Social Enterprise

Indian Superheroes, a Coimbatore-based social enterprise that aids organic farmers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, is helping people master the art of farming.

Making informed decisions in governance becomes easier with access to accurate and easily understandable data. Richa Verma writes about how a new Fellowship hopes to enable entrepreneurs to make such data-driven decision-making easier and common.

Lack of access to English language skills can be a severe restriction to higher education for many children of India. Pranil Naik, and his organisation Leap For Word, hope to remove this stumbling block by making English literacy accessible and sustainable on a large scale.

Crammed spaces, concrete jungles, and zero touch with nature – while many urban dwellers are struggling with such problems, a social enterprise in Bengaluru has found a solution to help people set up their personal green spaces, wherever they want.

Janan Dave recounts her experience with a Bangalore-based social enterprise working to revolutionize newborn health through technology as part of the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India.

Agricultural entrepreneur Yogesh Shinde is trying to reduce the use of plastic by manufacturing and promoting bamboo products through his venture Bamboo India.

Delhi-based designer Kanika Gupta incorporates Design Thinking into social enterprise, and comes up with some wonderful results.

A Noida-based company is recycling cigarette waste right from the paper and filter to ash and tobacco. Started by two friends in their twenties, the company is fighting a huge environmental hazard. This is how!

Divya Rawat is using mushroom cultivation as a way of curbing migration and providing livelihoods to people in Uttarakhand. This is also helping repopulate many 'ghost villages' in the state.

Servals, a social enterprise from Chennai, is helping villagers in the devastated Sunderbans area use an innovative cooking stove to save on firewood and earn extra income.