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Full-Time Volunteer Needed for Manzil

By tdomf_ecbf4 | Published: May 3, 2009

User Post

Position:

A full-time volunteer for Manzil, a youth empowerment and learning center in Khan Market, New Delhi

Duration:

Minimum of a six-month commitment. Prefer one year or longer.

Start Date:

The start date is flexible, but we would…

Posted in Jobs, Opportunities, Primary | Also tagged AIDS, computer, Education, electricity, empowerment, English, Fellows, Fellowship, Government, Hindi, IIM-A, Indicorps, Job Opportunities, Jobs, leadership, Livelihood, Lower-Income, Manzil, Media, New Delhi, NGO, non-profit, Opportunities, part-time, Singh, social stigma, TC-I Call to Action, Tobacco, toilets, travel, Volunteer, volunteering, workshops, youth | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action] Business Development Professionals at iDiscoveri Education

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: December 23, 2008

iDiscoveri is a social enterprise working towards ushering in change in society by reviving education in India. It is doing this by working at different levels of the education system. It is looking out Business Development Professionals. Read more about

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Posted in Jobs | Also tagged Business Development, call to action, Cambridge, Chennai, Coimbatore, Discoveri, Education, Energy, English, Environment, expertise, Harvard, IDG, idiscoveri, IIT, Incentives, Jobs, leadership, meeting, Meetings, Opportunities, SEED, social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Tamil Nadu, TC-I Call to Action, travel | 3 Comments

Face-to-Face with Comat technologies

By Badhri Jagannathan | Published: November 20, 2008

TC-I Fundwatch has recently reported a Rs. 60-crore investment by Omidyar Network and Unitus Equity Fund (UEF) on Comat technologies, a profitable social enterprise doing business with the rural poor.

The CEO of Comat…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged BoP, CCI, Comat, Comat technologies, death, disabled, Education, Government, income generation, InSight, NASSCOM, Omidyar, Omidyar Network, Rural, rural business, rural India, Social business, social enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, SRI, Sriram Raghavan, Technology, Unitus, Unitus Equity Fund | Leave a comment

Tech Winners Starting Small, Scaling Up

By Shital Shah | Published: November 13, 2008

Remember the Tech Museum Awards? The award “honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity.” The 25 winners were announced yesterday, with two innovators from India. MercuryNews.com covered the ceremony in…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Awards, Bangalore, Berkeley, Biomass, computer, corn husks, DESI Power, Digital Green, Digital StudyHall, Education, electricity, Energy, HUL, Innovation, IPO, ITC, languages, NGOs and Non-profits, nonprofit, npr, Op-Ed, Opportunities, Pune, RAND, Renewable, rice husks, Rural, rural India, SKS, slum, slums, Social Entrepreneurship, Tech Museum Awards, Technology, University of California | Leave a comment

[TC-I Call to Action]: Teach for India

By Shital Shah | Published: October 22, 2008

A spin-off of the popular Teach for America, Teach for India is now in place and accepting applications. For the inaugural year of TFI, 100 fellows will be placed in schools in Mumbai and Pune. Fellows will receive support…

Posted in Fellowships, Opportunities | Also tagged America, call to action, Education, Fellows, Fellowship, Fellowships, InSight, leadership, Mumbai, NGOs and Non-profits, Opportunities, Pune, TC-I Call to Action, Teach for India | 7 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, Pratham, profits, RAND, scalability, social venture, Technology | Leave a comment

Lending “name” to a school

By Aishwarya Mishra | Published: October 16, 2008

[Story source: Business Standard]

Corporates, non-profit organizations and individuals are helping re-build government schools in Andhra Pradesh by adopting schools under the School Adoption Scheme – started around three years ago by the state government. To summarise the…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged adoption, Andhra Pradesh, Business Standard, Education, Government, Hyderabad, infrastructure, NGOs and Non-profits, non-profit, Public Private, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, School Adoption Scheme, Shiksha, Social Entrepreneurship | 1 Comment

TC-I Tidbits

By Shital Shah | Published: May 7, 2008

Your daily dose of headlines:

Health: Over 53% children in India under five years – that is, 67 million – live without basic healthcare facilities. This means that India alone accounts for about one-third of all children in the

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Canara Bank, Education, electricity, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, healthcare, iGovernment, Karnataka, Microfinance, Pension, Rural, shortage, Solar, solar power, Tidbits, Times of India, United Nations, Universities | 1 Comment

[TC-I Changemakers]: Interview with Maya Ajmera of The Global Fund for Children

By Shital Shah | 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 Ashoka, beta, changemaker, changemakers, Chennai, Dasra, Economics, Education, Effectiveness, Environment, featured, girls, grassroots, InSPIRE, leadership, Livelihood, Maya Ajmera, Media, metrics, NGO, NGO/Non-profit, nonprofit, npr, NRI, Opportunities, philanthropy, rights, sex work, sex worker, sex workers, slum, slums, Social business, social entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneurship, SRI, TC-I Changemakers, The Global Fund for Children, vocational training, waste, youth | 1 Comment

[Guest Post]: Bridging the Digital Divide: More Than Tomorrow Project

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: April 25, 2008

Editors Note: Guest Blogger Marshall J. Krinitz is the founder of More Than Tomorrow Project, which has successfully established two computer learning centers in the state of Himachal Pradesh. We here at TC-I were quite thrilled by their work…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Artisans, computer, Developing World, Digital Divide, e-medicine, Education, English, Government, grassroots, Grassroots Initiatives, Guest Post, Health, himachal pradesh, ICT. More Than Tomorrow, IDG, infrastructure, Innovation, libraries, literacy, medicine, RBI, Rural, software, summer, sustainability, Technology, travel, Volunteer | Leave a comment

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