To be held at BITS-Pilani in Goa, the Grassroots: National Conference on Social Profit will be an event that will: demystify Social Businesses for the youth of today. It is themed “Social Profit” underlining the fundamental commitment this sector displays towards profit that leads to value generation with wealth creation. The conference will feature eminent [...]

As a part of its Diamond Jubilee celebrations, XLRI Jamshedpur launched an initiative to organize an annual conference of social entrepreneurs and development sector professionals. The aim was to bring together co-professionals in development/social sector (social entrepreneurs, CBOs/NGOs, government agencies, support organizations, corporate foundations, academics, etc. – and students) on a common platform – to [...]

The American Center and Samhita cordially invite you to a discussion program on “Making Philanthropy Easy, Essential and Effective” with Dr. Amita Vyas, Assistant Professor & Director, George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services and Founder & President, Global India Fund Inc. in conversation with Li Ping Lo, Foreign Services Officer, U.S. Consulate [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19 via ThinkChange India – – @AshokaIndia Clicking on the facebook link … http://tinyurl.com/33xgp5j # Over 2000 aspiring entrepreneurs to gather at TiE summit http://is.gd/j7lPp # GE Healthcare to distribute infant warmers in rural India http://is.gd/j7m3P # India Development Blog: Living on the Edge: Assessing the impact … http://is.gd/j7mle # Over [...]

It is encouraging to see that the impact investing industry in India is gaining mainstream recognition these days. Businessworld, the country’s main business magazine ran a cover-story in November titled Social Capital, featuring all the major social venture capitalists in the country. Almost all of the organizations featured in the story were covered by us [...]

@AshokaIndia Clicking on the facebook link takes me to the Facebook home page instead of the event page. in reply to AshokaIndia # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05 via … http://tinyurl.com/24wsgho # INDIA Social Development Report 2010 http://is.gd/iI6pN # True Nationalism of Azim Premji http://is.gd/iI6Sx [...]

The India Development Marketplace is a competitive grant program, jointly organized by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) South Asia Office, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Development Marketplace (DM) Program, housed in the World Bank Institute. This competition aims to identify and support social enterprises (both for-profit and not-for-profit models) that are seeking [...]

LaborVoices (LV) promotes transparency in labor markets by allowing migrant workers around the world to fact-check prospective employers and employment conditions by accessing the LaborVoices mobile phone application.  LaborVoices is a migrant worker job review portal that maintains employer reviews created by workers for workers. We believe that workers who know more about their employers [...]

Guest Post National Social Entrepreneurship Forum is organizing half a day conference on the occasion of starting its student chapter at Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. The event will witness participation of more than 300 students from across Mumbai and some of the leading thought leaders and experts from the sector. Some of the [...]

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