Unreasonable Alchemy’s Project Literacy Lab: Helping Social Entrepreneurs Tackle Global Illiteracy

Project Literacy Lab is the latest agenda from the Unreasonable Group that aims at wiping out illiteracy from the face of the globe. Unreasonable Group, founded by Daniel Epstein, is now further divided into a number of various companies including Unreasonable Alchemy and Unreasonable Media etc. that perform a diversity of tasks. Their mission is to become one of the best and by far the most effective platform for the social entrepreneurs.

The Unreasonable Alchemy works in association with different organizations to eradicate different challenges faced by the citizens, likes of which include lack of literacy/education or lack of safe drinking water. The representatives work in association with the selected ventures for approximately six months. During this time, the contributors share their views with the mentors and get guidance from them. In addition to that, the contributors get an opportunity to work together and create good relations with the investors.

The Unreasonable Group targets the well developed entrepreneurs with a neat experience in the field. They don’t strive for the upheaval of grass root level social entrepreneurships; but rather choose such organizations that are well set up and are ready to evolve further. “We’re not focused on working with seed and early stage companies. We’re working with entrepreneurs already doing it”, exclaimed Daniel Epstein.

The program is thoroughly global in nature covering over 30 different countries. They aspire to mark the progress of the successful ventures for complete 5 years. For example one of the recent ventures started a reading platform. It provided thousands of unique and effective assignments to the students that were willing to be educated. The students could then assess themselves with real-time contact with their teachers.

The Project Literacy Lab cares for the interests and rights of the entrepreneurs. They take care of the startup costs for them including the plane ticket. The social entrepreneurs are also provided with special residence and arrangements in a lush and lively rural area besides San Francisco. The contributors can think and work effectively in such a fresh and tranquil environment. Hence, producing better as well as more creative results throughout.

Hacking Poverty Through Mobile Tech and Social Entrepreneurship

Poverty is a great curse to humanity. The world has 7.5 billion people currently, out of which 4 billion people (that’s more than 50% of the total population) are a part of this heart-rending curse. Every year, millions and billions of variety of currencies are spent on poor lives to try to eradicate poverty. Despite of these huge numbers, the poverty in the world is desperately increasing.

The increasing population can be seen as one of the main causes of poverty on the planet. This means that as more efforts are made to wipe off poverty, more people are driven into this curse on the contrary.

1.1 billion people are unable to drink clean water. 2.5 billion people lack access to proper toilets. And there are billions of other poverty-stricken people who are suffering from hundreds of other problems.

“More people have access to mobile phones than to toilets.”

The term ‘hacking’ refers to the act of doing a very difficult task creatively and skillfully that’s considered impossible in nature. The social entrepreneurs are termed as ‘Hackers of poverty‘. They strive for a purpose to erase the problems of a society and to improve the living standards of the citizens. That is a very difficult task that the social entrepreneurs have decided to undertake. Hence, this earned them the title ‘Hacker’.

The creative and the innovative souls indulged in the business world as social entrepreneurs are looking for new ways to wipe off poverty. They utilize their skills and their knowledge of business to assist the impoverished people through loans, investments as well as credit.

Social entrepreneurs are developing new ways to enhance how energy or food is distributed among the masses. They aim to provide effective long-term solutions in communities themselves. This makes the common people in all likelihood to adopt those solutions and to strengthen over long periods of time.

The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Pope Francis motivate us to innovate. All the creativity as well as efficiency guidelines are provided. Now we have to decide whether to sit back or go out and bring revolution in a society that needs us.

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REASON BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS

Once you adapt from typical and traditional monotonous job to a risky yet innovative entrepreneurship, you have to make a choice between for-profit and non-profit. If you opt for the non-profit, you step into the boundaries of social entrepreneurship. And trust me, that is a choice you will not regret.

There are also a few people who get fired and then are forced to step into the social entrepreneurship. Even then, to our full surprise, they manage to gain a status that’s admirable and honorable in the whole society.

Social entrepreneurship is gaining excessive insight and attention from the people all around the globe, especially the youth. People are starting to believe that their business or firm has to be something more than just a money producing factory. More of the entrepreneurs are switching from for-profit to a non-profit organization because this way they can ensure that their existence means something to this world. They are not just living for themselves, but they are striving for other people so that they can bring a revolution in the society they live in.

Non-profit organization or a social entrepreneurship brings innovation. For example, there is a company who pays jobless people for its promotion. Now the company isn’t even in loss because it’s getting easier and cheaper advertisement; On the other hand, the jobless people finally have a job that they can thank the company for. This way the unemployment is prevented and the company also gets what it wanted.

If you are looking forward to becoming a great leader, you’ll have to accept the importance of social entrepreneurship. You’ll have to think radically and you’ll have to make decisions that will assist your business as well as the society. The reason is that many people are making their way to the social entrepreneurship, are progressing well and are living with the peace of mind and soul. I believe that’s what we all live for.

Indore is becoming an Entrepreneurial Hub

This coming August 20 and 21, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and IIM (Indian Institute of Management) will host the i5 Summit in Indore. This event aims to promote entrepreneurship for students, mentors and investors. The IIM student, Ankit Gulliya, is the coordinator for this event. According to Gulliya, there have been fifteen start-ups currently mentored and developed at IIM-Indore through e-Cell. Two of which will be part of the GetFunded! event during the summit.

Indore is a budding start up hub for investors and entrepreneurs. Many investors can see so much potential in the city. Indore has been known for its flourishing manufacturing businesses and being the commercial capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh. It has been catching up with the start-up industry as well. Some investors cite the advantages of having their business in Indore as having lower rental costs and easily finding potential talents among its young entrepreneurs. What may be considered as a great challenge for start-up entrepreneurs like WittyFeed’s co-founder, Vinay Singhal, is building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Indore. Singhal has collaborated with other entrepreneurs in creating startup community networks for entrepreneurs and investors. Some of this start up community networks includes Indore Start-up Community and Indore Entrepreneurship Network. This helps connect entrepreneurs and allow them to share their ideas that investors will find significant. Through these networks, investors are able to scout for start-ups eligible for seed funding and potential entrepreneurs for mentorship. These networks will also address the need of aspiring entrepreneurs like Gulliya in capital acquisition.

Anand Govindaluri who founded Govin Capital in Singapore will join other investors at the i5 Summit to select outstanding business plans that will need funding. Investors like Govindaluri along with other entrepreneurs will continue to push the start-up industry of Indore forward. Indore is indeed about to witness the rise of entrepreneurship in its midst.