If your desire to make a difference to the world was somehow lost in your search for a stable career, here is your chance to rediscover it. As a Villgro Fellow, you will work with a social enterprise for 1 year, applying your skills to create real impact in Rural India. In charting a better [...]

Villgro, the pioneers in championing rural innovation, present a one-of-a-kind signature event that will provide a common meeting ground for innovators of all hues, ideators who wish to translate their dreams to reality, social entrepreneurs who’ve been-there-done-that, domain experts, opinion leaders and leading lights of the Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship ecosystem. Villgro’s Unconvention aims to [...]

Villgro Awards recognize and felicitate outstanding individuals, enterprises and institutions in the Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship eco-system, for their contribution in effecting a sustainable change in society. The accolades will be conferred at Uncovention 2011– the flagship social entrepreneurship conference of Villgro. Nominations are invited across the categories of Lifetime achievement, Social Enterprise, Social Investor, [...]

Villgro, an incubator of social enterprises, has launched Wantrapreneur 2011, a social business plan competition as part of Unconvention 2011, India’s premier Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship conference.  Wantrapreneur 2011 aims to identify social enterprises that have a potential to transform rural lives. Enterprises in the start-up and early growth stages, across categories such as agriculture, [...]

It is ironic that while India houses possibly the highest number of social entrepreneurs in the world, social innovation & entrepreneurship itself forms a deplorable mention in the course curriculum in most academic institutions in our country. Curriculum aside, very few colleges in India have societies dedicated to promoting social entrepreneurship and development through enterprise [...]

The Villgro Fellowship is a one year program that builds social leaders. The program has been established by Villgro in lines with its mission of empowering rural development by identifying and incubating innovative social enterprises. In the last 3 years, 14 Villgro Fellows have brought sustainable change in the lives of the rural poor. Vision: [...]

Villgro is a social enterprise incubator based in India that enables rural development by identifying and incubating innovations that use market based models to impac thousands of rural households. We actively promote social entrepreneurship and work with different stakeholders to create and support an eco-system that empowers social entrepreneurs by means of a host of services [...]

[From Let Me Know] The Summit at Unconvention aspires to be a forum that enables various stakeholders of the eco-systemunderstand the connection between innovation, entrepreneurship and solutions for the rural poor. The theme of the conference titled “Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship to impact the rural poor” will once again bring the best and brightest in [...]

Villgro (you can learn more about the organization here) is holding a technology transfer workshop to help innovators in the Agri. Machineries & Implements space commercialize their technologies more effectively. The workshop is free for participants and will be immediately followed by INNOHUB, and innovation exhibition organized by Villgro. Admission to INNOHUB costs Rs. 5000. [...]

Villgro, who hosts Unconvention (read about it here), is looking for part-time interns to help with market assessment in the rural and agricultural fields. These reports titled Summary of Market Assessment of Rural Technologies (SMART) help rural entrepreneurs better understand what technologies may be out there to help them better achieve their goals. Villgro has partnered [...]