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New International Charity for University Alumni and Students to Help Others
Mardi will unleash the potential of university students and alumni to be effective changemakers by providing a platform that will enable them to work together. Together, we can make a bigger difference.
“Helping students and university alumni to make a greater contribution to their communities is an admirable cause. Mardi has taken an important initiative which I hope will promote a greater commitment to putting back into society some of the benefits that the well-educated receive.”
- The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, CH
- Chancellor, University of Oxford
Click to see a brief introduction to Mardi.
The new organisation will provide support for existing charities and other nonprofits by tapping in to the pool of resources provided by the many students and university alumni who wish to use their talents to make the world a better place. Mardi will act as a catalyst to facilitate and promote:
- networking about innovative solutions to hard problems
- campaigning
- fundraising
- collaborating with existing nonprofits and social enterprises
- developing and sharing best practice in philanthropy
Alumni from 40 universities around the world joined the Mardi group in the first fortnight. Many more have joined since then. If you would like to be part of this exciting new organisation please see how to join Mardi.
If you are still looking for reasons to join then please take a look at “Why You Should Join Mardi”.
MardiMeet London: Education of the Poor in India: Scalable Solutions
Place: The Exchange, 28 London Bridge St, London SE1 9SG, United Kingdom
Time: tba
Come to discuss our Education in India Programme and meet our special guest, Arvind Mishra, from the Apples n Cherries Education Foundation.
How can we help education in India in a way that is effective, scalable and sustainable?
To be informed about this and future meetings in London, please join the new Meetup group: MardiMeet London.
A note of our most recent London meeting is here.
Focus on Education
Mardi can support a wide range of good causes but the initial focus will be on education. Education is at the root of many of the world's problems and we are now actively looking at ways of improving the education of the poor in India. Our first intern will be visiting India in the summer in support of this. We are currently seeking a student who is an Indian national to volunteer to take part. Please contact Doug Morrison (doug [at] mardinet [dot] org) as soon as possible if you are interested in this opportunity to help.
6W2X: A Social Enterprise Startup Incubator for Students
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Many students would love to be involved in a social enterprise startup but know that such an all-consuming passion would not be compatible with their first priority of obtaining a degree. 6W2X™ is a startup incubator that will be designed with this in mind. Too often, students are well-meaning but create plans for businesses that they think Africans (for example) need but don't have the means to find out what Africans actually want. We will create an international ecosystem of startups: by having simultaneous incubators in developing countries we will not only encourage entrepreneurship there, but also help other incubators produce plans for sustainable social enterprises that satisfy a real need. Please see Introduction to 6W2X for further details. |
Our First Project
Please read about our first project, which is in Tamil Nadu, and join Mardi today so that you can help.
MardiStudent
We encourage alumni engagement with charities and a good time to start is when they are at university. There are many ways in which alumni can help university students to engage in charitable activity and make this the start of a lifelong habit. See MardiStudent for further information.
Mardi Launch at House of Commons
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Kevin Brennan MP hosted the very successful Mardi Launch at the House of Commons. |
Jillian Edelstein agrees to be the Principal Photographer at Mardi
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We are thrilled to announce that the world-renowned photographer, Jillian Edelstein, has kindly agreed to be the Principal Photographer at Mardi. We look forward to working with this award winning photographer. |
Raghu Dixit agrees to be Mardi Ambassador
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We are proud to announce that Raghu Dixit has agreed to be the first Mardi Ambassador. |
Mardi Networking Meetings
In 2012 we will be holding a series of networking meetings to exchange ideas for future Mardi projects.
Please contact Doug Morrison (doug [at] mardinet [dot] org) if you are interested in attending these meetings.
Social Networking
Please help spread the word by‘liking’ us on Facebook and following us on Twitter!
Please Support Mardi Today
We need funding to keep moving things forward, so if you want Mardi to succeed, please click the donation button below and follow the instructions.
We know that donors are entitled to expect a detailed account of how their money will be spent and are working on plans with specific objectives and detailed costings right now. In the meantime we welcome donations from anyone who has enough faith in us based on progress so far.
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