05/02/2017
Subject: Invitation for Millennium Alliance Round-5 Grant Challenge, workshop for Indian Innovations on 2/18/2017, at T-Hub, IIIT-H Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032.
The Millennium Alliance (MA) was founded in 2012 by the Technology Development Board (TDB), Government of India; US Agency for International Development (USAID); and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as a platform to identify, test, and scale innovations which bring improvements at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) level.
The MA takes a unique innovation-driven and impact-focused approach to development. It responds to a wave of entrepreneurship which brings creative and innovative solutions to entrenched social problems. As a network, MA aims to bring together various actors within India's social innovation ecosystem including, but not limited to, social innovators, philanthropy organizations, social venture capitalists, angel investors, donors, service providers, and corporate foundations, to stimulate and facilitate financial and non-financial contributions from the private and public sectors in support of development innovation.
The Alliance intended to provide innovators Grant of - Rs. 30.00 Lakhs to Rs. 1.00 Cr based on certain parameters, along with a range of services such as seed funding, grants, incubation and accelerator services, networking opportunities, business support services, knowledge exchange, technical assistance and facilitates access to equity, debt and other capital.
About the Workshop :
The Millennium Alliance Innovation Awards is currently in its 5th round, for each round the Millennium Alliance has been conducting Innovation Workshops across the country. The outcome & expectation from such workshops is to connect with innovators directly or indirectly through their business associates peers and well-wishers. The Millennium Alliance proposes to award and aid in promotion of select innovations. Around 100 Social Enterprises from different sectors have benefitted from the Alliance in the past 4 years for projects to implement in India and also for replication of Indian Innovation in the developing countries. Innovations in the following sectors are identified and awarded:
Education
Water and Sanitation
Health
Agriculture/ Food Security
Clean Energy / Climate Change
Others
More details about the MA Awards, Focus sectors and the Alliance can be found on the website http://www.millenniumalliance.in/
It will be wonderful if you would find time out of your busy schedule and attend the event. Also, it will be great if you could spread awareness among your staff about the workshop so that they can benefit from this interaction.
You may also spread awareness about the programme among emerging Innovators who would like to bring their innovations to world-stage, professionals who have access to innovators, entrepreneurs, or employees and colleagues from your institution who are curious to learn more about the innovation scenario in the country.
The Millennium Alliance proposes to award and aid in promotion of selected innovations. More details can be found on the website www.millenniumalliance.in. We look forward to your support for this event. Should you want to connect to us, Call on 040 - 39594909 (10:00 am to 06:00 pm) on all days to leave your name and number or write us to [email protected].
Kindly note that Participation is FREE and by prior confirmation only.
Registration can be done online as well at : Click Here
Warm regards,
Millennium Alliance Support Team
The Millennium Alliance (MA) is an inclusive platform to leverage Indian creativity, expertise, and resources to identify and scale innovative solutions being developed and tested in India to address development challenges that will benefit base of the pyramid populations across India...