Ashoka India is holding an event called “Ashoka Green Plan-it” in Bangalore, a two day cross-sector – youth, academia, businesses and companies – unconference to: Engage and mobilize young people to create innovative solutions for environmental challenges Enable a youth-driven approach to implement green initiatives within institutions and neighborhoods Ashoka Green Plan-it will be a participant driven, interactive [...]

Challenge:Future is a global student competition, aimed at promoting innovation for the world’s sustainable future. If you are a student between the age 18 and 30, Challenge:Future sincerely invites you to join our competition to develop sustainable solutions for specific global and business challenges. The registration for the competition has been launched on the 24th [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from the Social Capital Markets conference taking place in San Francisco, California.  Expect to see many more features in the next week! Ashish Gupta left his job as a technology consultant in the US in 2006 to rediscover his Indian roots through the Indicorps fellowship. In his 2 [...]

The DreamNow blog posts on a job opportunity with Swaraj University, an alternative learning center that “creates opportunities for young learners to develop the knowledge, skills and perspectives they need to create viable green-collar enterprises and to support healthy and resilient local communities.”  The program encourages self learning and aims to develop a new kind [...]

This op-ed was submitted by Suresh Pramar, 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 rest of the world has not escaped the impacts of the current downturn. The sudden rush in [...]

User Post GreenMicrofinance Celebrates EARTH DAY 2009 – Launches Online University Forum edit GreenMicrofinance™, a cutting-edge Pennsylvania-based triple bottom line company, has set Earth Day, April 22, 2009, at 5:00 PM EDT, for the launch of its online climate change and microfinance university network, the GMf University Forum™. The GMf University Forum, its own social [...]

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Nextbillion.net recently published a great interview with C. K. Prahalad on the role of private enterprise in development and poverty alleviation. Prahalad is the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and one of the pioneers of the idea of BOP (the 4 billion people living [...]

Here is an opportunity for an experienced finance professional. Job Profile Title Investment Manager Job Objective To develop and manage the investment portfolio of ennovent in India and Asia Start Date As soon as possible Location India – frequent travel in India and Asia Reporting Relationship Position reports to Managing Director More information can be [...]

Editors’ note: The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with first-hand insights from groundbreaking changemakers. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tab. Cheryl Dorsey is the President of Echoing Green, a leading global nonprofit which “invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new [...]

Aahar: Meals for Poor at Rs. 5, has won the grand prize ($10,000) at the  Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) as reported by IndiaPRwire. The business plan was presented by a group of students from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (NMIMS) Mumbai. GSEC was organized by the Foster School of Business at UW [...]