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THE HUB: GET INSPIRED AND CONNECTED

12 Jul

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An air of excitement and energy shrouds ‘The Hub’, a unique collaborative work space for people with ideas and passion for a radically better world to work out of, meet, connect, learn and grow. The energy and vibration of this place is infectious.

Borrowing features from a professional workspace, a café, a network and a workshop, the hub will be a unique platform for social entrepreneurs to meet likeminded people. The hub space offers facilities like work stations, hot desks, meeting room, workshop space, wireless internet, and facilities for printing, copying, faxing, scanning and a library. It tries to connect people by hosting events, talks, exhibitions, online platforms to network and collaborate.

The Hub is the first of its kind in India .The space belongs to everyone and is expected to grow fast with the swarm of ideas floating in the air. Its main aim is to help social entrepreneurs in building skills through a range of trainings, workshops, discussions, consultancies and exposure visits. It houses all the tools, resources and connections needed to cultivate an idea, launch a project and operate a business.

The Hub is an initiative of UnLtd India, a foundation for supporting start up social entrepreneurs in India.

One can get in touch to know more about ‘The Hub’ at bombay.hub@unltdindia.org or call (022) 3216 3287.

Or just drop by at the address

The Hub

4th Floor, Candelar Building,

26 St. John Baptist Road,

Near Mount Mary Steps,

Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050

 
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Sankalp Forum

05 Jun

Recently as part of our Seva Journals program we had the opportunity to make 49 films on various social entrepreneurs from all over India. Here’s more information on Sankalp Forum which was organized by Intellecap to bring together these entrepreneurs with venture capitalists.

You can also see the short films on selected entrepreneurs here.

Sankalp (English: Pledge or Determination) is conceived as a South Asia Social Enterprise and Investment Forum with the primary goal of bringing together various stakeholders sharing a common conviction that capital should be invested to create multiple bottom-line returns (financial, social and environmental) and not exclusively financial (profit-maximizing) or social (philanthropic) returns.

Sankalp 2009 is an effort to discover, connect and support the most investible social MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium enterprises) operating in high impact sectors such as:

• Agriculture and Rural Innovations
• Education for all
• Environment & Clean Energy
• Healthcare Inclusion
• Highly Scalable Social Models
 
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Pursuit of Goodness ( Story of MAM now published in a book)

24 Nov

book23rd September 2007 we were invited to share our adventures with IIM Ahmedabad students as part of their social entrepreneurship fair. On that day I witnessed the quote by Aristotle which said: “Where your talent and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation”.

For the first time I saw extremely talented students of one of the premiere institutes of India being so impassioned about bringing the change in the world. The fair which was inspired by Prof Anil Gupta (Our all time mentor) and led by Vijayendra Haryal, bought some unique individuals from all over India who in their own small way contributed to the society.
The gathering was so inspiring that it made few students restless to do more than what they have been doing and helped them to take the plunge they have been waiting for. One such story is of Vijayendra, who immediately started working on a website to bring together volunteers, non-profits and corporate. Check out and please participate in www.volstreet.com He even resolved to write a book on several young social entrepreneurs and share it with the world. He called it ‘Pursuit of Goodness”. So honest and pure was his own effort that he decided to open source the book with the spirit of gift economy. We are delighted as well humbled to know that story of MAM is included in it. Delighted because now we can infect more people to be little crazy and convince them to take the road less traveled and humbled because knowing there are so many more invisible heroes before us who have dedicated their lives for service.

Hope to continue our pursuit of happiness through service.

Madhusudan : )

p.s you can buy a hard copy of the book from pothi.com. A soft copy can be dowloaded from her. Thanks to Vijayendra for  open sourcing: pursuit_of_goodness_book_rev3

 
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