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Pages in category "Indian social entrepreneurs" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures, including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support ...
Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 12 October 1961) also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.
He has been featured in leading print media in India including The Hindu, [9] DNA, [10] The Times Of India, [11] Midday, [12] My Bangalore, [1] [13] and Sikkim Mail. [ 14 ] Gurung was a founder of a Bangalore-based social group Oh My India (OMI) [ 14 ] which created awareness across India to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle [ 15 ] domestic waste.
Chetna Gala Sinha (born 1958) is an Indian social entrepreneur working to empower women in areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills, access to land and means of production. [ 1 ] Sinha and six other women chaired the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland in January 2018.
While there are few strictly social-focused co-working spaces, most are open to social entrepreneurs. In India, several spaces include Bombay Connect, Jaaga, Springboard Ventures, and Alpha Lab. [11] For female social entrepreneurs, female-only cooperatives are often critical. Many have been formed in South Asia in recent years.
Harish Hande (born Handerto Harish Hande) is an Indian social entrepreneur, who co-founded SELCO India in 1995. [1]He was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011 for "his pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology in the hands of the poor, through his social enterprise SELCO India".