Ashoka’s Changemakers just announced the finalists for their newest web-based competition - Leveraging Business For Social Change: Building The Field Of Social Business. Changemakers is an Ashoka initiative, begun in 1994, that advances the vision of an “Everyone a Changemaker” world. Through online collaborations and communication, Changemakers helps advance and scale blossoming social innovations. The entries submitted [...]

If you have an innovative idea that would change the life of your rural neighbourhood for the better, you have help from National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD). ThinkChange India has learnt from India Microfinance Directory that NABARD has come up with a Rural Innovation Fund (RIF) in order to support innovative and [...]

Editor’s Note: Kaushik Bose is the communications manager of PATH, an international non-profit organization that works on creating sustainable, culturally relevant health solutions for the poor. PATH has started a five year maternal health project called Sure Start in India for the rural and urban poor about which Kaushik outlines in this guest post. Ali Hussein [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11 via … http://tinyurl.com/3anv35n # India's Government Issues Voluntary CSR Guidelines http://bit.ly/aRFb4h # India Together Article on NREGA:wage payment thru post office reduced corruption,but started payment delay & monitoring http://goo.gl/d3w0 # [TC-I Call to Action] Be a force of positive change [...]

The Global Social Benefit Incubator is holding an event in August and sent along this invitation for TC-I readers: Please join Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society for business plan presentations by the 2010 Global Social Benefit Incubator entrepreneurs from around the world. Thursday, August 26, 2010 Locatelli Center at Santa Clara [...]

This post is contributed by Team Samhita. A detailed online survey conducted by Samhita reveals that individual donations are the most critical source of funds for Indian NGOs. This survey was conducted to understand the fundraising practices of Indian NGOs. We hope that the results will help NGOs customize their activities based on popular practices.    The [...]

 Hunnarshala Foundation is currently seeking a Program Coordinator for their work with urban communities.  The Foundation works with urban poor communities to find solutions to housing and land issues in Kutch, Gujarat.  They also work with partner organizations on basic infrastructure services, womens empowerment and livelihood issues. For further details about Hunnarshala’s urban work, see their website.  [...]

Escuela Nueva India is a social hybrid organization (for and non-profit) with the goal of a creating large-scale improvement of quality of basic education through the implementation of the Escuela Nueva Model. Since 2006, the Indian government has been studying the Escuela Nueva model: through trips organized by the World Bank and UNICEF, over 30 [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04 via … http://tinyurl.com/3ankooq # Analyse your fundraising strategy by taking a short survey via ThinkChange India – This professional … http://tinyurl.com/36uhmpr # [Think Sport] Soccer: The great social leveler via ThinkChange India – This post is written by Team … [...]

United Care Development Services (branded as YouSee) is social enterprise which has exciting alternative for financing social development projects. We call it a post-paid model. UC provides you an opportunity to evaluate results of social development projects before you want to make a donation. So you are donating for results and not in anticipation of them! [...]