Sankalp Awards 2014: Applications Open

India’s leading social enterprise honors are back in their 6^th year to discover and showcase innovative early-stage businesses that create social impact.

Mumbai: The world’s largest social enterprise focused platform, Sankalp Forum announces the launch of the 6^th edition of Sankalp Awards to recognize high-impact businesses in the following categories:

1. Agriculture, Food and Livelihoods
2. Clean Energy / Clean Technology
3. Financial Inclusion
4. Education / Vocational Training
5. Health, Water and Sanitation &
6. Technology for Development
7. Women Empowerment

Aparajita Agrawal, Director – Sankalp Forum, said, “Sankalp Award winners have demonstrated the ability to combine innovation and an astute spirit of entrepreneurship to create affordable access to basic facilities where they don’t exist. And more crucially, they’ve leveraged the support that we have offered to create robust business models, and scale.”

Enterprises stand to gain: 

• Cash grant incentives and pro-bono business services 
• Opportunity to raise angel funding up to INR 5 Cr through India's first angel network for Impact (I3N) and access debt funding at preferred rates from IntelleGrow, a venture debt fund
• Opportunity to make an investment pitch to leaders from global financial institutions and investment houses like USAID, DFID, Artha Platform, Aavishkaar, Omnivore Partners, Seedfund and many more

Application deadline: 20th November 2013

For more details, click here: http://www.sankalpforum.com/awards2014/

To apply, click here:  https://fs16.formsite.com/SankalpForum/SankalpAwards/secure_index.html

About Sankalp Forum:

Sankalp Forum, 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 mobilizes a community of entrepreneurs, investors, enablers and policy-makers to encourage innovation, facilitate scalability, and drive consensus on matters that aid social enterprise development.

Sankalp’s Annual Summit is the largest social enterprise focused gathering in the world, and in 2013 it partnered with 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

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