Archive for the ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ Category
The Maids’ Company
Posted by: yazdi on: 01/05/2012
The Maids’ Company is a social enterprise that aims to revolutionize the domestic housekeeping sector by improving service quality, while upholding the rights of domestic workers. Through our pioneering approach, our maids become co-owners in the enterprise and enjoy a fair share of equity. Naturally, the workers are motivated to provide a great service experience [...]
Scaling New Peaks
Posted by: yazdi on: 19/04/2012
Local problems, global solutions Living in the shadow of the majestic mountains, Bharti and Jain soon found that a number of conditions were hampering the economic progress of the people of their locality. They set up a social organization, AVANI, to help local communities access basic infrastructure amenities like electricity.AVANI was set up as the [...]
Sankalp Summit
Posted by: yazdi on: 09/03/2012
The annual Sankalp Summit is one of Asia’s largest collaborative platforms to bring together social enterprises, impact investors, policy makers, academicians, and other market makers. Initiated in 2009 with the vision of catalyzing impact investments into social enterprises globally, the forum today has evolved into a community of over 350 social enterprises, over 300 investors [...]
Sustainable Development
Posted by: yazdi on: 19/02/2012
The CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development is an institution that creates a conducive, enabling climate for Indian businesses to pursue sustainability goals. It creates awareness, promotes thought leadership, and builds capacity to achieve sustainability across a broad spectrum of issues. A pioneering effort by CII, the Centre is the fountainhead of ideas and [...]
INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
Posted by: yazdi on: 18/02/2012
INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE Transformation to sustainability is the biggest business challenge–and opportunity–in the history of capitalism. World population has grown 3 times in approximately 60 years. United Nations projects the world population to reach 10 billion by 2100! Most of the products currently developed are for the affluent 1 billion people and give [...]
Technology of Spirituality
Posted by: yazdi on: 12/02/2012
A talk by Khurshed Batliwala, director of World Alliance for Youth Empowerment at Ruia College, Mumbai. With a post graduate in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Khurshed Batliwala, or Bawa as he is fondly known (a nick name that has stuck from his IIT days) is an extraordinary personality. In his own [...]
Plastic soda bottles become light source
Posted by: Support on: 24/09/2011
This is INNOVATION at its best ! Lighting up dark places using a soda bottle, water, bleach, sealant, and little else… Solves a major problem, and doesn’t cost that much… Something quite amazing about how the poor make their life a little better ! And what we usually take for granted. Check our some of [...]
Times Social Awards
Posted by: yazdi on: 04/09/2011
Social Impact Awards These awards were initiated as an attempt to encourage and honour the efforts of those who came together to fight for change. They who refused to sit back and watch. They who took the plunge and brought about Social Impact. Social Change is on its way, are you with it? Click Here [...]
Dynamic folding of a paper solar cell circuit
Posted by: yazdi on: 13/07/2011
A paper solar cell circuit is dynamically folded and unfolded while the voltage is simultaneously measured on the meter. The paper photovoltaic is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.
Promotion of non-reversible socio-economic development
Posted by: yazdi on: 13/03/2011
International Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (ICECD) The Mission “To create a new cadre of Entrepreneurs, Managers and Specialized Professionals to foster the process of non-reversible socio-economic development on the global arena.” ICECD has been the vanguard of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development amongst varying target groups and has worked extensively around [...]
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