Various groups of students working on their design customized for the eco-problems they are seeing in their… http://fb.me/151MfysgN # Students from Kumaran's school working on eco0design for their school http://fb.me/13z66I6OH # Students from Jyoti Nivas College and New Horizon College work on their design with a help from Ashoka's volunteer… http://fb.me/U9GsPiCN # The eco-design exercise [...]

The Piramal Fellowship is a unique opportunity for aspiring business and community leaders to engage where business and social impact intersect. Fellows are placed in leadership roles with for-profit businesses designed for social and environmental change. The program encourages participants to channel their business experience towards solutions with some of India’s most cutting-edge social entrepreneurs. The Fellowship builds on-the-job managerial [...]

Ashoka Green Plan-It Unconference, aimed at mobilizing the youth towards environment-friendly initiative and lifestyle in their campuses and outside was held at the beautiful campus of SAP Labs India campus. ThinkChange India covered the two-day event live attended by between 300 to 400 people from different background – students as young as 12 and teachers [...]

Hand in Hand is holding a Social Entrepreneurship Programme from August 22-26 in Chennai, India.  This five-day residential programme will provide a crash course in leading a successful social enterprise. It will focus on how microfinance and social entrepreneurship can empower people and enhance livelihoods, resulting in social and economic mobility The course has been [...]

This post is written by MathuKathe creator, Nandan Rajan. Imagine trying to find a job without phone, email or internet! You can’t post your profile on job portals, call up companies or email your profile. You are only allowed to talk to friends, relatives and the local recruitment agent that you get to hear by [...]

Troopp is India’s first online volunteering platform. On Troopp non-profits can post their jobs/tasks and volunteers can complete these by working from home. At present there are 120+ non-profits from around the world and volunteering worth INR 70 thousand have already been completed through Troopp platform (in a duration of 2 weeks).

“People are more willing to invest in social enterprises now.” Investment opportunities to develop small-scale, off-grid renewable projects in developing economies are on the rise, E and Co. Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christine Eibs Singer said. …

Ashoka Green Plan-It Unconference via ThinkChange India – Ashoka India is holding an event called “Ashoka … http://tinyurl.com/3r84ac9 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-17 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-10 via … http://tinyurl.com/64pynnn # Journeys for Change: Leaders from world's top organisations to meet India's … http://is.gd/LpAmh5 # Journeys for Change: [...]

New Delhi: Regretting that the concept of voluntary CSR has not picked up in India, Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily today said the new Companies Bill would make it mandatory for corporate to earmark part of their profit for corporate social ….

And yeah, I certainly agree that South India has its fair share of social entrepreneurs. I've been asked to look into it by a few people, and I will,” she vows. Yet another criticism leveled at her work is that there's a proliferation of Hind…