Report: Priorities for Agricultural Research for Development in South Asia
Asia-pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) has released a report ‘Priorities for Agricultural Research for Development in South Asia, 2013′. APAARI’s mission is to promote...
View ArticleIDEX Accelerator’s inaugural event gives fellows a macro understanding of...
IDEX Accelerator (IDEX) a career launch-pad for aspiring social enterprise practitioners, recently conducted the introductory event for this year’s 6-month program earlier this week at TISS Mumbai....
View Article49 percent of Mainstream Companies are willing to support Social Enterprises...
The Social Enterprise Association’s latest survey findings reveal mainstream companies’ willingness to purchase from social enterprises (SEs) and even, provide in-kind support to this emerging group of...
View ArticleForum for Social Innovation Sweden Releases Research Report on Social Return...
Forum for Social Innovation Sweden (FSIS) at Malmö University releases today a research report on SROI – a method to measure impact of social change of social innovation and social entrepreneurship....
View ArticleRand Corporation recommends course of action to improve India’s rapidly...
Researchers from the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis, today unveiled a course of action to link higher education...
View ArticleIndia’s Compulsory CSR: Should contributions to impact investment funds be...
By Rupal Patel, Arvind Ashta and Priyanka Jayashankar. The recent CSR clause in the Indian Companies Act 2013 can be considered a trail-blazer in sustainable development. India, which is a huge market...
View ArticleIndia’s education crisis will affect both its economy and future of millions...
India seems to have no problem of getting children enrolled in school, the real issue with with education outcomes. Image courtesy: harvestbridge.org According to the ninth Annual Status of Education...
View Article[Impact investments 2013] Find out which social enterprises received funding...
Image courtesy: http://www.echoinggreen.org 2013 saw a flurry of social impact investment deals and several grants being awarded to non-profits. Funding was made available by angel networks, well-known...
View ArticleHere are the top 10 risks that the world faces, and how India will be...
Image courtesy: newshopper.sulekha.com The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its ninth edition of the report Global Risks 2014 recently at Davos, where world leaders have gathered for the annual...
View ArticleHere are the top 10 risks that the world faces: and, how India will be...
Image courtesy: http://water.columbia.edu The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its ninth edition of the report Global Risks 2014 recently at Davos, where world leaders have gathered for the annual...
View Article[Saturday Support] Help support these innovative, interesting crowdfunded...
Crowdfunding is arising as a perfect tool to innovate social projects: it empowers and connects thousands of people online around the world to discuss and invest in a project they believe in. It can be...
View ArticleSo you want to be a social entrepreneur? Start here…
Picture courtesy: www.socialearth.org What is social entrepreneurship? This is a difficult question to answer. For different social enterprise practitioners this may mean different things. Here’s our...
View ArticleSo you want to be a social entrepreneur? Consider this before that big leap
Image courtesy: http://www.udaipurblog.com You have been bitten by the social entrepreneurship bug and are itching to save the world and are ready to give up a well-paying corporate job without batting...
View ArticleHere are the various ways to get your social enterprise funded
Image courtesy: http://blog.sprinklebit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gold-mutual-fund.jpg You have the passion, drive and the big idea. Funding is the next important aspect, because without it,...
View ArticleWondering which legal structure to choose for your social enterprise? Read on…
Image courtesy: http://www.psdnetwork.com One of the most important decisions to be made before launching a social enterprise is choosing a legal structure. Why is this important? There are a number of...
View ArticleLok Capital Group: Searching for inclusive growth
In 2000, with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation,the Lok Capital Group was founded by Rajiv Lall, Chairman and Vishal Mehta, Partner. The Lok Group works from Delhi and Chennai, and has two arms:...
View ArticleThe ‘unholy’ girls of India, and Dasra’s fight to protect them
Statistics show that by the age of 15, 51 per cent girls stop attending school. This premature termination of education reportedly costs adolescent mothers USD 400 billion in potential income – an...
View ArticleHow to go from good governance to great governance
New reports and old stories After having tackled issues of hygiene, sanitation, women’s and adolescent girls’ development, Dasra, a philanthropic organisation, is, now, tackling governance. Since the...
View ArticleHow important is a business model in frugal innovation? – a graphic story
Frugal innovation, which -as Wikipedia puts it- is ‘the process of reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production’, is increasingly emerging as a popular means of mass production. It is...
View ArticleIndia’s road safety questionable with over 70% two-wheelers plying on road...
A Supreme Court panel recently lashed out at the Centre and the states for lack of coordination even over collection of data on road accident victims. The committee on road safety said that “India has...
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