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  • [Grand Finale Finalist: 12/18] Roopa Nagarajan – E-MPOWER

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 12/18] Roopa Nagarajan – E-MPOWER

     Living Rise | March 27, 2012

    Meet Roopa Nagarajan and Project E-MPOWER: E-technology for Management of Projects for persons with communication disorders in Rural areas.

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  • Farmville for Real

    Farmville for Real

     Tipping Point | July 13, 2012

    We’re combing the country to find examples of intelligent, scalable...

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  • [Grand Finale Finalist: 5/18] Ananth Kumar – Alternative Education for out of system children

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 5/18] Ananth Kumar – Alternative Education for out of system children

     Living Rise | March 22, 2012

    Meet M.R. Ananth Kumar. He and his school, DivyaDeepa, are teaching 66 rural children math, history and how to read and write – and instilling in them a love for learning.

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  • [Grand Finale Finalist: 14/18] Samik Ghosh – Head Held High, Village BPO

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 14/18] Samik Ghosh – Head Held High, Village BPO

     Living Rise | March 28, 2012

    Head Held High Foundation, together with its subsidiaries, works on creating sustainable models for rural transformation. They have developed training programs that seek to identify, empower, and enable the most vulnerable people and communities.

  • Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid

    Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid

     Entrepreneurship | November 6, 2012

    Though credit scoring is an essential first step toward inclusion...

  • GOONJ: Changing Lives with the Forgotten Basic Need

    GOONJ: Changing Lives with the Forgotten Basic Need

     Agriculture & Rural Development | May 4, 2012

    Food, shelter, and clothing are the three most basic human...

  • [Grand Finale Finalist: 18/18] Manoj Singh – Lac cultivation for livelihood of tribal and non-tribal families

    [Grand Finale Finalist: 18/18] Manoj Singh – Lac cultivation for livelihood of tribal and non-tribal families

     Living Rise | March 30, 2012

    Jharkhand is the ‘Lac State of India.’ Recent studies in Jharkhand revealed that income generated from lac cultivation is next only to cultivation of paddy.