Media

Hello Press,

If you are a writer, journalist, editor, blogger, tweeter, or any other press member looking for downloadable media material, this is your stop.

Firstly, thank you for believing in what we do and taking the initiative to spread the word about us.

If you would to talk to us about Grassroutes.in, Yofa.org or our back story, feel free to contact us.

Below you will find a brief one-page summary, downloadable posters/flyers and logos, links to a few good things others have said about us, awards Grassroutes team members and fellows received in the recent past, and a 2 minute promotion video that promotes the Summer 2010 Grassroutes fellowship program.

One page Summary

Grassroutes one page summary

Media Coverage

Ideas Factory > Journeys for social change – Bangalore Mirror (April 2011)

Inspire youth into social action – Express Buzz (Feb 2011)

Journeys that awaken the dormant social activists in youth on The Weekend Leader (Oct. 2010)

The new activists on DNA (Aug. 2010)

Batting for change at the Grassroutes on DNA (May 2010)

Interview with Grassroutes on Social Earth (July 2009)

Grassroutes: take a road trip for a change on BITS-Pilani magazine, Sandpaper (Spring 2009 edition)

Grassroutes Fellowship Program on ThinkChange – India (October 2008)

Roadtrips for social change on NX-g (The Hindu – Next Generation)

Downloadable Logos, Posters, Flyers

Awards and Laurels

  • Grassroutes was awarded the Manthan Award for the best e-content for development in category ‘E-culture & entertainment’
  • Keerthi Kiran Kanchanpally and Sriram Varadarajan, co-founders of Grassroutes have been selected as StartingBloc 2010 Boston Fellows.
  • Grassroutes fellow and team member Rishabh Kaul joined NextBillion.net editorial team.
  • One of our co-founders Keerthi Kiran Kanchanpally, was awarded the Paragon 100 fellowship for starting Grassroutes. Asia’s 100 most inspiring young entrepreneurs and social changemakers are selected every year.
  • Grassroutes ’08 Fellow Abhishek Nayak is a part of the Indian Youth Delegation to the COP15 (Copenhagen, Dec ’09).
  • Keerthi Kiran Kanchanpally, Grassroutes co-founder, and Fellows Abhishek Nayak and Raghav Mimani have been selected as delegates to the 1st NMC world youth meeting in Bari, Italy.
  • Anurag Dutta won the Habitat Young Visionary Award, 2009


Grassroutes 2010 Summer Edition Promotional Video

A two minute promotional video for Grassroutes 2010 Summer edition


Grassroutes 2010 promotional video from Yofa on Vimeo.