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It is a pleasure to share that Dr. Manu Vora (Chemical 1968), President and Founding Director of Blind Foundation for India (BFI), an USA based Not-for-Profit organization was interviewed by Mr.
The interview Podcast audio is available at:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=30812
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The interview is 15 minutes long, and can be listened on computer with Windows Media Player, Wave and other file formats.
It talks about the current situation of blind people in India, and the charity work done by the Blind Foundation for India.
For more information about BFI, please visit: www.blindfoundation.org.
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About Dr. Manu Vora (Chemical 1968)
Dr. Manu Vora is Chairman and President of Business Excellence, Inc. a global quality management consulting service firm. He has over 30 years of leadership experience guiding Fortune 500 companies with Malcolm Baldrige assessment in the areas of leadership development, customer satisfaction, employee engagement and continuous process improvement. As an Adjunct Professor, he taught “Quality Management” and “Supply Chain Management” at Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He taught “Quality Assurance Project Management” at the School of Continuing Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is a Past Vice President of American Society for Quality (ASQ), ASQ Fellow, and Certified Quality Engineer. Manu has B.S. (BHU 1968), M.S. & Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and MBA with Marketing Management. He is a sought after speaker on business excellence and quality management topics with over 210 presentations at local, regional, national and international levels. He has published a chapter on “Managing Human Capital” in the book “Six Sigma for Transactions and Service” by McGraw-Hill in 2005. Dr. Vora served as a Chief Judge at Illinois Team Excellence Award Program from 1993-1999. He is serving as a Judge on the Board of Examiners of the International Asia Pacific Quality Award since 2004.
Dr. Vora has been recognized with numerous awards from ASQ including ASQ Grant Medal, ASQ Lancaster Medal, Testimonial Awards, and ASQ Chicago Section’s Joe Lisy & Founder’s Award. Manu received “2008 2nd Asian American Community Leadership Award” from the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago, “2000 Paul Harris Fellow Medal” from the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, and “1990 Distinguished Service Award” from Save The Children Federation. He is listed in “Who’sWho in the World”, “Who’sWho in America”, “Who’sWho in the Midwest”, “Who’sWho in Science and Engineering”, “Who’sWho in Finance and Business”, “ Who’s Who in Business Higher Education”, and “American Men and Women of Science”. He received the prestigious J. N. Tata Endowment Scholarship in India for his graduate work in the United States. As a founding Director and President of Blind Foundation for India, Manu has raised over $3.5 million to help over a million visually impaired people in India.
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Manu K. Vora, Ph.D., MBA, ASQ CQE, ASQ Fellow
President and Founding Director, Blind Foundation for India
ASQ Grant Medalist (2001), Lancaster Medalist (2005)
Adjunct Professor, Stuart School of Business, IIT Chicago
Chairman and President, Business Excellence, Inc.
P. O. Box 5585, Naperville, IL 60567-5585, USA
Tel: (630) 548-5531; Fax: (630) 548-5532; Mobile: (630) 660-3869
E-mail: manuvora@b-einc.com/
Website: http://www.b-einc.com/
Website: http://www.iit.edu/profiles/alumni/manu_vora.html
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About Chicago Public Radio
Website: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/default.aspx
Chicago Public Radio is a legendary public service broadcast system. It is a non-commercial Public Radio system broadcasting from Chicago, Illinois. Financed primarily by listener contributions, Chicago Public Radio is affiliated with both National Public Radio and Public Radio International; they also broadcast content from American Public Media. There are very few such public oriented radio broadcasts left in US, as most broadcasts are commercial radio systems. It shows how a public oriented non-profit radio system can change the lives of community it serves.
Chicago Public Radio broadcasts its primary service on three FM radio stations, with call signs WBEZ (91.5 FM) in Chicago, WBEQ in Morris, Illinois (90.7 FM), and W217BM (91.3 FM) in Elgin, Illinois. Listeners can also receive the Chicago Public Radio broadcast online with streaming audio, MP3 download or by podcast. As of 2006, the station draws an estimated 600,000 listeners each week.
Chicago Public Radio began as an extension of the Chicago Board of Education and began broadcasting as WBEZ in 1943. For most of its early years, the station only broadcast instructional programs, operating during the school year on weekdays while Chicago Public Schools were in session. In 1972, WBEZ joined National Public Radio and began general programming outside of school hours, not completely dropping instructional programs until the early 1980s. Initially, most programming outside of the instructional programs and NPR programs was jazz music. The Board of Education sold the station to the current license holders, the not-for-profit WBEZ Alliance, Inc., in 1990.
Programming on Chicago Public Radio includes the usual world music, quiz shows, and international and local news on a regular basis.
Company’s mission statement, as posted on its website is as follows:
“Chicago Public Radio is a community-supported, public service broadcasting institution. We offer programs that speak with many voices to community needs and are a reflection of the distinctive and diverse Chicago area. We help listeners learn about issues and ideas that affect the community, the nation, and the world.
We produce, acquire, and distribute engaging, thoughtful, and entertaining programs of depth, breadth, diversity, and substance that speak powerfully.
We are principally a broadcaster. We also serve our local and national community with supplemental distribution initiatives. We expand our outreach to the community and enhance our production effort through partnerships and educational programs with local and national institutions.”
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