The Hubli Sandbox in Hubballi, India is an ecosystem launched by Deshpande Foundation that supports mission-driven individuals to come up with sustainable and scalable enterprises having social and economic impact.[1] It's a co-creation of Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur[2] and his wife Jaishree Deshpande.[3]
Programs
Hubli Sandbox runs many programs in the areas of education, student leadership, agriculture,[4] micro-entrepreneurship, and maternal health. Major programs are Sandbox Startups, Navodyami, Grantmaking & partnerships, Deshpande Educational Trust (DET), LEADers' Accelerating Development (LEAD), Agriculture, Healthcare, and Global Exchange Program.[5] The Development Dialogue is the annual international conference of social entrepreneurship conducted by Hubli Sandbox.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Hubli Sandbox, an innovation hub to find solutions to real world problems.
- ↑ NRI venture capitalist plans social entrepreneurship centre in Hubli. Business Standard(27 January 2015). Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ↑ Sandbox turns Hubballi into talent hub.
- ↑ How 'Desh' Deshpande is helping Indian NGOs scale up.
- ↑ All about the Hub experience: The best practices to build regional hubs.
- ↑ 'Development Dialogue-2016' begins.
- ↑ 'India needs 10 million entrepreneurs solving problems of a billion people'.