By now you would have all heard about the MAD core team elections.
It is a platform for passionate volunteers to become leaders of social change.
An opportunity to experience the pains and pleasures of leading a national youth movement.
Your biggest take away won’t just be engaging with leaders of tomorrow,
It’ll be your ability to rewrite the destiny of thousands of our kids.
Ever dreamt of changing the world? Well…this is where you start.
Don’t hesitate. Apply for your city core team, …

Written by Samarth Agarwal
Do we know the significance of 26th November? It was the day when the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India in 1949. Of course, the Mumbai attacks gave 26/11 a whole new dimension. Given its history, therefore, it was an appropriate date for the Karmaveer awards – which aim to recognise the real-life unsung heroes looking to bring about a change through citizen social responsibility.

Jithin and I took our seats on the second last row of the auditorium…No, we were not late. We were half an …

The campaign for the Indiya Shines competition at GreatNonProfits.org started out slow. In one week we had made it to around 24 reviews. We were somewhere between the bottom and the not-so-bottom.
Couple of mails and a phone call later, MAD was abuzz. Maddies had started going to work. Mailing, calling, (coercing?) and asking people to Write A Review (WAR).
And so it started. Saturday night – 24 reviews Monday morning – 700!
Black Magic? No.
Jobless spammers? Hell No.
Dedicated volunteers, kind well wishers and a whole lot of meaningful reviews? Hell Yeah!!
The response …

If you don’t want to, you don’t deserve to read this, and your monitor will explode within ten seconds of you finishing this post..! (Offer only valid for MAD volunteers)
MAD, as you might not know (hence the relevance of this post), has entered a contest at a site named GreatNonProfits
What is being measured is the impact and the wake left by NGO’s. The competition URL is this. So all volunteers, well-wishers, blog readers, stumblers etc mobilize! Just to give you a heads up on what to expect, here’s a list …

Read the full story here.

Foreword:
The following article is  written by the “oldest” MAD volunteer..somebody who changed my views on adults..and one of the biggest reasons why MAD no longer has the “below 25” restriction anymore
 Archana ma’am is a well experienced teacher in Choice who decided to take up the challenge of pallu small kids head on…she more than anybody else knows that MAD isn’t perfect…she has seen the highs and lows of MAD but never lost faith in us. In fact I often wonder why she trust us youngsters ever so blindly and I …

NO ! NO ! NO ! NO !
I DID’NT hear wrong.. You dint hear wrong.. Somebody DINT make a jackass out of you… IT happened… !!!
MAD won the Ashoka Awards… YES.. The Ashoka Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurs Award..
When I heard for the first time that we had made it into the final 15, I couldn’t believe it.. Now, a week, and lots of hard work later, here we are.. In the champions circle.. The champions circle, people!!
If you’re a MAD volunteer, stand up, and give yourself a huge pat on …

Click on the Image below. It will take you to the Competition page.

The competition page will look something like this. Click on the register link.

This is the registration page. Fill in your details and submit. You will be taken to the login page.

This is the login page. Before logging in, you need to check your mail and see that you have got the password confirmation mail from webmaster@changemakers.net…
Note : If you are a Yahoo user, the mail would probably have gone to your spam folder.. Check there as well, if …