Update: NSEF has recently released a Youtube video that depicts the program. You can see it here at NSEF Author. We wrote about NSEF before (click here for an interview with founder Rakesh Anugula) and their quest to establish social entrepreneurship chapters in every major Indian university. Now, the organization has launched an internship program that [...]

Back in July of last year, I wrote about how Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Srei Sahaj e-Village, a Srei Infrastructure subsidiary, were planning in providing distance learning programs for rural youth. Now the partnership aims to reach 100 million youth to make them computer literate. They will focus on Assam, Bihar, Jammu [...]

Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF) is a force for change in the education system in India.  KEF is running two innovative initiatives in Rajasthan and Gujarat to build leadership for educational and social change:  School Leadership Programme (SLP) and Gandhi Fellowship (GF). KEF is looking for language, maths and arts practitioners who are interested in translating [...]

[Think Sport]: Sport brings several NGOs together, volunteer opportunity in Mumbai /ThinkChange India/ http://tinyurl.com/yegvla8 # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14 /ThinkChange India/ – – TOI Article on How Social Activists in India … http://tinyurl.com/ykrzlmo # Is Social Entrepreneurship an Oxymoron: Sanjay Anandaram http://bit.ly/9RNw5x # [TC-I Call to Action]: Balasahyoga Nutrition Program Officer /ThinkChange India/ – [...]

The Balasahyoga  (BSY) program, a  Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative, provides services to over 60,000 HIV-infected and HIV-affected children in Andhra Pradesh.  BSY is expanding its nutrition program to include inpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with Formula 75 and Formula 100 (F75/F100).  The initiative will begin as a pilot in April 2010 with [...]

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Dharmesh Mistry is a contributing writer to Think Sport. Mumbai based NGO Down to Earth (DTE) is hosting its annual sports event the ‘Interactive Games Day’ on February 21, 2010 and is looking for volunteers for the event. The event will involve games that challenge kids physically and mentally and will require for them to [...]

One advantage that India has over its nearest and more developed nations is the “demographic dividend” – the percentage of its population in the employable age. But the “advantage” is hinged on the skill and the employability of its population which unfortunately is unimpressive. The percentage of population amongst the youth that is single skilled [...]

The challenges of creating functional and reliable distribution networks to (and from) India’s rural base-of-pyramid are well documented. Although some methods have shown varying degrees of success, the costs of creating new networks for consumer products go well beyond the capacity of many social entrepreneurs. Have we been looking at it from the wrong angle? [...]

Acumen Fund, a global non-profit social venture capital fund, is looking for Summer Associates for their India office in Hyderabad.  Acumen Fund has made a variety of investments into companies in India, some of which we’ve covered on TC-I before, such as Dial 1298 and d.Light Design. The Summer Associate program is targeted for graduate [...]