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Course on Managing Growth & Financing,
Goonj – Clothing the Nation
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 much needed development work in Indian villages
Not just a piece of cloth
By providing a small piece of clean cloth to a village woman, to be used as a sanitary napkin, we can prevent a multitude of hygiene problems.In Hindu
Daily Dump – composting for individual homes
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 a green citizen.
We’re involved in developing a range of composting solutions, and already have a number of the best composting bins and other equipment for your home. The Daily Dump products are designed to ensure that you compost at home, conveniently and hygienically.
On this site you’ll find information on us and our products, plus free material on everything you need to start your own composting project, faster than you can say ‘biodegradable’.
USA India Business Summit
Franchising Business Opportunities
Indian Merchants’ Chamber and Franchising Association of India are jointly organizing a Franchising Business Opportunities Meet on Saturday 17th April 2010 from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm in the Walchand Hirachand Hall (4th Floor), IMC.
Sankalp 2010
The Sankalp 2010 Awards and Investment Forum is an annual Intellecap initiative committed to catalyzing entrepreneurship in the social enterprise space. Sankalp actively facilitates collaboration between established and budding entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders and sector stakeholders interested in contributing effectively towards this fledgling yet fast-growing industry.
Sankalp 2010 Forum and Awards shall recognize, award and connect the most investible social MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium enterprises) operating in 5 high impact sectors:
- Agriculture, Food & Rural Business
- Clean Energy
- Inclusive Education
- Health, Water & Sanitation, and
- Technology for Development
IMPETUS 2010 – Business Ideation Program
IMPETUS 2010 in its 3rd year now at SPCE, Bhavans Campus Andheri . Starting 27th March 2010 . We have a 12 weekend program on Business Ideation to Business Plans.
If you know of anyone who would be interested in the program can contact Ms Ritika Murarka 9664257210
This year the program is opened for practising entrepreneurs and students from other insitutes having NEN recognised e-cell.
The program starts from 27th March Saturday at SP College of Engineering , Bhavans Campus , Andheri . It will run till Mid-May. Its on all Fri/ Saturday. This program is the advanced modules to the one we had for WZCC.
Certification will be provided by NEN ( National Entrepreneurship Network ) . The cost is a nominal 2000/- to cover the cost of lunch and tea for all the twelve weekends.
Looking forward to a bit of help from everyone to make this a great success
Raj Bhat
Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP)
The “Technopreneur Promotion Programme” (TePP) was launched in 1998-99 by the Ministry of Science and Technology. TePP is operated by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) to tap the vast innovative potential of the citizen of India. TePP is a mechanism to promote indivudual innovators to become technology-based entrepreneurs (Technopreneurs).
Objectives
The TePP has the following objectives:
- To promote and support untapped creativity of individual innovators
- To assist the individual innovators to become technology based enterpreneurs
- To assist the technopreneur in networking and forge linkages with other constituents of the innovation chain for commercialization of their developments.
Activities
The activities under TePP include providing financial support to selected and screened individual innovators having original ideas for converting them into working models , prototypes and so on. TePP assistance is provided to the innovator to meet expenditure on the following:
- R&D/Engineering consultancy
- Procure small equipment,tools etc. required
- Raw Material/ Accessories (for prototype/process trials),
- Fabrication cost (for prototypes)
- Patent guidance and support
- Manpower
- Testing & Trials
- Any other relevant costs
TePP support to the innovators is limited to 90% of the total cost of the project & remaining 10% is to be borne by the innovator/inventor.
Click Here for more information on this unique program
Click Here for Technology Development and Innovation Programme (TDIP)
Trade Information – India
The Department of Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, maintains a very interesting website – commerce.nic.in – with a host of Trade and Commercial Data. The data can be accessed Productwise, Countrywise and Regionwise. A must see for all into Local and International Trade. The site is well maintained and updated regularly.
