Villgro (formerly Rural Innovations Network) is sponsoring a new business plan competition for social entrepreneurs called Wantrapreneur.  The competition is specifically aimed at innovations and solutions that benefit the rural poor. Wantrapreneur is all about identifying ideas that have the potential to transform lives and nurturing them to become market-ready products and services. The competition [...]

After some delay, Google’s Project 10 to the 100 (which we wrote about a year ago!) finally has finalists up, and we all get to vote on the idea we like best. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation [...]

In an effort to show that “affordable, adequate housing should be a priority everywhere," Habitat for Humanity is holding World Habitat Day on October 5th, which the UN has designated as the date. More information can be found here. Here is a video to better show the severity of the issue from the website:  

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur in the social space that needs an additional push to make it a reality, you should check out Sprout’s e-course offering. This is especially true for environmentally focused SEs. Applications are due October 4th, and more information can be found here.

If you are interested in being a TED Fellow, the 25th of September is the last day to apply. The program is “a new international fellowship program designed to nurture great ideas and help them spread around the world. This year, organizers will select 25 individuals from around the world to attend TED2010. At the [...]

The Planning Commission of India has been actively making calls to NGOs and Voluntary organizations to participate in its “NGO Partnership System (NGO-PS)”. In this call, the Planning Commission encourages the NGOs and VOs to sign-up on NGO Partnership System. This a free facility located in the Planning Commission in association with National Informatics Centre [...]

Editor’s note: The following interview is part of an ongoing series for ThinkChange India where we speak to social entrepreneurs firsthand. The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab. One of the grassroots social [...]

TED has announced the name of 103 individuals as TEDIndia 2009 fellows. They will be participating in TED India to be held in Mysore from Nov 4-7 2009. As mentioned on their website and as is evident from a cursory glance at the list, many of them have innovated in the field of social change [...]

Editor’s note: The following conversation is part of an ongoing series for ThinkChange India where we speak to social entrepreneurs firsthand. The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab. From the Dastkar Andhra website: [...]

AVENUES is the Annual International Business festival of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), IIT Bombay AVENUES 2009(31st Oct – 1st Nov) represents our relentless commitment towards the promise to attain the balance of all the three aspects (People, Planet and Profit) of business excellence. Over two days of frenzied activity, participants comprising students, [...]