We had already told you about this amazing opportunity. Here is reminder from OneWorld South Asia: Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is a high-engagement social venture program for emerging young social entrepreneurs in developing countries. Through its Fellowship Programme, YSEI provides young social entrepreneurs with support in four key areas: Financing: Up to USD 15,000 [...]

The deadline for The Tech Museum Awards is on Monday, March 24. Do you know of any worthy candidates from India? The Tech Museum Awards is an international Awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. For example, D.R. Mehta was a 2007 Laureate who created an [...]

Headlines:  Government Claims Job Scheme Has Benefited 3 Crore Families Government on Wednesday claimed in the Rajya Sabha that over three crore families had benefited from the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) programme and Rs 8,000 crore had been transferred to the accounts of the beneficiaries.  Lok Capital Increases Fund Size to $22 Million Lok Capital [...]

There are currently two openings at SKS Foundation that we thought our readers might be interested in: 1) Summer Intern at the Ultra Poor Program and 2) Program Director.  First, here is a brief description of SKS Foundation: Swayam Krishi Sangam Foundation is a non-profit arm of SKS Microfinance.  SKS Foundation is determined to eradicate poverty in India [...]

Columbia Business School will be hosting its 4th Annual India Business Conference on Saturday, April 19th from 8:45am – 8:00pm in NYC.  Speakers include Yashwant Sinha, Kiran Karnik, Dr. Rajiv Lalal, and Amit Burman.  To read about the speakers, go here.  Below is a description of the conference: 15 years after being released from the [...]

Hey social entrepreneurs, finish your applications for the $25,000 Piramal Prize for great ideas to democratize healthcare delivery in India.  The deadline is April 1st. We last posted about it here.

Featured in India’s Business Today is Tata Steel, a company that outperforms other steel players and is not only known for its management acumen, but also its long history of philanthropy. Despite charges last year from the Bhopal disaster survivors that the Tata group of companies has a dismal environmental record due to a complicated [...]

Editors Note: Guest Blogger Keyzom Ngodup works with Intellecap, a pioneering social venture capital firm focused on making double bottom-line investments in India. In addition to capital and investment support, Intellecap is unque that they also provide a range of support services that enable social ventures to move from start-up stage into growth mode. The [...]

comScore recently released a report entitled, Digital World: The State of the Internet, which provides information regarding worldwide internet usage trends.  Here is an abstract of the report: comScore’s DIGITAL WORLD: The State of the Internet provides an indispensable reference tool for any marketer, website publisher, or investor who needs to understand how the Internet [...]

Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of mortality in India – killing at a rate of 2 people per minute.  Doctor L. S. Chauhan, Director General at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, cites the incidence of approximately 1.8 million new cases every year.  In fact, India has over 30% of the world’s TB [...]