Action For India
- Location : India
- Community Served: Entrepreneurs
- Focus: Platform to help entrepreneurs succeed
Organization background
Action for India (AFI)'s mission is to help social innovators in India overcome barriers to scale and achieve greater impact at the
bottom of the pyramid.
AFI connects social innovators with impact investors, mentors, technology resources, government contacts
and local partners.
Project background
AFI runs a Social Enterprise Advisory Service where
they work with 25 social entrepreneurs, every year,
to help scale the impact of their work.
They do this by showcasing their technology,
connecting them with sources of funding, mentors,
technology resources, government representatives and customers.
The entrepreneurs with the top 5 ideas are entered into
AFI's SVC Trek program, where they are taken on an
all-expenses paid trip to
Silicon Valley, to interact with
leading investors, technology executives and entrepreneurs.
GKF contributions to AFI
- 2017: Social Enterprise Advisory Service
- 2018: Social Enterprise Advisory Service
- 2019: Social Enterprise Advisory Service, the 8th AFI forum, the SVC Trek in 2019/2020,
and the SE accelerator in IIT Hyderabad
- 2020,2021,2022,2024: Social Enterprise Advisory Service