Posted on April 22, 2009 by Raj Melville
Speaking at the Legatum Center’s Lecture series at MIT, Jacqueline Novogratz described the innovative work of Acumen fund and how it helps build social solutions through its venture philanthropy.
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Posted on February 28, 2009 by Raj Melville
Ashoka has launched a youth movement called Ashoka’s Youth Venture (http://genv.net/).As part of their efforts to spur innovation, they have teamed up with a number of organizations to hold youth oriented social innovation competitions. The latest one is “Tapping Youth Innovation, a Water Campaign”
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Posted on June 28, 2008 by Raj Melville
Water and sanitation, together with food security, are some of the most pressing issues globally. The root cause to most of the basic issues – health, nutrition, and even education can be traced in some way to water and sanitary, hygienic conditions.
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Raj Melville
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to spend a month in India and visited several NGOs while there. One of the innovative organizations is BAIF (Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation) — I visited their operations outside of Hubli in Northern Karnataka state and wrote an article about their work for Lokvani.com, that I have reproduced below
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