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There has been a steady increase in the number of households benefited by the NREGA – http://goo.gl/mqaH # World Habitat Awards and Day coming up via ThinkChange India – We wrote about World Habitat Day last year, … http://tinyurl.com/2fyvpu6 # Gramateller’s cash dispensing machine (CDM)is innovative, & less power-hungry and cheaper(Rs 1.75L) 1/4 the cost [...]

User Post The Srijan Financial Inclusion Forum 2010, scheduled for October 7-8, 2010 at the Hotel Taj Land End in Mumbai is an annual Intellecap initiative. This by-invitation two-day action agenda forum will focus on the roadmap for Indian Microfinance over the next decade as well as assess innovative technology interventions to catalyze greater financial [...]

Villgro (you can learn more about the organization here) is holding a technology transfer workshop to help innovators in the Agri. Machineries & Implements space commercialize their technologies more effectively. The workshop is free for participants and will be immediately followed by INNOHUB, and innovation exhibition organized by Villgro. Admission to INNOHUB costs Rs. 5000. [...]

Last evening, September 13th, I attended an informal gathering (as the invitation had put it) of people working and interested in the social development space. The event was organized at the Acumen Fund office in Hyderabad. It was a very informal networking event with a presentation by Sasha Dichter and Karthik Chandrasekar. Sasha talked about [...]

We wrote about World Habitat Day last year, an event aiming to bring awareness and support to the need for affordable housing throughout the globe. On October 4th, the day will be conducted again. Like last year, Habitat has created a website for the day, which you can go to here. Another organization, Building and Social Housing [...]

The Economic Times is running a interesting seven part series on unconventional businesses. In their concluding edition, they feature the Chennai base start-up Vortex Engineering, which is building a low-cost ATM for rural India. The start-up was incubated at the Tenet Group at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (IITM). Other Tenet incubated social enterprises [...]

Samhita launches Socially Positive – an opportunity for the youth to contribute towards positive social change. This weekend put on your creative hat and do good. Socially Positive is a nationwide campaign where you can use creative skills such as photography, film-making, designing and blogging to create awareness for social causes and support NGOs. You [...]

NASSCOM Foundation announces Genpact NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours (GNSIH) 2011…  Entries to the 3rd edition of the biggest industry recognition for social innovation are solicited.  Last date for entries is October 1, 2010.NGOs, NPOs, Corporate, Students, Government/PSUs, Individuals/Groups, can now apply across the following seven categories: ICT led Innovation by Non – Profit Organisation ICT [...]

ClearlySo, together with funding and support from the Shell Foundation, is seeking an  entrepreneur to co-create ClearlySo India. The aim is for ClearlySo to become a profitable social business. ClearlySo India will at the same time encourage and accelerate the development of social businesses, enterprises and social investment in India. ClearlySo is an innovative and [...]