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Website | www.deshpandefoundationindia.org |
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 and his wife Jaishree Deshpande.
Programs
Hubli Sandbox runs many programs in the areas of education, student leadership, agriculture,[2] 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.[3] The Development Dialogue is the annual international conference of social entrepreneurship conducted by Hubli Sandbox.[4][5] NR Narayana Murthy also attended Sandbox Hubli’s Startup Dialogue 2019 event.
References
- ↑ "Hubli Sandbox, an innovation hub to find solutions to real world problems".
- ↑ "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'".