Nominations Invited for India’s largest Social Enterprise & Investment Forum

Feb. 11, 2009 - PRLog -- Mumbai, India – The deadline for nominations for the Sankalp Awards is the 15th of February, 2009. The Awards, currently supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, NABARD, and Rural Innovations Network (RIN), will showcase entrepreneurs and corporates with a clear business model in the following five sectors: agriculture and rural innovation, education, clean energy, healthcare, and other highly scalable social models.

Sankalp 2009 (www.sankalpforum.com), India’s largest Social Enterprise and Investment Forum, will take place on the 28th of April, 2009 and will be attended by approximately 500 investors (domestic and international), wealth-managers, entrepreneurs, bankers, policy makers, and other members of the ecosystem. The Sankalp Awards will take place at this event.  A total of 15 enterprises will be recognized in the above-mentioned sectors across three categories. The three categories represent different stages of an enterprise: emerging, high-growth, and high impact i.e. those that have achieved significant scale and impact.

Enterprises interested in participating are requested to send a three page executive summary (excluding cover page) to info@sankalpforum.com by the 15th of February, 2009. The executive summary should include:
i.   Description of the enterprise or idea
ii.   Overview of product(s) and/or service(s)
iii.   Brief profile of key people involved
iv.   Market analysis (including geography of operations and market competition)
v.   Current status of the enterprise
vi.   Enterprise goals for next 3 years

Further detail on the submission process is available online at www.sankalpforum.com

Organized by India Develoment Gateway (an Intellecap incubation), the Sankalp Awards promise to become an annual national-level event. The competition will not only identify businesses with high potential for investment, but will also provide a platform to explore emerging ideas, new markets, and new ways of investing. While giving the feel of a realistic investment process, Sankalp will also expose entrepreneurs to a bouquet of services that will help ready their ventures for strategic investment.

For further queries, details, or information, please contact:
The Sankalp Team: info@sankalpforum.com
Rashmi Pillai: +91 22 40359204
Devin McIntire / Sujatha Muthayya: +91 40 40300200
Website: www.sankalpforum.com

About IDG & Intellecap
The India Development Gateway (IDG), an Intellecap incubation, aims at collapsing transaction costs for businesses by improving entrepreneur interaction with an emerging class of investors. Intellecap, established in 2002, is one of the fastest growing social advisory firms in the International Development sector. Intellecap aims to build intellectual capital dedicated to facilitating investments into socially motivated businesses and to assist these businesses in becoming more profitable and achieving greater scale through consulting and advisory inputs.
For more information about Intellecap, please visit www.intellecap.net

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Established in 2002, Intellecap is one of the fastest growing strategic consulting services firm in the international development sector.
For more information about Intellecap, please visit www.intellecap.net