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    The proposal requests $20,000 to fund the Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship (DexSchool) in 2015. DexSchool is a week-long residential program that teaches leadership and entrepreneurship skills to 120 middle and high school students from low-income countries. It aims to empower young people to address challenges in their communities. Past DexSchool graduates have won awards and launched impactful projects. The funding will support curriculum development, financial aid for students, seed funding for graduate projects, accommodations, and equipment.

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    The proposal requests $20,000 to fund the Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship (DexSchool) in 2015. DexSchool is a week-long residential program that teaches leadership and entrepreneurship skills to 120 middle and high school students from low-income countries. It aims to empower young people to address challenges in their communities. Past DexSchool graduates have won awards and launched impactful projects. The funding will support curriculum development, financial aid for students, seed funding for graduate projects, accommodations, and equipment.

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    The Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship (Dexschool)

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    Proposal for 100 Projects for Peace

    The Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship


    (DexSchool)

    Sharad Vivek Sagar


    Tufts University (A’ 16)
    sharad.sagar@tufts.edu
    +1-617-821-8233
    The Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship (DexSchool)

    Introduction: The Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship (DexSchool) is


    a weeklong world-class residential summer school of leadership and entrepreneurship for
    middle school and high school students aided with a yearlong mentoring and support
    system. In other words, DexSchool is like a life-changing rigorous MBA program for
    middle school and high school students in low-income countries.

    Our primary objective is to equip future leaders of the world (most coming from
    marginalized communities and low-income countries) with leadership and
    entrepreneurship as tools of change. The project equips young people with effective skill
    sets, builds their network of advocates, supporters and collaborators, and enables them to
    solve and address the challenges and needs of their communities through innovative and
    efficient leadership and entrepreneurial solutions.

    The Project for Peace will take place in Patna, India in June 2015 where an entire
    university campus will serve as the residential DexSchool and students will be taught
    through activities, challenges and a curriculum designed by experts from McKinsey,
    World Bank, MIT, Harvard, Tufts and other prestigious educational institutions and
    corporates. Five inspirational leaders and entrepreneurs will be mentors-in-residence.

    If we look back, two kinds of people have had the greatest contribution to world peace:
    those who were courageous enough to dream and those who were determined enough to
    act. The DexSchool is enabling the young generation in low-income countries to dream
    (without fear) and act (without hesitance). We can’t afford to let the dreams and ideas of
    our young generation die. And, that’s the reason why DexSchool exists. DexSchool is
    creating a generation that may have lived through 21st century challenges itself but is
    striving hard to ensure it’s the last generation that sees those problems. DexSchool
    graduates are agents of peace, prosperity and change.

    Need and Impact


    Students in low-income countries are more likely to have first-hand experiences of some
    of the world’s greatest challenges, which also inspire their drive, dreams, and ideas.
    However, in order to act on these, they need an enabler, a support system. Since, schools
    too do not have the bandwidth to inject an innovation, entrepreneurship or leadership
    focus, DexSchool solves this problem by creating a fine blend of a school of government
    and a school of business for young students aided by some of the world’s finest mentors
    and a well though curriculum and program enabling young people to build the future.
    DexSchool is the enabler that they need.

    DexSchool was piloted in 2013 and has ever since impacted the lives of children and
    youth from some of South Asia’s most marginalized communities and untapped
    regions. On Rediff India's 2014 list of 10 Most Inspirational Stories, #1 was that of a
    DexSchool graduate. The winner of the UNESCO Multimedia Award in 2014 was
    DexSchool graduate and so was the UN Youth Courage Awardee 2014. A DexSchool
    graduate represented India at the International Youth Forum in Seliger, Russia while two
    DexSchool graduates are currently serving as the Regional Ambassadors to UNEP Tunza
    Eco-generation. At every level and at every place, DexSchool graduates are ensuring
    peace and progress in their own unique ways.

    Qualifications
    I am the founder and Executive Director of DexSchool. As a young social innovator, I
    have spent one-third of my life designing and implementing innovative platforms,
    resources, and support systems for children and youth across the world. I have worked
    with several organizations including the United Nations and its agencies, the US
    Consulate and its American Centers in India, schools and colleges and their
    administration, the state and national governments and their senior bureaucrats.

    For my work in the field of creating greater access for children and youth, I have received
    multiple UN awards and honors. In 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation included me in its
    centennial list of Top 100 Next Century Innovators.

    The DexSchool Board of Advisors includes some of the world’s most reputed
    professional and executives who have served in key roles at some of the world’s most
    prestigious organizations.

    Outcomes and their Assessment


    In the last two years, DexSchool has made some of the most improbable stories possible.
    Our 80 DexSchool graduates range from daughters of sex workers to young boys from
    Asia’s most impoverished communities. In 2015, we hope to offer the DexSchool
    experience to 120 young students (as opposed to 40 in previous two years) with the
    support of 100 Projects for Peace. The DexSchool experience will enable these students
    to identify challenges and needs and address them through their learning and support
    system they gain from the DexSchool including but not limited to people, funding, tools
    and resources.

    The project will continue to be assessed by number of DexSchool graduates who were
    offered the experience and yearlong mentoring, the impact of the program on them
    (which is evaluated using our in-class feedback tool), and the number of impact projects
    and initiatives by our DexSchool graduates.

    Our budget is $20,000. We have been successful in reaching 10,000 dollars each year.
    We hope to accommodate the 2x increase in the number of graduates through a 100
    Projects for Peace funding. We are committed to meeting the remainder through tuition,
    donors and partners.

    The DexSchool Budget and a Letter of Commitment from the chair of the DexSchool
    Board of Advisors has been attached.
    DexSchool 2015 – Budget

    The budget includes funds for


    - developing a world class curriculum (video/text)
    - seed funding grads for their developmental and peace projects back in their
    schools, towns and communities
    - renting the entire St. Xavier’s College’s campus for five days
    - securing food and other living expenses for 130 people for five days (120 students
    + 10 mentors)
    - travel and logistics costs for students and mentors
    - potential audio and visual equipment and stationery

    The budget does not include funds for


    - salaries of full-time members and stipends for interns or volunteers
    - housing and food expenses of any member from the organizing committee of
    DexSchool

    Item Description Cost


    Site Rental Fee (Subsidized) Rent for Venue $1000
    Curriculum Production Design, $2000
    Implementation,
    Production
    (Audio/Video/Print)
    Financial Aid and Travel Aid Need-Blind $8000
    Financial Aid and
    limited Travel Aid
    Project Aid for Graduates Limited aid to help $4000
    DexSchool
    graduates launch
    their initiatives
    Food and Accommodation for 130 people for $2500
    (Subsidized) five days
    Audio/Visual Equipment LCD Projector, $1000
    Microphones,
    boards, cameras,
    films
    Miscellaneous Brochures, ID $1500
    Cards, printing
    costs, etc.
    Total $20,000

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