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Reuters Market Light, part of Thomson Reuters, wins prestigious World Business & Development Award

By rmlonline | Published: November 18, 2010

Mumbai, November 9, 2010: Reuters Market Light (RML), the pioneer in creating a professional micro-information service for India’s agricultural community, has won a prestigious World Business and Development Award (WBDA) in recognition of its efforts for improving the lives of…

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India Needs Social Entrepreneurs and Social Intrapreneurs to Fight Recession

By tdomf_ecbf4 | Published: May 17, 2009

This op-ed was submitted by , 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…

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[TC-I Call to Action]: UnLtd Communications Coordinator

By Shital Shah | Published: May 7, 2009

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.

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Integrating MIS with Microfinance

By Shivam Srivastava | Published: April 1, 2009

Some of the challenges faced by Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in India have revolved around the issues of a lack of trained labor for local level administration, resource mobilization and the cost of services. One way to tackle these problems…

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Checking in on CGAP and Branchless Banking

By Vinay Ganti | Published: January 21, 2009

When I heard that Gautam Ivatury of CGAP would be at NYU’s “From Innovation to Impact” Conference, I thought it would be a great time to follow up with my previous interview with him. While…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged branchless, branchless banking, business plan, cell phones, CGAP, changemaker, Conference, Economist, empowerment, Finance/Credit, Financial Times, Gautam, Gautam Ivatury, Innovation, ISB, Media, Microfinance, mobile banking, NYU, portal, Technology, The Economist | Leave a comment

Intl. Conf. on Social Entrepreneurship in India – Day 1

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: December 14, 2008

I had the opportunity to attend the International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in India on the 4th and 5th of December. In this post I will try to narrate my experience at the conference. In the posts following…

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And then there were a few

By Vinay Ganti | Published: September 11, 2008

So, it looks as though many smaller MFIs will now become absorbed by the larger players as the microfinance sector is expected to enter into period of substantial consolidation within India. According to Microcapital .org,

The sector, which has

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged BoP, consolidation, Criticisms, Finance/Credit, Grameen, Grameen Koota, MFI, Microcapital., Microcapital.org, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, Social Venture Capital, venture capital | Leave a comment

Times of India’s new social change effort: Teach India

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: July 7, 2008

Times of India group has been getting serious about large-scale national level social change efforts. Their strategy has been to use the group’s media muscle to create buzz around these efforts to encourage public involvement and participation. Of course, the…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged CSR, Education, Lead India, Media, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, non-profit, Social Entrepreneurship, Teach India, Times Group, Times of India, Volunteer, volunteering | 18 Comments

Op-Ed: The Potential Marriage of Private Equity and Microfinance – Dysfunctional or Blissful?

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: June 26, 2008

The composition of the microfinance sector is becoming increasingly hybridized, as microfinance institutions (MFIs) morph into profit-making entities, and global financial institutions such as Citigroup, Inc. or HSBC Holdings become (unintended) vectors of poverty alleviation (refer to “Global…

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Putting Laws into Practice: The Case of Rainwater Harvesting

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: June 6, 2008

What happens when a law is passed in a vacuum? The answer: it doesn’t get implemented.

What happens when the government throws rules and regulations at people, without giving them the tools to apply them, or without developing enforcement mechanisms…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged central ground water authority, Environment, Government, Incentives, laws, rainwater harvesting, Recycling, regulation, Times of India, waste | 2 Comments

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