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Spinning Electricity With An E-Charkha2 comments

Shital wrote 3 days ago: Followers of Mahatma Gandhi are familiar with the charkha, a spinning wheel that produces a type of … more →

Tags: Employment, Energy, Government, Charkha, Cotton, electricity, Gandhi, The Hindu

Step towards cleaner cooking in rural areas1 comment

Aishwarya wrote 3 weeks ago: Envirofit International has introduced a range of “clean-burning and biomass-based cooking sto … more →

Tags: Social Entrepreneurship, health, Research, Microfinance, Rural, Envirofit, shell foundation, biomass, cooking

Times of India's new social change effort: Teach India6 comments

Santhosh wrote 1 month ago: Times of India group has been getting serious about large-scale national level social change efforts … more →

Tags: CSR, Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Lead India, Teach India, Times Group, Times of India

Guest-Post: The Savior of Madurai’s Mentally-Ill2 comments

Vinay wrote 1 month ago: Editor’s Note: This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the t … more →

Tags: bop, health, Sanitation, Tamil Nadu, Akshaya Foundation, Krishnan, Madurai

Sanitation on Wheels - All Aboard!3 comments

prernasri wrote 1 month ago: Earlier this month, I attended the inaugural ceremony of the “Nandini Mobile Van” at the … more →

Tags: Approaches, Change Agent, Education, Environment, Grassroots Initiatives, health, issues, Sanitation, Social Entrepreneurship

"We impart knowledge, but we are a roti-driven model"

Aishwarya wrote 2 months ago: One finds heroes in the most unlikely of places and amongst the most unlikely of persons. The unlike … more →

Tags: Social Entrepreneurship, Education, girl child

Op-Ed: The Intersection between Self-Interest and the Social Good2 comments

prernasri wrote 2 months ago: Today, I attended a lecture at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) entitled, “Social En … more →

Tags: Social Entrepreneurship, CSR, Government, Approaches, Op-Ed

India Celebrates World Environment Day

Shital wrote 2 months ago: June 5 marks World Environment Day, and India is also celebrating in innovative ways. Here are sever … more →

Tags: CSR, Environment, Public awareness, Grassroots Initiatives, Coca-Cola, Children, UNEP, World Environment Day, NDTV

TC-I Tidbits

thinkchangeindia wrote 2 months ago: Your daily dose of headlines: Energy: Four ultra mega (super duper?) power projects have been green … more →

Tags: CSR, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Government, Research, technology, Accenture

Microfinance and Food Rations

Shital wrote 2 months ago: In the latest edition of Pragati, the Indian National Interest Review, Ankit Rawal proposes a new ap … more →

Tags: basic Rights, Government, Microfinance, Ankit Rawal, Consumption smoothing, food rations, mfi, pragati, Public distribution system

Digital Green: ICT and a Participatory Framework

Shital wrote 2 months ago: SciDev.Net brings attention to Digital Green, a project that uses digital video to disseminate infor … more →

Tags: technology, Research, Agriculture, Grassroots Initiatives, Farmers, ict, SciDev.net, digital green, digital video

Global Water Challenge Winners

Shital wrote 2 months ago: I previously posted about voting in the Global Water Challenge - well, the winners are in, and all t … more →

Tags: PPP, health, basic Rights, Grassroots Initiatives, water, sanitation, Global water challenge, Naandi Foundation, Swayam Shikshan Prayog

Entrepreneurial (and Non-Exploitative) Ecotourism1 comment

Shital wrote 2 months ago: Santhosh pointed out the complexities of slum tourism, and ecotourism itself is a contested issue. E … more →

Tags: Social Entrepreneurship, Environment, Employment, himachal pradesh, EcoTourism, Ecosphere, Express Travel World, spiti valley

Breaking the First of Many Glass Ceilings1 comment

Shital wrote 3 months ago: At the first national conference on rural BPOs, as mentioned previously by Santhosh, the real spotli … more →

Tags: Social Entrepreneurship, Employment, Women's rights, Grassroots Initiatives, BPO, social stigma

Forget Goa, Dharavi is the new tourist hot spot6 comments

Santhosh wrote 3 months ago: The Times of India carried an interesting piece this morning, by Brigida Viggiano, who chronicles he … more →

Tags: housing, Times of India, slums, Dharavi, slum tourism

The Makings of the "Indian Dream"1 comment

Shital wrote 3 months ago: The Business Standard features an intriguing anecdotal story about salt pan workers in Gujarat who n … more →

Tags: bop, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Gujarat, salt pan, sabras, Vikas Center for Development, Rajesh Shah

Vote in the Global Water Challenge2 comments

Shital wrote 3 months ago: The Global Water Challenge, a competition put on by Ashoka Changemakers, is taking votes right now o … more →

Tags: Approaches, basic Rights, Competitions, Grassroots Initiatives, Ashoka Changemakers, Competition, Global water challenge, Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers, Naandi Foundation

TC-I Tidbits

thinkchangeindia wrote 3 months ago: Your daily dose of headlines: Health: India continues to have the world’s highest number of p … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Education, Government, Grassroots Initiatives, health, PPP, Children, Food Corporation of India, grain reserve

Eco-Wise: Braving New Frontiers in Waste Management5 comments

prernasri wrote 3 months ago: Waste management is a significant challenge for India, specifically in urban areas, where the accumu … more →

Tags: Approaches, Change Agent, Environment, Government, health, issues, PPP, climate connections, ecowise waster management


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