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Articles in the Press
- Solar crusader—Harish Hande
- Business Today; Dec 28, 2007
- I have some bad news and some good news for you. The bad news is you are totally dead and the good news is you are still young—This is what Denis Hayes, leading environmental activist and founder of the Earth Day, told Harish Hande about the short-term future of his business early 2007.
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- A businessman’s crusade against darkness
- Business Standard; Dec 4, 2007
- Harish Hande, who has been honoured recently with a prize for social entrepreneurship, has made it his business to take solar power to every un-lit home.
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- An entrepreneur’s crusade in lighting up India’s villages
- Livemint.com; Dec 4, 2007
- New Delhi: Read this! In a country where we spend thousands of watts of electricity for a day and night cricket match, use the power-greedy heater to ward off the winter chill, there lies another India where villages are dimly lit by paraffin lamps and dim lights battling darkening chimneys. For this cash-strapped India an ignited filament powered by current is a rare luxury, for they cannot even afford electricity.
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- An Entrepreneur Speaks
- Developednation.org; Dec 4, 2007
- You are not likely to find many IITians, armed with a PhD degree from US, commenting, “IIT Kharagpur motto says—In Service of the nation. But which nation it is—USA or some IT and Finance companies.” Equally unlikely is to find a Schwab Social Entrepreneur denying its concept altogether,“Once you put a term like Social Entrepreneur, people consider you an NGO, a grant based body. I am in this business since 1994. I have never taken grants.”
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- They’ve taken the road less travelled
- Business Standard; Dec 3, 2007
- INDIA ECONOMIC SUMMIT 2007—The four finalists from among whom the Social Entrepreneur of The Year 2007 will be chosen on the last day of the India Economic Summit are Harish Hande of SELCO, Karnataka; Rajendra Joshi of Saath, Gujarat; Pravin Mahajan of Janarth, Maharashtra; and Chetna Gala Sinha of Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, Ltd., Maharashtra.
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- Selco MD gets entrepreneur award
- The Asian Age; Dec 3, 2007
- ANew Delhi, Dec. 2: “We have to create and provide sustainable sources of eco-friendly energy to the marginalised communities and at the same time, limit the harmful implications on the global warming,” said Mr Harish Hande, managing director, Selco, that offers solar energy to rural as well as urban poor.
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- Goodwill corp.s
- The Hindu Business Line; Nov 30, 2007
- Aravind Eye Hospital, founded by Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy and Thulasiraj D. Ravilla in 1976, has treated over 2.3 million outpatients and performed over 2.7 lakh surgeries in 2006-07, almost two-thirds of them for free.
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- Who will be the Social Entrepreneur of the Year?
- Hindustan Times; Nov 23, 2007
- In a sign of increased public recognition of social entrepreneurship, which involves the building of enterprises that achieve socially desirable objectives while following the principles of business, two foundations working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) are set to unveil next month the winner of the Social Entrepeneur of the Year award for 2007.
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- Social entrepreneurs innovate to change
- Livemint.com; Nov 20, 2007
- A social entrepreneur, within the Indian context, combines the entrepreneurial know-how of Narayana Murthy with the social heart of Mother Teresa
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- Moving down the pyramid
- India Today; Nov 11, 2007
- Boys and girls in Saurath, a sleepy hamlet in Bihar, no longer flock to the big cities in search of jobs, thanks to a rural BPO set up by Drishtee, a company engaged in developing networks for delivering services to the village community.
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- Social entrepreneurs find answers for people’s problems
- Deccan Herald; Oct 27, 2007
- Globalisation and the concept of free market economy are here to stay. Already, the market forces that benefit from them and developing countries like India—where the enthusiastic embrace of the concepts have accelerated economic growth and contributed a great deal to wealth creation—are pursuing it more aggressively.
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- Gandhiji was a social entrepreneur
- Rediff News; Oct 3, 2007
- Social entrepreneurship is a marriage between effective business techniques and social good. It is something that Mahatma Gandhi pioneered, Uday Khemka tells Business Standard.
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- Uday Khemka Interviewed on Climate Change
- Alliance; Vol 12, No 3, Sep 2007
- Uday Khemka comes from an Indian family that has been in business for about 100 years. The Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation’s mission has historically been nothing to do with climate change but has rather focused on poverty and development issues, microfinance and so on. How did it come to be involved in climate change, Caroline Hartnell asked Uday Khemka.
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- In the business of service
- The Financial Express; Aug 26, 2007
- The bug of entrepreneurship makes a person see opportunities even in a grain of sand. Entrepreneurship even has power, as its fire-in-the-belly vigour makes one go deaf to comments of being bizarre, unworkable or far-fetched. Serious planning, right ways of arranging and investing funds, all packed with a never-give-up approach is what one needs to turn a challenge into a well-deserved opportunity.
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- India NGO awards announced
- NDTV; Mar 2, 2007
- The India NGO 2006 awards launched by Resource Alliance in partnership with Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation has been announced. Gram Vikas and Pradaan were the top winners. Gram Vikas serves nearly two lakh people across 559 villages in Orissa.
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- Resource Alliance initiates ‘India NGO Award’
- India Infoline News Service; July 1, 2006
- The award has been instituted to recognise non-profit organisations for following good standards and practices in resource mobilisation, accountability and transparency.
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- Award to enhance NGOs credibility
- The Hindu Business Line; June 28, 2006
- The Resource Alliance, the UK-based organisation that supports NGOs in building capacities, has announced the 2006 edition of the ‘The India NGO Award’ and invited NGOs in the region to take part in the competition.
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