Neha Kapadia and Nasir Uddin, Vice President of em[POWER] Energy Group

em[POWER] Energy Group, Spring 2012 Highland Park, NJ

History

Founded in 2010 at Rutgers University

em[POWER} aSempts to coordinate and
streamline the process of waste scavengers
The em[POWER] model helps to improve the
sor,ng eciency of recyclable materials, turn
waste and waster water into electricity, assist
in the crea,on of high quality compost, and
provide the nucleus for a variety of community-
owned businesses

Signicance
Over 50,000 non-prots are created a year
Many non-prots have a dicult ,me acquiring
funds and resources to meet their organiza,on
goals
Partnerships can help organiza,ons share
resources at minimal or no cost, while gaining
benets

A comprehensive understanding of how

dierent partnerships benet non-prot
organiza,ons
The chart below shows a summary of the
investments and benets of each partnership
created this year

Organiza(on/Resources

Investment

Return/Savings

Prokritee (Fair Trade Products)

The organiza,on invested $320.27 in

purchasing low-cost, fair trade
products
Our purchase supports their mission
to help slum-dwellers make a living
o products they created, by buying
at fair market value
em[POWER] provides resources,
materials, and technological exper,se
to support GUCs goals
em[POWER] aSempts to raise
awareness about GUC to worldwide
partners
em[POWER] dedicates ,me and
resources to help GUC apply for
dierent programs (i.e. to get
computers for their school near the
landll)

An em[POWER] board member must
serve as a supervisor, and must
dedicate 1-2 hours a week to meet
with interns to track progress or
assign new work

em[POWER] will receive a $631 return

aMer selling all of the Prokritee
products

em[POWER] provides GREENs

members with opportuni,es to help
in interna,onal projects in
Bangladesh and Pakistan
em[POWER] provides GREEN with
experts in sustainable energy to
expand their knowledge

GREEN donates $180, each ,me an

em[POWER] volunteer joins the
GREEN project team
GREEN provides em[POWER] access
to resources including their network
and educa,onal opportuni,es rela,ng
to sustainable energy
GREEN provides access to volunteers
who will help on-site interna,onally

Grambangla Unnayan CommiCee

(Provide on-site support on Bangladesh
Site)

Purpose
To demonstrate how dierent partnerships
benet non-prot organiza,ons, in the
beginning stages of their star,ng-up process

em[POWER] interns (Complete various

organiza(onal tasks)

Clients
Waste pickers who work or live in the Mutail
Landll, located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Outcomes

Methods

Gathered all the legal partnership documents

from this year to analyze their terms and
condi,ons
Determined he value-added benets of each
non-prot partnerships
Organized data into a table which
demonstrates the benets of each partnership

GREEN (Global Renewable Energy

Educa(on Network)

GUC uses their resources to conduct

surveys regarding the waste picker
popula,on
GUC provides guidance on legal issues
in Bangladesh
GUC acts as an intermediary party
between the waste pickers and
em[POWER], who can communicate
easily between producer and client


Interns complete small tasks such as
booking rooms, planning events,
applying for grants and crea,ng
presenta,ons
Interns draM valuable. documents
such as contracts, memorandums of
understandings, informa,onal
pamphlets and research papers
Interns save the organiza,on the
salary of an employee and save board
members the ,me of comple,ng
smaller tasks

Personnel
I would like to thank my supervisor, Nasir Uddin for his
pa,ence and con,nued support through my internship
process .