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[TC-I Call to Action]: Rewarding Good Governance through Gram Panchayat Puruskar

By Shital Shah | Published: December 12, 2008

Calling all gram panchayats in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka – ‘s wants to know the top five panchayats in each of these two states that are using innovation and good governance.…

Posted in Competitions | Also tagged Andhra Pradesh, call to action, Competitions, Contest, Education, Governance, Government, gram panchayat, Gram Panchayat Puruskar, Health, Inform and Empower, infrastructure, Innovation, Karnataka, nutrition, panchayats, prize, Prizes, Rural, TC-I Call to Action, water supply | Leave a comment

Inching towards ending polio

By Vinay Ganti | Published: November 24, 2008

The Final Inch is a documentary funded by and produced by Vermilion Pictures, chronicling the final stages of the global fight to end polio. A large chunk of the movie was filmed in India, given that…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged CCI, documentary, film, Government, Health, Indian government, Polio, Public Awareness, The Final Inch, Vaccination, Vaccine, YouTube | Leave a comment

TC-I Fundwatch: Omidyar Network and Unitus invest Rs. 60 Crore in Comat Technologies

By Vinay Ganti | Published: October 20, 2008

The market for double bottom-line investments in India is becoming hotter and hotter. Interestingly, its not just the microfinance institutions who are attracting the capital. We reported earlier in TC-I about MokshaYug Access, securing $2 million in funding from Unitus…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Bangalore, BoP, Comat, Comat technologies, E-business, eBay, economic development, economic growth, financial services, ISB, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, MokshaYug, MokshaYug Access, NRI, Omidyar, Omidyar Network, Private Equity, RAND, Rural, rural business, rural India, SMEs, social enterprise, Social Venture Capital, Soros Economic Development Fund, Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), Technology, Unitus, Unitus Equity Fund | Leave a comment

Singing along one’s way to literacy

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: June 23, 2008

One poem that always inspires me is “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Its starting lines came to my mind when I learned about Brij Kothari and his brainchild PlanetRead:

If you can keep your head

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Aman, Bollywood, BookBox, Brij Kothari, Education, entertainment, film, Government, InSPIRE, literacy, Media, PlanetRead, Same Language Subtitling, Social Conversations, social entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneurship, Subtitles, TV | Leave a comment

TC-I Call to Action

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: May 30, 2008

Our weekly review of opportunities. Please send along any other opportunities to

Fellowships

UnLtd India, an organization that exists to find, fund and support early stage social entrepreneurs to enable them to develop as leaders, start up

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Posted in Competitions, Conferences, Fellowships, Jobs | Also tagged call to action, Competitions, Conferences, emerging markets, Fellows, Fellowship, Fellowships, income generation, Internship, Internships, Jobs, markets, Microfinance, Mumbai, NextBillion, NextBillion.net, NGO, Opportunities, poverty, small and medium enterprises, SMEs, Social business, social businesses, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, TC-I Call to Action, Unitus, UnLtd, UnLtd India | Leave a comment

Studying the Right to Information

By Shital Shah | Published: April 28, 2008

Google.org is supporting a study focused on the Right to Information Act as part of their . From their :

To help us better understand how to make the Right to

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Basic Rights, Inform and Empower, Media, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, Right to In, Right to Information, Right to Information Act, Shekhar Singh, Singh, Studies, YouTube | Leave a comment

Deaths from Climate Change

By Vinay Ganti | Published: April 7, 2008

The World Health Organization has produced a world map that estimates the number of deaths that can be attributed to climate change. The map estimates anywhere from 40 to 80 million deaths in India can be…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged BP, climate change, death, Environment, Health, map | 3 Comments

[Guest Post]: State of Education in India

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 31, 2008

Editor’s note: The following post is from Siksha.org’s blog (you can read more of their posts here), a peer to peer underwriter of annual, renewable, need-based scholarships and loans. Two of the co-founders and…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Bihar, bottom up approach, Education, education and scale, expertise, Government, Grassroots Initiatives, Guest Post, HIV, Indian government, NYTimes, Pratham, Renewable, Rural, scholarship, Scholarships, Siksa.org, Siksha, siksha.org, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, survey, teachers, Universities, Uplift, youth | Leave a comment

Harvard International Development Conference – April 3rd-6th

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: March 31, 2008

Harvard’s annual International Development Conference will be taking place this upcoming week from Thursday, April 3rd to Sunday, April 6th at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Details follow:

The Annual International Development Conference is a student-run event

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Posted in Conferences | Also tagged Conference, Conferences, developing countries, Education, emerging markets, Employment, Entrepreneurship, film, foreign, Government, Harvard, Harvard International Development Conference, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, IDG, infrastructure, International Development, Kennedy School, markets, Media, Microfinance, One laptop per child, partnerships, Public Private, public private partnership, sustainable development, teachers, Technology, workshops, World Bank | Leave a comment

Can Market Based Philanthropy Stem Climate Change?

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: March 27, 2008

The Progressive Automotive X Prize certainly seems to believe that market-based philanthropy can stimulate innovation on a global scale through handsome monetary packages – in this case, $10 million. The goal, announced recently at the New York International…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Awards, climate change, Competitions, Energy, Environment, fuel efficient vehicles, incentivized innovation, Innovation, InSPIRE, market based philanthropy, NYTimes, Opportunities, philanthropy, prize, Prizes, Progressive Automotive X Prize, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Venture Capital, Technology, venture capital, X Prize | Leave a comment

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