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Journeys For Change is launching its first programme exclusively for MBA students. After introducing more than 200 global leaders with a broad...

The Social Return On Investment (SROI) Network is holding a one day workshop in Mumbai on 16th October. The Asian Venture Philanthropy...

The Edinburgh office of global social investment fund LeapFrog has brokered a $15 million (£9.3m) investment in a company that provides low-cost...

At the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund addressing poverty across Africa and South...

This month Intellecap announced that it has facilitated an investment of INR 250 million from Norwest Venture Partners in Nationwide Primary Healthcare...

Intellecap, the organisation that runs The Sankalp Forum, The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the German Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale...

The Deshpande Education Trust (DET), has launched a Masters of Social Entrepreneurship programme with the Karnatak University in Karnataka. The two year...

The 2012 Asian Venture Philanthropy Network’s (AVPN) roadshow is visiting Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo with venture philanthropy leaders Shaks Ghosh...

Last week, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) published a report titled The India Social Enterprise Landscape Report. The report details the potential...

This August The Indian Philanthropy Forum team announced The Sarathi Development Foundation as the recipient of the Dasra Giving Circle IV: Empowering...

Devanik Saha, a Teach For India 2011 Fellow, blogs in the prestigious Stanford Social Innovation Review on the need for more and...

DBS, the leading financial services group in Asia and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India’s premier institute for social sciences and...

Unconvention, the social entrepreneur centric conference series established by Vilgro is expanding to multiple cities across India during 2013. In recognition of...

Milaap, India's online platform that enables people to lend to India's working poor so they can get access to education, clean water,...

Global impact investor, Omidyar Network (ON) has awarded a grant of US$2 million, over the next 3 years, to Dasra- India’s leading...

Researchers from the University of Toronto and Microsoft are exploring ways to use technology – specifically, mobile phones – to crowdsource the...

Forbes India profiles Nachiket Mor, Chairman of IFMR Trust, an organization that supports innovative solutions to social and economic challenges in India....

The Guardian profiles FairMail, a social enterprise that works with at-risk teenagers in Peru and India to produce and sell Fair Trade...

Jaipur Rugs, a business that connects local Indian carpet weavers with commercial buyers in the West, continues to grow with rugs worth...

With the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India’s recent directives to banks to ensure coverage to all of India’s...

A recent Poverty Matters blog in The Guardian challenges the concept of ‘financial inclusion’ as a critical poverty alleviation tool, as promoted...

In its efforts to promote financial inclusion, India’s Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has promoted the establishment of small...

Indian telecom company Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank have partnered to launch a mobile banking platform that will provide millions of unbanked...

A recent press release from the Government of India reports on a rural entrepreneurship and skills develop program being conducted by NABARD....

The Deccan Herald recently profiles the work of Mother Earth, a food, fashion, and home goods brand created by Industree, a social...

Bloomburg Businessweek has recently reported on jugaad innovation – an approach that refers to overcoming significant constraints thought the development of affordable,...

The Government of India is set to pass legislation that would make the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) the regulator for the...