Are you a social entrepreneur looking to take your vision and organization to the next level?  Dasra, an organization working to strengthen the effectiveness of socially based, non profit organizations is inviting applications from social enterprises or social-purpose organizations, with a desire to scale, for their professional development program: Dasra – Social-Impact’s professional development program [...]

Start Up Story covers a social enterprise, Matchbox Solutions, that addresses technology and process improvements for critical business segments.  One of these solutions focuses on the agribusiness supply chain through eFarm: eFarm is a Farm-to-Home supply chain Platform for procuring and delivering farm based produce in a transparent, economical and efficient manner. eFarm ties in [...]

Here is a piece that I wrote for my school paper. While it is not focused on India specifically, I believe that the topic is relevant to every country. Profits or Profiteering?: Why Companies Are Responsible for More If a corporation’s responsibility is truly only to its shareholders, then I guess the actions of Mercedes-Benz, [...]

The organization Chirag is offering a one-year fellowship to work in a rural area of India. Called Swades Ki Khoj, it begins on July 1st and applications are due on until May 15th. The program’s flyer is after the jump. Click on it to link to their site for more information.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Nextbillion.net recently published a great interview with C. K. Prahalad on the role of private enterprise in development and poverty alleviation. Prahalad is the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and one of the pioneers of the idea of BOP (the 4 billion people living [...]

JustMeans, an online portal for companies interested in social responsibility, is recruiting for a Social Enterprise fellowship in their Pune office.  The fellow will cover a variety of tasks: Develop a  business strategy for Justmeans expansion into Asia in the first two quarters of 2010 Work with one of our partners to launch an annual conference on sustainable [...]

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India is represented strong in the list of participants from the 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator, which is a program led by SocialEdge and Santa Clara University that “assists social benefit entrepreneurs in developing business plans that enable their organizations to reach increasing numbers of beneficiaries.”  The following individuals, and their associated organizations, will be [...]

D.light Design is looking for a Head of Sales & Marketing: D.light Energy Pvt. Ltd. is looking to hire an experienced and creative Head of Sales & Marketing (India) to rapidly develop a pan-India distribution channel capable of reaching deep rural, while building a powerful global brand from the ground up. This position is based [...]

Last night in my Social Venture Capital class, my professor said something that I found interesting.  With regard to requirement of many social VCs for their portfolio companies to make market comparable returns, he explained it as the following: We want to develop a track record for these ventures so that they can show traditional [...]