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illiteracy
6th Aug 2021
How IIFL Foundation’s Sakhiyon Ki Baadi is eliminating illiteracy among girls in Rajasthan
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19th Apr 2016
How this 8-year-old village girl and her blackboard inspired an organisation to go to 600 villages and bet Rs 30 cr to find India’s next Einstein
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8th Apr 2008
Midday Newsfeed
Some titillating headlines:Microfinance:Whole Planet Foundation (WPF), a Whole Foods Market nonprofit that “empowers individuals in the global community through entrepreneurship” recently announced th...
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27th Mar 2008
Local Governance: (Re)presenting Women
According to a recent A. C. Neilsen ORG MARG survey, the approximately 10.5 lakh women in panchayati raj (village level governance) have gained significant influence in key decision-making. In fact, t...
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16th Mar 2008
Some things unfortunately never change…
Atanu Dey discusses a NY Times article on the discouraging state of illiteracy in India. According to the article, over 300,000,000 people are illiterate in India and there does not appear to be an co...
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10th Mar 2008
Building Critical Links, One Rural Teacher at a Time
While India’s national economy booms, educational disparity between rural and urban areas remains a major issue of concern, specifically in terms of resources, infrastructure, and funding. Despite th...
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4th Mar 2008
Fast Company Singles Out 45 Social Entrepreneurs that are Changing the World
From Fast Company:> The 2008 Social Capitalist AwardsChange the world. Make some money. It’s an appealing prospect. Nonprofits were born because for-profits weren’t addressing some market failures–po...
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7th Feb 2008
Adoption not the same as democratization with regard to technology
The Economist had an article today on the challenges that emerging economies face with making initial adoptions of new technologies widespread. While it is easy to overly simplify the phenomenon that ...
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