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The Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship (DCSE) actively promotes social entrepreneurship by hosting, supporting and guiding dynamic individuals dedicated to generating innovative, scalable ideas, particularly in the Sandbox. Aspiring social entrepreneurs of all disciplines in the private and nonprofit sectors are empowered to develop prototypes and build the critical mass necessary to instigate positive social change in the Sandbox Area.
Since its inception, the Deshpande Foundation has expanded its reach to include a number of progressive programs all designed to foster entrepreneurial aptitude and a passion to pursue social justice through social enterprise. In an effort to coordinate these endeavors, the Foundation established a cutting-edge program, the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship (DCSE).
The DSCE will function as the nerve center for all activities related to Deshpande Foundation programs fostering social entrepreneurship in the Sandbox.
DCSE programs include:
By embracing the concepts of innovation, scalability and entrepreneurship and applying them to social objectives, the DCSE desires to make a global impact on civil society. The DCSE hosts and supports developing entrepreneurs, encouraging them to use one another as sounding boards, build and experiment with prototypes and generate brand new concepts designed to address development issues.
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