From UnLtd India: Join us for Social Mashup!  Meet India’s most passionate, innovative, and curious start-up social entrepreneurs for two groundbreaking days of conversations, connections and inspiration.  Organized by UnLtd India, the launchpad for social entrepreneurs in India, Social Mashup is Dec 2-3 at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.  Register at socialmashup.org. Attached is the event’s poster. social_mashup_poster

The Schwab Foundation, partnering with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, have named this year’s Social Entrepreneurs of the Year (Go here to read about the finalists). Rajiv Khandewal and Krishnavtar Sharma founded Aajeevika Bureau, a company that provides unique photo IDs to inter-state migrants to provide access to banking, mobile telephone, government services and more. The [...]

YourStory.in, a platform built to showcase entrepreneurs throughout the country (follow them on Twitter) is about to hold Sociopreneurship India 2010 on November 23rd to bring Social Investors, Industry Experts and the Media together. Register now for the upcoming event. To do so go here.

It was an enlightening two days at the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2010, held at ISB, Hyderabad. Whereas you may hear this for any conference on social entrepreneurship, it is not just what was planned for the event that puts this conference apart from the rest. It was the informal conversations on-stage and off-stage [...]

Khemka Forum Series: Professor Gregory Dees on scale via ThinkChange India – In the lead up to the Khemka … http://tinyurl.com/25phfsp # Madhukar Shukla on Social Entrepreneurship : Abhijit Bhaduri's … http://is.gd/gOetT # Madhukar Shukla on Social Entrepreneurship : Abhijit Bhaduri's … http://bit.ly/bo7CcP # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly [...]

The Faculty of Management Studies at Banaras Hindu University are launching a business plan competition. Titled UTTHAN, it will provide Rs. 50,000 to the top three winners. Additional information can be found on the competitions website. The key dates of the competition are as follows: Last Date to send Executive Summary : Saturday, 4th December, 2010. Announcement [...]

[From Let Me Know] The Summit at Unconvention aspires to be a forum that enables various stakeholders of the eco-systemunderstand the connection between innovation, entrepreneurship and solutions for the rural poor. The theme of the conference titled “Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship to impact the rural poor” will once again bring the best and brightest in [...]

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai’s Entrepreneurship Cell will be holding marcomS, the Social Marketing Campaign Competition as a part of iPreneur 2010, TISS’ annual event to celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship to be held on 11th and 12th February, 2011. TISS-Mumbai has partnered with Ecofarms. Prizes totaling Rs 1,000,000 are available to the best [...]

The Pharmacy Association, BITS Pilani is organizing Espoir2011, a Healthcare Business Plan competition organized over three rounds, with the final round to be organized on campus during Apogee 2011, Annual Technical Festival, BITS Pilani. The event is expected to attract the best entrepreneurial minds from across the nation. There are many deserving ideas which need to be nurtured into successful [...]

In the lead up to the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, ThinkChange India will run a series of podcasts/interviews from Indian leaders of social innovation.  This is the third post of the series. Shivraj Parshad of the PRactice interviewed Mr. Arun Maira, member of India’s Planning Commission.   This week’s Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship brings all [...]