2020-21 Shakti Cohort: Call for Indian Women-led Social Startups

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Deadline: 15-Sep-20

Are you the next Changemaker? If yes, then apply for the 2020-21 Shakti Cohort. Shakti empathy projects are open to women-led social startups. It supports & mentors early-stage women-led social impact projects. The purpose is to nurture female entrepreneurs, to improve the survival rate of women-run startups with social impact by providing support in skill-building, mentorship, networking, and fundraising.

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Also, to build a safe and empathetic ecosystem to create a snowball effect that increases women’s participation in entrepreneurship and workforce.

Objectives:

Entrepreneur centric;
Sector agnostic;
Model inclusive: for-profit, non-profit, and hybrid.

Mission

To create a safe, empathetic, inclusive, and enabling environment for women entrepreneurs through workshops, community building, mentoring, and other required support.
To directly deliver the program through workshops to 150 women & build a strong online community of 2000 women over the next five years.

Values

Empathy: Understand and support others with compassion and sensitivity and are a non-judgemental safe space and listen to the community attentively.
Integrity: Honest in conduct and follow through on the commitments and take accountability of actions.
Collaborative & Committed: Expand community through value-based collaborations. All the members of the team have the strength of character to commit themselves to this cause.
Ambitious: Have a strategic vision and goal for the organization and the grit to achieve that vision.
Agile: Will embrace and manage change and be open and adaptive to new methods.

Eligibility Criteria