TC-I Tweets for 2009-12-20 /ThinkChange India/ – – The Barefoot Economist http://bit.ly/7hRpk9 # http://tinyurl.com/yaze8fg # Football for girls' empowerment – a road journey from India to Switzerland /ThinkChange India/ http://tinyurl.com/yzxp6u2 # Interview with Dean of Center for SE, TISS http://sme.franchiseindia.com/launch_pad.php?title=Social+Enterpreneurs+ # Borrowing an idea from the global credit markets /ThinkChange India/ – Every now and [...]

Sudhar Krishnamachary is a TC-I education correspondent. Mia, a middle school student at Aditi private school in Bangalore, bubbles with enthusiasm, pausing to find the right words, “There is so much interaction with the teachers and so much group work that makes us interested in the subject and…want us to come to school and never [...]

The ThinkChange India team is proud to introduce Sudhar Krishnamachary to the website as an Education Correspondent.  A quick introduction of Sudhar: Sudhar Krishnamachary is one among the many Indians living in the US, wanting and finding ways to give back to beloved Motherland. He traveled around as a management consultant for many years, got [...]

Straight from the foundation: The Global Exchange Program puts into practice The Deshpande Foundation’s vision for global exchange specific to development and innovation. The concept allows for exchange – in both directions- improving and addressing the solutions that solve the developing world’s most intractable challenges. Fellows work to address challenges at NGOs working in the [...]

Here is what appears to be a great business model that bridges major companies with bottom of the pyramid customers in the solar space: The Indian division of UK-based bank HSBC has made an unspecified grant to microfinance institution (MFI) Spandana of India to contract with US-based MicroEnergy Credits (MEC) to develop products to assist [...]

2009 was a great year for TC-I. We were recognized by SocialEdge as a top twitter feed to follow and also just won the Indibloggies for best group blog. Here is a list of the top 10 posts that you, our readers, found most interesting and helped us get to where we are today. TED [...]

Every now and then, the microfinance acts as a microcosm for the greater financial system. A while back, I wrote about how the global system will affect microfinance. Today, I came across a post at CGAP’s microfinance blog that was sort of an inverse. The post discussed the fact that despite increased access to microcredit, [...]

Dharmesh Mistry is a contributing writer to Think Sport. Franz Gastler, director and co-founder of Yuwa, and Willem Grimminck, an anti-human trafficking specialist, left the TATA Football Academy in Jamshedpur on Saturday, December 5th, and are on their way to the FIFA Headquarters in Switzerland by motorcycle to raise awareness for youth football as a [...]

ThinkChange India is excited to announce that we were voted the best group blog for the Indibloggies! We would like to thank each and every one of you who voted for us to make this possible. You can see a list of the other awardees here.

Deadline extended to January 2, 2010. The objective for the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2010 is to identify and reward organisations that are innovating to empower women in India. This year’s award categories are as follows: • Health and well being: Awarding an innovation which promotes women’s health and overall well-being • Education: Awarding an [...]