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Akshara Foundation to offer two short-term positions

By Vinay Ganti | Published: October 14, 2010

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The Akshara Foundation, a non-profit education organization based in Bangalore, India, is offering short-term positions for recent graduates with expertise in education. The Akshara Foundation is the Karnataka state constituent of

Posted in Jobs, Opportunities | Also tagged Akshara Foundation, Jobs, Karnataka Learning Partnership, Pratham Books | Leave a comment

Development Trainees

By tdomf_ecbf4 | Published: October 4, 2010

Only 45% children in Rajasthan in Std. V can read Class II level text (Source – ASER 2009)

Read Rajasthan is a 3 year initiative to change this!

On 23rd august 2010, Government of Rajasthan has signed a MoU with…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Opportunities | Also tagged Education, literacy, Read Rajasthan, school | 1 Comment

Pratham, Barclays to boost rural entrepreneurship

By Badhri Jagannathan | Published: June 10, 2009

Pratham – a leading NGO dedicated to child education and Barclay’s have come together to foster wealth creation in villages by grooming entrepreneurship among the rural youth.

Pratham would identify poor rural youth with acumen for…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Barclays, Entrepreneurship, Rural youth | 2 Comments

Pratham Books is Hiring: Multiple Jobs at Bangalore, Delhi and Chandigarh

By Vinay Ganti | Published: May 22, 2009

We have interviewed Pratham Books before and you can read about it here. Here is their description:

Pratham Books (www.prathambooks.org) is a not for profit enterprise that publishes affordable children’s books in Indian languages. It was

…

Posted in ALL POSTS, Jobs, Opportunities | Also tagged Job Opportunities, Jobs, Pratham Books | 3 Comments

Intl. Conf. on Social Entrepreneurship in India – Day 2

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: December 14, 2008

Day 2

The second day started off by getting down to business immediately. Madhav Chavan of Pratham was the first speaker and his mandate was to enlighten the gathering on “How to scale up an organization?”.…

Posted in Conferences | Also tagged Anirban Gupta, Anshu Gupta, Ashok Rasthod, bureaucracy, Capital Connect, changemaker, changemakers, collaboration, Conference, Conferences, Dhriiti, Education, Entrepreneurship, Goonj, Health, IIT, InSight, InSPIRE, Insurance, International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Iyappan, Madhav Chavan, marketplace, Media, meeting, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, Oscar, philanthropy, Policy, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, social venture, SRI, Sri Arunodayam | 2 Comments

[Op-Ed]: The (Il)Logic of Laptops and Education

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: October 22, 2008

At several points during his presentation at MIT yesterday, Nicholas Negroponte mentioned prominent figures in passing – Kofi Annan, Steve Jobs, the Prime Ministers and Presidents of dozens of countries – but at no point did I think he was…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Aishwarya, corporate strategy, Education, Entrepreneurship, expertise, for profit, Government, grassroots, Grassroots development, Innovation, InSight, Jobs, meeting, NComputing, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, Nicholas Negroponte, non-profit, OLPC, One laptop per child, Op-Ed, partnerships, profits, RAND, scalability, social venture, teachers, Technology | Leave a comment

The Talent Vacuum

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: May 9, 2008

Many of our prior posts have spoken to the urgent need to overhaul, or at the least, significantly revamp the education system in India, as evidenced by the massive rise in demand for both primary and higher education institutions…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Atan, Atanu Dey, corporations, deesha, deeshaa.org, Economist, Education, Effectiveness, engineering, engineers, Gandhi, Government, higher education, HUL, IIT, IITs, Incentives, infrastructure, Jobs, NASSCOM, New Delhi, Policy, rahul gandhi, reservations, Rural, shortage, Singh, skills deficit, TIDE, Universities, VAMP, workforce | Leave a comment

TC-I is looking for Part-Time Writers

By Vinay Ganti | Published: April 28, 2008

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…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged changemaker, changemakers, Entrepreneurship, featured, Innovation, Internship, networking, NGO, NGOPost, Opportunities, part-time, Pratham Books, Siksha, siksha.org, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, start-up, TC-I Changemakers, writers | Leave a comment

[TC-I Changemakers] A book for every child — the mission for Pratham Books

By Vinay Ganti | Published: April 27, 2008

The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Akshara Foundation, Bangalore, changemaker, changemakers, Education, English, , featured, for profit, Gautam, Government, Gujarat, IDG, K1, Karnataka, languages, literacy, low-cost publishing, Media, NGO/Non-profit, NGOs and Non-profits, non-profit, NRI, Opportunities, Pratham Books, profits, Rohini Nilekani, Social Entrepreneurship, software, sustainability, TC-I Changemakers, Technology, writers | Leave a comment

A Snapshot of the State of Education in India

By Shital Shah | Published: April 7, 2008

Pratham released the results of their annual survey earlier this year which may be useful for those wanting data to inform their work. The survey shows that more children are attending schools, but that teacher attendance has slightly…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Education, girls, Government, III, Maine, Merinews, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Shiksha, survey | Leave a comment

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