women

Mrs. Latha suresh, Director, Social Audit Network, India

Mr. M. Mahadevan, Chairman, Oriental Cuisines Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. narasimhan, Director, Protech Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. G.s. sundararajan, Board Member in the BFSI Industry

Mr. suresh Kamath, Founder, Patterns Software Design Institute

chairpersOn Ms. Marie banu, Director - CSIM & Social Auditor

aCadeMiC CounCiL MeMbers

dr. Ls Ganesh, Professor, DoMS, IIT Madras

dr. M.b nirmal, Founder, Exnora International

dr. K. nirmala Prasad, Former Principal, MOP Vaishnav College for Women

dr. K. Prabhakar, Research Consultant

Mr. Pushpanath K, Director-Programme & Advocacy, Centre For Social Markets

dr. raja samuel, Principal, Madras School of Social Work

Mr. senthilathiban, Founder, Sparks Development Group

Ms. shabina Francis, Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Mr. sriram ayer, Founder, Nalandaway

Mr. vijay Xavier, Former Executive Vice President, RK Swamy BBDO

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CSIM also offers customized workshops for NGOs and educational institutions on social entrepreneurship, fundraising, media & communications, leadership, and social accounting & audit.

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These courses promote the concept of social entrepreneurship and creates professionals in the development sector. E-SEOP, an online programme on social entrepreneurship has been developed by Cognizant Technology Solutions.

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PGdsiM - Queen Mary’s CoLLeGe

CSIM launched PGDSIM at Queen Mary’s College, Chennai in July 2015. Students undergoing their UG in Sociology pursue this course. Classes are conducted three days a week for one-year period.

ProGraMMes at a GLanCe

1. Post Graduate diPLoMa in soCiaL initiative and ManaGeMent (PGdsiM)

“The CSIM sessions are motivating and enables students evolve a clear path for their programmes.” - Palan, PGdsiM student

“At CSIM, I learnt the nuances of running an NGO, and about several other NGOs and their activities. I also gained guidance from social change agents.” - Kalidas, PGdsiM student

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MythiLi, student, QMC (2017 batch student)

“The PGDSIM of CSIM offered to our students of BA Sociology facilitates career opportunities in the development sector. Nearly 45% of our students belonging to the 2016-2017 batch are ready to take up job opportunities. While our students are oriented on theoretical knowledge through academic curriculum design, CSIM enriches them with life skills and experiential learning. We thank our administrators and CSIM for their untiring effort in making our younger generation understand the social issues and influence them to contribute for the development of our society.”

”Being students of Sociology, this one year course conducted by CSIM is very much useful for us. We are able to gain knowledge about the current trends in development sector and the field visits have strengthened our understanding.”

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The 16th batch of the one-year PGDSIM programme was launched on 16th June, 2016. 21 Prospective Social Entrepreneurs enrolled for the course. The Chief Guest for the inaugural event was Mrs. Rajashree Natarajan, COO of Cognizant Foundation.

PGDSIM is a good combination of rigorous theory with fieldwork practice. It includes dynamic workshops and skill development programmes on issues related to the development sector. Prospective Social Entrepreneurs (PSE) present their project proposal to a panel of experts who critically assesses and guide the implementation process.

As part of the orientation programme, PSE’s are oriented on the course content, taken on field visits to various social enterprises and NGOs, and attend guest lectures delivered by practitioners. They also attend workshops on Group Dynamics and Street Theatre which enables them to function as an effective group during the course period.

Six core subjects and two optional subjects are handled during each semester. Both theoretical inputs and practical insights to all these subjects are provided by well-trained faculty who are academicians, social entrepreneurs, and subject experts. The classes for these optional subjects are held on Tuesdays for five weeks, while the rest of the days are dedicated for the core subjects.

Contact classes are conducted on two days a week and concurrent field work is assigned on other days. At the end of the course, each student is assigned to an NGO for one-month to serve as an intern and understand its day-to-day functioning.

Until now, 16 batches have been completed and in total 330 PSEs’ have received their diplomas. 71 of them have launched NGOs and 40 NGO heads and 66 NGO staff have been oriented on social entrepreneurship.

The second batch of this programme was launched on 1st August, 2016. 99 students have completed the course.

The third batch was launched on 16th August 2017 and 33 students have enrolled for this course.

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2. soCiaL entrePreneurshiP outLooK ProGraMMe (seoP)

Social Entrepreneurship Outlook Programme (SEOP) is a Certificate Course for existing and potential social work professionals and social entrepreneurs. It enables participants to understand the principles of social entrepreneurship. The following are the topics that are covered:—legal aspects, fund development, social research, social marketing, and management tools—project management, finance, human resource management, and accountability. Case studies are used extensively throughout the course.

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“The sessions on Social Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Business Plan and Proposal Writing are very useful. I have started a social enterprise, “Vaanavil Transgender Economic Enterprises after completing my course at CSIM.”

“Although I have been working in the social work sector for over 10 years, I gained more understanding about NGOs and clarity on social issues only through CSIM. I have now started a NGO on my own.”

“I hail from Nemili and work for the welfare of children belonging to Scheduled Tribe community. At CSIM, I fully understood the issues related to children. This helps me to focus on my work better.”

3. soCiaL entrePreneurshiP onLine ProGraMMe (e-seoP)

Manu, SEOP Student

Geetha Rani, SEOP student

Bhuvaneswari, SEOP – Children, Student

4. se-sKiLL Labs

“The Social Entrepreneurship Skill Lab conducted by CSIM turned out to be an excellent value-addition to the basket of skills we impart to our students. The hallmark of the course was the practical experiences including field visits the students were taken through. We have made the course as a standard part of our curriculum.”

“All the sessions were new learning experiences and the field visit was very useful to understand about Social Entrepreneurship in reality.”

“The highlight of the course was that it brought in ideas of change than focusing purely on the problems”

Dr.Raja Samuel, Principal, Madras school of social Work

Aravindh, MSSW SE Skill Lab Student

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seoP

The total instruction time is 40 hours and is conducted over a period of four months (on every Saturday, from 2:00 P.M to 6:00 P.M). NGO founders, volunteers, and social change agents benefit from this certificate course.

35 Students from Queen Mary’s College, and 23 Students from Stella Maris College, have also undergone the Social Entrepreneurship Outlook Programme that was coordinated in their respective colleges.

CSIM’s online course in social entrepreneurship was launched by Prof. M.S. Ananth, Director, IIT Madras in September, 2010. Designed and developed in collaboration with Cognizant Technology Solutions, the online course in Social Entrepreneurship involves the intricacies of entrepreneurship which has been tempered with a social angle.

The online course consists of modules dealing with legal aspects, fund development, social marketing, management tools, project management, finance management, human resource management, and several aspects of social entrepreneurship.

Short films and documentaries on successful social entrepreneurs are included as case studies. Besides, webinars are conducted to interact with the participants.

This course has been updated by Cognizant Technology Solutions in 2015, with an additional module of Corporate Social Responsibility.

So far, 1,279 participants have benefitted from the course, which includes Social Entrepreneurship students from IIT, Madras and several other global participants.

“The course content was very good and the periodic webinars helped me to gain clarity on social entrepreneurship concepts.” - Santhosh, E-SEOP Student.“

“25 students of Madras School of Social Work have enrolled for the Social Entrepreneurship Skill Lab that was launched by CSIM in 2016. Participants undergo 40 hours of theory and are taken on field visits to social enterprises for experiential learning. So far, 75 students have enrolled for this programme.

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“Our visit to Kunjeri Palayam,Sendrayan Palayam and Sindrayan Palayam,located near Pondicherry, was very interesting. CSIM staff were supportive and helped us to engage in the project diligently. It was indeed a great experience to interact with the villagers as part of the PRA exercise. We now have a clear idea about the rural sector and it has been an enriching journey to discover the lives of the rural people.”

5. soCiaL ConneCt CoMMuniCate For ChanGe

Prof. G.Jeevitha, SSS Jain College

Prof. V Bhanu, Head, Department of Sociology, SKPC

Vaishaali.R, Student, SKPC

“We are happy to convey the experience gained by our students through this programme. CSIM’s guidance and support throughout the programme has been amazing. Our students had an opportunity to get exposed to rural areas for the first time and many have developed interest to do their field study here.”

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“As a part of the Social Connect Programe, our final year students had a chance to actively engage in social activities through CSIM. Our students took active part in this programme and got a chance to know about social entrepreneurship. They enjoyed the field visit and internship which was part of this programme and few of them stated : “We look for more programs like this as they help us to get in touch with the societal issues on ground.” I feel that Social Connect Programme is one of the best initiatives of our College, which has sensitized our students to the current needs of the society.”

Social Connect programme was launched in 2016 for students of Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women and Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Arts & Science College for Women in Chennai. 169 students have been oriented on social issues and social entrepreneurship. The students are taken on field visits to social work organisations and are provided block placement opportunities at NGOs.

Centre for Media and development Communication (CMDC), the communication wing of CSIM, was launched in 2009 with an objective to train development professionals as well as social entrepreneurs on media and communication skills.

Conversations Today — a monthly tabloid registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India—focuses exclusively on social issues. It features NGOs, CSIM alumni, changemakers, and inspiring personalities who are involved in social causes.

A team of professional editors and writers compile this publication. Articles are also contributed by Social Audit Network, UK and Singapore International Foundation. Printing is sponsored by New Indian Express and corporate and individual sponsors help CSIM to meet the distribution and overhead costs.

The compilation of articles featured in this tabloid are published as a book titled “Unsung Beacons” every year.

Master CLass in ‘soCiaL aCCountinG and audit’

Master Class in Social Accounting and Audit was organized in Chennai on March 2017 and in Coimbatore on September 2017.

Till date, 60 participants enrolled and are in the process of writing their social accounts. 2 have been certified as Social Auditors.

Ms. Girija Kumarababu, Social Auditor & Honorary Joint Secretary, ICCW; Mr. Karthik Ramaswamy, ISO Auditor; Mr. Pushpanath Krishnamurthy, Director, Programme and Advocacy, Centre For Social Markets; Ms. Latha Suresh, Director - SAN, India & Social Auditor; Ms. Marie Banu, Director - CSIM & Social Auditor; Dr. Madhuri Ravindra Kumar, Head-CSIM Coimbatore & Social Auditor; and Mrs.Ramya Rajanna, CSIM Consultant were the resource persons.

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sPss Two-day workshop on Research Methodology & Data Analysis using SPSS was organized at Stella Maris College on 30th June 2017. 15 participants enrolled for this programme.

Dr. K.Prabhakar, Head - Research Initiatives of CSIM, and Mrs. Latha Suresh, Director – Social Audit Network, India handled the sessions. This programme was designed exclusively for researchers.

GstWorkshop on “Goods and Services Tax for NGO’s” was organized by CSIM on 14th October, 2017 at IDCR Hall, Loyola College, Chennai. Dr.M.Kandhasami, Chartered Accountant and Managing Partner, Kandhasami & Associates handled the sessions.

The Chief Guest for this programme was Rev. Fr. Thomas Amirtham, Campus Treasurer, Loyola College. Mr. Karthik Sivakumar, Actor & Treasurer of Nadigar Sangam participated in the workshop. 74 participants benefited from this programme.

CoLLeGe ConneCt

IIT Madras Loyola College Madras School of Social Work

MOP Vaishnav College Queen Mary’s College

RGNIYD, Sri PerumbudurShri Shankaralal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College

Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Arts and Science College

Stella Maris College

March 2017

topic: Need for Social Audit

College:IIM-Trichy

Participants:Students of Executive

MBA Programme resource Person:

Latha Suresh

November 2016

topic: Corporate Social Responsibility

College:MaFoi – LIVE Loyola

Participants:Students PG Diploma in Human Resource

Managementresource Person:

Marie Banu

August 2017

topic: Social Entrepreneurship

College:IIT-Madras

Participants:Students of Summer

and Winter Class in SEresource Person:

Latha Suresh

March 2017

topic: Corporate Social Responsibility

College:MCC—BOYD Business

SchoolParticipants:

College Studentsresource Person:

Marie Banu

October 2017

topic: Need for Social Audit

College:Crescent Engineering

CollegeParticipants:

CSR Workshop attendees

resource Person:Latha Suresh

December 2017

topic: NGO Eco-system and CSR Reporting Compliance

College:HCL Foundation

Participants:NGO partners from

Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and

Madurairesource Person:

Marie Banu

March 2017

topic: Awareness Programme on Social

EntrepreneurshipCollege:

KCG College of Technology,

KarapakkamonParticipants:

College Studentsresource Person:

Latha Suresh & Marie Banu

December 2017

topic: Social Entrepreneurship: Breaking myths

College:VIT

Participants:Faculty Development

Programme on Entrepreneurship,

Innovation & Incubationresource Person:

Marie Banu

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