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Is your city resilient? Rockefeller Foundation commits $100 million

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 03, 20132 mins

*re·sil·ience (r-zlyns)* n. *1. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.**2. The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position…

A different kind of Indian city

Vishy KurugantiAugust 18, 20134 mins

Editor’s Note: I started this blog in March 2011. My preliminary plan was to research, learn and write about the Indian social enterprise space for at least a year. What did I intend at the one year…

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…

Why you should attend Sankalp Forum 2013

Vishy KurugantiApril 15, 20134 mins

By now they should have changed the venue of Sankalp Forum from Mumbai to Bangalore. I attended the third edition of Sankalp in 2011. The only reason I missed it last year (and will sadly be missing…

Building India through Enterprise – Meera Sanyal's Jagriti Yatra Story

Vishy KurugantiMarch 24, 20135 mins

Pic courtesy meerasanyal.wordpress.com A year ago I had a brief encounter with a young SELCO employee (Nikhil Nair – NN) following a scintillating chat with Harish Hande. Outside in the parking lot…

Meet Ashok Khemka – the incorruptible Indian babu

Vishy KurugantiMarch 20, 20134 mins

Pic courtesy indianexpress.com Newton’s Law of Corruption: *an Indian babu’s likelihood of being corrupt is inversely proportional to the number of times he’s transferred. Higher the transfers, lower…

Mentor or advisor? What do you need for your enterprise?

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 22, 20135 mins

Pic courtesy cartoonstock.com [Editor’s Note: Ennovent, an early stage social investor fund which morphed into an accelerator of innovations for sustainability in low-income markets, recently hosted a…

This Week in Social Enterprise Jobs – Volume 4

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 04, 20131 mins

Disclaimer: The title of this post suggests that I do these posts every week but alas! the reality is that it’s more like every quarter or so. Volume 3 (Aug 2012) featured jobs from Mumbai-based Desta…

Vibrant Gujarat 2013 Day #1 – Perspective in 12 Tweets

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 11, 20133 mins

Madhu Kishwar shared a dozen tweets which summed up her takeaways from the first day of Vibrant Gujarat 2013. My personal favorites are #5, #6, and #9. 1\6 Even at risk of being damned for life by my…

Thank you US Patent and Trademark Office

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 05, 20124 mins

Pic: courtesy indianipfirm.com Anthony Bugg-Levine (of New York-based NonProfit Finance Fund) shared a couple of encouraging developments on Twitter. The issue? The semantics and connotation of…

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