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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 ...
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:
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.
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.
Jeroo Billimoria (born 20 July 1965) is an Indian social entrepreneur and the founder of several international NGOs.Her work has been featured in several books. [1] [2] [3] Her most recent initiatives include Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), which Jeroo founded in 2011, Aflatoun (Child Savings International), Childline India Foundation and Child Helpline International.
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.