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EdelGive Social Innovation Honours (last date to apply November 12, 2010)
EdelGive Foundation is an initiative of Edelweiss Capital Limited, one of India’s leading financial services firms. We provide strategic direction to the philanthropic activities of Edelweiss, its employees, clients and associates.
Our key priority is to focus on the areas of education, livelihoods and supporting women’s empowerment. We achieve this by bringing an investment banking and venture capital approach to the social sector.
By using the human, financial and intellectual resources from our parent company, Edelweiss, we seek to enrich and broaden the impact of entrepreneurial activities of non-profits in India.
The EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2012, a national awards programme instituted by the EdelGive Foundation, to reward innovative work in the social sector in India.
Prize money of INR 50 Lakhs will be awarded to the winners across the five categories of health & well being, education, economic security & livelihoods, social and cultural rights and governance.
The objective for the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours is to identify and reward organisations that are innovating to empower women in India.
In India statistics continue to highlight the ways women and girls remain marginalised and disempowered:
- Over 50% of girls in India still fail to enroll in schools
- In rural areas, 1 in 7 is married before the age of 13
- Lack of access to maternal health care in India still claims the lives of 1 in 70 women
- Female labourers get paid only 40 to 60 per cent of wages compared to a male labourer
Such figures reveal a pressing need for progress, and that’s why we choose to focus on funding and showcasing for innovative work that helps to empower women in five different categories: Education, Health and Well-Being, Livelihoods, Socio-Cultural Rights and Governance.
The EdelGive Social Innovation Honours was launched in 2008-09 with the vision to recognize, promote and support outstanding innovations that are catalysing positive social change across India.
Through the awards we seek to raise awareness of issues surrounding girl children, support organisations working on innovative projects and promote sharing and learning of these ideas amongst the private and public sectors.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences: Established in 1936, TISS is the first school of social work in India. It is known to promote sustainable equitable and participatory development through professional education, social research and social intervention.
Ernst and Young Pvt. Ltd.: Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transactions and advisory services.
We are looking for organizations that have
- Innovated either in idea and/or action to impact the lives of women in India
- Direct social impact and
- Sustainability of the innovation
This year’s award categories are as follows:
- Health and well being: Awarding an innovation which promotes women’s health and overall well-being
- Education: Awarding an innovation which provides women with access to education and/or improved quality of education
- Economic Security & Livelihoods: Awarding an innovation which helps women increase their income, and / or provides them with employment opportunities.
- Social and Cultural rights: Awarding an innovation which helps women overcome social and cultural challenges.
- Governance: Awarding an innovation which prepares women to participate in available legislative positions
You are eligible to apply in following categories if you work on the above issues
Applicants applying for the Awards should satisfy the following criteria:
- The Applicant should not be barred from conducting any activities by any court of India
- The Applicant should not propagate political or religious doctrines
- The Applicant should be a registered organization in India, under the Trusts, Societies, or u/s 25 of the Companies Act.
- The previous three years’ winners and runners-up will not be able to participate in the award process.
The window for applications will close on November 12, 2010. Short listing for each category will be based on scores assigned by the internal jury and verification conducted by an Independent Agency. The Award Management’s decision on the short listed entities will be final and binding.
For verification of the application forms, an Independent Agency will be appointed to conduct field visits to the locations of the Short Listed Entities.
After field visits, the nominees for the final round will be invited for an interaction with the Final Jury. The Final Jury will score the nominees and one winner will be selected from each category.
The Awards will follow the following timelines:
| Process | Date |
| Call for Application across India | Sept 23rd 2010 |
| Deadline for receiving Application Forms | November 12, 2010 |
| Announcement of Short Listed 5 applications in each category | Nov 22nd 2010 |
| Field Visits to all 25 shortlisted NGOs | Nov-Dec 2010 |
| Selection of 15 finalists – 3 in each category | Jan 17th 2011 |
| Presentation by finalists to Jury | Feb Second Week 2011 |
| Announcement of Winners in an event | March Second Week 2011 |
- Amrita Patel – Chairperson, National Dairy Development Board
- Deep Joshi – Founder, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN)
- Surinder Jaswal - Dean, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
- Venkat Ramaswamy – Executive Director , Edelweiss Capital Limited
- Vineet Rai – Founder, Aavishkar - venture fund founded to promote development in rural and semi-urban India
- Zia Mody – Leading corporate lawyer and Founding Partner, AZB Partners
Category - Education
- Chehak Trust, Mumbai
Category – Health and well-being
- Health Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad
Category – Livelihoods
- Mann Deshi Foundation, Satara
Category – Socio-Cultural Rights
- Swanchetan Society for Mental Health, New Delhi
Category – Governance
- Mahatma Gandhi Rural Development & Social Changes Trust, Shimoga
