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Whistleblowers and the charity sector | Charity Digital, 13 nov 2025
Building Economic Democracy Through Community-Owned Real Estate | Nonprofit Quarterly, 13 nov 2025
How To Bring About A Social Revolution Not Through Charity But Innovation | Deccan Chronicle, 13 nov 2025
Community service volunteering: Thinking globally, acting locally | The Charlotte News, 13 nov 2025
These states rank as the most charitable in America in 2025, analysis shows | LiveNow FOX, 11 nov 2025
Twenty years of social entrepreneurship: Leadership lessons from the long road | Pioneers Post, 11 nov 2025
15 Amazing CSR Activities To Boost Employee Engagement | Vantage Circle, 04 nov 2025
The Board Is Not the Boss - and More Thoughts on Its Role | Nonprofit Quarterly, 14 oct 2025
How AI Can Deepen Nonprofit Relationships | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 09 oct 2025
Corporate social responsibility in a non-western context: the case of the United Arab Emirates | Nature, 25 sep 2025
Why collective social innovation is future philanthropy | World Economic Forum, 17 sep 2025
Commentary: Investing in these 6 components can achieve true food sovereignty | Crain's Chicago Business, 25 aug 2025
April 2023
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 29 apr 2023
Even though India is on a development and growth path, but there are areas that require special attention particularly the social issues like poverty, unemployment, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. According to the Lancet study 'Progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators in 707 districts of India: A quantitative mid-line assessment using the National Family Health Surveys, 2016 and 2021' (Authors: S.V. Subramanian of Harvard University, Mayanka Ambade of Laxmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute India, Akhil Kumar of Harvard University, Hyejun Chi of Korea University, William Joe of Institute of Economic Growth India, Sunil Rajpal of Korea University, Rockli Kim of Korea University), India is not on-target for 19 of the 33 SDGs indicators. The critical off-target indicators include access to basic services, wasting and overweight children, anaemia, child marriage, partner violence, tobacco use, and modern contraceptive use. For these indicators, more than 75% of the districts were off-target. Because of a worsening trend observed between 2016 and 2021, and assuming no course correction occurs, many districts will never meet the targets on the SDGs even well after 2030. Abhishek Dubey, founder and CEO of Muskaan Dreams, suggests that India needs more social impact entrepreneurs to make a positive difference in society. Social entrepreneurs are capable to put their talent and energy for social causes that they value along with generating revenue and profits. The are well suited to contribute effectively to India's growth story for following reasons - (1) Tackling social problems at scale (2) Promoting inclusive growth (3) Solving environmental challenges (4) Innovating for social impact (5) Bridging the gap between the public and private sectors (6) Creating sustainable ventures. Read on...
Forbes:
Why India needs more social entrepreneurs
Author:
Abhishek Dubey
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