Dream Celebration
Dream A Dream hosts its 11th Annual Stakeholder Meeting – The Dream Celebration on 28th August 2010 at 3 pm at Seva Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore.
The Dream Celebration has been an annual tradition whereby we invite all our key stakeholders – Partner NGOs, Volunteers, Donors, Well-wishers and Supporters to report to them on the year gone by and present to them the plans for the coming year. This is also a platform whereby we acknowledge their support and renew our commitment to work together towards our vision. It is one event in the year, where all our stakeholders come together to celebrate Dream A Dream. In our 11th year, we are really excited to talk to our stakeholders about Dream A Dream’s Strategic Goals for the year 2010-2013.
Please do confirm your participation by writing to Daphne Philip at daphne.philip@dreamadream.org
The Lucozade Sport Urban Stampede
On August 8, Runners for Life (RFL) organized the Lucozade Sport Urban Stampede on airport Road at Clarks Exotica. This 3rd edition of the Urban Stampede saw about 1200 runners in 300 teams. Each team consisting of 4 runners competing in the relay run event with much gusto and exuberance. All teams tried their best to get the title of “Fastest Running Corporate Team.”
According to Arvind Bharathi, “The Lucozade Sport Urban Stampede was conceived for every Bangalorean caught in his little concrete cum corporate jungle, looking to find his roots; looking to bring back that passion to their lives and looking to blow some steam off. The Stampede being a relay is also about the concept of togetherness and teamwork to get the best out of each other. We are overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of runners in the city who have participated today and also with the many corporate institutions who took initiatives to send teams for the Stampede. It is heartening to see that running as an activity sport is being taken seriously by individuals and companies alike.”
10% from the registration fees collected is contributed by Runners for Life’s to Dream A Dream. According to Vishal Talreja, “RFL has continued its strong commitment to the work of Dream A Dream and has supported us in the 3rd consecutive year with part of the proceeds of the run contributed to Dream A Dream. We are tremendously grateful to their continued support and commitment.”
Dream A Dream in UK
Vishal Talreja (Executive Director) visited UK between July 10th – August 1st 2010 to continue to strengthen the organization’s profile and support base in UK. The hectic schedule had many highlights and some of them included
- Participating in the British 10K run along with 60 other runners from UK with support from the UK Advisory Board.
- Presenting Dream A Dream at various forums such as Junior Chamber International and Common Purpose Leadership Program
- Meeting with a host of potential grant agencies and renewing commitments from existing support networks
- Strengthening the UK Advisory Board with new members and plans for the coming year
- Meeting old volunteers and updating them on latest developments at Dream A Dream
- Meeting existing and potential partners such as PYE Global, Kinder SCS, Prospero World, FutureSense Ltd, Ipartner amongst others
21st South Asian Fundraising Resource Group Workshop
7th – 10th August 2010
SAFRG organizes an annual international workshop on fundraising, governance and communication; which has over the years acquired the reputation of being the foremost event on fundraising in the South Asian region. The workshop had close to 200 delegates and a 19 country representation and Dream A Dream was represented there by Vishal Talreja, Executive Director. Vishal presented sessions on “Event based Fundraising” and “Engaging Volunteers in Fundraising” focused on helping organizations raise funds from local communities through Innovative techniques and examples that were successful at Dream A Dream. In addition, Vishal was also part of a panel to share and talk about the Evolution of Fundraising Strategies in a growth-driven organization and learnings presented from Dream A Dream’s experience.
It was heartening to see that Dream A Dream was invited to present its strategies and innovations in Fundraising and that we had an opportunity to strengthen learning and best practices sharing within the sector.
