Welcome to Opportunity!

Hello Readers!

Thank you for staying tuned! We’ve tweaked the bugs, moved the content and are excited to welcome you to Let Me Know’s new home at www.letmeknow.in

One year, over 400 posts and thousands of connections later, we bring you a personalized, intuitive and ever-burgeoning service, with tons of new features. So, whether it’s a writing contest you’re looking for, or a business conference, browse our categories, find your event and add it to your calendar.

What’s more? There’s nothing we enjoy better than making sure you get to that opportunity that could clinch it for you. So keep browsing and see what our periodic tweaks can bring you.

So, here’s to you, and to all our supporters. And to the fantastic team from Grayscale, BITS Pilani (Goa), who have built our new home.

The information barrier has broken. When opportunity forgets to knock, log on to Let Me Know and find it.

Team Let Me Know

Let Me Know moving to a new, better website!

Thanks for being part of the Let Me Know community – for the last 1 year, our team has worked hard to be your first and best source of information on opportunities.

425+ posts. 268,000+ hits. Thousands of comments, letters and subscribers.
The information barrier broken. And friends helped.

We are moving to a new, better website in early December. We’re pausing the blog, moving our content, tweaking bugs and very excited to welcome you to our new youth portal. Stay tuned!

Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours

Suggested by Gilroy

Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours

Offered By: Edelweiss and Kubera Partners

Key Dates:
Deadline for all entries: December 1, 2008

For Whom:
Applicants need to be Indian citizens or entities and The nominee should be a registered NGO in India, under the Trusts, Societies, or u/s 25 of the Companies Act.

Apply for Teach For India Fellowship

Apply for Teach For India Fellowship

Offered by: Teach For India

Key Dates:
Two application deadlines: December 1, 2008 and February 1, 2009.

Startup Lunch Hyderabad 1.0

Key Dates:
Event: August 23, 2008

Venue:
Intellecap, 3-6-307/2,
Hyderguda Main Road,
Hyderabad- 500029,
Telefax: +91-40-23222461

For Whom:
Candidates (interns, freshers and pros) who aspire to co-found/work with interesting startups, Startups, Volunteers.

Smart, enthusiastic interns/volunteers for Question Box Project

Volunteer: Interns/Volunteer for Question Box Project (Website)

Offered By: Open Mind

About Open Mind:
Open Mind is a U.S. nonprofit that originated and houses the Question Box Project. It is founded by Rose Shuman, who has spent the last decade involved in projects worldwide with a particular focus on the intersection of business and development.

Aspiring Minds Ambassador Programme

Aspiring Minds Ambassador Programme (Website)

Offered By: Aspiring Minds (Wesbite)

Aspiring Minds, a high-technology venture founded by alumni of MIT and IIT, seeks to identify each employable fresher and match him/her to a job at-par with his/her skills. It also seeks to help each unemployable fresher to improve his/her skills to become suitable for the job market.

Aspiring Minds is proud to present the Aspiring Minds Ambassador Programme which gives students opportunities to become representatives of their respective colleges, wherein, they would be the direct link between their college students and Aspiring Minds. Any new development or news, regarding any job opportunity, new seminars, counselling sessions etc- the ambassador would be the first one to know and can spread more awareness about the same in their college and campus.

Video Producer for Srijan-2008 Conference, Mumbai

Opportunity: Video Producer for Srijan 2008, Mumbai (Website)

Offered By: Intellecap (Website)

Key Dates:
Conference date: July 3, 2008

UnLtd Offers Incubation Support Programme

Opportunity: Incubation Support Programme for exceptional individuals in Mumbai with ideas or initiatives for social change (Call For Applications)

Offered by: UnLtd India (Website)

Key Dates:
For Eligible applicants:
Meeting an UnLtd India team member: By July 31, 2008
Deadline for Submitting application form: August 15, 2008
Interview: September, 2008

MBA’s Without Borders – Developing People and Nations

Resource: MBA’s Without Borders – Developing People and Nations (Website)

In 2004, co-Founders, Tal Dehtiar and Michael Brown, believed that business can and must play an important role in alleviating poverty in developing countries; they also believed that MBAs have valuable skills which are needed by businesses and NGOs working in developing countries.

Think Change India Blog is looking for Part-Time Writers

Opportunity: Part-Time Writer for Think Change -India (Web Link)

Offered By: ThinkChange India (WebSite)

Atlas Service Corps Fellowship Program 2008-09

Program: Atlas Service Corps Fellowship (Website)

Offered By: Atlas Service Corps, Inc.

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Applications: May 18, 2008

Youth Venture – Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Resource: Youth Venture – Ashoka Innovators for the Public (Website)

Ashoka is leading a profound transformation in society. In the past three decades, the global citizen sector, led by social entrepreneurs, has grown exponentially. Just as the business sector experienced a tremendous spurt in productivity over the last century, the citizen sector is experiencing a similar revolution, with the number and sophistication of citizen organizations increasing dramatically.

engINdia.net- Online Resource for Student Engineers

Resource For Student Engineers: endINdia.net (Homepage)

About:
engINdia.net is an online resource for student engineers. This site is a resource for numerous projects targetting challenges that face people in rural India.

Web Design Opportunity with Social Impact

When was the last time you knew of a great opportunity – only too late? Based on an idea presented at London Business School, Let Me Know is a effort to make students aware of opportunities. Breaking the information barrier, finally.

In November 2007, a pilot of Let Me Know was launched at https://letmeknow.wordpress.com.

In a short span of time, over 200 opportunities have been shared – including tech competitions, social entrepreneurship fellowships, business plan competitions, research projects, internships, conferences, scholarships and volunteer opportunities. The blog has received close to 90,000 hits and highly encouraging feedback from the youth across the world.

We now seek a talented team of web designers, with relevant past experience, to create a portal that will help Let Me Know project sustain and better serve the youth community in India and the rest of the world.

If you would like to be involved in this assignment, write to letmeknowblog@gmail.com with your resume and a note on why you would like to contribute.

Thanks!

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iVolunteer: Volunteering Opportunities

Opportunity: iVolunteer (Website)

iVolunteer is an initiative of MITRA that is working to create a volunteering movement in India. iVolunteer sees its role as that of a catalyst, which will create happy volunteering experiences for both volunteers and non-profits and these happy experiences will help create volunteering movement in India. In order to create these happy experiences iVolunteer is working through its Volunteer Centres and Non-profit partners to a create a volunteering infrastructure that will reduce the time and cost of recruiting volunteers and there by making it easier volunteers to make a difference in their local community.

Join ‘Let Me Know’ Team

As you know, Let Me Know is an effort to connect the best candidates to the best opportunities (beyond jobs) in India. Breaking the information barrier. Finally.

We are seeking to build a volunteer team of graduate and undergraduate students across majors and interests. As a member of this team, you could be leading our search for opportunities under Cul-Fests, Tech-Fests, Biz, Lit, Geek, Gyaan, Volunteer or Internships.

If you would like to be part of this collaborative effort, mail us at letmeknowblog at gmail dot com.

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One Laptop per Child: Volunteer Content / Software Development

Opportunity: One Laptop per Child Foundation Volunteer Service (Website)

The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning.

The OLPC Association focuses on designing, manufacturing, and distributing laptops to children in lesser developed countries, initially concentrating on those governments that have made commitments for the funding and program support required to ensure that all of their children own and can effectively use a laptop.

How can one contribute to this movement?

1. Pay towards laptop for a child (Donations)

2. Customizing the materials, such as math and science projects, wiki-text books, dictionaries, geographies, histories, social studies, health and nutrition courses, for a particular region or group of children or for more general use throughout the OLPC world (Content OLPC)

3. Developing software applications, such as educational games, collaborative and archiving tools, artistic and video and graphic tools, not otherwise available on laptops for children that will enhance the general usefulness of laptops in every location (Developers Program OLPC)

4. Software and text related contributions (Getting Involved)

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20th Shodh Yatra

What: 20th Shodh Yatra, West Bengal (Website)

Organised by: SRISTI

Key Dates:
December 25, 2007 – January 3, 2008

Join Prof. Anil Gupta (IIM Ahmedabad) in a 100 km journey for the search of knowledge, creativity and innovations at grassroots.

Shodh Yatra is an attempt on the part of SRISTI to reach out to the remotest part of the country with a firm belief that hardship and challenges of natural surroundings are the prime motivators of creativity and innovations. Shodh Yatra aims at unearthing such traditional knowledge and grassroots innovations that have not only simplified the lives of men, women and farm labourers but have also significantly contributed towards the conservation of bio-diversity. Shodh Yatra is a journey of mutual exchange and sharing of knowledge. Shodh Yatra is also a journey to spread green consciousness by involving women and children to display their ecological knowledge through various competitions.

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Students Club for Augmenting Innovation

Organization: National Innovation Foundation (Website)

Students’ Club for Augmenting Innovations (SCAI) at grassroots is a body of students from India’s best management and technological institutes. National Innovation Foundation (NIF) is encouraging students to set up SCAI chapters at various schools, colleges and universities in order to provide Product Development, Business Development (setting up of ventures), Mentoring and Monitoring support to entrepreneurs/innovators/traditional knowledge holders at grassroots level in the country.

Professor Anil K. Gupta, President SRISTI and Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is the Executive Vice Chairperson of NIF.

The most significant outcome of SCAI would be that students from different Business Schools and Technical Institutes would come together for advancing the cause of grassroots innovators. This is an effort to link the informal knowledge system (grassroots genius) with formal knowledge system and thereby have a distributed knowledge system in place. Such an attempt would ensure the reach of economically poor-knowledge rich people to the masses and will also prevent the erosion of indigenous knowledge base.

This is an unprecedented event and has enormous potential to change the development paradigm. Contact scai at nifindia dot org to contribute to grassroots innovation.

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