Kavita Ramdas, the current President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women sat down with Britt Bravo of Have Fun Do Good, to speak on women’s rights across the globe. “I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership. As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that [...]

We highlighted Barefoot College in a previous post, and they are in the news again as four illiterate women from Hyderabad are now fulfilling the role of solar power engineers. An Asia Sentinel article features the unlikely group that received training from Barefoot College’s Rural Technology Park and went on to complete tasks such as [...]

Some newsworthy headlines of interest: Entrepreneurship: Himachal Pradesh to adopt an open door policy to encourage entrepreneurs to work within the state. In a similar effort to attract more high tech companies, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a plan to create Information Technology Investment Regions (ITIRs). Women’s Rights and Security: The Indian [...]

Here is a clear and well designed image by Mother Jones that succinctly explains the negative aspects for the world of pushing for corn-based ethanol. Termed by the magazine as dot corn, the full size image can be found here. [Source: Atanu Dey]

We thought you might find the following trainings/workshops of particular interest. If you happen to attend any of these events, please let us know how useful you found them to be: 1. Workshop on Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility, 24-25 April, Chennai The programme will help participants to increase their awareness of the CSR and its [...]

Do you have a grievance or complaint against the state government, but don’t think anything will ever be done about it? Well, if you live in Madhya Pradesh, your voice might actually be heard. In an unprecedented move, the government of MP is going to establish an “integrated citizen facilitation service centre for better public [...]

Acumen Fund’s India office is looking for highly qualified candidates for the positions of “Legal Associate” and “Portfolio Associate.” The location of both positions is Hyderabad, and applications are due April 15, 2008. The job descriptions follow: India Legal Associate: The legal associate at Acumen Fund’s country office in India will provide a wide range [...]

From ProPoor.org: Parivartan announces a training programme on ‘Identifying and Mentoring Micro Entrepreneurs’ from 6-8 May 2008 at Delhi. The training programme shall introduce the concept of entrepreneurship and highlight strategies for identifying and developing entrepreneurial skills in micro entrepreneurs. Training Outcomes: Enhanced knowledge of traits and characteristics associated with entrepreneurs Enhanced understanding of techniques [...]

SocialSync is a exciting new Indian social sector start-up. I pulled out the below presentation from their homepage. Turns out there are 500,000+ NGOs in India and many of them lack a real web-presence. At the same time, there are 40 million web users and 10 million on Orkut alone! So, SocialSync has created a [...]

Some table topics as you start preparing for dinner: Humanitarian awards:  The Grameen Foundation reports today that Mohammad Yunus will be awarded the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award.  The award will be bestowed upon Yunus at the Tech Museum of Innovation award ceremony in November (by the way, the nomination deadline for the Tech [...]