Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01 via … http://tinyurl.com/2uwxwph # Irfan Alam of SammaaN on BoP Entrepreneurship via ThinkChange India – Ifran Alam is a well known to many … http://tinyurl.com/3yjjvju # http://bit.ly/btno9V Harvard Business School Names 2010 Social Entrepreneurship Fellows # http://bit.ly/avUEzV GE's ecomagination challenge [...]

VIT University is set to organize “graVITas 2010″- a tech fest involving paper presentation and workshops in various fields of engineering and technology – from September 17 to September 19, 2010. As part of this “International Knowledge Carnival”, VIT University’s Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Development (CSED) organizes an an event called  ’Social Transformers’ annually [...]

Ifran Alam is a well known to many who follow Social Ventures in India. As the founder of SammaaN, which organizes rickshaw pullers into small marketing and courier businesses, Irfan has won a number of awards including the World Bank Innovation award and the TED India Fellowship. He is also a fan of Dr. Prahalad [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25 via … http://tinyurl.com/3ae96t3 # ISB Launches iDiya Social Venture Competition (apply by Sep 19) via ThinkChange India – The Indian School … http://tinyurl.com/2fcma76 # [TC-I Call to Action] Piramal Fellowship in Sustainable Business via ThinkChange India – If you are [...]

If you are a young professional eager for an opportunity to work with dynamic social entrepreneurs, innovative business models, and to apply your skills in a meaningful way, the new Piramal Fellowship for Sustainable Business is open for applications for an exciting two year fellowship.   The inaugural fellowship class will work with social enterprises [...]

The Indian School of Business has launched the iDiya Challenge, an idea competition for social ventures which is open to working professionals across India to participate in. The competition opened on July 23rd and will accept applications till Sep 19th. The winners of the competition will receive Rs. 1,00,000 and six teams will get a [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18 via … http://tinyurl.com/2bvwaj9 # [Guest Post] Saving lives through emergency transportation via ThinkChange India – Editor's Note: Kaushik … http://tinyurl.com/2fvh755 # Rural innovators, should know about this NABARD-SDC Rural Innovation Fund! http://goo.gl/5Jkv # Encouraging financial assistance by NABARD for rural [...]

Samhita – a collaborative social marketplace – has now launched The Hari Chopra Social Awards 2010 (HCSA) in partnership with Global India Fund. HCSA will disburse grants of up to Rs. 5,00,000 each to multiple organizations annually, particularly ones that integrate girls’ education, training and livelihood with health. HCSA will provide unrestricted grants for program [...]

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell of IIM Bangalore proudly presents Eximius ’10 – The Entrepreneurship Summit of IIM Bangalore On August 14th& 15th, 2010 After the success of EXIMIUS 2008 and 2009, the third edition of EXIMIUS will be bigger with more events and exciting speakers! India is at the cusp of innovation! EXIMIUS 2010 [...]

This post is contributed by Team Samhita. Findings of the Samhita fundraising survey speaks of the kind of support trusts and foundations provide to NGOs and the feedback mechanism they prefer to follow. Nearly 45.8% of the NGOs who took the survey say they approached the trusts and foundations via personal contacts. 34.5% used online [...]