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The Indian government plans to engage the private sector and aid community more as part of a strategic approach to reduce child...

The National Innovation Council (NIC) Chairman will launch a Rs 5,000-crore venture fund aimed at supporting small enterprises by March. "We are...

Scholarship applications are now open for "Impact Forum 2013: Investing in Inclusion" on 13 - 14 June in Singapore. Ten scholarships will...

Speakers: Nadia Sood - Impact Investment Partners; Vinay Nair - Acumen Fund; Alison Bukhari - Dasra moderated by Priya Shah, Asia House....

You can now lend from FACEBOOK! Beginning this week, lending on Milaap is getting a lot more personal, engaging and fun. Make...

Mumbai 30th Jan, 2013: It has been an exciting time in the Indian start-up eco system. Emergence of many accelerators started by...

Bloomberg TV India, India’s business news channel, has announced the launch of “Down To Earth’, a TV series that will highlight cutting...

Vodafone India has launched its ‘World of Difference’ (WOD) programme, under which 25 of its employees will work with 25 NGOs for...

The Times of India Social Impact Awards jury has selected the winners for this year, the second time the award has been...

Global impact investors Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network have joined hands with Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation, to launch the Impact Investing...

The Villgro Awards recognises and felicitates outstanding individuals, enterprises, and other stakeholders in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem for their contribution to effecting...

On January 13th the Wall Street Journal ran an article detailing how India has managed to get to a point where it...

On January 9th The New York Times ran an article on the scale of ambition in India related to the growth of...

This week The UK Guardian newspaper published an article on social enterprise in India. The article, written by a lecturer in sociology and...

The Rockefeller Foundation-backed Lok Capital, a dedicated VC fund focused on serving the BOP (bottom of the pyramid) has bought ‘a significant...

The UK India Business Council is to run an event, titled Incorporating Social Enterprise in to your India Business Plan on the...

Unitus Seed Fund (USF) has secured over $8 million in investment commitments for its seed-stage venture capital fund focused on accelerating “BoP...

On January 16th and 17th 2013, Dasra will host the Impact Investing India Regional Forum in Bengaluru in partnership with the Rockefeller...

The website for the TATA Social Enterprise Challenge, a joint initiative by the TATA Group and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta...

This week Tata announced a social enterprise challenge in association with the Indian Institue of Management on Calcutta. According to two websites the...

The government of India will start giving cash directly to its poorest citizens in early 2013. The programme will reach up to...

TED, the global conference not-for-profit organisation, has announced that it has revoked the license given to run the TEDx event in Chennai....

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) announced last week that the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) will provide GBP £10.5...

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