Conferences

Don’t miss India’s largest Social Investment Forum – Sankalp 2010!

Are you all set to meet with some of the best and most dynamic social for-profit businesses? Observe how enterprises looking to establish and scale find projectile? And participate in a buzzing confluence of some of the most dedicated and…

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Global Health & Innovation Conference to be held at Yale in April

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 &…

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Second XLRI conference to be a “working conference”

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur is set to organize its second national level conference on “Solutions for Inclusive Development” from January 29 to January 31, 2010.

XLRI seems to have learnt a bit about the down side of the way conferences…

The Business of Fighting Corruption and Other Ideas from the Aspen Conclave

A few weeks back the Aspen Institute India invited essays based on a simple prompt, Do you have ideas that could address some of India’s problems? Some of these ideas were presented a few weeks back at Aspen Institute Conference in…

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Fund Raising Workshop: Fundraising while Brandraising

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An  interactive  training  workshop  on  how  non‐profits  can  raise  their visibility  and  enhance  fundraising .  A workshop to help non-profits do this has been organized by South Asian Fund Raising Group, SAFRG, on 30th January  2010. It will be…

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Villgro’s Unconvention brings together grassroots, rural innovators

TC-I Guest Blogger Tracy Williams lives in Hyderabad where she is working with the Naandi Foundation to launch a new social enterprise connecting smallholder coffee producers with global markets. Prior to taking the India plunge, Tracy worked at the policy team…

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Day 2 of the Khemka Forum: Moving into action

I left yesterday’s post with the mention of action, and action is right where the Khemka Forum moved to by the end of the second day.  While Day 1 of the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focused on plenaries and making connections within sectors, Day…

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Live from the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Day 1

In a gathering of practitioners and investors, the Khemka Forum kicked off today at the India School of Business in Hyderabad.  The day’s activities ranged from plenaries to sector working group lunches to track breakouts.  Social entrepreneurs converged to discuss the…

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Villgro hosts the UNCONVENTION

Villgro (formerly known as Rural Innovations Network) is hosting the “UNCONVENTION - Where Path Breakers Meet Path Makers” in Chennai on December 10-12, 2009.  As we wrote about before, a business plan competition called Wantrapreneur was held to select finalists, who will present one…

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The Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship: Accelerating the business of social change

Many conferences and seminars exist to bring together people for discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking.  The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation is hosting a forum on social entrepreneurship that will go to the next level and serve as the catalyst for…