2008 Echoing Green Fellowships Finalists

Echoing Green recently announced its 2008 Fellowship finalists - forty-one highly-talented rising social entrepreneurs now remain and will gather in New York City this spring to meet with a panel of judges. Below are the finalists, whose profiles explicitly mention that their projects are focussed on India:

Yasmina McCarty and Nandini Narula, GreenMango: Bringing the power [...]

Reminder: Apply for the Atlas Corps Fellowship

We have covered this opportunity before, but it is so remarkable that it needs a reminder. If you are NGO Leader from India, Atlas Corps fellowship provides you an opportunity to volunteer for a cutting-edge non-profit in Washington, DC. Current Atlas Corps partners include Ashoka, Grameen Foundation, TechnoServe, Population Action International, Global Giving, Youth Venture, [...]

Indicorps Fellowship 2008

Indicorps is a non-partisan, non-religious, non-profit organization that aims to build principled leadership in the Indian diaspora through grassroots service. Indicorps’ programs are designed empower visionaries, inspire collective action, and unite India towards a common vision by productively engaging Indians around the world in service of their country.
For the August 2008 cycle of the [...]

InSPIRE Summer Fellowship deadline is March 10th!

Today happens to be the last day to apply for the InSPIRE Summer Fellowship, a 5-week program in India which aims to inspire South Asians through service. If you should need further information, feel free to contact Raj Kanani at info@summerinindia.org.
InSPIRE (www.SummerInIndia.org) is a 5-week summer program in India for South Asians between [...]

New Ashoka Fellows for Social Entrepreneurs in Journalism

Teaming up with the Knight Foundation, Ashoka announced that they will award fellowships to 30 social entrepreneurs over the next three years aimed at changing the way journalism works throughout the world.
These Fellows will receive three-year stipends allowing them to focus full-time on their efforts to provide lasting, visible, systemic change in the way journalism [...]

Social-Impact Fellowship in Hyderbad

From the Social-Impact website:
Social-Impact is a new international professional development programme. Our goal is to accelerate growth and increase impact of social entrepreneurs’ projects and/or organizations. Social-Impact’s programme provides social entrepreneurs with:

Mentoring
Training
Technical assistance consulting
Networking opportunities and
Access to financing

Our comprehensive and customized technical and financial services will enable social entrepreneurs to step up significantly their development [...]

Deshpande Foundation Fellowship in NW Karnataka

The Deshpande Foundation is a Boston based philanthropic foundation focused on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and International Development. They recently launched three unique fellowship opportunities, where fellows can get grassroots experience working in Northwest region of Karnataka

Sandbox Fellow: This is a year-long program for young professionals or post-graduate school candidates who seek an extended experience working in [...]