Guest Post Ashoka’s Changemakers has launched an online competition to find the best solutions to integrate and develop affordable, inclusive and sustainable urban housing. This challenge especially seeks to identify solutions that respond to communities’ needs, work with the existing infrastructure, respect local, indigenous culture, materials, and practice, and can be applied to a wide [...]

This is a guest post from Namit Agarwal, Communications Manager in Samhita Social Ventures. Capturing the rural market and serving the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) is high on priority for most Indian companies now.  A paradigm shift in the market has put rural India on every company’s marketing roadmap. Every company wants to go [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21 via … http://tinyurl.com/22k4w7x # Sociopreneurship India 2010 showcased social innovations and entrepreneurs http://is.gd/hVWEH # YourStory thanks title sponsor Madura Microfinance, partners, and … http://is.gd/hVWFr # Start-up social entrepreneurship movement convenes in two weeks at … http://is.gd/hVWWQ # YourStory thanks title [...]

Convinced you have the entrepreneurial mettle to improve the lives of millions of people around the world? Accelerate your venture with mentorship from 60 global thought leaders and investors, ranging from the co-founder of Google.org to an entrepreneur who’s lifted over 24 million farmers out of poverty. In the process, form relationships with 30 impact investment funds, obtain [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14 via … http://tinyurl.com/2bsvurs # "The time is ripe for an 'Office of Social Entrepreneurship' in the government" http://tinyurl.com/2f3oamh # Just walked into India Sociopreneurship 2010 just in time for Young social Leaders 2010 # 15 promising social entrepreneurs to showcase [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14 via ThinkChange India – – Khemka Forum Series: Professor Gregory Dees … http://tinyurl.com/2ujchm7 # A round up from Khemka Forum 2010 via ThinkChange India – It was an enlightening two days at the Khemka … http://tinyurl.com/247tt42 # Businessworld covers Social Entrpreneurship Article 1 : http://bit.ly/9pmix2 # Sam Pitroda's energy is [...]

Grameen Foundation announced, at the Microfinance Leadership Summit on Technology, the launch of Mifos® Cloud in India. Mifos Cloud is a hosted management information service delivered for a subscription fee to emerging poverty-focused microfinance institutions (MFIs) seeking to maximize sustainable growth. The cloud-based service supports more transparent business and social performance reporting and more secure [...]

Mumbai, November 9, 2010: Reuters Market Light (RML), the pioneer in creating a professional micro-information service for India’s agricultural community, has won a prestigious World Business and Development Award (WBDA) in recognition of its efforts for improving the lives of India’s farming community. RML is among the ten global companies that picked up a WBDA [...]

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, has announced that Rajiv Khandelwal and Krishnavtar Sharma, co-founders of Aajeevika Bureau, are the winners of the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development, Science and Technology of India, handed the award to the winners in [...]

World Toilet Day is Friday, November 19, and Milaap is running an online campaign to make 10,000 individuals aware of this crisis and pledge their support to end this discrimination in our lifetime.  Milaap is partnering with Guardian MFI and the World Toilet Organization to get their inputs on the issue. Fact: 2.6 Billion people [...]