Tag: Business

By Smita Ram – Rang De Team 28th June is Social Business Day aptly named so after Prof. Yunus‘ Birthday – the Father of  the ‘social business model.’ Prof.  Yunus evolved the concept of social business models and has successfully implemented it across verticals. The Social business model aims to address one or more of Read more …

By Diksha Belwal, Rang De Team In this go green era, use of plastic material still doesn’t sound out of place. Does it? We are still at a very nascent stage of avoiding plastic bottles and carry bags altogether. It is so much a part of our day to day life -be it for shopping Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team In the last couple of weeks, we have heard of more than a couple of suicides by borrowers of microfinance institutions in Andhra Pradesh.  While the media is known to exaggerate and take a lop sided view of stories, let us not deny the fact that there is a Read more …

By Preena Deepak, Rang De Team The weekly post on Rang De’s volunteer editors has so far been a special experience in knowing that Social Investors from all walks of life believe in making a change in someone’s life through non monetary contributions as well. It has proved that much more than money is needed Read more …

By Preena Deepak, Rang De Team The month of July saw a buzz in Rang De’s vivacious volunteer community. It all began with an ad in the Newsletter calling for volunteers to edit content for borrower profiling. The immediate and quick responses from our Social Investors overwhelmed and charged up team Rang De and from Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Grace, passion, strength, sacrifice, resilience ..I run short of words when I try and describe what a woman embodies. Personally, it disturbs me to see women being denied opportunities based on gender. I have seen and experienced us women losing out on opportunities – be it economic, social, physical Read more …

By Aishwarya Mishra, Rang De Hyderabad Chapter Member On 31st January, I attended TEDxHitechCity along with Rang De co-founder Ram, and Rang De Hyderabad Chapter member, Bharathi. Ram and I had not registered earlier and were quite apprehensive about our entry into the event. Thanks to the event organizers, we were able to register on Read more …

By Ramakrishna Nk, Rang De Team After a very inspiring TEDxHitechCity Meet at Hyderabad, Aishwarya (member of the Rang De Hyderabad Chapter) and I decided to take off to the Charminar area to meet some of the recipients of our education loan. Aishwarya took half a day off and we both set off with a Read more …