A brief note on Prof Swapan Garain

Dr Swapan Garain has been active in the voluntary sector for more than twenty-four years. He has been active in teaching university students, training, action research, writing, field action, setting up and managing NGOs, consultancy, networking among social sector stakeholders and promotion of social entrepreneurs.

His work has largely been in the area of structural and behavioral inputs in enhancing organization effectiveness of social sector organizations and the efficiency of delivery of services for the poor, deprived and disadvantaged.

1. Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship & Affiliations Dr Garain has been a member of the Government of India’s Planning Commission Steering Committee on Voluntary Sector (www.nic.in) for the 10th (2002-2007) and 11th (2007-2012) Five year plans. Since 2006, he is a member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He was the Group Advisor of IndianNGOs.com, a socio-commercial initiative for professional inputs for strengthening the voluntary sector in India, during its formative years, 1999-2001. Dr Garain has been the Project Director of University of Technology Sydney Project on Asia Pacific Philanthropic Information Network for content development of Indian Third Sector (www.asianphilanthropy.org). He was also a member of the National Advisory Committee of Comparative Nonprofit Project India Country Study of the Johns Hopkins University (www.jhu.edu), USA. Dr Garain is the Founder and Chairperson of Interactive Karma India, an entrepreneurial initiative for capacity building in the voluntary sector and support services to volunteers, donors, and NGOs. He is the founder of International Institute of Social Entrepreneurship Management and a founder member of Society for Civic Initiatives, Delhi. Dr Garain served as a member of the Social Infrastructure Committee (CSR) of Mumbai Chamber of Commerce and Industry during 1999-2003. He has also been serving in various corporate and NGO committees and boards.

Dr Garain is a member of the Advisory Committee of "Grassroots Reachout & Networking in India on Trade & Economics" (GRANITE) Project of Consumer Unity and Trust Society. He was also a member of the National Co-ordination Committee of the IV ISTR Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2005.

Dr Garain has helped launch and manage a number of NGOs. He is the owner and promoter of two egroups for NGO professionals and trained Social Workers with about 12000 and 600 members respectively. He is currently involved in setting up egroups for social sector, CEO, CSR professionals and Third Sector Researchers in India.

2. Work Experience Dr Garain worked with S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) as Professor and Founder Chairperson of its Centre for Corporate Citizenship for two years during 2001-2003. SPJIMR is one of the top ten management institutes in the country. At SPJIMR, he was engaged in promoting corporate involvement with a motto that it makes business sense to invest in social sector. Dr Garain has been teaching and carrying out research at Tata Institute of Social Sciences since 1985. Prior to this, he worked with Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai and Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, India Program. During more than two decades of academic work, Dr Garain has been engaged in teaching postgraduate social work students, supervising internship of students, guiding M.Phil & Ph.D scholars, and undertaking independent and sponsored research and consultancy assignments. He has designed, introduced and taught the following subjects to post graduate students : Social Entrepreneurship, Management of Development organizations, Environmental Management and Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. He has also been teaching Organizational Behavior and Administration of Social Welfare organizations. In academic administration, he has been the Coordinator for Masters Research, Faculty Coordinator for Job Placement Cell for social work students, and Faculty Coordinator for Social Work Students’ Forum, besides serving on committees for purchase & store, computer resources, sexual abuse, academic affairs, employees credit society, etc.. He has also been the acting head of a teaching department running post graduate degree program in the area of management of NGOs during 2000-2001. He has been the examiners for masters and doctoral students at Visva-Bharati University and Shivaji University.

He has organized and conducted training programs and delivered lectures in the area of self development, motivation, team building, corporate social responsibility, fundraising, Indian voluntary sector, etc

3. Education Dr Garain hold a Honours degree in Social Work from Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, Masters degree in Social Work with specialization in Social Welfare Administration from Tata Institute of Social Sciences at Mumbai, Doctorate in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies of University of Mumbai and a Diploma in Management from India Gandhi National Open University. He has done post doctoral work on internet fundraising and also been a Senior Fellow in Philanthropy at Johns Hopkins University (USA).

He has received fellowships and scholarships from Ford Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Indian Council of Social Science Research, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

4.Research and Publications He has conceived, designed and directed more than 10 sponsored research and consultancy projects. Some of these projects were sponsored by Government of India, National Thermal Power Corporation, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, etc. He has authored a book titled “Organizational Effectiveness of Non-governmental Organizations” and published a dozen papers in various periodicals. He has presented papers in various national and international conferences.

5. Travel Dr Garain has traveled extensively in most part of rural and urban India. In relation to his academic work and professional involvement, he has also traveled to United States, Russia, Northern Ireland, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Turkey, China and South Africa.

6.Interest Area His current areas of interests are : nonprofit research, social entrepreneurship, capacity building and management of social sector organizations, philanthropy, corporate citizenship, volunteering and NGO accreditation.

7. Family and Upbringing He was born (October 01, 1960) and brought up in a small village called Benuria near Santiniketan in West Bengal. Ravindranath Tagore set up his co-operative health care experiment in this village. Currently, he lives with his wife and a 10 year old child at Mumbai. His wife is medical doctor with Government of India.

Prof Swapan Garain, PhD

Email : [email protected] Cell: 91 0 9869031929 Home 91 22 25559269 Snail mail: Post Box 8318, Deonar, Mumbai 400088 India

Dated August 30, 2011