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Greenlight Planet is looking for a Global Partnerships Manager

By Shital Shah | Published: February 28, 2012

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…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Jobs | Also tagged distribution models, Global Partnerships Manager, Greenlight Planet, job opportunity, kerosene lanterns | Leave a comment

Ask Echoing Green Fellowship finalists

By Shital Shah | Published: April 21, 2009

Echoing Green, an organization we have both interviewed and posted on, is adding a new twist to their fellowship selection process this year. With twenty-two social entrepreneurs chosen as finalists, EG is…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Primary | Also tagged Aman, changemaker, changemakers, Echoing Green, Echoing Green fellowship finalists, Employment, Fellows, Fellowship, Fellowships, Finalists, infrastructure, job training, mobile phone, Mumbai, performance data, SEED, Seed Funding, skills training, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Technology | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action]: Indicorps Young Professional Initiative

By Shital Shah | Published: April 20, 2009

Indicorps, known for its one-year fellowship program, is now launching a new Young Professional Initiative program that allows young Indian professionals to apply their time and skills to a short-term project. The five-month program includes a…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Opportunities | Also tagged Ahmedabad, bottom of the pyramid, call to action, changemaker, changemakers, Education, Environment, Fellows, Fellowship, Gujarat, Indicorps, Jobs, literacy, marketing, Policy, short-term service opportunity, start-up, TC-I Call to Action, Technology, Volunteer, Young Professional Initiative | Leave a comment

Register NOW for the Harvard International Development Conference

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: April 1, 2009

This year, I’m helping to run the Harvard International Development Conference (IDC) at the Harvard Kennedy School. It promises to be an exciting event, with panel topics ranging from the role of mobile technology as a means of…

Posted in Conferences, Opportunities | Also tagged Conference, Government, Harvard, Harvard International Development Conference, Health, human rights, International Development, Kennedy School, Let Me Know, Microsoft, mobile technology, Opportunities, poverty, rights, security, Technology, Trade, workshops | 1 Comment

Four Critical Questions for Social Entrepreneurs

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: April 1, 2009

Today, as part of my “Strategic Marketing for Public and Nonprofit Organizations” class, we heard from David Dodson, founder of Project Healthy Children. Although his talk was specifically targeted for those interested in leading nonprofit organizations,…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Health, infrastructure, marketing, nonprofit, npr, Opportunities, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs | 1 Comment

Three (yes, 3!) Exciting Upcoming Conferences!

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: February 28, 2009

Looking for interesting conferences to attend over the course of the next two months? Well, look no further! Below are three upcoming conferences that we recommend you attend – The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Conference (March 1, 2009), The…

Posted in Conferences, Opportunities | Also tagged accion, Accion International, Acumen Fund, Agora Partnership, Agora Partnerships, Ashoka, business school, Cambridge, CCI, Clinton Foundation, Conference, Conferences, economy, Energy, entertainment, Entrepreneurship, for profit, Government, Harvard, harvard business school, Harvard University, HBS, Health, healthcare, IDG, infrastructure, InSight, International Development, Kennedy School, Media, NBER, non-profit, One laptop per child, Opportunities, Policy, Private Equity, Priya Haji, Public Sector, RAND, Schwab Foundation, Skoll Foundation, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, sustainable development, venture capital, World of Good | 1 Comment

E-governance Gaining Momentum in India

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: February 25, 2009

A few weeks ago, Vinay wrote about the growing business opportunities in the e-governance sector. An exciting recent development in this area has been the announcement by the Government of India of knowledge kiosks being…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged administrative reform, Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Awards, Bihar, Chattisgarh, computer, Conference, e-city, e-governance, Education, Governance, Government, Government of India, GovTech, Health, healthcare, IDG, IIM-A, introduction, jaankari, Karnataka, laws, Lok Sabha, National Conference, Opportunities, panchayati raj, panchayats, Public Awareness, Public Distribution System, public distribution system online, rains, ration cards, Right to In, Right to Information, Rural, SKS, Social Innovation, software, sujala, Technology, tele-opthamology, Transaction, Tripura | Leave a comment

Get the world’s best brains on your R&D team

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: February 23, 2009

Social enterprises are often searching for sustainable breakthrough innovations, but lack the resources to invest in large-scale research and development. One creative, and increasingly popular, solution to this problem is open innovation. The basic concept is to utilize the…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Africa, AIDS, asset india, CCI, China, corporations, Fast Company, for profit, IIT, IITs, India Deve, InnoCentive, Innovation, malaria, marketplace, non-profit, Open Innovation, Opportunities, prize, profits, R&D, rains, Ranbaxy, Rockefeller Foundation, Rural, social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, software, software engineer, Solar, solar powered wireless router, Technology, traffic, trafficking, Tuberculosis, Vaccine, wireless router, Zacary Brown | Leave a comment

StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation – Boston 09

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: February 20, 2009

TCI had mentioned the StartingBloc fellowship earlier, and this past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Greater Boston institute at MIT Sloan and Tufts Fletcher School. To provide some background on StartingBloc, the organization holds three institutes in Boston,…

Posted in Conferences, Fellowships | Also tagged business school, CCI, climate change, Conferences, developing countries, E4SI, Echoing Green, elizabeth scharpf, engineers, engineers for social impact, Environment, featured, Fellows, Fellowship, Fellowships, for profit, Harvard, harvard business school, Health, healthcare, HIV, Innovation, Institute for Social Innovation, mit sloan, networking, non-profit, Opportunities, plastic, Polio, portal, Rural, Sanitation, social enterpreneurship, social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, startingbloc, StartingBloc fellowship, tom szaky, tufts fletcher, Vaccination, waste, women's health, workshops | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action]: SEED Awards for Sustainable Development

By Shital Shah | Published: January 7, 2009

InfoDev helps announce the SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development, an award recognizing partnerships in developing countries that are working on environmental and social issues. The approach to the award is interesting, however, because winners…

Posted in Competitions | Also tagged Awards, call to action, collaboration, Competitions, developing countries, Entrepreneurship, Environment, environmental sustainability, InfoDev, poverty, PPP, prize, SEED, SEED Awards, sustainability, sustainable development, TC-I Call to Action | Leave a comment

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