Virtual Sessions
IST | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Data for Good – A Catalyst to Transform Communities
Session Partner: Bloomberg, Societal Platforms, Stanford PACS Over the last 2 years, Data for Good Exchange India has highlighted the need to empower communities using data and opened conversations on the role of different stakeholders in bridging the existing gaps and opportunities in the data and tech ecosystem. This session aims to delve deeper into highlighting the power of data in transforming and creating resilient communities, exploring the role of data science and technology as key tools for inclusion and development. |
IST | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
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Transforming Grant Making: Investing in a Stronger and more Resilient NGO Sector
Session Partner: The Bridgespan Group Both funders and NGOs aspire for sustainable impact. However, taking a purely transactional and programmatic view to grantmaking acts as a key barrier. This session, organized by the Pay What It Takes India Initiative, will share practical approaches adopted by select funders to redefine their grantmaking practices and make these more inclusive, fair and supportive towards their partner NGOs. We will bring together funders and NGO leaders to share their experiences and the benefits they see from these approaches in enabling a stronger and resilient NGO sector to deliver greater social impact. |
IST | 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
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Demystifying Family Philanthropy for NGOs
Family Philanthropy has the potential to unlock 60,000 to 1,00,000 crores of additional wealth for the social sector, yet this segment is the hardest to reach. This session will bring together Experts, HNIs and NGOs who have successfully unlocked philanthropic capital from families (UHNIs/HNIs)to understand their psyche and discuss approaches to tap into this catalytic pool of capital |
IST | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
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Going Platinum: Past, Present and Future of Civil Society in India@75
Session Partner: CSO This panel will showcase and celebrate civil society's contribution to India's development: starting in 1947, tracing sectoral milestones, and opening critical discussion on what lies ahead. Based on the CSO@75 report (a collective effort by India's leading nonprofits), insights from this session will span across policy, service delivery and research/ advocacy – reminiscing the past with an eye to the future.
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IST | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
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Changing the Narrative: From Women's Labour Force Participation to Enterprise Creation for Women
Session Partner: Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) All conversations around women’s economic advancement revolve around labour force participation. This being a vital step, the larger and more present opportunity is to create enabling ecosystems for women entrepreneurship in India. This session will highlight the opportunities, challenges and potential of Women’s entrepreneurship as a catalytic force towards making women independent earners and contributors to the wider economy, while also sharing pathways for realizing this aspiration.
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IST | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
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The Evolution of Rupee for Rupee Philanthropy in India
Session Partner: Sattva As philanthropy in India increasingly shifts from dollars to rupee, there is a need to understand how philanthropic capital can be used in a more catalytic manner towards creating better impact. The session will highlight various models of innovative finance like opportunities for market and government leverage, matching the right problem with the right type of capital and building a long-term strategy to impact.
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IST | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
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Augmenting Capacity of Public Systems: Unlocking New Paradigms with Philanthropy
Session Partner: The /Nudge Institute To achieve impact at scale - for 'a billion thriving' - a new web of relationships needs to be built and nurtured, orchestrated by neutral players. Public-private partnerships, with innovation at its core, can shift the root conditions that hold social problems in place. This session will highlight how the philanthropic ecosystem can amplify its power to augment capacity of public systems, by not sticking to only 'tried-and-tested', short-term impact projects, but to those with long-term vision, for lasting systems change.
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IST | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
GMT | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
Weaving a Collective Tapestry: A Funders’ Toolkit for Child and Youth Participation
Session Partner: Elevate Children Funders Group | CLOSED-DOOR, INVITE ONLY The session/workshop will focus on Elevate Children's new resource, Weaving a Collective Tapestry: A Funders’ Toolkit for Child and Youth Participation. This practical Toolkit is created to support grantmakers to better understand and implement meaningful youth participation and the session will deep dive into the various constituents of the toolkit and make it interactive for mutual learning.
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IST | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
GMT | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EST | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PT | 5:30 AM – 6:30 AM |
Future of Philanthropy in the Global South: A Self Sustainability Lens
Session Partner: Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, University of Cambridge This session will explore the landscape of philanthropy in the global south and discuss the pathways for it to be independent of its reliance on northern foundations. This will highlight, through case studies and best practices, how can philanthropy in the global south take a self-sustainability lens.
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