http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/20/genesis-indias-premier-social-entrepreneurship-contest Comments for "Genesis: India's Premier Social Entrepreneurship Competition" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/20/genesis-indias-premier-social-entrepreneurship-contest#comment-19627 Dear Nitin, I visited this blog for the first time and good to see that you are indeed sharing great info to the mass. Well, I am Sonia Mackwani (25), Founder-Director of an NGO called Touching Lives Welfare Trust , Clinical Psychologist and Author.I would like to know the updates of Genesis as to what project was awarded and what is in the pipeline. Looking forward to hearing from you. Peace & Harmony Sonia Touching Lives!<br class="clear" /> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:56:53 -0500 Sonia Mackwani comment 19627 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/20/genesis-indias-premier-social-entrepreneurship-contest <a href="http://genesis.iitm.ac.in/" title="Genesis"><img src="http://genesis.iitm.ac.in/genesis_logo.jpeg" border="0" alt="Genesis 2008" title="Genesis 2008" width="206" height="75" align="left" /></a><a href="http://genesis.iitm.ac.in/" title="Genesis">Genesis</a> is a social entrepreneurship competition that aims to bring together social entrepreneurs, students, NGOs, innovators, incubators, corporations and financiers and encourage them to come up with innovative ideas which are socially relevant and feasible.<br /><br />The competition is hosted by the India chapter of <a href="http://ases.stanford.edu/" title="Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society">Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society</a> at IIT Madras.<br /><br />The competition is open to all students and working professionals (including NGOs) who have ideas that are innovative, feasible and can benefit society. 50% of the registered members of every team that enters this competition should be students. Rs. 300,000 will be awarded as seed funding to winning teams to start their ventures.<br /><br />Last year&#39;s edition began with an impressive series of workshops from social entrepreneurs from organisations such as <a href="http://www.aavishkaar.org/" title="Aavishkaar">Aavishkaar</a>, Infrasys and <a href="http://www.thesparkgroup.net/" title="The Spark Group">The Spark Group</a>.<br /><br />(This post continues past the break; click &quot;Read More&quot; to continue)<a href="http://genesis.iitm.ac.in/" title="Genesis"><br /></a><a href="http://genesis.iitm.ac.in/" title="Genesis"></a><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/20/genesis-indias-premier-social-entrepreneurship-contest">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/20/genesis-indias-premier-social-entrepreneurship-contest#comment Miscellaneous Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:11:28 -0500 Nitin Rao 4868 at http://www.nextbillion.net