Muhammad Yunus

A Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Ask for the list of the most committed and sincere social entrepreneur, the first name you’re likely to encounter is Muhammad Yunus. He is an economist, Bangladeshi banker and also the great Nobel Prize recipient. As an economist lecturer he developed and popularized the concepts of microcredit and microfinance and also shared this information through books. He is the founder of the Grameen bank, a bank that lends micro credit to those in need to help them grow and develop financially. This organization was founded in 1983, and it has brought in income more than $10 million, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 2006.

Blake Mycoskie

Founder of TOMS

Mycosike founded TOMS in 2006 after a short visit to Argentina, where he learnt that many children get injured or fall sick because they do not have shoes to wear, thus he founded TOMS. It was a business that donated a pair of shoes to the needy people for every pair that is brought. This concept became popular and spread like wildfire. So far Mycoskie managed to donate over a million pairs of shoes. His idea of business and service together has helped many poor and needy children. In 2011, the company launched another initiative which aims to sell a pair of glasses or give away sight saving surgery for every pair of glasses or shades been sold.