Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09 via … http://tinyurl.com/35lk43g # RT @SOCAP10: Profile of up and coming VCs in India investing in double bottom-line companies … http://bit.ly/dingNH # NSEF Looking for PR Manager via ThinkChange India – The National Social Entrepreneurship Forum, who we have … [...]

An excellent all-round article posted at Arabic Knowledge@Wharton covers VidyaGyan, a concept residential school set up in Uttar Pradesh with an aim to a year ago to provide early access to world class middle school education to meritorious rural students. A public-private partnership between Shiv Nadar Foundation – the CSR arm of HCL Technologies – [...]

Check out Nextbillion.net‘s post about the ACARA Challenge. They have what appears to be 8 great social businesses still in the running. You can see them here. One interesting observation is the number of innovations concerned with clean cooking stoves or fuel.

The National Social Entrepreneurship Forum, who we have written about here, is looking for  a PR Manager. Below is a job description from Let Me Know: NSEF is recruiting PR manager s who will be responsible for developing a comprehensive communications plan. Key responsibilities of the PR Manager includes: • Develop effective internal and external communications [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02 via … http://tinyurl.com/2egoqge # India's hidden hotbeds of invention: Anil Gupta on TED.com http://viigo.im/3sdA # Azim Premji foundation to expand into health and nutrition http://www.livemint.com/2010/05/11211409/Premji-Foundation-extends-focu.html # InVenture Fund invests, businesses reinvest, community grows via ThinkChange India – While surveying … [...]

While surveying microfinance clients in India , Shivani Siroya realized that these micro-business owners were not happy with the services they were receiving.  Interest rates were high; paying back loans was causing a lot of stress and limiting their potential.  With a background in investment banking, health economics and policy, and microfinance, Shivani set out [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02 via ThinkChange India – – Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25 via … http://tinyurl.com/2vdp5kx # Sustainable Innovations offers clean water, health solutions via ThinkChange India – In Wired magazine's … http://tinyurl.com/38b2tgb # [Think Sport] Ahmedabad Ultimate captures the spirit of the game via ThinkChange India – Dharmesh Mistry is … http://tinyurl.com/22sh9uo [...]

As promised in my earlier post, I attended CSIM’s Workshop on Innovation and Leadership in Social Sector. Organized by the students of  CSIM, the workshop was held in Dr. Reddy’s Labs’ Conference Hall attended by approximately eighty people. Attendees comprised of a few students from Indian School of Business, young employees of corporate sector, well [...]

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 TCI-Changemaker focuses on Shop for [...]

Sankalp, the annual social enterprise awards and investment forum organized by Intellecap, took place this week in Mumbai.  The Sankalp Awards recognized many innovative and sustainable models in the following categories: Agriculture, Food and Rural Businesses; Clean Energy; Health, Water and Sanitation; Inclusive Education; and, Technology for Development. The 2010 winners are: Agriculture, Food and [...]