Unmesh Sheth

Unmesh Sheth

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    President

    Indians For Collective Action

    - Present 20 years 5 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    During my tenure as President at ICA, I embarked on an enlightening journey, diving deep into some of the world's most pressing social challenges. My commitment led me to closely observe and collaborate with SEWA, one of the globe's most extensive nonprofit organizations, impacting over 2.5 million grassroots communities.

    Key Achievements:

    Ground-level Insights: Acquired first-hand knowledge by listening to and understanding the challenges faced by grassroots…

    During my tenure as President at ICA, I embarked on an enlightening journey, diving deep into some of the world's most pressing social challenges. My commitment led me to closely observe and collaborate with SEWA, one of the globe's most extensive nonprofit organizations, impacting over 2.5 million grassroots communities.

    Key Achievements:

    Ground-level Insights: Acquired first-hand knowledge by listening to and understanding the challenges faced by grassroots organizations.

    Championing Feedback: Witnessed the transformative power of feedback loops at SEWA Rural, emphasizing its significance in driving impactful change.

    Infusing Fresh Perspectives: As a young leader, I introduced fresh talent into the organization, ensuring a dynamic and forward-thinking approach.

    Funding and Support: Spearheaded funding initiatives for innovative organizations, enabling them to further their mission.

    Strategic Collaborations: Forged meaningful alliances with leading activist programs, amplifying our collective impact.

    I invite you to delve into my journey, where challenges were met with resilience and where collective action sparked meaningful change.

Publications

  • Ektta/SoPact - Initial Success with SEWA, A leading Bottom Of Pyramid (BOP) Organization

    SoPact

    Our initial efforts to develop the platform and validate our approach has been quite successful. For last 2 1/2 years, SoPact has been working with India's largest (1.75 million members) Ghandian gross roots organization empowering poor women, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). SEWA has 1500 master trainers and many leading programs to mobilize and support women on path to self-employment. SoPact is the first platform to be launched to reach 1.75 million women with various services such…

    Our initial efforts to develop the platform and validate our approach has been quite successful. For last 2 1/2 years, SoPact has been working with India's largest (1.75 million members) Ghandian gross roots organization empowering poor women, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). SEWA has 1500 master trainers and many leading programs to mobilize and support women on path to self-employment. SoPact is the first platform to be launched to reach 1.75 million women with various services such as member enrollment, renewal, payment, training and other member services.

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  • YourStory: How do you plan to bridge digital divide?

    YourStory.in

    There is no doubt that throughout the developing world there is a significant technological divide that challenges efforts aimed at promoting equality of opportunity. Because so many of India’s poor do not have access to communication technologies, they remain at the bottom of an unfavorable learning curve, unexposed to the tools practically required to thrive in today’s economy. Interestingly, this lack of understanding or accessibility to technology seems to extend up the base of the pyramid…

    There is no doubt that throughout the developing world there is a significant technological divide that challenges efforts aimed at promoting equality of opportunity. Because so many of India’s poor do not have access to communication technologies, they remain at the bottom of an unfavorable learning curve, unexposed to the tools practically required to thrive in today’s economy. Interestingly, this lack of understanding or accessibility to technology seems to extend up the base of the pyramid and affect those who are actually trying to help the underprivileged. Unmesh Sheth, founder of Ektta and President of Silicon Valley based Indians for Collective Action (ICA), made this realization during his time spent with Indian NGOs, trying to find a way that that ICA could work with them to create an impact. Read more: http://tiny.cc/uaw5ow

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  • Group lets Indian professionals pitch in

    San Francisco Chronicle

    (Author: Esha Chhabra: Linked-in doesn't allow me to remove as an author)

    It's a professional organization that's been in existence for 43 years and has made $5 million in charitable grants, but ICA - Indians for Collective Action - is still pretty much an unknown in the Bay Area, its former president says.
    But that may be changing as more young professionals decide to get involved.
    "Nowadays you see so many young people who want to make an impact, who want to reconnect with their…

    (Author: Esha Chhabra: Linked-in doesn't allow me to remove as an author)

    It's a professional organization that's been in existence for 43 years and has made $5 million in charitable grants, but ICA - Indians for Collective Action - is still pretty much an unknown in the Bay Area, its former president says.
    But that may be changing as more young professionals decide to get involved.
    "Nowadays you see so many young people who want to make an impact, who want to reconnect with their South Asian roots after being brought up in the Bay Area," says Bhupen Mehta. "But changing the mind-set of older people, people in my age group, to give back has been much harder."

    Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Group-lets-Indian-professionals-pitch-in-4013370.php#ixzz2E16wZtXJ

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  • Building Bridges For Social Transformation

    http://icaonline.org/building-bridges-for-social-transformation/

    India’s growth during the last decade has resulted in an acute skill gap at the management level of most NGOs and social enterprises. In recent times, their roles have become lot more complex and demand more knowledge and experience in better design, technology and management practices including experience of working with market based practices. Western countries, including the US, are fertile ground with professionals experienced in some of these fields who can offer their recognized…

    India’s growth during the last decade has resulted in an acute skill gap at the management level of most NGOs and social enterprises. In recent times, their roles have become lot more complex and demand more knowledge and experience in better design, technology and management practices including experience of working with market based practices. Western countries, including the US, are fertile ground with professionals experienced in some of these fields who can offer their recognized expertise to fill this challenge.

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  • Technology Entrepreneurship

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Projects

  • Peacetones

    Building Theory of Change and success metrics. PeaceTones’ mission is to foster rule of law from the ground up and create sustainable incomes for musicians living in communities torn apart by war, protracted conflict and natural disaster.

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  • Alliance For Girls

    Building capacity by leveraging technology. Introduced few latest technology tools to visualize the data planning and presenting. Alliance for Girls is the largest regional alliance of girls' organizations and champions in the country.

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  • Empowering 1.8 million underprivileged women at SEWA - Leading Bottom of Pyramid Organization

    Our initial efforts to develop the platform and validate our approach has been quite successful. For last 2 1/2 years, Ektta has been working with India's largest (1.8 million members) Gandhian gross roots organization empowering poor women, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). SEWA has 15000 master trainers and many leading programs to mobilize and support women on path to self-employment. Ektta is the first platform to be launched to reach 1.8 million women with various services such as…

    Our initial efforts to develop the platform and validate our approach has been quite successful. For last 2 1/2 years, Ektta has been working with India's largest (1.8 million members) Gandhian gross roots organization empowering poor women, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). SEWA has 15000 master trainers and many leading programs to mobilize and support women on path to self-employment. Ektta is the first platform to be launched to reach 1.8 million women with various services such as member enrollment, renewal, payment, training and other member services.

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  • EnAble India

    EnAble India is a leading organization in the disability sector with 15+ years of experience in training and placing people with disability in many local and international companies. They are pioneer in developing many training modules, as well as increasing awareness in companies regarding disabilities.

    Ektta played a major role in understanding the requirements from organization’s point of view and their challenges in implementing new technology.

    Ektta worked in partnership…

    EnAble India is a leading organization in the disability sector with 15+ years of experience in training and placing people with disability in many local and international companies. They are pioneer in developing many training modules, as well as increasing awareness in companies regarding disabilities.

    Ektta played a major role in understanding the requirements from organization’s point of view and their challenges in implementing new technology.

    Ektta worked in partnership with SoPact for about 5-6 weeks to make a connection with EnAble India team in Bangalore. Time devoted to understand their existing system, its challenges, new needs, redefining and crystalizing processes in each department and then building powerful objects on SoPact platform to reflect all the learning. Old data was migrated (that took about 3-4 weeks including testing and verifying) and mapped to see the magical digital views. Some reporting, which used to take hours will take few minutes with a new system. Some of the story that data started telling brought light and surprise to the entire team including founders! Phase I work started in May is still in progress and will go live in September.

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  • English

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  • Gujarati

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