Vinay is in his fourth year of a four year JD/MBA program at the New York University School of Law and the Leonard B. Stern School of Business in New York City. Prior to coming to New York, Vinay graduated from Brown University, worked in technology transfer as a consultant and also founded a financial literacy program for underprivileged youth. Currently, Vinay is an InSITE Fellow for Venture Capital and Innovation. His primary interests are in the social venture capital investing space and its role in transforming micro-businesses into globally competitive SMEs. After school, Vinay wants to create novel ways to provide clean energy & water to the world’s poor.
The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to…
CGAP’s Microfinance Blog posted a short piece on the risk of delinquency in microfinance that occurs when people take on too much debt by applying for microloans from multiple lenders simultaneously. This is a significant issue, something we have written about…
The Centre for Development Finance is embarking on a new project and wants your help. They are looking to assess development organizations’ “organizational capacity, needs and gaps, and ideas for tools we can develop to help them self-assess and become more effective.” To…
Update: NSEF has recently released a Youtube video that depicts the program. You can see it here at NSEF Author.
We wrote about NSEF before (click here for an interview with founder Rakesh Anugula) and their quest to establish social entrepreneurship chapters in…
Back in July of last year, I wrote about how Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Srei Sahaj e-Village, a Srei Infrastructure subsidiary, were planning in providing distance learning programs for rural youth.
Now the partnership aims to reach 100 million…
[Hat Tip: Anoop]
Here is a very elegant and simple platform for social ventures to compete against each other for funding. The site lets you pledge money for the organization(s) you want to support most and based on these votes will…
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First Energy is an alternative energy business that caters to consumers in rural and suburban India through an affordable cooking offer consisting of a biomass stove and a fuel made from pelletized agri-residue. Overall, the aim is to provide…
Developed by both Ashoka and EngenderHealth’s Maternal Health Task Force:
“[t]he Young Champions of Maternal Health Program will use the Changemakers online platform to identify 16 young leaders from around the world who will win a trip to the Maternal Health…
To be held on April 17th-18th, Unite for Sight’ 7th Global Health & Innovation Conference in New Haven, Connecticut looks to be a major opportunity to learn and and network in the space. According to the conference:
The Global Health &…
Nextbillion.net interviewed the Rajesh Joseph, CEO of LabourNet, a social enterprise aimed to help informal urban labour continue to find employment, job security and training. Shital wrote about this venture back in July.
The organization’s holistic approach is one that I believe is…
