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Lessons for nonprofits from Covid-19 April 28, 2021, 10:04 AM IST Dr Stuti Shukla is a leadership educator and researcher. Her work focuses on helping leaders grow their personal capacity to exercise leadership on complex challenges. Stuti teaches leadership at Harvard University and her research centres around leadership, identity, and scaling feedback for people development. Rukmini Banerji is the Chief Executive Officer of Pratham Education Foundation and has been with Prat...

Waste is valuable Chanda Anand Anchan is the founder of a self-help group (SHG) that is involved in waste management in Udupi, Karnataka. She started working in this field in 2006, prior to which she ran several small businesses including teaching women how to ride two-wheelers and conducting painting classes for children. LESS... MORE A day in the life of a self-help group member who along with her team, works with citizens and the local government to improve waste management in Udupi. My nam...

India’s COVID-19 crisis: As feds pledge $10M, here’s how Canadians can help Katie Dangerfield © Provided by Global News A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 is consoled by another during cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Delhi has been cremating so many bodies of coronavirus victims that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks, as a second record surge has brought Indias tattered healthcare system to its knees. (A...

By Mansee Bal Bhargava*  Mother India or Bharat Mata is referred metaphorically as a Goddess of the billion plus people of India who is as caring and loving besides strong and powerful, who can guide its children to right path. Today, the children of the Mother India are going through a Tsunami of Covid-19 worsened further with the poor Covid governance.  This is augmented with the ongoing congregations at elections, Kumbh Mela, and the rising shortage of the medication which are failing bot...

“How can finance lead to more sustainable impact?” April 19, 2021, 10:39 PM IST Sharanya Menon is an editorial analyst at IDR. In addition to writing, editing, and sourcing content, she also supports the team with website management. Smarinita is co-founder and CEO at IDR. She has more than 20 years of experience leading functions across strategy, operations, sales and business development, largely in startup environments within corporates and social enterprises. LESS... ...

Learning outside the classroom Smita Agarwal is Head Education with Tata Steel CSR. Smita’s work centres around revitalising school education for the marginalised and excluded. Over the years, she has worked to integrate international research on learning in rural Indian schools and achieved significant breakthroughs in children’s learning. As part of large-scale projects, she has engaged with governments and nonprofits across the country. An alumna of BITS Pilani, Smita has authored severa...

Why we must listen to farmers April 8, 2021, 4:42 PM IST Sudeshna Maya Sen leads the climate action work at Dr Reddy’s Foundation (DRF). Her role is to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies in DRF project areas to reduce the impact of climate change. Previously, Sudeshna worked with the climate change department, Government of Gujarat. She has a PhD in Climate Change Adaptation funded by Himalayan Adaptation, and was a part of the Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Res...

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PayPal, FlexiLoans.com partner to offer MSMEs, freelancers collateral-free loans PTI Bengaluru | Updated on × Borrowers to access term loans from ₹50,000 up to ₹1 crore through a fast, hassle-free process; merchants across over 1,500 cities and towns in India to benefit MSME-focused digital lending platform FlexiLoans.com on Tuesday announced its partnership with PayPal, a leader in digital payments, to provide freelancers, women entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, and MSMEs collateral-free b...

Caption: An MIT-led team uses a card-playing interview technique to investigate why and how households in rural areas selected and acquired solar-powered devices and joined microgrids. Ameya Athavankar of twobythree (left) leads an interview with members of a household while Elise Harrington PhD ’20 takes notes. At the end of the interview, the layout of the cards on the floor recorded the household’s energy-related decisions over many years. ...