NGOPost

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Training programme on “Governance and Management of NGO’s and NPO’s

An announcement in NGOpost calls for application for a six-week full time training programme on “Governance and Management of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs/NGOs)”, scheduled between 6th July 2009 to 14th August 2009. The training is offered by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of…

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[TC-I Call to Action]: Schools for Entrepreneurs Grant Competition

Via NGO Post, a competition held by Teach A Man To Fish called Schools for Entrepreneurs aims “to find the best school-based income-generating initiatives in India, projects which are both educational and financially sustainable.”

From student-run cybercafés funding classroom improvements, to schoolyard chicken-runs laying…

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Solar lanterns for street vendors

NGO Post has an interesting story on a solar micro-enterprise in Hassan District in Karnataka. The business operates a battery charging station powered by solar photovoltaic panels and rents out solar powered CFL lamps street vendors. On an average, the vendor pays $0.25 per day…

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TC-I Welcomes Badhri Jagannathan as Part-Time Writer

The ThinkChange India Team is proud to introduce Badhri as one of our new part-time bloggers. An avid blogger in the social entrepreneurship space already, Badhri will bring a unique perspective and energy to the TC-I community. He is a…

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Rural lighting start-up d.light design featured on Forbes.com

Rural lighting start-up d.light design just got featured on Forbes.com:

d.light design based in New Delhi, India, has developed a trio of lights created for a market it calls the “base of the pyramid”–including people who live on the equivalent of $1…

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TC-I is looking for Part-Time Writers

Organizational Background

ThinkChange India is the fastest growing blog focused on social entrepreneurship and social innovation in India. Within its first ten months, the blog achieved 120,000 page-views, and is currently averaging 500 unique hits a day. Our goal is to be…

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TC-I is looking for Part-Time Writers

Organizational Background

ThinkChange India is the fastest growing blog focused on social entrepreneurship and social innovation in India. Within its first ten weeks, the blog achieved 16,000 page-views, and is currently averaging 400 unique hits a day. Our goal is to be…

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NGO to push for compulsory licensing of cancer drugs

Update: A recent Times of India article discusses the actual effectiveness of the Public Interest Litigation provision and its current troubles. You can read the article here.

An NGO called Cancer Patient Aids Association (CPAA) has embarked on a campaign to…

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TC-I Changemakers

Occasionally, the editors of this blog decide to leave their comfy chairs (any guesses where these chairs would be?) and go talk to real people. The mission is to create a voice for organizations and people doing some remarkable work…

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Featured Interview: NGO Post

Recently, we interviewed Nitin Gupta, co-founder of NGO Post, about the vision and mission of their site, including plans for expansion in the future.  Please find a summary of the interview below: 

About NGO Post:

Nitin Gupta and Parul Gupta’s passion lies…