How to start chapter and franchise for promotion of social entrepreneurship spirituality and career guidance

1. HOW TO START CHAPTERS AND FRANCHISE / BRANCHES OF
AFTERSCHOOL’s Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
By : -
DR. T.K. JAIN
FOUNDER PROMOTOR, AFTERSCHOOL CAREER GUIDANCE TRUST
CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SIVAKAMU VETERINARY HOSPITAL ROAD
BIKANER – RAJASTHAN – INDIA 334001
www.afterschool.tk
MOBILE : 91-9414430763, jain.tk@gmail.com
Do you wish to spread education, skills and positive ideas?
Do you wish to spare some time to promote social development?
Do you wish to promote social entrepreneurship?
Do you wish to promote spirituality?
Do you wish to help the existing educational institutions in their development?
Do you wish to help the existing government departments and institutions in improving their
working?
Do you wish to help the students of colleges and schools in your city in shaping their careers?
Do you wish to interact with social entrepreneurs and spread their ideas?
Do you believe that education, information and knowledge should be free for all?
If your answers to the above questions is YES, probably we may be able to join hands with you. It will
indeed be an opportunity for us to extend our network by your affiliation and to take another giant step
in the direction of our objectives. We look forward to like minded persons, who can join us in our cause
of spreading education, knowledge and good ideas.
CHAPTER / FRANCHISE / BRANCH REQUIREMENTS
Let us understand first, that the requirements are not in terms of money or investment – but it is in
terms of commitment. We look forward to those persons who have led a lift of commitment and values
and wish to spread ethics and good conduct. We look forward to those persons who are capable of
authentically spreading noble ideas in the society. We wish to be partners with those who can become
social entrepreneurs and who can become champion of nobility and humility. We with to be partners of
those persons who are recognized for their contribution to education / nobility / dedication / devotion
/ spirituality / other similar cause. We wish to be connected to you if you have already been a volunteer
for some or other noble cause.

2. Why should someone start our chapter ?
We don’t do everything just for profit alone. We do take steps for the advancement of entire humanity.
We firmly believe that there is a divine power and divine urge in each of us and we wish to devote
ourselves for some noble cause. We wish to help the entire society as a part of our own commitment to
social welfare and well being. We firmly believe that there is no dearth of good persons. There is a need
to provide support mechanism and congenial support network to help good persons in spreading their
ideas and action. We know that there would not be any profit in starting our chapter – but certainly,
there will be social reputation and goodwill on undertaking these activities.
Again and again it has been proved that ideas can change the life and destiny of a person.
Communication, inspiration and motivation can transform any person from being an ordinary person
into an extra-ordinary person. Self motivated and committed youth can collectively achieve any
objective and can simply transform our planet. Many institutions are trying to transform the present day
youth into a conscious, spiritual and dedicated youth and we aspire to be one of them.
We made a humble beginning in 1997 by starting career guidance programmes. We conducted many
career guidance programmes in schools and colleges in and around Bikaner. We realized that there was
a need to motivate and inspire the youth. Most of the students didn’t have a clarity regarding their
career goal and aspirations for life. Most of the youth didn’t consider social welfare or social
development as the goal of life. Hence, there was a need for doing something in this direction. We
realized that the youth could do a great work, if only they were properly motivated. However, we also
realized that the teachers, who could transform them, were also not self motivated. Many teachers
didn’t realize the power they possessed. At that juncture, we realized that there is a need to do
something broader. We started Afterschool Career Guidance Trust at that time and started Centre for
Social Entrepreneurship in this to promote all these concepts. From the beginning, we have offered all
our programmes on no-profit basis. In fact we havn’t yet started charging for our programmes. The
founders (Trilok Kumar Jain and Kalpana Jain) devote their time, money and resources for this cause,
just to propagate this concept. Now we want to spread this concept in other parts of the country also.
We are able to get favourable responses from many places. We are extremely thankful to all those who
have invited us to conduct workshops / training programmes / seminars / symposia. We now want to
open centres all over India to promote our concept, however, we are not yet able to get partners in
other places, as no body seems to take up this cause in the same spirit as we do. In today’s professional
and commercialized world, it is difficult to spread this concept on non-profit basis, but we are sure that
it will benefit and achieve its desired impact – may be at a smaller level. We have conducted mam
Our objectives :
To promote social entrepreneurship
To enable students to formulate business plans for social entrepreneurship
To help the students in formulating business plans and train them in the process of
business plan formulation

3. To help the students in spreading concept of social entrepreneurship and spiritual
entrepreneurship
To promote teacher training – through – TEACHERS AS TRANSFORMERS programme
To motivate teachers to become high achievers
To motivate teachers to stimulate the creativity among the students
To start chapters / branches / franchisee of our centre all over the country - but purely
for non-profit objective
To induct corporate executives / professors as volunteers into the field of promoting
social entrepreneurship/ spiritual entrepreneurship / career guidance
To help the youth of the country in creating a concrete action plan for the development
of humanity at large
For achieving these objectives, we conduct the following programmes : -
1. Workshop on Social Entrepreneurship
2. Workshop on Spiritual Entrepreneurship
3. Workshop on TEACHERS AS TRANSFORMERS
4. Career Guidance Programmes
5. Courses on Social Entrepreneurship, Spiritual Entrepreneurship, Relative Economics, and on
other similar topics
HOW DO WE WORK ?
We are not professionals, but we are volunteers. We need volunteers for our growth. We are looking for
those persons, who consider social responsibility as our moral responsibility and therefore willing to
spare some time out of their busy schedule for a work which is going to be an intrinsically satisfying
work for them. We are eagerly awaiting volunteers to join our group and expand our activities. For us
this is a devotion and a form of worship and therefore, we shall continue to promote this work zealously
and believe and if not today, tomorrow there will be a group of persons to support us.
WHAT ARE COURSE CONTENTS OF WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
What is social entrepreneurship?
Problem identification and development of solutions for the problem (now an opportunity).
What are the constraints and opportunities in social entrepreneurship?
How to prepare business plan for social entrepreneurship?
Case studies in social entrepreneurship
Group assignment for preparation of social entrepreneurship business plans
Presentations by the groups on their themes.
Interactions with social entrepreneurs
WHAT ARE THE COURSE CONTENTS OF WORKSHOP ON TEACHERS AS TRANSFORMERS?

4. The role of teachers
Teachers as Institution Builders – case studies
Writing for newspapers, magazines, journals and blogs
Preparing projects / social development ideas
Guiding students for social development / social entrepreneurship
Extending greater responsibilities to the students and playing the role of facilitators
Using technology in teaching profession
Simulations and role plays
Experience sharing, feedback and open discussions
WHAT ARE COURSE CONTENTS OF WORKSHOP ON SPIRITUAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
Meditation for better focus on career
Spirituality and strategic leadership for Organisations of the future
Case studies on spiritual entrepreneurship
WHAT ARE COURSE CONTENTS OF CAREER GUIDANCE PROGRAMME?
Understanding our true self and our aspirations
Linking skills, capabilities and performance
How to secure scholarships / fellowships
What, where and how to study?
Overview of social trends and identifying new generation career paths
Career Goal Setting
How to prepare resumes and prepare for GD & Interviews?
Entrepreneurship and intrapraneurship as career paths
Team work and collective efforts for better career progress – simulations and management
games
What is PGPSE and CSE ?
PGPSE stands for Post Graduate Programme on Social / Spiritual Entrepreneurship. CSE stands for
Certificate in Social / Spiritual Entrepreneurship. We had started PGPSE and CSE as free programmes.
These programmes are now offered on distance education / online mode only. The programme
participants have to download and study the material, prepare at least four business plans, work with
some NGOs as volunteer for social development and undertake some other prescribed activities to get
PGPSE /CSE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDENTIALS
We have undertaken many workshops on social entrepreneurship, Teachers As Transformers and other
similar themes. We have been able to help thousands of students directly / indirectly. We have guided
hundreds of teachers about the role of teachers and these workshops have been appreciated by the
programme participants.

5. Some of the institutions, which have given us opportunity to conduct these programmes are : -
Agarwal Samaj (Society) Bikaner
Apex Institute of Management, Jaipur
Aravali Institute of Management, Jodhpur
Bhoj Reddy Engineering College for Women, Hyderabad
College of Engineering and Technology Bikaner
Deepshikha Group of Colleges Jaipur
District Industries Centre Bikaner
HCM Rajasthan Institute of Public Administration Bikaner
ICSI Hyderabad Chapter
IIT Roorkee
Kesar Fragrance Institute Bikaner
Maharani Sudarshana College for Women, Bikaner
Manda Institute of Technology Bikaner
Marudhar Engineering College Bikaner
Rashtra Sahayak Vidyalaya Bikaner
Terapanth Yuvak Parishad Gangashahr, Bikaner
The Dainik Bhaskar Group Bikaner
The Rajasthan Patrika Group Bikaner
COST OF THE PROGRAMME AND REQUIREMENTS FROM THE HOST INSTITUTIONS
We are willing to conduct these programmes for every school and college across the country (but that is
not possible – hence we can conduct it in only those institutions, which invite us). We are not
commercially minded on these issues. We are not asking the institutions to pay us money for conducting
these programmes. We just need little bit assistance in terms of transportation costs, local hospitality
and local infrastructure support. All those institutions, who can help us, are actually going to help
themselves – as our only objective is to strengthen our educational set up so that we are able to have
better education and training for our next generations.
FAQs ON OUR ACTIVITIES : -
Q. Is there any minimum eligibility for our programmes ?
No – any enthusiastic person can join our programme
Q. What is the language used in these programmes?
Either English or Hindi – depending on audience
Q. Do we advertise or publicize our programmes ?
No – rather we wait for persons to approach us and we conduct these programmes, only if there is
willingness on the part of the host institution and the programme participants to join these programmes
Q. Do we publish any books / journals / study material ?
Yes – but only online – we believe that knowledge and information should be shared and those willing to
share knowledge should form networks.
Q. What are PGPSE passout doing now?

6. A few enthusiastic persons have completed PGPSE / CSE programmes. Mr. N. Raju was our first student
of PGPSE and he is a successful entrepreneur in Kota (Rajasthan) now. Mr. Mahaveer (Yuvraj) also
completed PGPSE and he also became an entrepreneur. Mr. Pawan and Mr. Gautam Buchha are also
planning to become entrepreneurs. A few other programme participants are in jobs, but wish to become
entrepreneurs.
Q. Do our programmes help a person in getting a government job?
No – we are not conducting any government recognized programmes. We do provide certificates – but
they are not for helping a person in getting a job, but just a reminder of the programme undertaken by
the participant. We do provide guidance in starting a new business enterprise / social enterprise – but
there is no assurance regarding placement / job guarantee.
Q. What is the contribution of AFTERSCHOOL?
We have so far organized many workshops / seminars / career guidance programmes and published
many case studies, prepared many audio lectures and study material for the youth - which are available
on scribd.com, slideshare.net, esnips.com and other similar websites. We have tried to focus our
attention on attitude, vision, and ideas of the youth.