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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 ...
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:
Kalpana Saroj (born 1961) is an Indian business woman, entrepreneur and a TEDx speaker, [1] and the chairperson of Kamani Tubes in Mumbai, India.Known as Indian Woman entrepreneur, she bought the distressed assets of Kamani Tubes Company and successfully steered the company back to profitability.
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.