USER SUBMITTED POST An  interactive  training  workshop  on  how  non‐profits  can  raise  their visibility  and  enhance  fundraising .  A workshop to help non-profits do this has been organized by South Asian Fund Raising Group, SAFRG, on 30th January  2010. It will be located at Willow  Hall,  India  Habitat  Center,  Lodhi Road,  New  Delhi from 10am  to [...]

TC-I Guest Blogger Tracy Williams lives in Hyderabad where she is working with the Naandi Foundation to launch a new social enterprise connecting smallholder coffee producers with global markets. Prior to taking the India plunge, Tracy worked at the policy team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and on US economic policy issues with [...]

I left yesterday’s post with the mention of action, and action is right where the Khemka Forum moved to by the end of the second day.  While Day 1 of the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focused on plenaries and making connections within sectors, Day 2 moved into smaller groups, deeper conversations, and creating plans for bridging gaps. Measuring Impact [...]

In a gathering of practitioners and investors, the Khemka Forum kicked off today at the India School of Business in Hyderabad.  The day’s activities ranged from plenaries to sector working group lunches to track breakouts.  Social entrepreneurs converged to discuss the state of their field, lessons learnt, ideas for collaboration, and the way forward. As [...]

Villgro (formerly known as Rural Innovations Network) is hosting the “UNCONVENTION - Where Path Breakers Meet Path Makers” in Chennai on December 10-12, 2009.  As we wrote about before, a business plan competition called Wantrapreneur was held to select finalists, who will present one final time before the awards are announced. Besides the business plan competition and awards, the [...]

Many conferences and seminars exist to bring together people for discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking.  The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation is hosting a forum on social entrepreneurship that will go to the next level and serve as the catalyst for future action.  The Forum  on Social Entrepreneurship will bring together thought leaders and visionaries, [...]

The StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation educates, inspires and connects emerging leaders to create new solutions to global challenges. Through the program, StartingBloc unite social innovators across sectors to change the world in sustainable ways. You can read about about my StartingBloc experience from the Boston 2009 fellowship. There are three parts to the StartingBloc Fellowship: 1. Institute for Social [...]

If you are interested in being a TED Fellow, the 25th of September is the last day to apply. The program is “a new international fellowship program designed to nurture great ideas and help them spread around the world. This year, organizers will select 25 individuals from around the world to attend TED2010. At the [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from the Social Capital Markets conference taking place in San Francisco, California.  Expect to see many more features in the next week! Ashish Gupta left his job as a technology consultant in the US in 2006 to rediscover his Indian roots through the Indicorps fellowship. In his 2 [...]

A few months ago, Ashni Mohnot wrote a post on the Pop!Tech blog that really struck a chord with me, on why the field of social entrepreneurship is so hard to break into.  She outlines three reasons– the preference for MBAs, lack of opportunities for those who do not have years of experience, and the [...]