BIRAC-SPARSH Felloswhip – Hear from the fellows from the batch of ’21
Application deadline – 30 September 2021
Villgro was founded in 2001 by Paul Basil, with a mission to create impactful, innovative and successful social enterprises.
Core to our work is the belief that market based models are a powerful way to solve social problems and create impact at scale. By capacitating these models with the right resources and knowledge, they are a sustainable way of creating lasting social impact.
Villgro is looking for 5 exceptional engineers who are interested in combating environmental pollution as a part of the BIRAC-SPARSH Fellowship. The selected candidates will be provided with mentoring and financial support in refining and exploring their problem statement; for a period of 6 months, followed by 12 months of the prototype development phase.
The applications for the BIRAC SPARSH FELLOWSHIP are now open! SPARSH is the social innovation program of BIRAC and Social Innovation Immersion Program (SIIP) is one of its components under which a pool of “Social Innovators/SPARSH Fellows” are mentored and supported to create social change through the identification and addressal of the problem at its core via social rural immersion.
Founded in 2001, through its 21 years of Impact journey — Villgro has supported 323 Social enterprises, raised follow-on funding of INR 4,388+ and impacted more than 20 million lives. In 2020, Villgro was awarded the Best Incubator Award by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (GoI) — a testament to its unique and pioneering incubation model.
Key Features
- Monthly stipend of INR 50,000 (for a duration of 18 months) — enabling you to devote full time to your product creation and subsequent launch of a social enterprise.
- INR 5 lacs mini kickstart grant
- Access to BIRAC Network
- Mentoring by experts
- Rural Immersion subjected to Covid-19 restrictions
- Opportunities for future funding
