One month after the world’s largest social enterprise gathering came together at the Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013, a presentation of some of the highlights, some of the big ideas and some of the bold opinions follows below the picture blog. And don’t forget, the dates for the next Summit have already been announced. Block your [...]
21 / 5 / 2013
In the upcoming Sankalp Forum, East and South-East Asia will be well represented by a panel of organisations committed to helping scale innovation and social enterprise. While the projections of the 2013 GIIN-JP Morgan report are cause for optimism, these regions suffer from the usual industry challenges: a nascent pipeline and a general disconnect between [...]
12 / 4 / 2013
Sankalp Unconvention Summit is just round the corner and the theme is Looking Beyond Impact: Seeking Transformational Change. After a successful tweetchat last week to get the dialog started, we are organizing a Google Hangout to feed into another track in the Summit - Incubating the Incubators: Developing an Effective Framework for Change. Details: When: April 12, Friday, 4 [...]
10 / 4 / 2013
We have all been watching closely as Social Enterprises have been at work addressing some of the most pressing problems that we have as a society and country. We’ve seen them walk the tightrope between maximizing impact and social sustainability while being sustainable themselves. But since impact is at the heart of what these enterprises do [...]
4 / 4 / 2013
Are the answers to a new model of capitalism in the margins? Are there insights and lessons in the nascent and little known worlds of social enterprise and impact investing? Those are questions we’re bringing to this year’s Sankalp Summit, but we also want to know what yours are. Join us in a live Twitter [...]
18 / 3 / 2012
We’re pleased to bring ennovent on board as a partner for the Sankalp Summit 2012. This partnership will bring together synergies that will benefit the ecosystem of social entrepreneurship in India. Sankalp Awards 2012 finalists will get access to ennovent’s Impact Circle, an exclusive network of investors who want to accelerate innovations for sustainability at [...]
18 / 3 / 2012
Access to Finance, Capacity Building, Sankalp Partner, Sankalp Summit
The global economy is a system in crisis. The UN estimates that the three richest people in the world possess more financial assets than the poorest 48 nations combined. Around the world, individuals and communities are demanding that capitalism be redefined. A Deloitte ‘Millenials Survey‘ in early 2012 asked 1000 millenials and 390 business leaders [...]
18 / 3 / 2012
Journeys for Change, in partnership with The Sankalp Forum, is organizing a unique 3-day immersive journey to visit some of Mumbai’s most exciting social enterprises, designed to inspire participants to create greater profit and impact in their work.
13 / 3 / 2012
The Sankalp Summit is excited to collaborate with noNasties a 100% organic, fair trade and designer clothing brand. The Mumbai based start-up is teaming up with the Sankalp Summit to create customized t-shirts for the 31 finalist Sankalp entrepreneurs who will get together at the Sankalp Bootcamp on March 9 and 10 at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, and will then go on to pitch to the Sankalp Grand Jury at the upcoming Sankalp Summit on April 12-13.
2 / 3 / 2012
Social enterprise empowers the Bottom of the Pyramid by engaging them into the market as suppliers and consumers of goods and services. Unlike other interactions with the Bottom of the Pyramid, that prescribe policy from the top-down, social enterprise is a bottom-up approach to alleviating poverty. As a consequence of market feedback mechanisms, today’s SMEs [...]
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