Interchangeably called social entrepreneurs, changemakers, or social innovators, more and more people around the world are starting creative new ventures with the intention of tackling some of the planetʼs most complex challenges. During the first week in November this year, Connecting Social Innovation 2010 (cosi10) is calling social innovators together at events happening in a dozen [...]

Founded in 2005, AyurVAID Hospitals is a chain of medical facilities blending the best of allopathic treatments with traditional ayurveda. AyurVAID is also the only ayurvedic hospital chain in India to explicitly target low-income, “bottom of the pyramid” customers through its AyurSEVA low-cost model, currently serving the Dharavi area of Mumbai. Acumen Fund invested $1,100,000 in [...]

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Only 45% children in Rajasthan in Std. V can read Class II level text (Source – ASER 2009) Read Rajasthan is a 3 year initiative to change this! On 23rd august 2010, Government of Rajasthan has signed a MoU with Pratham Rajasthan for improving the quality of education in close to 3000 government schools of [...]

Improved cookstoves are once again in the spotlight here in India after the recent announcement of America’s $50 million commitment to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and last year’s launch of India’s National Biomass Cookstove Initiative. Most efforts to date have focused on educating adults about the dangers of traditional cooking methods with varying [...]

RT @OutofPoverty: educate next generation of entrepreneurs thru over 100 universities @nciia http://ow.ly/2IKNe KP @nsefindia partner opp.? # Sauve Scholars Program Looking for Applicants via ThinkChange India – From NGO Post: The Sauvé … http://tinyurl.com/2elxchv # Special Series on Clean Energy and the BoP, Part 2 via ThinkChange India – IFMR Centre for Development … [...]

User Post 30th October 2010 – Deck Suite, India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 10am to 5pm Do you have enough Donors? Do you know how to get more? In the first half of this master class, our experts will teach you how to get new donors through low cost methods. Once you get Donors, [...]

User Post The Indian Institute of Forest Management is a premier sectoral management institute, which aims at carving out socially responsible managers. Taking a step further we aim to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship among students in India and nurturing young people with bright ideas. The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of IIFM is organizing a [...]

IFMR Centre for Development Finance and the World Resources Institute are coming out with a report focusing on clean energy options for the base of pyramid in India, this report is titled “Power to the people” and it is being launched in Mumbai on the 28th of September 2010 in front of a host of [...]

From NGO Post: The Sauvé Scholars Program exists for young leaders from across the globe who want to change the world. Sauvé Scholars are highly motivated independent thinkers 30 years old or less with demonstrated skills as agents of change, who are offered a unique opportunity to spend nine months in Montreal away from their [...]