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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…

Less Jugaad, More Real Innovation

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20135 mins

[Editor’s Note: The World Bank’s Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grants program that surfaces and funds innovative projects with high potential for development impact that are scalable…

World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 2

Vishy KurugantiMay 30, 20133 mins

[Editor’s Note: The World Bank’s Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grants program that surfaces and funds innovative projects with high potential for development impact that are scalable…

World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 1

Vishy KurugantiMay 29, 20133 mins

[Editor’s Note: The World Bank’s Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grants program that surfaces and funds innovative projects with high potential for development impact that are scalable…

Artha Platform, closed social enterprise version of Angel List, announces Challenge

Vishy KurugantiMay 28, 20133 mins

Pic courtesy arthaventurechallenge.com This post was supposed to be about Artha Venture Challenge (AVC) – a call for applications from social ventures across India operating in the sectors of…

Announcing Tata Social Enterprise Challenge

Vishy KurugantiDecember 18, 20121 mins

2012 has been the year of social enterprise challenges and social enterprise incubators in India. The exciting addition to the former is Tata Group’s announcement of the Tata Social Enterprise…

Siemens Stiftung announces the Empowering People Award

Vishy KurugantiNovember 27, 20123 mins

Pic courtesy siemens-stiftung.org [Update: The deadline for the award application has been extended to Jan 31, 2013.] Munich-based Siemens Stiftung (“foundation” in German) wants to identify efficient…

Rockefeller Innovation Challenge Winners

Vishy KurugantiNovember 15, 20124 mins

Back in May, I wrote about Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Challenge 2012 – a call for ideas in three key areas (Farming, Irrigation and Decoding Data). The panel of judges selected fifteen…

Acara Summer Institute 2012 – Nine Impressive Teams (Part 2)

Vishy KurugantiAugust 17, 20124 mins

[Editor’s Note: In late Jun 2012, I attended the final presentations of nine teams that made it to Acara Summer Institute 2012. Each team had 7 minutes of presentation followed by 7 minutes of…

Acara Summer Institute 2012 – Nine Impressive Teams

Vishy KurugantiJuly 02, 20124 mins

Acare Institute 2012 – Students & Faculty (Pic: courtesy their Facebook page) [Editor’s Note: Last Friday I attended the final presentations of nine teams that made it to Acara Summer Institute 201…