Category: Social Entrepreneurship

Resources, Social Entrepreneurship

Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme

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The Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme for international students

The Tata Group, one of India’s largest private sector conglomerates,  announced the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES) for an international student internship programme with Tata Group’s community initiatives in India. The Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) each with the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the University of Cambridge, UK. The primary objective of TISES is to provide international students a chance to work in community initiative projects of the Tata Group in India and thereby promote international understanding.

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Social Entrepreneurship

Light Up the World

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Light Up The World Foundation (LUTW) is the first humanitarian organization to utilize renewable energy and solid-state lighting technologies to bring affordable, safe, healthy, efficient, and environmentally responsible illumination to people who do not have access to power for adequate lighting.  LUTW remains the world’s leader in this endeavour: globally active and setting standards in the field.

Through generous support from interested individuals, corporations, host country organizations, international foundations and industrial partners, LUTW has lit up more than 17,000 homes in over 50 countries throughout the developing world from Afghanistan to Zambia.    (read more…)

Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change

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The Skoll Foundation has recently completed a short film about the field of social entrepreneurship. Its a great overview of the progress made over the last three decades. It starts with Mohammad Yunus and includes interviews with a number of social entrepreneurs and others in the field, including Sally Osberg of the Skoll Foundation, Bill Drayton of Ashoka, Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund, John Elkington of Volans, and author David Bornstein.

For more information on these and other social entreprenuers, visit www.skollfoundation.org

Uncommon Heroes

In addition to leveraging media partners to create and distribute social entrepreneurship content, the foundation has produced several seven-minute films profiling Skoll entrepreneurs. These Uncommon Heroes films are premiered each year at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford as part of our annual award ceremony and also distributed via YouTube and select web channels. The purpose of these films is to provide a practical tool for our social entrepreneurs, offer compelling examples of social entrepreneurship for the field and inspire others with stories of how one person can change the world at scale.  Click here to hear from Uncommon Heroes

Business Ideas, Networking, News, People / Stories, Social Entrepreneurship

e-Choupal from ITC

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A powerful illustration of corporate strategy linking business purpose to larger societal purpose, e-Choupal leverages the Internet to empower small and marginal farmers – who constitute a majority of the 75% of the population below the poverty line.

By providing them with farming know-how and services, timely and relevant weather information, transparent price discovery and access to wider markets, e-Choupal enabled economic capacity to proliferate at the base of the rural economy.

Today 4 million farmers use e-Choupal to advantage – bargaining as virtual buyers’ co-operatives, adopting best practices, matching up to food safety norms. Being linked to futures markets is helping small farmers to better manage risk. e-Choupal has been specially cited in the Government of India’s Economic Survey of 2006-07, for its transformational impact on rural lives.

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Business Ideas, News, Social Entrepreneurship

Wash clothes with just a cup of water

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Water conservation usually takes a backseat while doing laundry, but not anymore, for now a new environmentally friendly washing machine,

 

which uses use only one cup of water and leaves clothes virtually dry, is all set to hit showrooms next year.

Click above to read how it works.

Click below to see how it works.

One Wash, One Cup of Water: Nearly Waterless Washing Machine Invented

Business Ideas, Motivations, Social Entrepreneurship

7 things every environmental entrepreneur should know

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A lot is happening at the intersection of environmentalism and entrepreneurship these days, and it’s creating a hybrid form: the environmental entrepreneur. Some are coming from the entrepreneurial community. Many more are environmentally driven and, realizing that “commerce is the engine of change,” are starting new ventures. Here’s some quick advice based on having a front row seat at the intersection for the past few years.

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People / Stories, Social Entrepreneurship

Ashta no Kai – Bicycle Bank Project

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The Japanese name, Ashta no Kai, means ‘‘for a better future’’ and these girls owe a great deal to Armene Modi, founder-chairperson of ANK.
ANK has been working for the promotion of literacy, health and development in these villages since 1998. But it was only in October last that it hit upon the idea of starting a ‘bicycle bank’ to curb the number of school drop-outs among girls. Geeta Phatak, project officer, says: ‘‘At present, there are only five high schools in these villages. Lack of transport, bad roads prevented many from sending their daughters to pursue higher education in distant villages.’’

For More information Click these links :

http://infochangeindia.org/20021011255/Education/Features/Have-cycle-will-study.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/12501286.cms

Armene Modi can be contacted on armene.modi@gmail.com

Ashta no Kai – Bicycle Bank Project Part 1

Ashta no Kai – Bicycle Bank Project Part 2

People / Stories, Social Entrepreneurship

Bicycle Santa

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THE BICYCLE PROJECT

Give your old bicycle to a village school child

We’re collecting your old bicycles, which are probably of little use to their owners and lie rusting on a terrace, or in a stairwell or garage. After giving these bikes a new lease of life, we deliver them to the village kids in and around Mumbai, in Maharashtra.
Phase 1 of this project will help children in the villages of Thappar Pada, Wada and Vikramgarh with a farmhouse called The Hideout as the base for distribution of the bikes and the best bike locks to the children. These villages are located 100 kms from Mumbai, off the Ahmedabad highway in Thane district.

We have made our primary focus, the 900 students of the Marathi medium SSC board high school called Sri Binoi Gharde Sajjan Vidhalaya in Alonde, Vikramgarh Taluka. Once the 137 needy students from this school have received a bicycle each, we will move on to the next village and so on.

Donors and those interested are welcome to come and visit these children at any time if you wish to see how your simple gift of an old bicycle can make a huge difference to their lives.

For more information Click Here

People / Stories, Social Entrepreneurship

Custom Designed Wheel Chairs

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Our Mission

We leverage the internet to bring mobility and build futures for people with disabilities in developing countries.

Our Work

We help partners in developing countries provide the right wheelchairs. Wheelchairs so children can become mobile and active in their communities. Wheelchairs that are just right for each child’s needs. Because the wrong wheelchair can promote many complications like skin breakdown, dislocated hips, spinal deformities, respiratory problems, and less independence.

Mobility Builders
c\o Washington Assistive Technology Foundation
100 S. King St. Suite 280
Seattle, WA 98104
206-328-5116

www.MobilityBuilders.org