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Four of Ten Acumen Fund 2010 Fellows to be in India (none from within)

Acumen Fund, a non-profit that is aiming to develop and scale business models in the developing world, recently announced their fellows for 2010. Among these four of the ten selected will be working in India. Interestingly none of the awardees…

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Want to be an Acumen Fund Fellow?

Recently, I attended a talk by Acumen Fund Fellow and Harvard Kennedy School alumna, Catherine Casey, who worked in Kenya with the Sustainable Healthcare Foundation, a micro-franchise healthcare and drug distribution chain based in Nairobi, Kenya. The Acumen Fund fellowship is…

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[Guest Post]: Making LifeSpring come alive

The following is a guest post by Jason Ye, a MD/MBA student at Columbia University and an InSITE fellow alongside yours truly. Jason visited India during his spring break on a project organized by Columbia’s International Development Club and worked on pro bono…

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Guest Posts

Recognizing that the five of us on the ThinkChange India team cannot do it all, we actively look for guest bloggers to contribute to the platform to better cover this fast changing and moving space. Here you will find an…

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Op-Ed: Microfinance revisited and its role in reaching the missing middle

Two weeks ago I wrote about James Surowiecki’s article in the New Yorker that brought forward the inherent limitations of microfinance to actually generate a substantial number of jobs in a developing country. Since then it seems as if I was not…

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Acumen and Hindustan Latex to provide country with micro-hospitals

In a joint venture, Acumen Fund and Hindustan Latex will begin the development of hospitals with 25-30 bed capacities throughout India to help address the dearth of low income maternal and child healthcare services.

To be labeled LifeSpring Hospitals, the venture…

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