Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
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: Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Gurgaon, New Delhi NCR, NH8, Sector 83, Gurugram,
Haryana 122004, India
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:40 PM
Time Session
Page 1
Panel: Fostering Incubator - Corporate Partnerships
In todays 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.
Registration
INR 1800 (Inclusive of Taxes) with networking dinner
Please visit www.indiacsrsummit.in for online registration or go to payumoney page here
https://www.payumoney.com/events/#/buyTickets/impact-talks-2017
You can also find us on www.meraevents.com
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.
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.
Page 2
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 Indias 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
www.indiacsrsummit.in
Page 3