An announcement in NGOpost calls for application for a six-week full time training programme on “Governance and Management of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs/NGOs)”, scheduled between 6th July 2009 to 14th August 2009. The training is offered by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII). The training cost including accommodation is free for participants belonging to countries listed  [...]

Via NGO Post, a competition held by Teach A Man To Fish called Schools for Entrepreneurs aims “to find the best school-based income-generating initiatives in India, projects which are both educational and financially sustainable.” From student-run cybercafés funding classroom improvements, to schoolyard chicken-runs laying aside profits to pay for books, the competition aims to encourage [...]

NGO Post has an interesting story on a solar micro-enterprise in Hassan District in Karnataka. The business operates a battery charging station powered by solar photovoltaic panels and rents out solar powered CFL lamps street vendors. On an average, the vendor pays $0.25 per day for renting out the lamps and the business services 120 [...]

The ThinkChange India Team is proud to introduce Badhri as one of our new part-time bloggers. An avid blogger in the social entrepreneurship space already, Badhri will bring a unique perspective and energy to the TC-I community. He is a graduate of the University of Madras, Chennai and has a MS from Wright State University. [...]

Rural lighting start-up d.light design just got featured on Forbes.com: d.light design based in New Delhi, India, has developed a trio of lights created for a market it calls the “base of the pyramid”–including people who live on the equivalent of $1 a day. Its portable Nova light, which it is debuting on Monday, has [...]

Organizational Background ThinkChange India is the fastest growing blog focused on social entrepreneurship and social innovation in India. Within its first ten weeks, the blog achieved 16,000 page-views, and is currently averaging 400 unique hits a day. Our goal is to be the primary source of information/analysis on social innovation and social entrepreneurship in the [...]

Update: A recent Times of India article discusses the actual effectiveness of the Public Interest Litigation provision and its current troubles. You can read the article here. An NGO called Cancer Patient Aids Association (CPAA) has embarked on a campaign to mandate compulsory licensing for 20 different drugs used to treat cancer sufferers. These drugs [...]

Occasionally, the editors of this blog decide to leave their comfy chairs (any guesses where these chairs would be?) and go talk to real people. The mission is to create a voice for organizations and people doing some remarkable work to change the world and change India. We sincerely hope reading about these folks featured [...]

Recently, we interviewed Nitin Gupta, co-founder of NGO Post, about the vision and mission of their site, including plans for expansion in the future.  Please find a summary of the interview below:  About NGO Post: Nitin Gupta and Parul Gupta’s passion lies in building connections between NGOs around the world.  Their method, however, is an [...]

D R Mehta is a remarkable Indian social entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Jaipur Foot Organization (JFO) or the(BMVSS), an organization which has developed the most functional limb technology in the world, and made a constantly made an effort to make it available at a low-cost. According to a study done by researchers [...]