About 650 people from 20 countries gathered in Mumbai on April 12 and 13 for the Sankalp Forum, bringing together all aspects of the inclusive business spectrum from across India. If Sankalp is any indication, the social enterprise sector is growing in size and maturing in terms of the conversation and types of issues facing [...]

The Sankalp Forum, an annual conference that aims “to catalyze impact investments into sustainable and scalable social enterprises globally” will be held this year from April 11-13 in Mumbai. Sankalp is an Intellecap initiative that brings together all the relevant stakeholders in the social enterprise ecosystem, and awards the achievements of those who have succeeded [...]

Villgro, the pioneers in championing rural innovation, present a one-of-a-kind signature event that will provide a common meeting ground for innovators of all hues, ideators who wish to translate their dreams to reality, social entrepreneurs who’ve been-there-done-that, domain experts, opinion leaders and leading lights of the Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship ecosystem. Villgro’s Unconvention aims to [...]

As a part of its Diamond Jubilee celebrations, XLRI Jamshedpur launched an initiative to organize an annual conference of social entrepreneurs and development sector professionals. The aim was to bring together co-professionals in development/social sector (social entrepreneurs, CBOs/NGOs, government agencies, support organizations, corporate foundations, academics, etc. – and students) on a common platform – to [...]

Guest Post National Social Entrepreneurship Forum is organizing half a day conference on the occasion of starting its student chapter at Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. The event will witness participation of more than 300 students from across Mumbai and some of the leading thought leaders and experts from the sector. Some of the [...]

For all the talk about the bottom of the pyramid, few companies have been able to understand mindsets and cater marketing messages for the untapped market.  In the effort to focus on this issue and provide insight into rural markets, the Rural Marketing Congress, organized by The Ideas Exchange, is taking place in Mumbai on [...]

Villgro (formerly known as Rural Innovations Network) is hosting the “UNCONVENTION - Where Path Breakers Meet Path Makers” in Chennai on December 10-12, 2009.  As we wrote about before, a business plan competition called Wantrapreneur was held to select finalists, who will present one final time before the awards are announced. Besides the business plan competition and awards, the [...]

Many conferences and seminars exist to bring together people for discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking.  The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation is hosting a forum on social entrepreneurship that will go to the next level and serve as the catalyst for future action.  The Forum  on Social Entrepreneurship will bring together thought leaders and visionaries, [...]

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 [...]

UnLtd India, the organization that helped develop the Social Entrepreneurship conference that we covered extensively before, is hiring a Communications Coordinator.   If you’re savvy with media, writing, and marketing, see below. JOB TITLE : COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR (PART TIME TBA) ORGANISATION: UnLtd India LOCATION: Bandra West, Mumbai PURPOSE: To design, develop and effectively implement UnLtd India’s [...]