Perspectives on Innovation

In January we reached out to you asking for you to vote for ASSET India in the JP Morgan/Chase Giving Facebook voting contest. Ray Umashankar, Executive Director of ASSET India, has kindly given us an update on the contest.

My heartfelt thanks to all the InnoCentive solvers voting in both Rounds of the JP Morgan/Chase Giving contest.

It is because of your support that ASSET won $25,000 for being in the top 100 of the vote-getters.

However in Round II, we seriously fell short in the number of fans. The winning charity had a Facebook fan base of 295,000 of which 122,500 voted. Our goal is to increase our fan base to 300,000 for the next competition starting in November 2010 and ASSET needs your help to reach the goal.

Please become a fan of ASSET India Foundation by clicking on the link below and request your friends and family to do the same.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=188234189796&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=357122095006&ref=ts

Thanks again and best wishes

Ray Umashankar
Executive Director
ASSET India Foundation

This is a big thanks to all of you who have voted for ASSET India in Round II of the $1 Million JP Morgan/ Chase Giving Facebook voting contest. If you haven’t been able to as yet, you have until midnight on January 22^nd to cast your vote.

ASSET India is a noble non-profit organization who provides marginalized women and children in rural India access to the skills and knowledge needed to escape the sex trade. They hope to use the $1 million prize money to give 5,000 women and children access to literacy programs.  They will also produce wireless routers to enable access to their programs for those living in rural areas. The program is currently limited to 500 due to space and resource limitations so this prize would dramatically increase the program’s impact and enrollment.

We ask you to support ASSET India’s efforts by voting for them. As evidenced by film producer Pat Loewi’s video of students at the ASSET center Delhi, ASSET India’s programs do much to enable women and children to escape the sex trade environment by arming them with knowledge, self-confidence and purpose.

The voting link is: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/717045

Their target is 100,000 votes and we can help them reach their goal.

Thanks so much for your help!

In September 2008, a very important Challenge was solved by the InnoCentive community.  The Challenge was to create technology for a solar-powered wireless router to provide marginalized women and children in rural India access to the skills and knowledge needed to escape the sex trade.  This noble Seeker is the non-profit organization ASSET India. Today, you have the opportunity to help ASSET India further its cause to help at risk women and children in India.

ASSET India has won Round I of the $1 Million JP Morgan/Chase Giving Facebook voting contest, and they are now eligible for the Round II voting contest.  Voting starts at midnight January 15th and ends at midnight on January 22nd. The highest vote-getter receives the prize of $1 million. If ASSET India wins, they will use this money to give 5,000 women and children access to literacy programs.  They will also produce wireless routers to enable access for those in rural areas. The program is currently limited to 500 due to space and resource limitations so this prize would dramatically increase the program’s impact and enrollment.

InnoCentive is proud to be associated with such an organization, and we ask you to support ASSET India’s efforts by voting for them. Their literacy programs not only give women and children an opportunity to have a legitimate alternate livelihood by getting out of sex trade environment, but also give them knowledge, self-confidence and a purpose to better their lives, as captured so eloquently by documentary film producer Pat Loewi in this video of students at the ASSET center Delhi.

The voting link is: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/717045

Their target is 100,000 votes and we can help them reach their goal.

Thanks so much for your help!