India is booming. Yet poverty, lack of education and health issues remain for hundreds of millions of people across the country.
UnLtd India is built on a belief that individuals - not necessarily the government nor the established NGO sector - can bring critical new ideas, energy and resources that are needed to solve these problems. We call these people social entrepreneurs.
How we make a difference
UnLtd India works with start-up social entrepreneurs to help them grow as leaders and create high-impact, sustainable organisations ready for scaling and further investment.
We do this through providing:
- Seed funding, to pay for critical early start-up costs and to support the entrepreneur as they take their organisation to a sustainable level
- Hands-on coaching & training, covering business & financial planning, fundraising, legal structures, governance, marketing and HR management
- High-value connections, linking our entrepreneurs with others like them, mentors, subject-matter experts, and further funders or investors
Our launch
Working in conjunction with well-established Indian partner organisations, we are running an initial two-year scheme, supporting social entrepreneurs in two contrasting locations - Mumbai (starting first) and a semi-rural location in Tamil Nadu.
International links
UnLtd India coordinates the annual International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in India, in conjunction with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the Skoll Centre at Oxford University's Said Business School. Read about the 2007 conference here
It also hosts changemakers and leaders from across the world on learning exchanges with social entrepreneurs in India.
How we are funded
UnLtd India is sustainable through the support of individual and institutional donors.
Thank you to
UnLtd India has been inspired by the work of UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs in the UK, with has supported more than 4,000 social entrepreneurs since 2003. UnLtd India is an independent and separately-funded organisation.
UnLtd India's supporting partner in Mumbai is Dasra (www.dasra.org).
UnLtd India is grateful for assistance received from McKinsey & Co, Monitor Group, Deloitte, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, XL Results Foundation, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) network, and the UK India Business Council.
UnLtd India is also grateful to the following individuals, who, in small and large ways, have made UnLtd India possible:
Abha Thorat, Akhil Shahani, Alex Nicholls, Alpesh Patel, Alastair Wilson, Anand Shah, Baroness Margaret McDonagh, Bruce Kogut, Cliff Prior, Daniel Priestley, Deval Sanghavi, David Gold, Hans Wahl, Jeremy Oppenheim, John Rafferty, Justine Law, Lesley Haetzman, Lord Waheed Alli, Madhumita Pyne, Maya Shahani, Manisha Gupta, Mark Cann, Martine Roussel-Adam, Masami Sato, Masood Akhtar, Menka Parekh, Michael Norton, Murray Culshaw, Neera Sanghavi, Nicola Jones, Parminder Jutla, Paul Carbury, Paul Dunn, Percy Barnevik, Peter Kenyon, Rachel Slade, Rafiq Abdulla, Rama Shyam, Rashmi Chandaria, Rowena Young, Sarah Dodds, Saeqah Kabir, Sam Juthani, Shweta Chari, Stephen Lloyd, Thalbir Shokar, Thomas Lawson, Ulhas Moses, Vishal Talreja, Zachary Dominitz, Zulfiqar Ahmed