Sankalp 2010 : Social Enterprise Awards & Investment Forum
Tuesday March 30, 2010 , 2 min Read
The Sankalp 2010 Awards and Investment Forum is an annual Intellecap initiative committed to catalyzing entrepreneurship in the social enterprise space.YourStory is the media partner for this event.
Sankalp actively facilitates collaboration between established and budding entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders and sector stakeholders interested in contributing effectively towards this fledgling yet fast-growing industry.
The Sankalp 2010 Awards and Investment Forum will be held on the 4-5 of May 2010 in Mumbai.
Venue: Hotel Taj Lands End,
Mumbai, India
Why Attend Sankalp?
- India's largest gathering of more than 400 social innovators, impact investors, policy leaders and change makers
- Focuses on 5 key growth sectors - Agriculture, Food and Rural Business, Inclusive Education, Health, Water, and Sanitation, Clean Energy, Technology for Development
- Recognizes India's top 10 highly investment-worthy and innovative social enterprises
- Excellent knowledge sharing and networking opportunity through dynamic workshops, panel discussions and investor-entrepreneur interactions
With a strong focus on double bottom (social and commercial) enterprises Sankalp, in its second edition, aims to accelerate investment in this space through the showcase of pioneering, sustainable and innovative enterprises capable of long term social impact.
Sankalp's primary goal is of bringing together various stakeholders sharing a common conviction that capital should be invested to create multiple bottom-line returns (financial, social and environmental) and not exclusively financial (profit-maximizing) or social (philanthropic) returns. Thus having successfully established a niche for itself; Sankalp has taken the lead in recognizing those businesses that have mastered the balancing act between the profit and social objectives.
Sankalp 2010 Forum and Awards shall recognize, award and connect the most investible social MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium enterprises) operating in 5 high impact sectors:
- Agriculture, Food & Rural Business
- Clean Energy
- Inclusive Education
- Health, Water & Sanitation, and
- Technology for Development
As India's exclusive Social Enterprise and Investment Forum, Sankalp will provide the following:
As India's exclusive Social Enterprise and Investment Forum, Sankalp will provide the following:
A. An opportunity for entrepreneurs to:
- Meet, interact and connect with a host of international and national impact investors.
- Showcase their business and the social returns it is capable of creating.
- Learn and interact with fellow entrepreneurs and peers.
- Gauge investor needs and requirements.
- Realize and share the different models emerging within sectors of their interest.
- Formulate strategic tie ups for capacity building and mentorship support.
- Embark on new partnerships.
B. A space for investors to:
- Understand and access emerging sectors for investment.
- Identify channels to co-invest and form deal flow networks.
- Facilitate much needed deal flows.
- Further understand Impact Investing.
