Engineers for Social Impact

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Jun 18

Blog entry

Understanding the development space at Ethos Philanthropy

NGOs, donors, foundations, more NGOs, more donors, more foundations…. – from the CSO Partners conference on my first two days to meetings with Foundation Heads and investors, I have come a long way into understanding the social space during a month’s experience at the Philanthropy department of Ethos Advisors. Thanks to Priya Naik – our mentor, who is such a great person to learn from, and the other E4SI fellows at Ethos.
Jun 9

Blog entry

NextBillion Post

As a Guest Writer this summer at NextBillion, I recently wrote a post about Incubating Clean Energy Technologies for the BoP.
Jun 6

Blog entry

24 hours @ Ujire: The SELCO Experience

May 17, 2009
Ujire, Karnataka

It’s almost 38 hours now since I reached Ujire, a small town (actually smaller than a small town) in the Dakshin Kannada District of Karnataka or popularly known as the Coastal Karnataka.

The 38 hours in Ujire were pretty eventful and let me tell you how eventful it has been so far. I reached here at 7 in the morning yesterday and Anand had already given me directions to reach his place from the junction the earlier night.

E4SI is proud to announce the 2009 cohort of Fellows.

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Development Sector is not for YOU?
Think again!

In an interview, Robert S. Katz, an Associate with the Markets and Enterprise Program of Washington DC-based think-tank World Resources Institute, shared with us the philosophy behind a for-profit approach to development and why it makes sense for you!