The DreamNow blog posts on a job opportunity with Swaraj University, an alternative learning center that “creates opportunities for young learners to develop the knowledge, skills and perspectives they need to create viable green-collar enterprises and to support healthy and resilient local communities.”  The program encourages self learning and aims to develop a new kind [...]

In June 2008, we wrote about Husk Power Systems in relation to how it is one example of the type of ventures that are capitalizing on the fact that India is a prime nation for renewable energy innovations and adoption. The beautiful simplicity of the technology uses rice husks to create a distributed, sustainable source [...]

User Post Calling all Climate Crusaders! IYCN’s Agents of Change Program (AoC) is now accepting 2nd round of applications to be part of the \’Agents of Change\’ as the Asian subcontinent youth delegation, for the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention and the fifth Meeting of the Parties [...]

Amartya revives forgotten argument – Amartya Sen has urged public debate to focus more on the central issues of social justice in India in an interview to The Telegraph to coincide with a Confederation of Indian Industry summit in London tomorrow. Thanks Mr. Sen!I In meltdown times, feel the Joy of Giving – Celebrate the [...]

De-traumatise education in India, says Sibal – Cuttting-edge education policy on the works in India, thanks to the new HRD minister Microfinance agenda for the new government - Via @balanchander (CEO of United Prosperity) – Great policy agenda for streaming microfinance regulation in India Nandan Nilekani to head UID Authority « Professor Sadagopan’s Weblog - Looks like [...]

Within an extensive review of Tweeps (people who tweet), SocialEdge has compiled a list of the 20 essential people or entities to follow in the Social Entrepreneurship space, and we are happy to announce that ThinkChange India is one of them. It truly is an honor to be included in the same category as Echoing [...]

The idea popped when I was reading this NY Times article on a federally funded program in the US where wireless carriers receive a subsidy to provide people under welfare with a mobile phone and 68 minutes of talk time each month! The subsidy program started in 1984 with a goal of providing landline telephone access [...]

Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Adrienne Villani is an Associate at Intellecap, where she is involved in the conceptualization and creation of content for Beyond Profit, Intellecap’s publication on social enterprise and social entrepreneurship, both in print and online. Trained as a demographer, she received her M.Sc. in Population and Development from the London School of Economics and [...]

A Tamil Nadu MFI Gets $4.25M From MicroVest, UEF, Vinod Khosla - Grama Vidiyal is the largest MFI in the state of Tamil Nadu Kerala, Karnataka based MFIs raise funds - Looks like its getting pretty hot – more MFIs investments spotted! Social Entrepreneurship – Change.org: Rwanda and the Digital Divide –  300 Rwandans at IITs every [...]

We at TC-I write about many topics from clean energy to women’s reproductive health. The space of social entrepreneurship and innovation is one that touches every aspect of one’s life. Notwithstanding we are a victim of our own sources and so our posts inevitably focus on those topics that are most commonly covered by them, [...]