Business Standard comes out with a one page section called Social Enterprise every Tuesday. Basically it talks about work by various NGOs and related articles.
Have a look
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Weblinks and Suggestions Targeting The Roots
Rajit
1. Vijay Anand from Chennai... he has been a bootstrapping expert in
Now, viay too has started a small intiative for repairing potholes on the roads in chennai. its called IFIX - http://pothole.pbwiki.com/
Also here :
http://www.livemint.com/2007/08/15194032/Retaking-Chennai-one-pothole.html?atype=tp
2. One Arvind kejriwal..search on the internet for him..You will get all details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Kejriwal
3. I recently got info abt a cool intitiative by an IIT alumnus
http://www.jagritiyatra.com/
Dunno the detail though.You guys are the best judge.
Jagan
http://fightcorruption.wikidot.com/start
A website maintained by the wife of an IAS officer who is fighting for transparency in govt.!
Dhaval
http://www.rtiindia.org/
A website for RTI
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Unheralded gems making a change in Indian society
To commemorate 60 years of independence, Mint (Mumbai based newspaper in collaboration between Hindutan Times and Wall Street Journal) has come out with profiles of people who have done really good work in bringing about a change in our society and country.
You can find these profiles here
Such people reinforce the belief that you need not be a millionaire or a political hotshot to contribute your bit.
You can find these profiles here
Such people reinforce the belief that you need not be a millionaire or a political hotshot to contribute your bit.
Two links from The Hindu dated 4th October 07
Persuasive messiahs of light in darkness
Counselors of LV Prasad Eye hospital, stationed at various hospitals. They try to convince the relatives of kin of the deceased to donate eyes. I think we can all understand how tricky this situation is and these volunteers themselves confess that they have been attacked at time.
Now ‘straight spine syndrome’
A profession-related disease, esp prevelant among software engineers who spend long hours in front of the computer.
Counselors of LV Prasad Eye hospital, stationed at various hospitals. They try to convince the relatives of kin of the deceased to donate eyes. I think we can all understand how tricky this situation is and these volunteers themselves confess that they have been attacked at time.
Now ‘straight spine syndrome’
A profession-related disease, esp prevelant among software engineers who spend long hours in front of the computer.
Civil Society - online resource
This link was passed on to me by Shabnam.
http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/index.htm
Instead of telling you what they are about, you can have a look at their vision HERE
http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/index.htm
Instead of telling you what they are about, you can have a look at their vision HERE
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"Dave Johnson said, "I'm not a firm believer in reinventing the wheel for the sake of innovation."
And Bill Clinton once said during his presidency, "Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The frustration is that we can't seem to replicate those solutions anywhere else."
Both of these quotes illustrate perfectly why the organization I run, Global Gain, has been developing a new open-source framework and set of tools to enable social entrepreneurs, NGOs/CSOs, to adopt and adapt the existing solutions of others rather than re-invent the wheel. We call the whole process Adaptive Blueprinting (AB), because it first requires the organization that has created an innovative and proven program-model to create a relatively simple "blueprint" that can be transmitted to others in a way that makes sense. Since these blueprints have a high degree of built-in flexibility, partner organizations are free to adapt them based on local contexts.
John also had a great quote with respect to this point. "successful organizations certainly need to have the flexibility that allows them to be able to embrace innovative approaches when they do work." I would turn that around a bit and say that the creators of innovative approaches need to allow enough flexibility for partners to modify and adapt when they're willing to adopt the original approach.
We hope others will find Adaptive Blueprinting perfect partnership-building "tool", especially if the goal is scaling social impact by replicating proven ideas and models. And again, I should emphasize that it is an "open-source" idea, so if anyone is interested in learning more, please send me a message via Social Edge."