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India Needs Social Entrepreneurs and Social Intrapreneurs to Fight Recession

By tdomf_ecbf4 | Published: May 17, 2009

This op-ed was submitted by , 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…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Op-Ed | Also tagged Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Arbind Singh, ArcelorMittal, Awards, Bihar, construction, CSR, CSR Awards, Entrepreneurship, Environment, farmers, FT-ArcelorMittal, Government, Gujarat, Harish Hande, informal workers, Innovation, ITC, Jharkhand, John Elkington, Karnataka, Kerala, Khemka Foundation, leadership, lighting, Livelihood, markets, Mittal, Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Nidan, Op-Ed, Opportunities, portfolio, profits, Rajasthan, Rajendra Joshi, RBI, risks, Rural, SAATH, Sanitation, Schwab Foundation, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrpreneurship, Selco, SELCO India, Self Help Groups, Self Help Groups (SHGS), SHGs, Singh, SKS, slum, slums, Small farmers, SMS, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneur of the Year, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, social intrapraneurs, Solar, solar energy, sustainability, Technology, Trade, venture capital, waste | 4 Comments

Full-Time Volunteer Needed for Manzil

By tdomf_ecbf4 | Published: May 3, 2009

User Post

Position:

A full-time volunteer for Manzil, a youth empowerment and learning center in Khan Market, New Delhi

Duration:

Minimum of a six-month commitment. Prefer one year or longer.

Start Date:

The start date is flexible, but we would…

Posted in Jobs, Opportunities, Primary | Also tagged AIDS, computer, Education, empowerment, English, Fellows, Fellowship, Government, Hindi, IIM-A, Indicorps, Job Opportunities, Jobs, leadership, Livelihood, Lower-Income, Manzil, Media, New Delhi, NGO, non-profit, Opportunities, part-time, Singh, social stigma, TC-I Call to Action, teachers, Tobacco, toilets, travel, Volunteer, volunteering, workshops, youth | Leave a comment

Doodh Bhandar – Finalist at Harvard Business Plan Contest

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: April 28, 2009

Doodh Bhandar (DB), a plan focused on revolutionizing milk production in rural India, has reached the finals of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Business Plan Contest in the Social Enterprise track. Cattle are one of the most important…

Posted in Change-Agent, Competitions | Also tagged business plan, business plan competition, business school, Contest, Doodh Bhandar, Finalists, Harvard, harvard business school, HBS, Health, Malnutrition, markets, Media, nutrition, poverty, Rural, rural electricity, rural India, SEED, social enterprise, youth | 1 Comment

Indian participants in the 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator

By Shital Shah | Published: April 7, 2009

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…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Competitions, Primary | Also tagged Annapurna Mamidipudi, business plan, Business Plan Development, Dastkar Andhra, empowerment, Energy, Environment, Global Social Benefit Incubator, Government, Grass Roots Action for Social Participation, HIV, Husk Power Systems, Incubator, Innovation, Jabeen Jambughodawala, Livelihood, Manoj Sinha, Microfinance, Rajendra Joshi, RAND, Renewable, rice husks, Rural, SAATH, SAHAJ, SAMRUDHI Microfinance Society, Sanju Kumar, SBI, SKS, socialedge, Socialedge.org, stoves, weavers, Women's Empowerment, Yugandhar Madavkar | Leave a comment

Tech Winners Starting Small, Scaling Up

By Shital Shah | Published: November 13, 2008

Remember the Tech Museum Awards? The award “honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity.” The 25 winners were announced yesterday, with two innovators from India. MercuryNews.com covered the ceremony in…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Awards, Bangalore, Berkeley, Biomass, computer, corn husks, DESI Power, Digital Green, Digital StudyHall, Education, Energy, HUL, Innovation, IPO, ITC, languages, NGOs and Non-profits, nonprofit, npr, Op-Ed, Opportunities, Pune, RAND, Renewable, rice husks, Rural, rural India, SKS, slum, slums, Social Entrepreneurship, teachers, Tech Museum Awards, Technology, University of California | Leave a comment

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, cotton, Employment, Energy, Gandhi, Gandhian, Government, khadi, NGOs and Non-profits, Rural, self-reliance, The Hindu | 7 Comments

Sorry Mr. Edison, looks like your time is up!

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: June 19, 2008

The global community is focusing a tremendous amount of attention on the potential role of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) in significantly cutting down household energy use. Given that CFL bulbs use only 20%…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Andhra Pradesh, Bangalore, BESCOM, BoP, BusinessWorld, CantorCo2, CDM, CFLs, CRY, Energy, Environment, RAND, shortage, TreeHugger.com, UPPCL, uttar pradesh | Leave a comment

The Experiment: E-Medicine in Rural Gujarat

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: June 9, 2008

Under the auspices of its ”e-gram” initiative, which intends to connect all villages through broadband, the Gujarat government has launched an e-medicine scheme for rural areas. The objective of the scheme is to “offer online and telemedicine facilities to villagers,” specifically through…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged ADB, budget, connectivity, e-gram, e-medicine, Government, Gujarat, Health, infrastructure, medicine, OneWorld, OneWorld South, OneWorld South Asia, PHC, PHCs, Rural, rural India, Technology, telemedicine | Leave a comment

Rice Husks + Innovation = Renewable Energy

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: June 3, 2008

India has been found to be particularly fertile ground for experimentation with renewable energy initiatives. The latest version of Ernst & Young’s “Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index” reaffirms this fact, ranking India as the third most attractive market…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Agriculture, Bihar, carbon emissions, consumption, Enabler, Energy, Environment, Ernst & Young, foreign, Government, Husk Power Systems, Innovation, Kyoto, Kyoto Protocol, ranking, Renewable, renewable energy, Renewables, rice husks, Rural, rural development, rural India, SKS, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology | 15 Comments

TC-I Tidbits

By Vinay Ganti | Published: May 29, 2008

Education’s Woes and Pros: A new study conducted by UNESCO reveals that less than 30% of schools have access to electricity and only half of them have toilets for girls. In order to address such woeful capacity,

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged 3G, absentee rate, BoP, BSNL, CSR, Education, Energy, girls, Government, healtcare, Health, healthcare, HIV, HIV test, HIV transmission prevention, Jharkhand, MDGs, mobile technology, OneWorld, PPP, pregnant women, ProPoor, ProPoor.org, Public Private, public private partnership, Rajasthan, Rural, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology, Tidbits, toilets, UNESCO, UNICEF, wind power | Leave a comment

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