The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tag. In this edition of TCI-changemaker Badhri Jagannathan [...]

National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF) will hold Confluence, an annual conference aimed to promote and support social entrepreneurship at college campuses throughout India. It is to be held on October 23rd, 2010 in Bangalore. NSEF will help anyone interested set up NSEF chapter at their institutes to promote and conduct various activities related to social [...]

The following is a post from Nitin Rao, a TED Fellow, regarding a new venture he is starting. Nitin was also the founder of Engineers for Social Impact and Let Me Know. Over 30 million of our fellow Indian citizens identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and deserve greater equality at colleges, in the [...]

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ThinkChange India is pleased to once again act as a media partner with the Khemka Foundation for the upcoming Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The Khemka Foundation’s annual forums on social entrepreneurship are designed to create an ecosystem, a community of sorts for all the players in the field. Every year, social entrepreneurs, investors, academics, [...]

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 first post of the series. Shivraj Parshad of the PRactice interviewed Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, an Indian philanthropist and cardiac surgeon.  Dr. Shettyfounded Narayana Hrudayalaya, a hospital that [...]

User Post The Akshara Foundation, a non-profit education organization based in Bangalore, India, is offering short-term positions for recent graduates with expertise in education. The Akshara Foundation is the Karnataka state constituent of Pratham, the India-wide educational network, and works in public-private partnership with the Government of Karnataka through the Karnataka Learning Partnership. Akshara has regularly worked with close to 200,000 children [...]

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Entrepreneurial Development Institute (EDI)  and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai are coming together to hold the 3rd annual Espire 2010. The competition is looking to hand out Rs. 3 lakh in cash prizes and even more in services in-kind. Additional information can be found here. Here are the details from the organizers: [...]

This post is written by Ankit Vyas, Teach for India Associate. There is nothing more satisfying than having the opportunity to directly impact the lives of 50 children individually through education and the sense of possibility of this impact is what drives each Fellow at Teach For India. What is Teach For India It is [...]

Trickle Up, an international poverty alleviation organization that empowers people living on less than $1.25 a day to take the first steps out of poverty, has released a documentary that profiles the impact of its work and the people it affects. “The Test of Poverty” follows two women living in extreme poverty in West Bengal, [...]