ITC, famous among the rural folks in India for its e-choupal initiative has paired up with Monster India, a known job portal to launch rozgarduniya.com to help the rural youth to find job opportunities. The portal is available in both Hindi and English. As reported by Livemint, Every application will be routed through an e-Choupal [...]

As Shital wrote earlier this week, she will be attending SoCap09 in San Francisco on September 1-3, 2009.  If any of you would like to reach out and meet her to chat, provide feedback on TC-I or just say hi, please email her at to figure out the logistics. It is rare for us [...]

The Journal of Sustainability is looking for a committed individual to help them promote the publication on Facebook. They are looking for an enthusiastic individual with strong programming skills  and an interest in social change to support our mission. We are a not-for-profit media start-up committed to making information sharing easy over social networks. More information can [...]

A few months ago, Ashni Mohnot wrote a post on the Pop!Tech blog that really struck a chord with me, on why the field of social entrepreneurship is so hard to break into.  She outlines three reasons– the preference for MBAs, lack of opportunities for those who do not have years of experience, and the [...]

Source for Change (SFC) is an all-women rural Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company based in Bagar, Rajasthan empowering women with employment opportunities and providing quality dedication and best practices to the BPO industry.  SFC aims to present rural women a platform to be financially independent and to achieve greater social standing. SFC is currently looking [...]

Are you under the age of 30? Are you someone who is blazing a trail in the field of social  entrepreneurship. If so, you should check out the Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) as they are currently in search of the Asia Pacific Future 100. The list will have two types of stars: Commercial [...]

Messaging and communications is an important part of any social mission, but can also be a very difficult given time and cost restraints.  INSEAD covers a consultancy, Spatial Access Communications (SAC), that focuses on working with NGOs and social enterprises to develop cost-effective and socially relevant communication strategies. Given the fact that they have a [...]

Gray Matters Capital (GMC) is seeking an experienced and energetic entrepreneur to carry out its mission in India.  The Country Director is India’s senior representative and is responsible for providing strategic direction that strengthens the infrastructure and innovates market based solutions for an emerging low-income education market. She/he will cultivate ecosystem partnerships, position GMC as [...]

Goa Institute of Management has is set to conduct an annual conference on Social Entrepreneurship – Samriddhi 2009 – on 29th and 30th of August, 2009. This year’s edition is the third such conference with the earlier editions concentrating on “basic issues of financing infrastructure projects, micro-finance, etc. focusing on financing India’s development” (Samriddhi – [...]

Forbes India featured a social enterprise model for carpet weavers – Jaipur Rugs.  The company, founded by Nand Kishore Chaudhary, works in 10 states throughout India and has 40,000 employed weavers. With a full-fledged quality assurance process called Zero Defect and Quality Circles (volunteer groups that discuss solutions to organizational challenges), Jaipur Rugs also earned [...]