TAPPING INTO A POOL OF US $ 300B TO DO SOME GOOD.

POINTS FOR GOOD

‘Points for Good’ is a charity platform with a difference, it allows donors to donate their airline points, Loyalty Reward Points, employee rewards as well as the regular payment options through credit/ debit cards and UPI, connecting a community of “goodness”, by supporting causes which promote education, health, sport, music and art, protect the environment and champion animal welfare. 

Since launch in 2017, ‘Points for Good’ has succeeded in re-purposing more than 50 million loyalty points towards good causes.

The ‘Points for Good’ platform taps into the vast pool of unredeemed loyalty points (in India, ~INR 1,200 crore issued annually by banks alone, and globally, over US$ 300 billion). In general, 30-40% of all such points lapse without being used. 

We look forward to the support of our alumni either through your own loyalty points or through your organisations.

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ROCKET LEARNING: BUILDING THE BRAINS OF OUR YOUNGEST CHILDREN

ROCKET LEARNING

More than 60 million low-income Indians aged 6 and younger are falling behind wealthier kids because of a lack of educational resources. Social entrepreneurs Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) and Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) are closing the gap with Rocket Learning, an early-years ed-tech nonprofit that has connected 50,000 teachers and 1 million children using locally relevant audiovisual content. Rocket partners with government daycare systems through a WhatsApp bot that facilitates a network of 70,000 digital parentteacher communities by providing developmentally appropriate lessons, facilitating community support, and tracking progress.

Offering a host of videos crossing language and cultural backgrounds that are simple enough for relatively uneducated parents to understand, the company aims to break the cycle of poverty and help the next generation get ahead. The average child in a Rocket Learning cohort attains skills at the top third of a non-RL class at the cost of 50c/child/year. Rocket Learning is part of the Indian government’s Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Taskforce and UNICEF’s working group for Foundational Learning. Their innovations in promoting early learning have been profiled in Harvard Business School, UNESCO and Forbes case studies, researched by MIT-JPAL and Brookings, and awarded by MIT Solve and the WEF.

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CLASS SAATHI, ENABLING THE CRITICAL STAKEHOLDER: THE TEACHER

TagHive Inc. incorporated on April 25, 2017 is a Samsung funded education technology company with headquarters in South Korea and an office in India. The company’s offerings include clicker-based classroom response systems and AI-powered selfassessment solutions. The company offers its solutions under the “Class Saathi” brand in India and under the “Class Key” brand elsewhere. TagHive has 22 registered patents and trademarks and 10 others are pending. The company’s solutions are used in over 1000 schools (adding 2-3 schools daily) and over 340,000 students have downloaded the Class Saathi self-assessment solution Class Saathi is a clicker based smart classroom solution that makes formative assessment easy and fast. Class Saathi is a combination of a clicker device for each student and a mobile application for teachers parents and the administrators

Class Saathi is aligned with New Education Policy’s objectives of micro-learning and continuous assessments. “Data First” approach ensures greater accountability at all levels. Class Saathi is affordable and does not require schools to upgrade their infrastructure ("no internet" and "no electricity" are no more the limiting factors in making classrooms smart). 

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H.O.P.E. AND FREE VACCINATIONS IN DELHI

HOPE FOR ALL

With the goal of augmenting the efforts of the government in vaccinating the under-served (such as the handicapped and transgender communities) and underprivileged communities of Delhi, three organizations came together to run mass scale, charitable vaccination drives.

Over the course of 3 months, HOPE Oncology Clinic has vaccinated 10,000+ individuals for free in Delhi – with a focus to continue doing so going forward - whilst giving each vaccinated individual a free ration kit, sponsored by The Akshaya Patra Foundation, worth INR 550/-.

The vaccine has been sponsored by AZB & Partners, one of India’s leading corporate law firms. 

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HBS INDIA CLASS OF 2007 INITIATIVE

VACCINATE THE VILLAGE 

After the second wave of Covid hit India hard, India residents of HBS Class of 2007 got together and ran an initiative in collaboration with Government of Rajasthan to vaccinate the villages. The initiative had dual objectives - to provide equitable access to vaccines in rural communities, and to build a ‘smart’ vaccination model which can allow micro-communities to achieve herd immunity (70% vaccination). 

12 villages were identified in Jodhpur district, and a three-way partnership model was created with district administration of Jodhpur and private hospital. HBS Class of 2007 committed to provide funds for vaccine procurement, Goyal Hospital offered to source vaccines and Government committed to provide administrative and outreach support in villages.

We conducted fundraising efforts in mid June with concerted outreach to our section mates, and professors. Our class was able to raise $77K USD in two weeks which provided support for 8,000 vaccines. In July, vaccination camps in 3 panchayats of Jodhpur serving 12 villages were organized in a short span of a week by a focused effort of 18 member cross functional team. 6,900 vaccines were administered, taking 18+ age vaccinated population from 41% to 78% in the villages. With the remaining funds, additional 1,350 vaccine support is planned. 

ENSURING SUPPLY AND HOME DELIVERY OF ESSENTIAL COVID RELATED MEDICINES AND OXYGEN COCENTRATORS

HEALTHSKOOL PHARMACY 

Healthskool Pharmacy, a chain of pharmacies in New Delhi founded by Akshay Navaladi (MBA 2013), has been working round the clock delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators and medical supplies to patients at their doorstep all over India. The second wave was especially intense, and in the face of supplier credit drying up and shortages across the board of even basic medicines, the company innovated with various supply chain startegies to stay in stock so that frantic caregivers could get what they need for their infected loved ones.

Since the pandemic began, the 5 year old startup has touched the lives of over half a million Covid patients in India and has even exported medicines to dozens of hard hit countries in Asia and Africa who had to deal with shortages and access problems.

FROM AN SOS WHATSAPP TO AIRLIFTING CRITICAL EQUIPMENT TO INDIA IN THE FASTEST TIME POSSIBLE

A PLATFORM CREATED IN MARCH 2020, THAT TRANSFORMED INTO A CITYWIDE MOVEMENT. EQUIPMENT WORTH 200 CRORES DEPLOYED.

FREE MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE BY TINDER DURING THE THIRD WAVE IN INDIA