“Social entrepreneurs are the driving force behind innovations that improve the quality of life of individuals around the world, and they represent an integral and dynamic community of the World Economic Forum,” Hilde Schwab said. “It therefore gives me great pleasure to announce the 2014 Schwab Social Entrepreneur awardees. The 37 outstanding social entrepreneurs we have selected into the Schwab Foundation community this year are designing transformative models in collaboration with government and business partners to generate truly inclusive growth.”

Congratulations to Shelly Batra of Operation ASHA and Ashifi Gogo of Sproxil for being recognized as two of the Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 Awardees! 

"Together with our partners at USAID and other members of their Higher Education Solutions Network, we at SEAD have been studying the patterns of the marketplace to discern rules of the road." -Cathy Clark

Read more about the lessons learned by checking out this HuffPost blog by Cathy Clark, Director of the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASE i3) and professor at Duke!

Read more about the OneBreath project here

"For real scale to happen in the impact sectors, you need a lot of funds turning their attention to these sectors and that will happen when the business and the innovation is looked at from a commercial point of view," he says. 
One sector that straddles both social and commercial well is healthcare.  Whether it’s impact funds or traditional venture capitalists, there’s a growing interest in healthcare companies to address the abysmal gap in India’s healthcare infrastructure." -Esha Chhabra, Forbes contributor 

Vaatsalya uses a for-profit model with an emphasis on affordability. It costs a little over $30 to deliver a newborn.

Read the full Forbes article here