Tag Archives: social entrepreneurship

Video Volunteers’ mission is to empower the world’s poorest citizens to right the wrongs they witness by becoming players in the global media revolution. It provides disadvantaged communities with journalistic, critical thinking and creative skills, and creates locally owned and managed “community media units” that teach people to articulate and share their perspectives on the issues that matter to them “on a local and global scale.” Read More »

Despite the set-back, the children turned it into an opportunity by coming up with a brilliant idea to organize themselves in interest groups and work over Saturdays to produce artifacts for a Fun fair using the initial 3K as seed money. The idea was that they wanted to create a market where they could sell their goods and hopefully raise enough funds for a computer. Read More »

[Editorial Notes: At Pluggd.in, we have covered a lot on social entrepreneurship and if you know of interesting projects, do let us know.  Here is presenting a guest article by Aarti Shrivastava, an entrepreneur focused on media for social change. … Read More »

“The Idea of getting children to isolate a problem that deeply affects them, then find and implement a solution, empowers them in a way most people never enjoy. It is a belief that CAN and WILL build more just, compassionate and happier societies.” Read More »

Design for Change is an innovative and exciting competition for young people that might just change the world! Young people who enter are asked to design a solution to a problem in their community and make it happen. Each individual … Read More »

[We have covered Social Entrepreneurship in depth and here is a great article written by Aarti Shrivastava covering the various aspects of Social Business] The major boost in social entrepreneurship was given by the Nobel Prize winner Dr. Mohammad Yunus … Read More »