Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24 via … http://tinyurl.com/2g6v2ln # The Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, announce four … http://tinyurl.com/26avlfg # http://bit.ly/buVBa9 Govt can save 1lakh crore by implementing e-payment but lots of riders towards the end of the article # [...]

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 second post of the series. I had the opportunity to speak with Professor Gregory Dees, who is a Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founder of [...]

ThinkChange reported the announcement of EdelGive Social Innovation Honours for 2011. The application deadline for this award has been extended to November 12th, 2010. Here is a quick recap of the details relating to this award Award categories: Health and well being: Awarding an innovation which promotes women’s health and overall well-being Education: Awarding an [...]

The Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship announced the finalists of the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) Awards 2010. These include Aajeevika Bureau (founded by Rajeev Khandelwal and Krishnavtar Sharma), AISECT (founded by Santosh Chaubey), LifeSpring Hospitals Pvt Ltd (founded by Anant Kumar) and Vaatsalya Healthcare Solution Pvt. Ltd [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17 via … http://tinyurl.com/38s4ror # [TC-I Call to Action] Join the startup team at Shifting Atoms, a web media organization via ThinkChange India http://tinyurl.com/28n7vq4 # Is India Really a Hotbed for Social Enterprise? http://su.pr/2KR2Gz (@GOOD stuff) # Attend the Rural Marketing [...]

For all the talk about the bottom of the pyramid, few companies have been able to understand mindsets and cater marketing messages for the untapped market.  In the effort to focus on this issue and provide insight into rural markets, the Rural Marketing Congress, organized by The Ideas Exchange, is taking place in Mumbai on [...]

Shifting Atoms is a mission and a dream that wishes to engage with humanity at large for positive influence and collective progress. We are incubating an organic web media organization with focus on social innovations, social entrepreneurs for transformative ideas and technologies that enable positive world progress. News & Publication Our model envisions developing news [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17 via ThinkChange India – – Grama Vidiyal Microfinance crosses 10 Lakh … http://tinyurl.com/273q2gh # TED Fellows to launch LGBT India Foundation via ThinkChange India – [hat tip: Nitin … http://tinyurl.com/23naxvk # 24 hours left before NSEF Confluence! via ThinkChange India – National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) … http://tinyurl.com/24s5fzh #

This is the second part of a two-part interview of Dr. Tara Thiagarajan Madura Micro Finance, a company providing microfinance as well as knowledge and market opportunities through its microeducation and micromarkets products to 400,000 women in rural Tamil Nadu. The first part of this interview can be read here In one of your articles [...]

I’m just walking out of Confluence 2010, a remarkable event organized by National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF). Bringing together young people with keen interest and passion for social entrepreneurship together with some leading social entrepreneurs, the event resulted in an inspiring day of conversations and experience sharing. Below are some interesting snippets from the event: [...]