Millennium Alliance Roadshow with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad

Name: Millennium Alliance Roadshow with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad
Start: 2019-08-24T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2019-08-24T19:30:00+05:30
Location: CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad

Happened

Saturday, 24 August 2019, 6 pm - 7:30 pm

CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

About

Today we'll be hosting the 'Millennium Alliance Roadshow with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad' at CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad from 6 pm to 7.30 pm. Millennium Alliance Team will be in Ahmedabad today to interact with founders from Ahmedabad. We will also be joined by Hunny Bhagchandani, Founder, Torch It who got the funding support from Millenium Alliance to share his experiences and how founders can leverage this platform. Register on Meetup page to confirm your participation. About Millenium Alliance. To ensure that the benefits of innovation percolate to the population at bottom of the pyramid, FICCI jointly with the Technology Development Board and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Millennium Alliance (MA) Program in 2011. For the first time, an Alliance was forged as an innovation partnership for Global Development focusing on important sectors including Health, Basic Education, Water and Sanitation, Food Security/Agriculture and Clean Energy. UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), ICCO Cooperation, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth, World Bank Group and Facebook have now joined to scale the platform. A $25 million fund has been set up for testing and demonstrating the success of Indian innovations in terms of concrete development outcomes for the base of the pyramid populations in India, South Asia and Africa. 86 social enterprises have been supported so far under the programme with a funding support of over Rs. 60 crores. 12 of these social enterprises are being supported for replication of their projects in Kenya, Nepal, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Uganda, Rwanda and Afghanistan. Web: <a href="http://www.millenniumalliance.in" class="linkified">http://www.millenniumalliance.in</a> .... CALL FOR APPLICATIONS MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE ROUND 6 INSPIRING INNOVATION ǀ SHARING SOLUTIONS The Millennium Alliance (MA) calls for applications from social entrepreneurs who have developed innovative solutions addressing development challenges that will benefit base of the pyramid populations across India and the world. The Alliance is inviting applications under the following two stages: Stage 1: Piloting or testing an innovation Stage 1 funding is intended to support product development and to test the real-world viability of an innovation. Projects may conduct a pilot or other validation of the innovation. They should depart from current practices, be cost effective and must have already established a proof-of-concept. Idea stage projects are not eligible for an MA award. Stage 1 awardees receive funding up to Rs. 30 Lakh grant, out of which Rs 10 Lakh is strictly earmarked for capacity building. Stage 2: Scaling or replicating an innovation which has been successfully piloted Stage 2 funding supports large-scale implementation of solutions that have demonstrated success at a pilot or small-scale stage. Stage 2 awardees will receive a grant of up to Rs. 1 Crore at most depending on the project stage, merit and needs out of which Rs. 10 Lakh is earmarked for capacity building. Focus Sectors: Basic Education (specifically early grade reading) Health (specifically family planning & reproductive health and maternal & child health) Agriculture Clean Energy Water & Sanitation Other Sectors The Alliance provides innovators with services such as grants, accelerator services, networking opportunities, business support services, knowledge exchange and technical assistance and will facilitate access to equity, debt and other capital. Know more and apply at: www.millenniumalliance.in Last date to apply: August 30, 2019 For any queries, please contact us at - Email: [masked]

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

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Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.