The Schawab Foundation for social Entrepreneurship and Jubilant Bhartia Foundation jointly presents the best social entrepreneur award for the year 2011.
Criteria for the selection of entrepreneur:
– Who brought about social change by transforming conventional practice, such practices transformation can have been achieved through an innovative product or services.
– The candidate has generated the social conditions or institutions needed to sustain the initiative and is dedicating all of his/her time to it.
– The candidate has founded, developed and implemented the entrepreneurial initiative directly, together with marginalized beneficiaries and stakeholders.
The Schwab Foundation will also consider the two criteria below in determining the winner:
– The social entrepreneur’s initiative has spread beyond its initial context and has been adapted successfully to other settings in the country or internationally, either by the entrepreneur him/herself, or through others who have replicated or adapted elements of it.
– The initiative can be adapted to other regions of the world to solve similar problems. The entrepreneur is open to sharing with others the tools, approaches and techniques that are critical to the adaptation of the initiative.
Application Deadline for Social Entrepreneur Competition – 30th May 2011.
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