A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures, including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support for them.[1]
| Qais Al Khonji | Founder of Genesis projects and investments | |||
| Founder and leader of the Bhoodan movement, he caused the redistribution of more than of land to aid India's untouchables and landless. | ||||
| Environmentalist and conservationist, the Sierra Club's first executive director and built it into a worldwide network for environmental issues. He also founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and The Earth Island Institute. | ||||
| Founder of grassroots movement for rural communities Comilla Model, and low-cost sanitation programmes (Orangi Pilot Project) for squatter settlements. | ||||
| Developed the Montessori approach to early childhood education. | ||||
| United States | Naturalist and conservationist, he established the National Park System and helped found The Sierra Club. | |||
| Founder of modern nursing, she established the first school for nurses and fought to improve hospital conditions. | ||||
| United States | Creator of major urban parks, including Rock Creek Park in Washington DC, Central Park in NYC, and Mount Royal Park in Montreal, he is generally considered to have developed the profession of landscape architecture in America. | |||
| United States | Champion of the forest as a multiple use environment, Gifford Pinchot helped found the Yale School of Forestry and created the U.S. Forest Service, serving as its first chief. | |||
| Pioneer of the rural bond of association as a substitute for collateral in microfinance, and a principal founder of the credit union and cooperative bank sectors that now form a major segment of the European banking system. | ||||
| India | Engineer and businessman, he planned and executed India's "white revolution", that transformed the milk-importing country into the world’s largest produce . | |||
| United States | Founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she led the movement for family planning efforts around the world. | |||
| United States | He Led U.S. Quakers to voluntarily emancipate all their slaves between 1758 and 1800, his work also influenced the British Society of Friends, a major force behind the British decision to ban slaveholding. | |||
| India | Chairman, National Innovation Council, India | |||
| India | Founder Chairman of Borderless World Foundation. He is on peace building mission, working in most conflicted areas in Asia i.e Jammu & Kashmir on India Pakistan Border. He is working for the children who lost parents in terrorism and conflict. | |||
| India | Inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine. |
| poverty reduction, banking, food security, education, woman empowerment | ||||
| Agriculture | ||||
| United States | Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability | Poverty | ||
| Social entrepreneurship | ||||
| Russia | National relations/Civil diplomacy | |||
| India | AYZH | Healthcare | ||
| United States | U.S./International volunteering | |||
| United States | Nonprofit support | |||
| United States | Charitable crowdfunding | |||
| India | Poverty | |||
| Education | ||||
| United Kingdom | Social entrepreneurship | |||
| India | Poverty | |||
| United States | Poverty | |||
| Health | ||||
| United Kingdom | Poverty | |||
| United States | Water | |||
| United States | Technology | |||
| United States | Education, healthcare, ending poverty | |||
| India | The George Foundation | Poverty | ||
| Building Markets | Employment | |||
| India | Clothing, disaster relief | |||
| United States | Water | |||
| United States | Incarceration and recidivism | |||
| United States | Environment | |||
| United States | Poverty, microfinance | |||
| India | Peace-building, peace & conflict, women, children, emergency medical services in conflict. | |||
| Salman Khan | United States | Education | ||
| United States | Education | |||
| Canada | WE Charity / Me to WE | Human rights | ||
| Marc Kielburger | Canada | WE Charity / ME to WE | Human rights | |
| United Kingdom | Poverty | |||
| United States | Education | |||
| United States | Technology | |||
| United States | Poverty | |||
| United States | Poverty | |||
| United Kingdom | Health | |||
| United States | Last Mile Health | Healthcare | ||
| United States | Environment | |||
| India | Education | |||
| United States | Multiple | Vegan Food and Activism | ||
| United Kingdom | Interfaith, social cohesion | |||
| United Kingdom | Interfaith, social cohesion | |||
| Environment | ||||
| United States | Health, education | |||
| Bhargav Sri Prakash | India / United States | fooya FriendsLearn | Digital vaccines for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension & cancer prevention | |
| India | Karuna Trust | upliftment of the forest dwelling tribes | ||
| United States | RedGreen Rivers | Woman empowerment, poverty reduction | ||
| United Kingdom | Health, poverty | |||
| Germany | Deutschland rundet auf | Poverty, micro-donation | ||
| United States / China | Environment, Education, Wildlife Conservation | |||
| Bangladesh | Poverty, microfinance | |||
| Britain | Magic Bus | Childhood to Livelihood | ||
| India | Teach For India, Akanksha Foundation | Education | ||
| India | Solar energy | |||
| Ranjan Mistry | India | Women School of Entrepreneurship, Campus Varta, Womenia Chakra Foundation | Poverty, Education, Entrepreneurship | |
| Bam Aquino | Philippines | Hapinoy | Poverty Reduction |