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Prasanna Jyothi is an orphanage run under Prasanna trust chaired by Swami Sukhabodhananda. Its focus is on women empowerment. The place is well maintained and children are treated as their own despite their backgrounds. All girls from LKG to 7 th standard go to an English medium school in Jayanagar 7 th phase and are back in home by 3:30 PM. Current funding is through Prasanna trust and through donations. About Rs 30K is spent per child per annum and the home maintenance goes upto Rs 2 lakhs. Key Areas of growth – self sustainability 1. Catering – Right now they cater to a company on airport road for about 100 plates. They need to reach out to more consistent order base and more exposure through dedicated counter during festival time. Also need to grow into tiffin(morning breakfast/evening dinner) space for bachelors in neighborhood. The caretakers help the grown up girls in cooking. 2. Real estate – They have a site of 30*40 which can be developed into either a...

Some NGO's can become self-sustained over a period of time and then can grow and multiply. Volunteers can focus on cause and its corrective development. The NGO then becomes for profit venture but the funds are utilized for self-growth and sustenance. You can visit NGO around neighborhood and understand their current running/operations. If possible discuss their self-sustenance model and growth. Provide ideas from our shared learnings. If allowed to shoot video then you can interview the volunteers/owners there. You can also shoot the activities that they do there and post them at http://www.youtube.com/group/ngoneighbor. Also you could develop the ideas with like minded people in orkut under community " NGOs around you ". The same has been responded to in linkedin. There is a group in google that is developing similar ideas at http://groups.google.co.in/group/ socialentrepreneur.