Rang De is a young and new-age non-profit working as an online platform for peer-to-peer micro-lending. It is more than 3 years and old is now looking for a Manager to handle Social Audit and Partnerships. Read the job requirement below. Please contact in case you want to apply. If you want to do [...]

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Its rapidly increasing middle class is putting evermore pressure on the country’s resources. Despite this growth, India is still home to one-third of the world’s poor. This combination of factors calls for swift action of smart minds to offer innovative solutions to the needs [...]

The Center for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CSIE) at IIT-Madras was founded in August 2010 with a focus on teaching and research related to social enterprise in India, and an aim to bring together the innovation and entrepreneurship aspects of IITM by creating knowledge and understanding that will be of relevance to the problems that [...]

Magic Lantern Foundation is a registered not-for-profit and has been working with culture and human rights since 1989. They have openings for two internship positions. Find more details below. Currently we are readying for two film festivals in New Delhi. They are looking for two interns to start work immediately. Here are some details about [...]

It was an enlightening two days at the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2010, held at ISB, Hyderabad. Whereas you may hear this for any conference on social entrepreneurship, it is not just what was planned for the event that puts this conference apart from the rest. It was the informal conversations on-stage and off-stage [...]

Last evening, September 13th, I attended an informal gathering (as the invitation had put it) of people working and interested in the social development space. The event was organized at the Acumen Fund office in Hyderabad. It was a very informal networking event with a presentation by Sasha Dichter and Karthik Chandrasekar. Sasha talked about [...]

TED has announced the name of 103 individuals as TEDIndia 2009 fellows. They will be participating in TED India to be held in Mysore from Nov 4-7 2009. As mentioned on their website and as is evident from a cursory glance at the list, many of them have innovated in the field of social change [...]

[Article Source : Business Standard] Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K1 syringes, to India This is how the article starts – one of the innumerable “startling” facts waiting to jolt the social entrepreneur inside [...]

Close on the heels of Shivam’s post on the open innovation tool, Innocentive, I am excited to write about the Open Innovation Portal, backed the Centre of Excellence in E-governance at Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), along with Sun Microsystems and Knowledge Commons. One very important point to note in the list of objectives on their site An individual with [...]

[Story source: Businessworld] Businessworld is a well read business weekly in India. They are planning for a special issue on “India’s Hottest Young Entrepreneurs”.They are calling for entries from entrepreneurs/organizations to feature in this issue. Click here to read more about it. I do understand that this opportunity is not specific to social entrepreneurs. However, I [...]