NGOs play an important role in nation building by investing in social development, creating awareness, facilitating government schemes, and directly implementing social programs. The document discusses the work of BMCWS, a charitable trust established in 1919 that operates hospitals, cancer care homes, childcare centers, and rural development programs across India. It has grown in a sustainable way by operating earning units to support social initiatives and adopting business-like practices such as cutting costs, using technology, and giving operational autonomy. The author argues that anyone can contribute to social causes through passion and innovative ideas without expertise, and that participation from all sectors of society is needed for social upliftment.

1. Role of NGO’s in nation building
Dr. Madhav Sathe.
Joint Hon. Secretary.
Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society.

2. What are NGO’s
 By definition, a non-governmental organization (NGO)
is a legally constituted organization that operates
independently from the government.
 They are organizations that are not a part of the
government and are not conventional-for-profit business.
 They are organizations that pursue wider social aims.

3. What do they do – Roles that NGO’s play
• Investing personal wealth in social development
Investors • Azim Premji foundation, Sudha and Narayan Murthy and
many more.
• Creating awareness and enabling the development of public
Communicators opinion/view
• Amir khan addresses burning issues through his program
• People using their good office and goodwill to percolate
Facilitators govt. schemes to target groups.
• Mrs .Supriya Sule M.P.
• Credible foundations created by philanthropist to do a
Workers target work in different areas
(Large) • CRY, Helpage India and many more.
• Small NGO like BMCWS who choose a small area of work
Workers and different causes dear to the trustees
(small)

4. BMCWS - The Bombay Mother and
Child Welfare Society

5. BMCWS – Introduction
 Charitable trust established in 1919
 Functions with donations from private and public trusts
 The Shahani Trust
 The Dorabji Tata Trust
 The Mahalaxmi Temple Trust
 The Shri Siddhivinayak Temple Trust
 The organization has received 1.5 Crs. in donations
 All donations accepted are project specific

6. What do we do
Rural &
Rural Urban
Development Health
Support Care
BMCWS
Child
Education Care

7. Rural & Urban Health Care
• Low cost hospitals
• Worli Mumbai -40 beds. Ultra modern, beautiful décor,
and very affordable cost.
• Rajgurunagar Hospital 30 beds ,ultra modern rural
hospital with sprawling garden.
• Bhilwadi (Sangli) 10 beds , beautiful décor,with modern
facilities.
• Rs.3000/ for normal delivery Rs. 5000/ for caesarian
section with 5 days stay and doctors charges

9. Cancer Patient Convalescent Homes
• Facilitate treatment of Cancer patient by providing
affordable shelter during treatment.
• 100 patients can stay with their relatives.
• Common cooking areas for palatable home food .
• 20 children @ free , 30 @Rs. 230/Day and 50
@350/day.
• Convenient locations, proximity to Tata hospital .

11. Modern Crèches.
• Baby friendly, well decorated crèches .
• We do everything that a mother would do for a child.
• Mothers pride as it reduces her guilt of leaving the
child to great extent.
• Total 1000 children in different income areas.
• Same facilities but different fee structure as per area.
• Sanskar classes to computers every thing under one
roof

12. Parle photo

13. Rural Development
 Perceptible change in rural mindset is development.
 Health, Hygiene, Education, Vocational training,
Environment.
 40 villages, 64 schools,5 Tribal schools
 Low cost , innovative, modular, scaleable program
design.

14. BMCWS-NGO with a difference
 Self Sustaining social innovator.
 Earning units are encouraged to support social
upliftment.
 All the units are best in their category and still very
affordable.
 Average cost in each unit is 30% of market rates

15. Professionally managed progressive
organization.
 Constant up gradation of all units is the norm.
 Must be the best in the category.
 Immaculate cleanliness an absolute must.
 Use of technology to increase the efficiency and
quality.
 Staff training and quality audits regular features.

16. Business like attitude for charitable work
 Cutting cost without compromising qualities
 Modern technology to help improving
administration
 Taking financial planning to different level by
using innovations
 Giving limited financial freedom to every unit by
giving them monthly and yearly budgets
 Simplifying accountability by regular monthly
audits of all units

17. Don’t hesitate to earn profit!!!
• We always felt that subsidy is a tool to leverage needs of
needy.
• Distributing largess in a affordable class is not an NGO
philosophy.
• Earning units make organization grow faster as you can
develop and execute project without waiting for finances.
• One completed project brings more ideas and more
people in organization.

18. Social entrepreneurship

19. Social enterprunership
 Social entrepreneurship combines the passion of a
social mission with an image of business like
discipline ,innovation, and determination commonly
associated with the high-tech pioneers of silicon
valley.

20. Social Entrepreneurs are….
• Change agents in social sector, played by
• Adapting a mission to create and sustain social value.
• Recognizing and relentlessly pursuing new opportunity to
serve that mission.
• Engaging in process of continuous innovation, adaptation and
learning.
• Acting boldly without being limited resources currently in
hand
• Exhibiting a heightened sense of accountability to
constituencies served and for the outcomes created.

21. My personal experience
• I achieved this without any knowledge of -
• Financial economics.
• Accounting.
• Management.
• Administration.
• Human resource development.
• Marketing
• Social work
Imagination is more important than knowledge
 Einstein

22. Sustainable social Entrepreneurship
25 yrs of my work

23. The march to sustainable social entrepreneurship.
 Innovations in
 HR.
 Finance.
 Administration.
 Designing and developing of rural program
 Special attention towards Tribal schools.
 Environment and nutrition.

25. Human resourses.
• Creating confidence in work force with constant
interaction to develop cordial relationship with union.
• Maintaining their salary dates even during difficult
situation.
• Acknowledging their motivated participation by
adequate and frequent salary rise.
• Transparent accounting system created the faith in
management and its actions.

26. ‘Human nursery’ – an experiment to
nurture individuals
• Peon trained as X-Ray technician.
• Watchman trained as hardware and
networking expert and then absorbed as peon
cum technician on vacant post.
• Mali to driver to social worker with difference.
• Mali to approved and very popular MSCIT
teacher.

27. Financial innovations
• Unsecured zero interest loans from individuals to
execute projects that mattered.
• 5000 Sq. Ft. construction by Builder repaid in 15 Yrs of
EMI.
• Water proofing of 4000 sq.ft. hospital.
• Creating assets by taking Differed donations for ongoing
projects.
• Paying back part of fees paid preserving part for
organization.

28. Administration
 Budgets and Audits of individual units
 Decentralized the organization by giving limited
liberties to each unit.
 Transperant audit systems.
 Modular structure of program to allow necessary
flexibility in execution.
 Training of existing staff to take newer
responsibilities-maintains cohesive structure.

32. Education and vocational training.
 25 million subsidy to train 2500 women in Tailoring .
(Door step teaching in 40 villages over 5 yrs).
 2.5 million subsidy to 2500 students facilitating
MSCIT course.
 39 rural youth trained in hardware and networking
by TCS.
 100 Rural girls trained as DAI .

33. Nutrition and environment
 Planted 15000 banana plants in 7500 rural houses.
(nutritional support to 7500 children).
 Cost per house Rs 20 only.
 Yearlong nutritional support to 7500 children in
form of 1 banana each to 2 children.
 Enhanced green cover to mother earth.

34. Computer training
 50 computers in our own central lab at
Rajgurunagar.
 1-2 computers in 64 primary schools.
 6-10 computers in 11 highschools with free internet.
 All teachers have to clear MSCIT before computer
instalation.

35. How this has helped the organisation
 The organization is now fit to be labeled as a social
entrepreneurship.
 Not only is it sustainable, it is now, in a position to
have its own CSR.(RURAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM).
 We can initiate project execution as soon as the ideas
are formulated and save valuable time.

36. Financial growth

37. assets

38. Pay structure
 Rs 485/pm(1985) is now Rs. 10000/pm.
 Bonus every year.
 Gratuity provident fund benefits as per govt. rules.
 Free medical treatment in our hospitals.
 Planning to add group life and medical insurance in
coming years.

39. Way forward…
Come out of ME and MYSELF
And start

40. How was it possible….
 Driven by
 Passion
 Urge to give back to society.
 Clarity about goals to be reached.
 Ready to innovate and take calculated risks.
 To motivate by example.
 Accepting failures and learning from it.

41. Inhibitions to act ….
 Common thoughts in the mind are
 How do I manage to find the time?
 Where will the money come from?
 How do I volunteer in social field without knowledge?
 I have no knowledge so better not to do it.
 Let somebody with knowledge do it

42. True difficulties or just the reasons to…..
 It is not time investment but a thought investment.
 You create an idea and there are people to execute it.
 Money is available in plenty but credible channels
are lacking.
 Urge to give back is itself a thought generator.

43. Be an entrepreneur
 Its truly simple.
 Does not take your valuable time.
 Use your knowledge to design and develop product.
 Donations in any form of thoughts ,money or efforts
is welcome in the sector.
 Find your area of work and contribute.
 Need of an hour is to contribute

44. Your responsibility…
 Gigantic task of social upliftment.
 Only government cannot do it.
 Requires a participation by everybody.
 Help to create participatory society .
 Government is doing plenty. You need to walk the
last mile for it to reach the target

45. Thank You.