Shivam Srivastava9th Aug 2010Irfan Alam of SammaaN on BoP EntrepreneurshipIfran Alam is a well known to many who follow Social Ventures in India. As the founder of SammaaN, which organizes rickshaw pullers into small marketing and courier businesses, Irfan has won a number ...Change AgentRemove3rd Aug 2010ISB Launches iDiya Social Venture Competition (apply by Sep 19)The Indian School of Business has launched the iDiya Challenge, an idea competition for social ventures which is open to workingprofessionals across India to participate in. The competition opened on ...CompetitionsRemove12th Apr 2010SKS IPO Plans Spark DebateSKS Microfinance, India’s largest MFI is planning to raise over Rs. 1000 crores ($225m) through the sale of 16.8m equity shares, as reported by the Economic Times. Per the IPO prospectus, Sequoia, San...PrimaryRemove5th Mar 2010Building a Generation of Changemakers - reflections from E4SI (apply by Mar 7)A number of immersion programs exist that attempt to make the youth aware about development challenges in India. Some examples includeGrassroutes, Teach for India and Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI...OpportunitiesRemove1st Feb 2010What Makes a Social Entrepreneur?In an article in India Knowledge@Wharton, Abraham George, founder of The George Foundation, questions the effectiveness and validity of many so-called social entrepreneurs and writes about the myth of...PrimaryRemove6th Jan 2010The Business of Fighting Corruption and Other Ideas from the Aspen ConclaveA few weeks back the Aspen Institute India invited essays based on a simple prompt, Do you have ideas that could address some of India’s problems? Some of these ideas were presented a few weeks back a...ConferencesRemove7th Dec 2009[TC-I Call to Action]: Teach for India Recruiting for 2010 FellowshipTeach for India (TFI) is a program that places young professionals and graduates within India’s low income schools for 2 years. A spin-off of the Teach for America program, TFI has a phenomenally succ...OpportunitiesRemove30th Nov 2009India's Social Entrepreneurs of the YearTheSchwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship recently recognized three individuals with significant impact in India asSocial Entrepreneurs of the year for 2009. This was the fifth annual addition ...PrimaryRemove9th Nov 2009StartingBloc Fellowship for Social InnovationTheStartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation educates, inspires and connects emerging leaders to create new solutions to global challenges. Through the program, StartingBloc unite social innovators...OpportunitiesRemove1st Sep 2009A Better World Through Sports (part II) - an interview with India KheloIndiaKhelo is seeking to build a national measurement of kid’s performance in sports (similar to the centralized board exams), hold events across the country to unearth talent (like the national acade...Change AgentRemove1st Sep 2009A Better World Through Sports (part I)The most common ideas in social entrepreneurship tend to focus on fields like micro-finance, rural livelihood and healthcare. Today we focus on a completely different and often ignored breed of innova...Change AgentRemove26th Aug 2009Nokia Focusses on Rural IndiaDespite adding over 10 million subscribers a month, India has a low mobile penetration of 13%. Telecom giant Nokia recently launched a number of exciting new tools aimed at capturing the next segment ...PrimaryRemove123
