INTRODUCTION TO JEROO BILLIMORIA

Jeroo Billimoria (born 20 July 1965) is a social entrepreneur and the

founder of several international NGOs. Her approach to managing
social ventures and bringing them to global scale has earned her
fellowships with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, the Skoll
Foundation and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Additionally, her work has been featured in Business Week,[1] The
Economist[2][3] and several books.[4][5][6] Her most recent initiatives
include Aflatoun (Child Savings International), Childline India
Foundation and Child Helpline International. Currently, she serves as
the founder and managing director of Child and Youth Finance
International (CYFI).
Under Billimoria's leadership, CYFI has worked with 91
governments to create national initiatives for Economic
Citizenship Education and Financial Inclusion, and aided
the addition of financial inclusion and economic
citizenship education in the UN's Sustainable
Development Goals . CYFI acts as a technical partner in
the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion
(GPFI).
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
In 1989 Billimoria travelled for a six months before going back to Tata Institute
of Social Sciences and there becoming an instructor. A number of her
graduate students were placed as social workers in Bombay's shelters.
When Billmoria visited them, she found herself drawn to the children. Out
of compassion and concern, she started giving out her home number – to
be used in case of an emergency, but soon she was receiving calls on a
daily basis. As she became aware of the need for an organisation which
could co-ordinate the multiple children's agencies in Bombay to efficiently
and quickly contact and assist the children, she tried to persuade these
services to work with each other. After several failed attempts and having
found very little enthusiasm for the idea, she decided to drop her
convincing labour..
BACKGROUND
Billimoria was born in Mumbai, India to an accountant and a social
worker. Raised in a family strongly committed to social service,
her father's early death caused her to dedicate herself to social
causes.[7] Billimoria received a Bachelor of Commerce from
the University of Mumbai (formerly the University of Bombay)
in 1986, an M.A. in Social Work from India's Tata Institute of
Social Sciences in 1988 and an M.S. in Non-Profit Management
from the New School for Social Research University in New
York in 1992. From 1991 to 1999, she was a professor at the Tata
Institute of Social Sciences.
RECOGNITION AND AWARDS
• Billimoria is listed as #4 in the 2015 edition of “De Dikke Blauwe Top 100”
Philanthropy Year Guide.
• Billimoria is ranked 3rd in the charity and non-profit category of Opzij's Top 100
Influential Women 2015.
• CYFI listed among Global Journal's Top 100 NGOs (2015) and highlighted as "Most
Promising New NGO" (2013).
• Schwab Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs.
• 2012 Outstanding Social Entrepreneur.
• Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
• One of the Phoenix 50 for her work with Aflatoun
• Union of Arab Banks Award for her work with CYF.
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MRS. VINEETA AGARWAL

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ISHAN CHUGH