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Key people at Connecting Dreams Foundation-SRCC.
Connecting Dreams Foundation-SRCC is a Delhi, India-based non-profit organization operating out of Shri Ram College of Commerce that utilizes a systemic entrepreneurship model to address community-based Sustainable Development Goal challenges. The broader organization operates across 37 countries, having developed a network of over 24,000 changemakers to implement sustainable social initiatives for underprivileged and specially-abled demographics. Through its various operational programs, the foundation has impacted approximately 2.6 million lives globally and established a strategic target to connect 10 million SDG dreams by the year 2025. The SRCC chapter specifically focuses on college-led social entrepreneurship initiatives, managing notable community efforts and partnerships such as Project Aarogya, the Dream Library, and the India Co-Win Action Network. The parent organization was originally founded in 2012 by Dr. Amit Tuteja, with the specific SRCC chapter officially established in 2014.
Key people at Connecting Dreams Foundation-SRCC.
Connecting Dreams Foundation-SRCC (CDF-SRCC) is the SRCC chapter of the pan-India non-profit Connecting Dreams Foundation, a Section 8 company under the Companies Act, 1956, focused on social entrepreneurship to empower underprivileged communities, especially in rural India.[1][2][4] Established as a youth-led student initiative at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), it bridges urban-rural gaps through sustainable business models addressing education, healthcare, livelihood, women empowerment, sanitation, and cultural revival, with 6 successful projects including ongoing efforts in menstrual hygiene, terracotta pottery revival, micro-pollution, waste management, and more.[1][2][4] Ranked #1 among chapters for the last 5 years, it has 50-200 employees/volunteers and generates 1M-5M in revenue impact through social ventures.[1][3]
CDF-SRCC was established in 2014 as a branch of the national Connecting Dreams Foundation at SRCC, Delhi, evolving as a student-driven society within the college's ecosystem of over 20 clubs and cells.[1][2][4] Inspired by the spirit of social entrepreneurship, it emerged to create positive societal change by developing models that empower the underprivileged and specially abled, starting with on-ground initiatives that quickly gained traction—winning the Hult Prize on SRCC campus, reaching global accelerator finals in Dhaka, and topping competitions like IIT Kanpur's Upstart and Hansraj's Socioquest.[1] Key early projects tackled real-world issues like waste flower incense production with Prabhat NGO, providing jobs to women, and reviving fading arts like terracotta pottery, building momentum through research and collaborations.[1][2]
While not a traditional tech firm, CDF-SRCC rides the wave of social impact tech and sustainable development trends in India's startup ecosystem, where youth-led ventures leverage low-tech innovations like waste-to-value models (e.g., flower incense) to address UN SDGs on poverty, gender equality, and clean water.[1][2] Timing aligns with India's rural revitalization push post-2014, amplified by government schemes for social enterprises and rising student entrepreneurship in top colleges like SRCC, influencing the ecosystem by inspiring hybrid models that blend college networks with scalable non-profits.[1][4] It counters urban bias in tech by proving rural-focused, bootstrapped initiatives can achieve national rankings and global recognition, paving the way for edtech, healthtech, and cleantech hybrids in social startups.[2]
CDF-SRCC is poised to expand its waste management research into full-fledged social tech ventures, potentially integrating AI for supply chain optimization in rural crafts or hygiene distribution, fueled by SRCC's talent pipeline and national CDF network.[1][2] Trends like ESG investing and government-backed social stock exchanges will amplify its models, evolving it from campus chapter to pan-India impact leader—watch for deeper tech infusions to scale beyond current projects. This youth-driven force exemplifies how college initiatives can spark enduring rural transformation, tying back to its core mission of connecting dreams through actionable change.[1][4]
