His administration placed advertisements in newspapers this week, seeking a team of professionals to manage a $1.3 billion annual budget for programs involving job creation, housing, infrastructure and microfinance. In Bihar, a state of 103 million … See all stories on this topic »
Spark your innovation with NASSCOM Foundation’s 4th edition of the NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours NASSCOM Foundation, in association with Genpact opens entries for India’s most impactful social enterprise projects, using technology to solve India’s social and environmental issues. The awards aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices in using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) [...]
The 8th Microfinance India Summit 2011 will be held from December 12-13, 2011 at Hotel Ashok, New Delhi. The annual Global Event organized by ACCESS captures current debates, issues and challenges that a growing microfinance sector in India faces as it strives to reach the poor with access to financial services. Over the years, the [...]
I was reading my friend Hans Taparia’s (Hans is a founder of Tasty Bite) blog today and he wrote about the power of public-private partnerships in driving innovation. In his most recent post, Hans said, driven by innovation, social ventures that are successful start attracting attention from constituents to policy institutes to the media. Increasingly, governments [...]
The Planning Commission of India has been actively making calls to NGOs and Voluntary organizations to participate in its “NGO Partnership System (NGO-PS)”. In this call, the Planning Commission encourages the NGOs and VOs to sign-up on NGO Partnership System. This a free facility located in the Planning Commission in association with National Informatics Centre [...]
In Madhya Pradesh, a state in central India, about 150 dalit and tribal women were subjected to virginity tests during a government-sponsored mass marriage recently. Ironically the scheme is designed to make marriage less onerous by making it free for its participants, but not at this cost. The full article is here.
This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, 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 rest of the world has not escaped the impacts of the current downturn. The sudden rush in [...]
[Article Source : Business Standard] Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K1 syringes, to India This is how the article starts – one of the innumerable “startling” facts waiting to jolt the social entrepreneur inside [...]
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 [...]
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 prefer the volunteer to start in July 2009 so that the outgoing full-time volunteer may [...]
