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[Guest Post]: Bridges to Entry

By Shital Shah | Published: May 5, 2009

Editor’s Note: Guest blogger Lindsay Clinton is an Associate Vice President at Intellecap, where she is the Managing Editor of Beyond Profit and Microfinance Insights. Prior to joining Intellecap, she worked as the Marketing and Communications Director at…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Primary | Also tagged America, Beyond Profit, Bombay, Communications, Conference, consulting, farmers, featured, for profit, Guest Post, IDG, InSight, Intel, Intellecap, leadership, Let Me Know, marketing, markets, McKinsey, Microfinance, Microfinance Insights, Monitor, Mumbai, Rockefeller Foundation, Rural, Sankalp, Social business, social businesses, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Technology, wall street, Wall Street Journal | 3 Comments

Spinning Electricity With An E-Charkha

By Shital Shah | Published: August 16, 2008

Followers of Mahatma Gandhi are familiar with the charkha, a spinning wheel that produces a type of cotton known as khadi. A new twist on this old tool is that it can also be used to…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged charkha, electricity, Employment, Energy, Gandhi, Gandhian, Government, khadi, NGOs and Non-profits, Rural, self-reliance, The Hindu | 7 Comments

TC-I Tidbits

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: April 29, 2008

Your daily dose of headlines:

Can India meet the MDGs on access to safe drinking water? Keya Acharya has this interesting analysis [via OneWorld South Asia]
Thai fruit wine, responsible outsourcing and organic cotton – some of

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Posted in Competitions | Also tagged Awards, Competitions, drinking water, Energy, Environment, Global Social Venture Competition, Green Energy, Green Livelihoods, GSVC, Livelihood, MDG, MDGs, OneWorld, OneWorld South, OneWorld South Asia, Outsourcing, Sierra Club, Social Entrepreneurship, social venture, Tidbits | Leave a comment

A social entrepreneur for all time

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 7, 2008

Today I’d like to introduce you to one of my heroes, Baba Amte. He died a few weeks ago on February 8th at the opus of his life, Anandavan. I was fortunate to visit him several times during my work…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Adivasi, Anandavan, Awards, Baba Amte, Basic Rights, Cooking, Dalit, Dalits, disabled, Entrepreneurship, Environment, fertilizer, Government, gram panchayat, human rights, Indian government, InSPIRE, irrigation, ITC, lepers, Maharashtra, map, Narmada, Narmada Dam, Opportunities, organic farming, plastic, RAND, rights, Rural, rural development, self-reliance, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Sushil Jacob, TC-I Changemakers, toilets, Trade, Transportation, underwater, water management, youth | Leave a comment

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