Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship are pleased to invite entries for the prestigious ‘Social Entrepreneur of The Year’ Award 2012 for India. Social entrepreneurs working to create large-scale systemic change through innovative approaches are invited to log in at http://www.schwabfoundseoy.org/en/account/login to apply for the awards before May 30, 2012. Applicants can also download the [...]

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, has announced that Neelam Chhiber is the winner of the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. Prithvi Raj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology & Earth Sciences handed the award to [...]

Start Up! is an incubator, angel investor and consultant to social entrepreneurs. We launch, strengthen, and scale social ventures. What We Do As angel investors, we invest non-financial resources to incubate seed and early stage social enterprises. Our investments of time and expertise are geared to put ventures quickly on their feet and make them [...]

TiE Delhi-NCR is supporting the 2nd Season of Pioneering Spirit – the unique television series created by Lufthansa & ET Now which will showcase the lives of business pioneers and give young entrepreneurs a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be selected as ‘pioneers of tomorrow’. It’s a great opportunity to not only validate your business ideas but [...]

Lisa Curtis is an intern at Start Up! where she has been continuously impressed by the innovative and growing field of Indian social enterprises. A native of California, her experience ranges from working in the White House to serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural Nigerien village. For more about Lisa, visit her personal blog. [...]

This post was written by Namit Agarwal, Samhita Communications Manager. Last week of January each year XLRI, Jamsedhpur sets the stage for a series of dialogues propagating social development. National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship is an annual feature at XLRI to provide a common platform for stakeholders from the social sector to share, learn and interact. “We [...]

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, has announced that Rajiv Khandelwal and Krishnavtar Sharma, co-founders of Aajeevika Bureau, are the winners of the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development, Science and Technology of India, handed the award to the winners in [...]

User Post We are looking for an entrepreneurial person with a keenness to learn. You should be able to partner with our social entrepreneurs on their journeys as they start up new ideas and strengthen their existing ventures. Your role would be as the primary client liaison on projects and facilitate project planning and delivery [...]

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UnLtd India, the organization that helped develop the Social Entrepreneurship conference that we covered extensively before, is hiring a Communications Coordinator.   If you’re savvy with media, writing, and marketing, see below. JOB TITLE : COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR (PART TIME TBA) ORGANISATION: UnLtd India LOCATION: Bandra West, Mumbai PURPOSE: To design, develop and effectively implement UnLtd India’s [...]