India has one of the highest deaf populations in the world with approximately 6% of the population suffering some kind of hearing loss. One person who heard this curse right is banker turned entrepreneur Dhruv Lakra. Dhruv founded Mirakle Couriers, a Mumbai based courier company that employs only deaf people. They employ deaf male adults...
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Social Entrepreneurship - Coverage of stories related to social entrepreneurship and profile of social enterprises in India.
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Our topical theme, Social Entrepreneurship has been one of the most interesting and inspiring areas that we have covered in the recent times. Here are a couple of videos we have collated for you: Amitabha Sadangi, Businessman turned Social Entrepreneur Amitabha Sadangi’s vision is to empower the rural poor
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Launched in 2007, Samman Foundation is attempting to bring a structure to the Rickshaw industry and is betting on rickshaws being the ‘visible panel’ for brands to reach out to consumers. The rickshaws have been specially designed by IIT K,
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have granted $41 million  for improving maternal, newborn and child health among six countries, India being one among them. It has been granted to an International humanitarian organization, Concern Worldwide to work toward this mission; and the plan is for the enormous grant of $41 million to be delivered...
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About DesiCrew Please tell us about Desicrew. DesiCrew Solutions Pvt Ltd is a rural BPO company incubated by RTBI of IIT- Madras. DesiCrew was started with the intention to bring new India’s flagship industry – IT Enabled Services...
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As more and more educated people become conscious of entrepreneurship as a powerful vehicle for effecting social impact, the issue, as in any...
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested $1mn in CHF International,
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About Rang De RangDe.Org is India’s first online peer to peer micro-lending platform that enables individuals to
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Please tell us about Eko. Eko envisages a world where mobile phones will be the financial identity of the historically unbanked masses. The customer just walks to the neighbourhood grocer to deposit or withdraw cash, as...
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We use the term “Entrepreneur” for a person who has created something which has a value preposition to the stakeholders in big/small way. Now, I am not going deep into defining Human Entrepreneurship, however,...
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“How many national scale, socially relevant, market oriented, impact making businesses can you name in India?” is a question that I asked at a recent gathering of friends. This is partly due to the fact...
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Today, Social Entrepreneurship has become a buzzword. Some consider buzzwords to be nothing more than marketing gimmicks. I feel buzzwords are good, period. Buzzwords help you make your point and get the message across succinctly....
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Social Entrepreneurship definition - how different is it from nonprofit organizations or even social activism. Social Entrepreneurship is a form of entrepreneurship with core business model.
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Quite happy to say that our concept of fortnight theme has taken the discussions to next level and we do plan to work more on industry level themes (as requested by a lot of readers). This fortnightly theme is social entrepreneurship -  we plan to cover relevant ventures in social entrepreneurship space, clear out some...
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Arbind Singh of Nidan, a NGO working in Bihar has been declared the winner of the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2008 in India (at World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit). Nidan is developing sustainable businesses, cooperatives, trade unions and “people’s institutions” led by the most excluded categories of the poor in Bihar. It...
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