The Alternative Oct 3, 2013

India’s leading social enterprise honors are back in their 6th 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 6th edition of Sankalp Awards to recognize high-impact businesses in the following categories:

– Agriculture, Food and Livelihoods
– Clean Energy / Clean Technology
– Financial Inclusion
– Education / Vocational Training
– Health, Water and Sanitation &
– Technology for Development
– 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.”

Since their inception, the Awards have sourced over 450 sustainable enterprises, enabled 200 mentoring connections and facilitated over USD 120Mn of equity investments.