Mr. Deepak Doddamani is a Founder of Ashwamedh Foundation working for Child Education and Development sincei August 2012. In this presentation he has discussed the opportunities for Social Entrepreneurs in Education sector.

1. Opportunities for Social
Entrepreners in Education Sector
- Deepak Doddamani
Founder, Ashwamedh Foundation

2. Challenges and Opportunities go
hand by hand.
 Problems in Education sectors needs
to be addressed. Entrepreneurs and
Social Entrepreneurs both have equal
opportunities to do that.
 There are various need gaps which
needs to be filled.
 Shift from traditional learning methods
to e-learning is creating many
opportunities
 Innovation and Research always

3. Fill the Gaps
 Social Entrepreneurs can fill the gap
left behind by traditional edupreneurs
in terms of access, learning methods
& tools.
 Social Entrepreneurs can adopt the
unconventional learning methods
comfortably
 Social Entrepreneurs can use
technology, fun-learning, e-learning,
activities and playgroup, e-class etc.

4. Go beyond Classrooms and
textbooks
 Social Entrepreneurs can bring micro-
innovation in classrooms by offering
students unconventional teaching
materials, innovative ways of teaching.
 Field Study, Educational Trips,
Learning in nature, camps etc. can be
promoted
 Social Entrepreneurs can make
courses on Value Education,
personality development, Self-
Defense, Dance, etc. and offer them
to schools

5. Skill Development Programs
 Social Entrepreneurs can help Govt. in
their Skill Development Programs.
They can start their own institutes on
Skills Development.
 Such Institutes should create
employable blue collared employees,
Self-Employed Entrepreneurs and
Skillful labors.
 Vocational and Skills training centers
with Public Private Partnership
models, National Skills Development
Corporation

6. Philanthropy advocacy,
consultancy
 Social Entrepreneurs have good
knowledge of Social Issues and the
probable solutions for the same. They
can start their consultancy firms to
help philanthropist in systematic
allocation of funds in the key areas of
importance
 Wealthy Entrepreneurs can start their
Venture capital funds for funding Start-
Ups of Social Entrepreneurs

7. E-Learning, smart-learning,
Technology start-ups
 Change Makers (NGOs) should help
in digitalizing schools in rural areas,
they can donate refurbished
computers to schools with the help of
their donors.
 Training of basics of computers, use
of technology in schools can be
introduced and encouraged by
Change Agents.
 Start-Ups in Education field can

8. Improving Quality of
Education
 Social Entrepreneurs should create
curriculum which are relevant, useful
and upgrade it time to time.
 Social Entrepreneurs can help
teachers by organizing training
workshops, providing voluntary
teaching services etc.
 Social Entrepreneurs should Mentor
change leaders by providing them
training, funds, feedbacks and support

9. Creating Social Equality
 Social Entrepreneurs should help left-
out and underprivileged children in
getting enrolled in Schools by
sponsoring their fees.
 They can take City School Children to
Orphanages, Slum Schools, Street
Children schools for interactive
sessions.
 Students Exchange Programs,
Competitions, Festivals events can be
organized by Social Entrepreneurs.

10. Other areas of work
 School Management Firms – right from
acquiring land to mobilizing students
 Financial Management Services for
Educational Institutes
 Teachers Life Cycle Management
 Curriculum development and
management
 Solutions for constrained classroom
 Start-ups Day care centers, Open e-
library, e-book clubs, private tutorials etc.

11. Case studies on Social
Entrepreneurship in Education

12. Key to successful Social
Entrepreneurship in India
 Social Entrepreneurs in Education
Field should focus on following things:
 Challenge the assumptions of
education and try new innovative
methods.
 Clearly demonstrate their social
impact
 Create a Scalable social Start-ups
which can benefit the base of the
pyramid

13. NGOs in Education Sector

14. Teach For India
 Founder – Shaheen Mistri
 Founded - 2007
 Focus – Eliminating Educational
Inequality
 Location – Mumbai
 Area served – Mumbai, Pune, Chennai,
Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Bangalore,
New Delhi
 Major work: TFI Model based on Wendy
Copp’s Teach for America. Educating
around 38000 children currently.

15. Akanksha Foundation
 Founder – Shaheen Mistri
 Founded – 1991
 Focus- Eliminate Educational
Inequality
 Location – Chinchpokli, Mumbai &
Wakdewadi, Pune
 Area served – Mumbai and Pune
 Major work – NGO centres and NGO
Schools Educating 6500 children
currently.

16. Pratham
 Founder – Madhav Chavan
 Founded – 1994
 Focus – To Provide Pre-School
Education to children in slums.
 Location – Mumbai
 Area served – Mumbai and Delhi,
International NGO
 Major work – Annual Status of Education
Report (Survey), Read India, Pratham
books, Lakhon me Ek, Direct Programs.

17. Project Nanhi Kali
 Founder – Anand Mahindra
 Founded – 1996
 Managed by – Naandi Foundation and
KC Mahindra Education Trust, CSR of
Mahindra Group
 Focus – Education of underprivileged
Girls.
 Major Work – currently supporting
over 57,000 students across India

18. CRY (Child Rights & You)
 Founder – Rippan Kapur
 Founded – 1979
 Focus – Children’s Rights
 Location – Mumbai
 Area of work – Mumbai, Delhi,
Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore.
 Major work – Chhote kadam pragati ki
aur, Mission Education.

19. Start-Ups by Social
Edupreneurs

20. Unacademy
 Founder – Roman Saini
 Co-founders – Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh
Singh and Sachin Gupta
 Founded – 2016
 Focus – Free Education mission
 Location – Mumbai, Delhi
 Major work – Largest repository of
educational courses prepared by
educators across India on different
subjects

21. Aavishkaar
Founder – Vineet Rai
Founded – 2001
Focus – Venture capital funding for
Social Entrepreneurship space of
India
Location – Mumbai
Major work – this early-stage
investment fund makes equity
investment in Social enterprises.
Invested in Butterfly fields and Karadi

22. Sudiksha Solutions
 Sudiksha was a project founded in 2010 by
two post-graduates from the Indian Institute
of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal.
 Initially, they began setting up various
primary schools for the underprivileged as
well as collaborating with existing
institutions to provide good quality
education.
 Sudiksha has current presence in
Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bhopal.
 High quality holistic education for poor
children

23. Classle
 Classle is a for-profit venture that connects
teachers and students from institutions
across the world, to create a platform where
most of the educational content is common,
and uploaded onto a cloud. It focuses on
flexibility, ease and efficient learning
through its content.
 V. Vaidyanathan, who was initially working
in an IT company, founded Classle
originally in 2010 as a technical platform. It
has now blossomed into a highly
successful, full-fledged, e-learning platform.

24. iDiscoveri
 It was founded in the year 2002 as a for-profit
enterprise by three graduate students from
Harvard, as a social enterprise seeking to renew
and revive the education sector in India.
 The name, pronounced I-DISCOVER-I, aims to
unleash the potential and power of every human
mind. The ‘ XSEED’ project, under the same
foundation, targets children between 3 to 13 years
of age.
 Located primarily in Singapore, Bangalore and
Gurgaon, they use a five-step teaching module
which inculcates the process of- Aim, Action,
Analysis, Application and Assessment. XSEED
reached 3 Lacs students so far

25. The Kahani Project
 The Kahani Project kicked off in the year 2012, with
four founding members from extremely diverse
backgrounds.
 The founders believe in the power of story-telling
as a bridge to reach out to the country’s largest
kind of disabled kids- the ones with visual
impairment.
 They then let the storytelling take its natural course
in shaping and moulding the personality of the
child.
 The Kahani Project aims to crowd-source audio
stories and then distribute them either through this
website or through mp3 players given to visually
impaired children in various institutes for the blind.

26. Hippocampus
 It is a for-profit enterprise which is focused on
providing an enriching experience to children
through learning with books. Flourishing since
2003, it has opened up experience centers for the
city kids in Bangalore and Chennai.
 Apart from this, HippoCampus has collaborated
with over 50 schools, government centres and
mainstream schools in Bangalore city.
 Besides having an astonishing collection of books,
HippoCampus organises events and productions
that are children-centric, such as “Hoophoria”, their
annual three-day carnival, and “Read It! Spread it”,
their book collection drive for children.

27. Experifun
 Experifun was founded in the year 2012 by
alumni from the prestigious IIT and IIM in
order to achieve creation of innovative
thinkers in the field of science and
technology.
 Based out of Bangalore and continuously
expanding to other emerging markets such
as Philippines and Nigeria, Experifun focuses
on STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics.
 They are keen to battle the concepts taught
by rote learning and instead, encourage
creativity, curiosity and innovation among
their students.

28. Thank you