For the first time in the five-year history of Dell’s Social Innovation competition, a team from India has made it to the finals in the 2011 edition. The team going by the name SIFE SSCBS from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi has fielded their project “Sanitation Solutions” that  empowers  women from [...]

Lisa Curtis is an intern at Start Up! where she has been continuously impressed by the innovative and growing field of Indian social enterprises. A native of California, her experience ranges from working in the White House to serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural Nigerien village. For more about Lisa, visit her personal blog. [...]

After consolidating Pravah’s learnings for the past 18 years into ‘Ocean in a Drop’, a course on youth development and active citizenship, and after launching it successfully with representatives from over 10 organizations, Pravah is offering it twice more on the following dates: June 7 – 12, 2011, July 11 – 16, 2011. Nominations are invited [...]

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Gujarat government has launched an e-governance pilot initiative called ‘Gujarat Swarnim Gram E-Broadcast Project’ in the villages of Amreli.  Under this project dubbed as “the first experiment of mass communication on village level throughout the nation”(Business Standard), the government plans to disseminate information useful to rural livelihood by erecting large LED screens in public places. [...]

The Acara Summer Institute (SI) is an intensive program to help budding social entrepreneurs refine their plans and prepare to turn them into reality. It is a practical, hands-on opportunity to take your great idea to market, to create a high impact venture. The SI is a program of the Institute on the Environment at [...]

The Villgro Fellowship is a one year program that builds social leaders. The program has been established by Villgro in lines with its mission of empowering rural development by identifying and incubating innovative social enterprises. In the last 3 years, 14 Villgro Fellows have brought sustainable change in the lives of the rural poor. Vision: [...]

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Villgro is a social enterprise incubator based in India that enables rural development by identifying and incubating innovations that use market based models to impac thousands of rural households. We actively promote social entrepreneurship and work with different stakeholders to create and support an eco-system that empowers social entrepreneurs by means of a host of services [...]

After an extremely successful 2010 Awards, The Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship are inviting applications for the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2011. The Award aims to identify and celebrate visionary social entrepreneurs who have demonstrated large-scale, systems-change models and are at the stage of scaling/replicating their ideas across India and in [...]