Goa Institute of Management has is set to conduct an annual conference on Social Entrepreneurship – Samriddhi 2009 – on 29th and 30th of August, 2009. This year’s edition is the third such conference with the earlier editions concentrating on “basic issues of financing infrastructure projects, micro-finance, etc. focusing on financing India’s development” (Samriddhi – [...]

The Microfinance India Summit, organized by Access Development Services, will be on October 26th to the 28th in New Delhi. The summit aims to address issues concerning “the trade-offs and points of convergence as the microfinance sector copes to balance between building the social as well as the financial capital; scale and soul; social performance [...]

EXIMIUS is the entrepreneurship summit at IIM Bangalore, which aims to promote an entrepreneurial mindset amongst the Indian youth. It is organized by the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell. This year Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (Biocon) & Sudhir Sethi (IDG Ventures), Prof. Narayandas (Harvard Business School) will all make an appearance to name a few!! Last year’s inaugural [...]

User Post Calling all Climate Crusaders! IYCN’s Agents of Change Program (AoC) is now accepting 2nd round of applications to be part of the \’Agents of Change\’ as the Asian subcontinent youth delegation, for the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention and the fifth Meeting of the Parties [...]

We at TC-I write about many topics from clean energy to women’s reproductive health. The space of social entrepreneurship and innovation is one that touches every aspect of one’s life. Notwithstanding we are a victim of our own sources and so our posts inevitably focus on those topics that are most commonly covered by them, [...]

From MicroCapital.org: Advanced Reflective Education and Training (ART) on Community based Development Finance, December 1-12, 2009, in Tamilnadu, India, presented by the Social Tata-Dhan Academy and sponsored by the DHAN Foundation. Summary of Event: Tata-Dhan Academy is hosting its seventh international course for staff of microfinance organizations, banks, capacity-building organizations, NGOs, government organizations and funding [...]

In the first of the two-part analysis of CSIM’s Workshop on Empowering the underprivileged through Innovations, I analyzed the pre-lunch session of  presentations –  Harsh Bhargava, professor from ICFAI Business School, on Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Karuna Gopal, president of Foundation for Future Cities, on scope for innovation for urban poor, and A. Ravishankar, Center for good [...]

  What: 3rd Asian Conference on Microinsurance This year’s theme is ‘Microinsurance as an Attractive Growth Strategy in the Changing Economic Landscape’. This will focus on how Asia has embraced microinsurance and how various markets are using microinsurance. The program will include topics on policy reforms, key challenges, and how to support microinsurance in the current [...]

What: CGAP webinar on MIS for Microfinance Summary of Event: The results of a recent survey on Microfinance Information Systems (MIS) will be discussed with the opportunity for questions during the webinar. This will be via a webcast online at www.cgap.org RSVP to and put ‘webinar’ in the subject line When: Wednesday, June 3, [...]

I have attended the first workshop conducted by the students of CSIM Hyderabad under the title “Empowering the underprivileged through innovations” that was previewed in my earlier post. The workshop’s purpose is to ..”Develop” the social consciousness among people, which can “Inform” those in need of answers and which can “Empower” those in need of support for [...]