Archive for the ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ Category
ETASHA – to bridge the gap between ‘what is’ and ‘what can be’.
Posted by: yazdi on: 06/03/2011
Established as a not-for-profit organisation in January 2006, ETASHA (Enabling and Training Adolescents for Successful and Healthy Adulthood) provides market-oriented employability and vocational skills to disadvantaged Indian youth (aged 15-30 years). Our career guidance workshops and short-term training programmes equip them for entry-level jobs in the organised sector, in industries such as retail, accounting, hospitality [...]
Creating Job Creators
Posted by: yazdi on: 11/01/2011
ICreateInc., started in 1999, as a non-profit, in a limited locality in India, to help the disadvantaged who could not get a job and joined the ranks of unemployed or worse, I Create has now become a major movement in India with five full centers (as of December 2009) and hundreds of affiliations. Like minded [...]
ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
Posted by: yazdi on: 10/10/2010
ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth was founded by ICICI Group to empower low-income Indians to participate in and benefit from India’s growth. Our focus on inclusive growth is grounded in the philosophy of ICICI Group and its history of partnering in the nation’s economic growth and development. Since its inception in 2008, ICICI Foundation has [...]
Mother Earth
Posted by: yazdi on: 05/10/2010
Mother Earth believes in satisfying it’s customers while nurturing the environment and building on the strengths of marginalised rural communities to include them in sustainable livelihoods and overall prosperity. Mrs. Gita Ram, co-founder, craft activist, mentors the company, and has been its principal social investor providing it with loans of upto 150,000 USD without collateral, [...]
Agricultural Innovator
Posted by: yazdi on: 22/09/2010
GV RAMANJANEYULU Agricultural Innovator BY SOPAN JOSHII In about 20 lakh acres of farms in 4,000 villages of Andhra Pradesh, farmers today manage crop pests without spraying pesticides. GV Ramanjaneyulu, 37, took premature retirement from the Directorate of Oilseeds Research in Hyderabad. “I didn’t want to wait till my retirement to do the right thing,” [...]
Indo-US Joint Clean Energy R&D Center
Posted by: yazdi on: 06/09/2010
Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) is proposed to be established under a joint initiative between the Government of India and the US Department of Energy. The center is envisaged to undertake collaborative R & D to advance clean energy technologies by teams of scientists, technologists and engineers from India and the [...]
Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship
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 [...]
Grand Challenges Explorations
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 [...]
Futuristic innovations from a college dropout!
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 [...]
Nike makes football jerseys from recycled bottles!
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 [...]
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