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- Platform for social entrepreneurs to share ideas, win awards
- Mint; May 13, 2008
- Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in collaboration with UNDP call for nominations for their yearly award
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- Q&A: ‘Independent regulatory body needed for NGOs’
- The Times of India; April 25, 2008
- The Resource Alliance, a UK charity, in association with The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, recently announced the India NGO Awards 2007 for NGOs that promote good standards and practices in resource mobilisation, accountability and transparency. CEO of The Resource Alliance Simon Collings spoke to Saira Kurup:
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- India must also cut emissions: Blair
- The Indian Express; March 21, 2008
- “India must join industrialised countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to avert a global-warming disaster,” former British prime minister Tony Blair said here on Thursday. Blair’s comments are in complete contrast to India’s official position that rich countries have the primary responsibility to reduce emissions, while India need to grow its economy.
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- Climate change: Blair for India in leading role
- Hindustan Times; March 21, 2008
- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday advocated a strong leadership role for India in solving the climate change crisis, through a global deal acceptable to the developed and developing countries.
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- India can lead battle against climate change: Blair
- The Hindu; March 21, 2008
- The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday said India had an important role to play in mitigating the impact of climate change. As a powerful, developing nation with the right response to the issue, India could assume a strong leadership role, he said at the launch here of an initiative, “Breaking the Climate Deadlock.”.
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- Goonj wins Indian NGO of the year award
- Yahoo India News; March 10, 2008
- For its constant endeavour to alleviate the agony of the poor and the marginalized, especially in terms of providing material resource, Goonj, a Delhi-based non-profit organisation, has been awarded the Indian NGO of the year award.
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- P Chidambaram and N.R. Narayanamurthy honor NGOs at the India NGO Awards 2007
- India Infoline; March 6, 2008
- The Union Finance Minister of India, Mr. P Chidambaram, felicitated Goonj as the ‘NGO of the Year 2007’ at the Annual India NGO Awards ceremony organized by The Resource Alliance and The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation in the capital. These Awards were instituted in 2006 in recognition of best practices in resource mobilization, accountability and transparency amongst the voluntary sector in India.
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- Investing in the sun
- Civil Society; Jan 1, 2008
- Fontana, the Taj Palace hotel’s coffee shop, has an array of frosted lamp shades on its celing lit by filament bulbs. Harish Hande looks at the ceiling with irritation. He’s just been declared ‘social entrepreneur of the year’ by the Schwab Foundation for spreading solar energy to villages in India. His company, Selco Solar Light Pvt Ltd, is worth some $ 4 million. “Why produce filament lamps? Why produce cars for one lakh? You have to be serious when you talk about climate change. If one of the most respected groups in the country does not get it how will anyone else?” he frets.
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- Solar crusader—Harish Hande
- Business Today; Dec 28, 2007
- I have some bad news and some good news for you. The bad news is you are totally dead and the good news is you are still young—This is what Denis Hayes, leading environmental activist and founder of the Earth Day, told Harish Hande about the short-term future of his business early 2007.
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- A businessman’s crusade against darkness
- Business Standard; Dec 4, 2007
- Harish Hande, who has been honoured recently with a prize for social entrepreneurship, has made it his business to take solar power to every un-lit home.
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- An entrepreneur’s crusade in lighting up India’s villages
- Livemint.com; Dec 4, 2007
- New Delhi: Read this! In a country where we spend thousands of watts of electricity for a day and night cricket match, use the power-greedy heater to ward off the winter chill, there lies another India where villages are dimly lit by paraffin lamps and dim lights battling darkening chimneys. For this cash-strapped India an ignited filament powered by current is a rare luxury, for they cannot even afford electricity.
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- An Entrepreneur Speaks
- Developednation.org; Dec 4, 2007
- You are not likely to find many IITians, armed with a PhD degree from US, commenting, “IIT Kharagpur motto says—In Service of the nation. But which nation it is—USA or some IT and Finance companies.” Equally unlikely is to find a Schwab Social Entrepreneur denying its concept altogether,“Once you put a term like Social Entrepreneur, people consider you an NGO, a grant based body. I am in this business since 1994. I have never taken grants.”
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