How can you help save the environment and create popular products at the same time? The answer is upcycling – the process of taking garbage and transforming it into something of greater use and value. The concept was first introduced by the authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and has been very successfully implemented [...]

MICROCAPITAL STORY: SKS Microfinance Raises Rs. 75 Crore (USD 15.8 million) Debt and Lists Bonds on Bombay Stock Exchange Airtel Unveils it’s NetPC Tough road ahead for India’s new environment minister Bootstrapping Your Startup in India – How much does it cost? Social sector boost to be new Govt’s immediate priority – Hindu Business Line

If you are socially conscious but  spoilt for ideas, you are likely to get some tips this Sunday, May 24th in Hyderabad where the workshop on”Empowering the Underprivileged through Innovations” scheduled to be held. The workshop is conducted by the Hyderabad wing of Center for Social Initiatives and Management (CSIM), an organization that was covered earlier in ThinkChange-India [...]

We have interviewed Pratham Books before and you can read about it here. Here is their description: Pratham Books (www.prathambooks.org) is a not for profit enterprise that publishes affordable children’s books in Indian languages. It was set up as an alternative low cost model in children’s book publishing that proves that children’s literature can be [...]

The Indian Government established the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGFTMSE) in order to provide lenders with partial guarantees on loans they make to borrowers. In doing so they provide sufficient assurance for the lenders to make the loans without collateral and instead focus on the viability of the project instead.  [...]

Gray Matters Capital Foundation (GMC), the charitable arm of Gray Ghost Ventures ,  uses philanthropic capital toresearch and co-create initiatives with partners in developing  countries to buildsustainable, replicable business models for the benefit of underserved  populations. One of GMC’sfocus areas is to increase the access to and quality of primary and secondary education for the poorin [...]

This post is directly from the organization that is the subject of the post. Dreamcatchers Foundation is uniquely positioned as an incubator for developing and nurturing programs that provide the opportunity for a transformative experience for young people that serves as a turning point in their lives. The Leadership Institute and the Community Youth Institute [...]

This post is directly from the organization that is the subject of the post.  Dreamcatchers Foundation is uniquely positioned as an incubator for developing and nurturing programs that provide the opportunity for a transformative experience for young people that serves as a turning point in their lives. The Leadership Institute and the Community Youth Institute [...]

This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, and is a user post. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of TC-I, but we feel that it is important to cultivate opinions from all sides. India like the rest of the world has not escaped the impacts of the current downturn. The sudden rush in [...]

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