Archive for 'Guest Blogs'

By Sreekanth Raghunath, Rang De Volunteer and Bangalore Chapter President A casual search on LinkedIn for innovative social enterprises working towards poverty alleviation in India is what led me to Rang De almost 3 years ago. Since then, I have been volunteering with the Bangalore Chapter of Rang De! Below is my attempt to put together Read more …

 Malini Srikrishna, High School Student and Rang De Volunteer talks about the importance of starting young in the social space: “Starting young is important because this makes sure that social service isn’t just an activity for students but a way of life.”   Organizations like Youth For Seva and Sri Sathya Sai Youth have made Read more …

Report by Ujjwal Grover(NEN) Those who have taken a plunge will tell you that entrepreneurship is an arduous and lonely journey, where apart from determination, grit, and the right opportunities at the right time, what one needs is support from the community and expert advice. An effective support system that helps aspiring entrepreneurs achieve the Read more …

By Rakesh Khemani, Social Investor, Bangalore I believe in social investing as a means to knock down poverty, to help people help their families, to support the enterprising with a relatively affordable resource, to help those who believe in a dignified existence and are willing to work hard for it, to do my bit for Read more …

By Shantaram, Rang De Mumbai Chapter Member “Its time for scheduling a field trip”, was the subject of the mail, that made me quickly drop my work and take notice . It was Diksha from the Rang De Chennai Office, planning the regular evaluation field trips to one of the Rang De field partners. Rang Read more …

By Rohit George, Rang De Chennai Chapter Member Have you ever felt like Investing on RangDe.Org but did not know where to start off???? Have you wondered how to Re-Invest on RangDe.Org but thought it would be a difficult process?? Do not worry! We present to you small video clips on how to Invest and Read more …

By Arvind Sridharan, Rang De Team We at Rang De take pleasure in announcing that we have crossed the 100-blog post mark.  Even though we are on various platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, we at Rang De feel that through our blog, we can keep people best posted on the happenings at Rang Read more …

By Deepa Roongta, Rang De Mumbai Chapter We at the Rang De Mumbai Chapter recently ran an “Add a Tagline” campaign for Rang De’s social investors based in Mumbai. The camapign was a success and many of our social investors went ahead and added different taglines a part of their email signature. Some of the Read more …

By Raghav Parthasarasthy, Sri Ranganathan and Sreekanth Ragunath, Members of the Rang De Bangalore Chapter The need for a place for the Rang De Bangalore Chapter to have its regular meetings, where volunteers and new initiates would get to interact, come up with campaign ideas, decide to lead or be part of teams carrying out Read more …

By Sreekanth and Sri Ranganathan Rang De Bangalore Chapter Members The Rang De Bangalore Chapter has coordinated with Jaaga, a place that plays host to several activities undertaken by organisations in the social/developmental and arts sectors to use Jaaga as a venue to hold its first (of a series of) information-sharing sessions with the interested Read more …