New Delhi : Ashirvad Pipes and The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation are announcing a partnership to support disruptive innovations in solving India's water security crisis. Ashirvad Pipes will fund this initiative with a Rs. 4 crore grant to suppor
The/Nudge Accelerator calls for applications from non-profit startups alleviating poverty
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New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Amid uncertainty in the business climate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, young startups in India are finding it hard to draw the much required funding even as investors become extra cautious, industry insiders said on Wednesda. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 19 : The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation has called for applications from non-profit startups ready to scale up their solutions for India s economically disadvantaged communities.
This is third round for The/Nudge s 5-year Accelerator fund which has enabled 10 non-profits to touch over 10 million lives till date.
May 18, 2021
Even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to hurt livelihoods across India, the country’s government, led by prime minister Narendra Modi, has been reluctant to widen its direct cash transfer programme to rescue those in need.
This reluctance is despite the fact that many large economies have benefitted from putting money directly in the hands of people, and several renowned economists, including former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan, have been asking the Indian government to initiate similar direct cash transfer measures.
“I believe that cash and in-kind transfers are both required right now,” said Reetika Khera, a development economist and associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. She adds that like last year the doubling of food rations for six months is also possible because India has enough stock of grains. “This needs to be topped up with cash transfers (job schemes and pension). The two together have worked in the pa
Winning stories of women headlined The MAKERS Conference, India 2021
On the first day of the inaugural The MAKERS Conference, India 2021, inspiring women leaders from all walks of life congregated to discuss and deliberate on ways to accelerate gender equality in India.
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On the first day of the inaugural
The MAKERS Conference, India 2021, inspiring women leaders from all walks of life congregated to discuss and deliberate on ways to accelerate gender equality in India.
The day was kickstarted by
Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan’s speech on driving action and change through dialogue. This was followed by
Verizon Media CTO Rathi Murthy’s inspiring keynote address.
Shortlisted from a
pool of 1,326 applications, these four organisations are early-stage, women-led non-profit startups that are boosting women entrepreneurship using digital skills and tools.
Tech4Good works to provide
open-source technology solutions to non-profits and has so far reached out to over 500 such enterprises across India, helping them serve more than one million of their beneficiaries better.
Shakti An Empathy Project (STEP) runs an incubator programme for women-led social enterprises by focussing on those based in Tier II and Tier III locations across India.
Renu Shah, founder of Shakti, an Empathy Project (STEP), shares the impact her project has created. STEP is one of the non-profits that has received grants from The Nudge Centre for Social Innovation under Facebook Pragati project.