Acumen Fund, a social venture capital fund, is hiring for their India office in Mumbai. Acumen Fund uses the tools of investment and business to build companies that seek to bring affordable basic goods and services to the poor. They invest “patient capital”, taking significant risks on early stage innovations and expect reasonable but below market [...]
Greenlight Planet (GLP) is striving to be the best place to work, ever. Greenlight Planet is an organization of passionate professionals focused on empowering millions of Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) families with simple, smart and honest technology and true market innovation. They are passionate about changing the world on an unprecedented scale, working with [...]
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation keeps social entrepreneurship as one of their core focus areas and their portfolio is dedicated to creating institutions and platforms that strengthen the ecosystem for social entrepreneurship in India. One of their current initiatives is the annual Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, which is covered regularly here on ThinkChange India. [...]
About EdVillage EdVillage envisions a world where all children, regardless of their socio-economic status, have access to a high quality school that prepares them for higher education and a productive and fruitful life. Our mission is to support Education Entrepreneurs (educators that have either started or plan to start schools) and School Leaders (principals of [...]
Company: Gram Vaani Community Media Position: Director, Projects Job description: Overall responsibility for sourcing projects/business for the company Develop relationships with senior people in development institutions, government departments and corporate Conceptualize multi-party project proposals, develop and pursue them Engage with the technical team to explain customer requirements Build a strong brand for the company as [...]
Start Up! is an incubator, angel investor and consultant to social entrepreneurs. We launch, strengthen, and scale social ventures. What We Do As angel investors, we invest non-financial resources to incubate seed and early stage social enterprises. Our investments of time and expertise are geared to put ventures quickly on their feet and make them [...]
Babajob.com is looking for a passionate, creative individual to head our activities in Bihar, build up our database of local job seekers and create relationships with local employers. Roles and Responsibilities Develop and build job seeker partnerships, including MFIs NGOs Educational & Vocational Skill training institutes Employment exchanges Develop and build local employer partnerships to [...]
Water For People has received a four-year grant to develop and test sustainable business models to expand sanitation coverage in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based in Kolkata or Delhi, India, this position will search for opportunities and drive the development of viable sanitation business-based solutions that can be taken to scale within India. This will be achieved by [...]
Samata, an NGO with a consistent track record of successful interventions to protect the human and democratic rights of communities adversely affected by mining, is hiring. It has vast knowledge and experience in policy making, capacity building, networking and monitoring mining/mining related projects. Please find the detailed job descriptions here and in the following documents: [...]
Location: Kheda District (North of Kheda), Charotar, North of Surat, Valsad Status: Part-Time, Regular Expected Start Date: March/April 2010 Background: Bhanu Narendra Joshi (BNJ) is establishing a innovative, novel approach to social business in order to carry out both microfinancing activities and health care medical record data-keeping in a coordinated manner. We are seeking an [...]
