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Goa Press Release 16th July 2010

Third Sector Partners recently held its maiden convention at Dona Sylvia Resort, Cavellossim, Goa, to celebrate the success of its innovative and unique programme, “Katalyst”, which helps girls from economically challenged backgrounds to succeed in challenging education and career environments through structured mentoring, personality grooming and financial intermediation

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Goa Press Release 16th July 2010

Third Sector Partners recently held its maiden convention at Dona Sylvia Resort, Cavellossim, Goa, to celebrate the success of its innovative and unique programme, “Katalyst”, which helps girls from economically challenged backgrounds to succeed in challenging education and career environments through structured mentoring, personality grooming and financial intermediation

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Third Sector Partners recently held its maiden convention at Dona Sylvia Resort,

Cavellossim, Goa, to celebrate the success of its innovative and unique programme,
“Katalyst”, which helps girls from economically challenged backgrounds to succeed
in challenging education and career environments through structured mentoring,
personality grooming and financial intermediation.

The convention was an enormous success with over hundred Katalyst students in
attendance, sporting bright yellow signature t-shirts. The highlight of the convention
was an interactive panel discussion on the theme “Windows of Opportunity”,
moderated by Unmesh Brahme, Yale World Fellow with panelists Chief Guest IGP
Goa Ms. Sundari Nanda; Mayor of Panjim Ms. Caroline Po; Renowned fashion
designer Wendell Rodericks; Nitin Kunkolienkar Managing Director, DigiLink;

Ms. Vaishali Joshi of Vivus; Dr. Pramod D. Salgaocar, Managing Director of


Genopharma and Ms. Vijayadevi Rane, Chairperson Goa Balbhavan.The convention
comprised of diverse personality-confidence building activities for Katalysts and day
two kicked off with Sunit Mehra, Managing Director, Hunt Partners and Chief
Mentor Katalyst introducing his vision for Katalyst. Third Sector Partners hosts the
Katalyst programme as its founding supporter and institutional mentor and the address
by Pari Jhaveri, Executive Director, and Third Sector Partners highlighted the
rationale and need for growing grassroots talent in the community with specific focus
on the girl child, thus contributing to the movement for creating an inclusive society
and workforce.

The Chief Guest Ms. Sundari Nanda instantly connected with the audience and related
her experiences and cautioned Katalysts on the pitfalls that can be easily avoided
during the struggle to become an effective leader. She spoke about her youth
counseling initiative Nav Chetna and the manner in which the online platform creates
a solution for youth seeking advice on a number of matters.

Wendell Rodericks in his inimitable style regaled the audience with an inspirational
presentation “Follow your Dream” where he emphasized the need to be
internationally accepted and how one must sieze opportunities and not lose focus and
always be proud and draw from one’s roots, culture and ethnicity to reach the
pinnacle of success.

Ms. Vijayadevi Rane underlined the need for giving back to society and ensuring
commitment to ideals with determiniation and focus to achieve goals. Ms. Vaishali

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Joshi highlighted through her own life story how dedication and a holistic perspective
is an important stepping stone for success in the varied career opportunities that are
available today. She also stressed the role of family and the need to balance career
and family demands to lead a fulfilling life.

It was very stirring to hear the Mayor of Panaji Ms. Caroline Po outline the details of
her thumping victory in getting elected as the Mayor of Panaji through demonstration
of courage, grit, passion and sincerity, in the face of stiff competitions from other
powerful male candidates.

Dr Pramod Salgaoncar in a motivating speech made every Katalyst think and question
the traditional patriarchal roles of men in the Indian society. She stressed upon the
need to empower men to be supportive of women to help them in realising their full
creativity and potential. She also mentioned that it is imperative to recognize and
rectify one’s mistake at any point in one’s life to become successful.

Nitin Kunkolienkar shared his inspirational journey as a successful entrepreneur and


helped Katalysts understand the value of passionate pursuit of career and life goals.

The Katalyst students spoke on their experiences and journey in evolving from ill-
informed youth in difficult situations to confident super-achievers and the manner in
which Katalyst programme helped them achieve their dreams, giving them a sense of
security and hope.

The panel discussion was focused in covering pertinent issues raised by Katalysts.
The opinions voiced by successful luminaries helped increase confidence of Katalysts
and developed an understanding of what it takes to break the glass ceiling. Paneleists
also provided various strategies that can be used to increase opportunities for the
advancement of women in management.

Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy, Program Manager Katalyst gave the vote of thanks


marking the close of the event. The Katalyst Goa convention was indeed an inspiring
occasion for girl students who are enthusiastically pursuing their progression towards
successful, self-assured women who would don leadership roles in their chosen
domains and chip away at the myths regarding employability of women in top
managerial positions. The convention served to reinforce practical steps that will help
girl students in their flight towards economic emancipation.

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About Katalystwww.katalystindia.org

Katalyst is a not–for-profit programme under the aegis of Third sector partners with a
mission to reach out to meritorious girl children from economically challenged
families and ensure their participation in the highest levels of education, leading to
self-empowerment through economic emancipation. Katalyst interventions include
mentoring by senior professionals, personality grooming, leadership workshops,
access to IT equipment and the web, hard and soft skills training, industry exposure
visits, medical insurance, financial support for books, travel, tuition, hostel and
college fees. Today, Katalyst is 100 girls strong and has 13 proud alumni, who have
joined large organisations such as Aricent, Cognizant, L&T, Nokia, Shapoorji
Pallonji, Infosys, Motorola, at the executive level, in addition to those who have
chosen other vocations such as Architecture and Medicine. A few have gone on to
complete their post graduation from IIMs, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Institute of
Mathematical Sciences Chennai. Katalyst donors include Tech Mahindra Foundation,
Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Gaja Capital, Cummins India Sales Bangalore, Honeywell
amongst others.

About Third Sector Partnerswww.thirdsectorpartners.com

Third Sector Partners is a boutique search firm, providing specialized services to non-
governmental organizations (NGOs), institutions and corporates to enable them to
recruit CEOs, leaders and board members, across many specialised verticals of health,
education, community development, strategic communication and sustainability.
Third Sector Partners (TSP) is committed to enhancing leadership caliber and
proficiency in the socio-developmental sector with its earnings re-invested in building
capacities for creating a firm foundation of leadership critical mass. Third Sector
Partner’s search methodology is now recognised as the industry gold standard gaining
them accolodates from a large number of pre-eminent organisations with whom they
have placed over 400 top management candidates.

Contact Information

Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy, Program Manager, Katalyst (Karnataka),Ph:


+919845575665, mahalakshmi@katalystindia.org

Anjali Hari, Program Director, Katalyst(Maharashtra): Ph: +919820180265, Email:


anjali@thirdsectorpartners.com.

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