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21st Apr 2009
Ask Echoing Green Fellowship finalists
Echoing Green, an organization we have both interviewed and posted on, is adding a new twist to their fellowship selection process this year. With twenty-two social entrepreneurs chosen as finalists, ...
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8th Mar 2009
[TC-I Call to Action]: Schools for Entrepreneurs Grant Competition
Via NGO Post, a competition held by Teach A Man To Fish called Schools for Entrepreneurs aims “to find the best school-based income-generating initiatives in India, projects which are both educational...
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17th Feb 2009
How do we go from here?
I read Atanu Dey’s take onInnovation and Entrepreneurship in India in response to a question put forward by Sramana Mitra on her blog Why is the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India not coming together ...
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15th Oct 2008
After Fab India, its XLRI's turn
ThinkChange India had earlier coveredFab India’s innovative business model for bringing the riches right at the doorsteps of the skilled and isolated rural weavers. A similar opportunity now knocks th...
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10th Jul 2008
Paid for Waste
In the town of Musiri, located in Tamil Nadu, the government has decided to compensate residents for using a new public toilet. The novelty of this effort does not stop there, as both the urine and fe...
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24th Jun 2008
Singing along one's way to literacy
One poem that always inspires me is “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Its starting lines came to my mind when I learned about Brij Kothari and his brainchild PlanetRead:> If you can keep your head when all abo...
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7th May 2008
Maximizing efficiency in Microfinance: Interview with Equitas founder
The Hindu just published a great interview with Mr P.N. Vasudevan of Equitas Micro Finance, a start-up MFI based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Vasudevan is an interesting entrepreneur, having spent 20 years...
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2nd May 2008
Another Victory for Sex Workers
In a prior post, Vinay wrote about a groundbreaking event – the establishment of the first ever bank run for and by sex workers in Kamathipura, Bombay.As a follow up to that post, OneWorld South Asia ...
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27th Apr 2008
TC-I Week in Review
First off there seems to be a lot of interest in our TC-I Changemakers profiles as that page on our website received a number of hits this week. For us here at ThinkChange India, interviewing people a...
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24th Apr 2008
Op-Ed: Should SKS Microfinance go Public?
A recent article on www.sramanamitra.com postulates that SKS Microfinance, which offers “several microfinance options to the poor in India for a variety of businesses from agriculture and livestock pu...
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22nd Apr 2008
Making the Impossible Possible: GE develops portable, affordable EKG
Brought to our attention by Technology, Health & Development Blog by Aman is a story of technological innovation at its finest. The challenge was to create an affordable, portable electorkardiogram (E...
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20th Apr 2008
[TC-I Changemakers]: Interview with Kal Raman of GlobalScholar.com
Editor’s note: The following interview is part of an ongoing series for ThinkChange India where we interview social entrepreneurs firsthand. The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our r...
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