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Social Entrepreneurship Forum with Khemka Foundation
December 8-9, 2009

The Acumen Fund, Dasra, the Centre for the Advancement for Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Duke University at the  Fuqua School of Business, The Centre for Emerging Markets (CEMS) at the Indian School of Business, The IFMR Trust, The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, The Indus Entrepreneurs(TiE) and The Nabha Foundation come together under a ‘big tent’ to convene the first ‘Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship’. Planned as an annual event, the Forum will serve as a dynamic hub of thought leadership, linkages and robust solutions exchange and over time strengthen the ecosystem of social entrepreneurship. With a focus on ‘Scaling Up and Building Sustainability,’ of social change models, the first Forum is being convened on December 8-9, 2009 at ISB with the active support from the Ford Foundation and the Global Partnership for Youth Investment at the World Bank.
The Forum  seeks to promote strategies and solutions that address key barriers to scale and allow for dramatic acceleration of innovative social change models. With India clearly as its sole focus,  the objective is to build a community of practitioners and supporters, and deepen the work of social entrepreneurs.
The Forum aims:
  • To begin a long-overdue effort of building an 'ecosystem' of social entrepreneurship in India, by bringing into one setting the players and champions who can deliver this – social entrepreneurs and investors, government and media, academic institutions and philanthropists, and thought leaders.  
  • To deliver short term 'wins' ranging from consultancy clinics (eg: legal frameworks governing social entrepreneurial ventures in India or how to make your organisation investment-ready) to practical 'takeaways' such as good practices and knowledge products. To identify pathways for cooperation through working groups on education, health, renewable energy and sustainable agriculture.
  • To dive deep into tracks that social entrepreneurs and investors have identified as the four overriding priorities: 
    - Financial Capital
    - Intellectual and Human Capital
    - Performance Metrics
    - Partnering with Government
 
 
 

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