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Masai School: the Messiah for Tier 3 city learners?

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 08, 20242 mins

Masai School is the first Omidyar portfolio company I decided to look at after news broke of Omidyar Network exiting India. Masai is not the only outcome driven career school in India. Sure it is…

Dignity starts with a job

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 24, 20242 mins

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya SV) was founded 12 years ago to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support. Upaya is…

Naya Kya Hai?

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20242 mins

(For non-Hindi readers, Naya Kya Hai means “What’s New”) Let me start by telling you what is NOT new. It’s December-end (early-Jan) and I’m 4 ~2 weeks away from racing yet another Tata Mumbai Marathon…

Is Impact Investing Dead?

Vishy KurugantiDecember 16, 20233 mins

(Created with Bing Image Creator/Dalle-3 using “impact investing is dead. long live impact investing”) This was the first question that popped up when I heard about Omidyar India’s news. And then I…

India needs more non-profit unicorns

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20202 mins

Nextbillion.net, one of my go-to resources in the early years of this blog, has an informative article highlighting the fact that India is woefully short in yet another area — the number of non-profit…

Schwab Foundation's Two Decades of Impact Report

Vishy KurugantiMay 09, 20202 mins

A few times a year, I Google a few variants of “social enterprise news” with the hope of uncovering new kids on the block or some new social impact report. Measuring social impact is hard. For…

ISB iDiya calling all social entrepreneurs

Vishy KurugantiAugust 19, 20141 mins

Calling all social impact ideas & innovations!! 10 best ideas get a week-long all-expenses-paid bootcamp to ISB. Cash reward of Rs 2 Lakhs for winner. Over a crore of seed funding. Make the difference…

India's Most Impactful Social Enterprises (unsorted working list)

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20122 mins

Pic: courtesy universetoday.com Editor’s Note: I should caution readers that this is a work-in-progress topic. The primary purpose of this post is to complete the contender list in each category. Ever…

Impact Investing Landscape in India

Vishy KurugantiOctober 02, 20116 mins

When I give my 2-minute elevator pitch about TechSangam to friends or acquaintances, I usually follow-up with the question “Do you know what social enterprises are?” The answer invariably is “No…

Vishnu's Favorite Devotee Myth and its Relevance to Social Enterprises

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 23, 20112 mins

Pic: Courtesy pcworld.com Narada, a divine sage in Hindu mythology, is arguably the greatest of Vishnu’s many devotees. But Narada was considered to be vain about his devotion to Vishnu – every now…

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