Impact Talks-CSR for Social Enterprises

Impact Talks | India CSR Summit 2017 I Hosted by Villgro, Co-Hosted by NGOBox 

About 

Incubators play a critical role in nurturing start-ups and social enterprises. Although there are approximately 200 incubators in India, the boom in start-ups and social enterprises has fuelled a demand for incubator support with estimates placing the demand at 1,000 incubators by 2020. 

In addition to recent Government priorities such as Startup and Make in India promotion, the recent Companies Act (2014) permits funding to Government approved Incubators as a CSR activity. These factors combined make a strong case for corporate participation in supporting incubators and enabling social enterprises. 

In light of this, Villgro and NGOBox will host the following sessions that aim to bring to focus the journey and impact of social entrepreneurs, and how incubators and corporates can help them succeed. The India CSR Summit 2017 provides an ideal platform as the largest forum for CSR thought leadership and partnerships by  setting the  context for discussing various aspects of incubation support to enterprises, especially, technology-related ventures.

Agenda 

Date: 18th September, 2017 

Venue: Hyatt Regency Gurgaon, New Delhi NCR, NH8, Sector 83, Gurugram, Haryana 122004, India 

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM 

8.45Pm onward: Networking dinner

Panel: Fostering Incubator - Corporate Partnerships 

In today’s world, Corporates are increasingly looking for innovative programs and interventions to impact the underserved and reduce inequality. Social enterprises are a perfect fit as they implement innovative solutions to serve the marginalised communities. Incubators play an integral role in inspiring, unearthing, nurturing, providing access to resources and supporting such social enterprises to make them scalable and sustainable. Corporates can help social enterprises is a numerous areas such as bringing business, sector and technical mentorship, access to potential customers, networks, among others. These factors  make for great new opportunities for collaborations between Corporates and Incubators that can greatly strengthen the Startup Ecosystem and thereby accelerate innovations that can be leveraged for the greater good.  

The session will bring together Corporates and Incubators to share their perspectives, drivers and experiences to evolve models for partnership in the coming future.

Fireside Chat: Impact and Social Entrepreneurship 

Social entrepreneurship is the buzzword today! With the boom in such enterprises, this session aims to bring together a group of selected entrepreneurs who are creating significant social impact on the ground and to hear from them about their service and product offerings in  fields such as  education, health and agriculture, among others. The scope of the session is to walk through the journey of these entrepreneurs and to discover how incubators and corporates can deepen their support and collaborate with social enterprises. It will also touch up on the relation between incubators, investors and these enterprises and what more is needed to support the same in India.

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About Villgro 

Founded in 2001, Villgro is India's oldest social enterprise incubator. Villgro supports innovative enterprises that solve critical issues faced by the poor through market-based models. Villgro funds, mentors, provides resources and networks to social enterprises in sectors such as education, skills training, health, agriculture, energy, among others. 

Villgro is a Technology Business Incubator (TBI) approved by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Villgro has incubated over 130 social enterprises, many of which have gone on to generate around 4,000 jobs, secure 119.5 cr in follow-on funding, and touch over 15 million underprivileged lives. They include the first private weather forecasting company in India, the first non-invasive anemia testing company, the first rural Business Process Outsourcing Unit (BPO), the first village level milk chiller company etc. Villgro has global presence in Kenya, Vietnam and Philippines, with others in the pipeline. 

Some of our past and current donors include Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services, Marico Innovations Foundation, Godrej Properties, Mphasis Limited, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Lemelson Foundation, The Citi Foundation, Government of India, among others. For more on our work, please visit www.villgro.org. 

About NGOBox

As a development sector platform NGOBOX has created a buzz by providing low-cost solutions to organizations for their outreach-plan, recruitment, event-advertising, networking and campaigning. From job announcements to event planning, marketing to emailers, NGOBOX has been delivering services to a wide range of organizations. Our clients-list includes Tata Steel, NASSCOM Foundation, WHO-India, UNICEF, WWF-India, IIM-B, NMIMS, United Way of Mumbai, SPJIMR, SaveLIFE, AKRSP etc. 

We are the host of India’s largest CSR event ‘India CSR Summit and Exhibition’. NGOBOX.org was nominated for ‘the Website of the Year’ Award in the ‘Education and Public Domain’ category in 2013. Our research work on CSR in India has been helping both companies and CSR implementing agencies to get insights of CSR developments in India. We have offices in Gurgaon and Ahmedabad. For more information, please visit www.ngobox.org