Posted by: yazdi on: 30/08/2010
Unlocking Potential. Igniting Ideas. Empowering Actions. The Foundation For Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) inspires the next generation of young Changemakers and invests in, incubates, accelerates and mentors high potential young social entrepreneurs in Asia Pacific to solve our most pressing social and environmental problems and to bring prosperity to the region. By providing a range [...]
Posted by: yazdi on: 22/08/2010
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level, in any discipline, and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit [...]
Posted by: Support on: 14/07/2010
You can zoom, at a maximum speed of 120 kmph, in his car that runs on compressed air! You can also ride a cycle without pedalling or drive a solar-gas hybrid car…all you have to do is visit a small garage in Assam. Kanak Gogoi, a modest innovator who has studied only up to class [...]
Posted by: Support on: 12/07/2010
Sreelatha Menon The world goes green with the world cup, as players take bottles to the field. This season the football extravaganza was not all about great football, but about a green revolution that has taken the world of sports by storm. Recycled plastic PET bottles collected from landfill sites in Taiwan and Japan have [...]
Posted by: Support on: 29/06/2010
Making Ecopreneurs Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of ‘ecopreneurs’ – environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth whilst protecting the environment and encouraging sustainability.
Posted by: Support on: 09/06/2010
Tata Motors is taking giant strides and making history for itself. First the Landrover-Jaguar deal, then the world’s cheapest car and now it is also set to introduce the car that runs on air, compressed air to be specific. More
Posted by: yazdi on: 03/06/2010
Vastra Samman We believe that just by re-using our old clothes the problem of clothing for the poor can be solved to a very large extent Cloth for work Cloth is given as a motivation, with dignity, to people working on their own community issues. We turn age old charitable cloth into a resource for [...]
Posted by: yazdi on: 02/06/2010
Daily Dump is a brand, a service, a set of products and a way of life that we hope people begin to subscribe to. As a service, Daily Dump helps you manage your household waste and convert it to useful high-quality compost. It supports you with flexible service plans to achieve your goal of becoming [...]
Posted by: Support on: 24/05/2010
Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation (Deadline: Ongoing) The Rufford Small Grants Foundation provides grants of up to £6,000 for small-scale or pilot nature conservation projects in less-developed countries around the world. Projects must have a nature/biodiversity conservation focus and be located outside the first world. The Foundation’s scope of interest includes conservation work focused [...]
Posted by: yazdi on: 13/04/2010
Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship We know that it takes more than just early stage risk-capital to get a company off the ground – we enable most of what may be required by entrepreneurs through incubation, training and best practice research. Our activities therefore revolve around forging new ways of helping budding entrepreneurs in [...]
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