The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) India, an initiative supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which helps social entrepreneurs to start a social impact project, invited investors to raise funds for 16 entrepreneurs at the Social Impact Funding Forum i2i — ‘Invest to Impact’ in Gurgaon on December 12. The event aimed to empower social entrepreneurs by giving them an opportunity to pitch for and raise funds/grants to conduct projects, and move from these to formal operations.
The investment panel comprising of institutional impact investors, individual impact investors, HNIs, CSR organisations, philanthropists, donor agencies and venture capitalists. The event was also well attended by representatives from UNDP, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Asha Impact, IIT Kanpur, and Ambedkar University Delhi, among others.
SSE India had launched a nine-month fellowship programme in April 2016 aiming to address inequalities and social exclusion by supporting social entrepreneurs to transform their talent into real social outcomes, through sustainable solutions to poverty and disadvantaged communities. Their projects are oriented around health, education, livelihood, agriculture and sanitation. Young and enthusiastic people advocate and work for issues such as skill development, access to healthcare, mobile healthcare and others.
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