SANKALP FORUM
ENTERPRENEURSHIP/SOCIAL
SANKALP
FORUM AND (DFID) UKAID
ANNOUNCES 5 LAC
GRANT TO
WOMEN ENTERPRISES
LAST
DATE FOR ENTRIES IS 23RD MARCH
For the second year running, Sankalp Forum and DFID (UKAID) are
offering an INR 5 lakh cash grant and an opportunity to be funded by Samriddhi
Fund - a social venture fund managed by SIDBI in collaboration with DFID.
The DFID Samriddhi-Sankalp
Recognition for Women Empowerment cash grant is for social enterprises that are
either founded/managed by women entrepreneurs or are focused on providing
solutions that improve the quality of life of women and young girls.
Applications for the Recognition are open till March 23, and winners will be
announced at the Sankalp Unconvention Summit – the world’s largest Social
Enterprise event, on April 17, 2013.
Aparajita Agarwal, Director
Initiatives at Intellecap, the organisers of Sankalp says, “ The finalists of
the recognition will receive access to strategic mentoring from sector experts,
connections to other impact investors, and the opportunity to present their business
to a global audience of more than 1000 delegates at the Summit. “
Last year, the recognition was jointly won by
two enterprises – both at the cutting edge of innovation and need. Vindhya e-infomedia, a socio-economic venture run by a
first-generation woman entrepreneur, is India’s only for-profit organization that
only employs people with disabilities (PWD’s) as its production staff. The
joint winner - Sukrut System’s manufactures a “Silent Observer” - a non-invasive
device installed on sonography machines to check female foeticide.
More information on the DFID Samridhi-Sankalp Recognition for Women Empowerment 2013
is available on sankalpforum.com. Last date of application is March 23, 2013.
The awards will be given away at the Sankalp Forum.
About
Sankalp Forum
Sankalp Forum (www.sankalpforum.com), an Intellecap
initiative, recognizes & supports innovative, sustainable, high impact
social enterprises. It builds an enabling ecosystem for early-stage businesses,
channels impact investments, and engages over 11,000 stakeholders globally
through collaborative year-round initiatives. It has developed an involved
community of entrepreneurs, investors, enablers and policy-makers to encourage
innovation, facilitate scalability, and drive consensus on matters that aid
social enterprise development.
Since 2009, Sankalp’s Annual Summit has been the
largest social enterprise focused gathering in the world and in 2013 has
partnered with Villgro’s Unconvention to become the Sankalp Unconvention
Summit. The Summit brings together more than 1,000 delegates, thought leaders,
industry experts, policy makers from around the world to voice, discuss, debate
issues, trends and solutions that aid social enterprise development.
For more information http://sankalpforum.com/
About
Department For International Development (DFID)
DFID leads the UK
government’s fight against world poverty.DFID
works with national and international partners to eliminate global poverty and
its causes, as part of the UN ‘Millennium Development Goals’. DFID also
responds to overseas emergencies. Since its creation, DFID has helped more than
250 million people lift themselves from poverty and helped 40 million more children
to go to primary school.
In India DFID Focuses on
the poorest people in India's low income states Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and
Orissa, putting women and girls at the heart of their work, investing in girls'
education, access to finance, skills and low carbon energy, safe birth,
children's health, nutrition and sanitation. DFID believes strongly in the
private sector's potential to combat poverty through pro-poor enterprises that
deliver jobs, products, infrastructure and basic services to 2 $ a day customers.
For more information http://www.dfid.gov.uk/
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