The Grassroutes mantra is to use travel as a means to enable youth to discover different issues plaguing India today and explore the ongoing efforts that are tackling these issues. The Grassroutes Fellowship consists of a 30 day road-trip where the Fellows are mapped to a social organisation or NGO (host organisation) in rural India. [...]

The Center for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CSIE) at IIT-Madras was founded in August 2010 with a focus on teaching and research related to social enterprise in India, and an aim to bring together the innovation and entrepreneurship aspects of IITM by creating knowledge and understanding that will be of relevance to the problems that [...]

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This post was written by Namit Agarwal, Samhita Communications Manager. Last week of January each year XLRI, Jamsedhpur sets the stage for a series of dialogues propagating social development. National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship is an annual feature at XLRI to provide a common platform for stakeholders from the social sector to share, learn and interact. “We [...]

Socially relevant enterprises are the new tool for promoting equitable development. Many Not-for-Profit, Corporate CSR Initiatives and individuals are engaged in promoting socially relevant businesses to promote social and economic goals of stakeholders. However, socially-relevant enterprises are faced with a set of challenges that are distinct from purely commercial enterprises and many of the entrepreneurs [...]

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XLRI is hosting the 3rd National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in Jamshedpur between 28th and 30th of January 2011. In a pioneering move, the XLRI team is webcasting the conference live! Click on the below link to learn more about this year’s conference, the agenda and the list of speakers: XLRI Conference Link Live Webcast

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This is a cross-post from Samhita. An NGO based in India worked for the benefit of cleft lip patients. Field agents of the NGO used to travel to remote villages and collect information on cleft lip patients and forward the information to the hospital for surgery. It took them almost 2 months for one such [...]