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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.
This is an annotated list of social enterprises sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article, in alphabetical order. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters: For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:
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.
Hande was named the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship [5] [11] and the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation. In 2008, Hande was chosen by Business Today as one of the "21 young leaders for India’s 21st century". [5] Later, in June 2008, India Today named him one of the 50 pioneers of change in ...
Ria Sharma is a social activist and the first Indian to receive the UNICEF Global Goals Awards for 2017. [2] [3] Sharma is the founder of NGO Make Love Not Scars that works in all aspects of rehabilitation for acid attack survivors in India. [4] Sharma also founded the world's first rehabilitation centre for acid attack survivors [5] in the world.