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CNBC Awaaz’s Entrepreneur met Intellecap’s Chairman Vineet Rai, Unltd’s Pooja Warrier and Omnivore Partners’ Jinesh Shah at Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013.

Mumbai is playing host to The Sankalp Forum from April 16-18. It brings together social enterprises that are geared towards building solutions for an under-served population. View full article

As part of Sankalp Forum’s continuing efforts to showcase high-impact social enterprises to Indian and global media, CNBC Awaaz’s show Entrepreneur met Sankalp winner from the Health, Water and Sanitation sector Banka BioLoo. The episode focused on enterprises providing sanitation services. Banka BioLoo stood out as a company that offers unique and cost effective solutions […]

Sankalp Enterprise Nav Durga Metal Industries featured in Economic Times for creating cooking solutions for the country’s BoP and providing cheap and affordable biomass fuel for the disenfranchised. View full article

Nearly 1,000 members of the impact investing community congregated at the Sankalp Unconvention 2013 last week. The fact that this industry has grown so rapidly is anecdotally visible in the turnout at this event – while one would expect social enterprises and investing funds; the breadth of representation from other players was impressive: from incubators, […]

This year’s Sankalp Forum, coyly named the “Unconvention Summit” after its link up with Villgro, had a heavy focus on impact investing. Sessions ranged from ways to encourage more angel investment in India, to innovations in financing social enterprises and approaches to align donors’ agendas in fostering the sector. But an important undercurrent to the […]

Competing for the Sankalp-Artha Grand Prize Award are enterprises that together form a vibrant mix of companies looking to solve important grassroot problems, from ‘bio-breaks’ to ‘honey traps’ and more. At the Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013, startups in the space compete not just for recognition and cash prizes but also to catch the eye of […]

The Annual Sankalp Summit is being held in Mumbai and we spoke to the director and co-founder of this first global platform, Aparajita Agrawal Sankalp Forum is the first platform globally that has social enterprises at its core and under its activities they organise the Annual Sankalp Summit in Mumbai. This summit sees participation from […]

‘Sankalp Forum’ one of the world’s largest aggregation of social enterprises beings in Mumbai, april 16’th. The Sankalp Forum brings together impact based social enterprises that are geared towards building solutions for an under-served population. These are enterprises that work across India to create impact – in the areas of healthcare, education,clean energy (renewable), technology […]

Young Turks, over the past eight years, showcased entrepreneurs attempting to address real problems in education, healthcare, skills development and access to finance through innovative models. The show partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation to recognize social change agents via the India Social Entrepreneur Awards for the last eight years. This […]