Dear Friends,

In 2008, the Indian financial services firm, Edelweiss Capital Ltd partnered with Kubera Partners, a private equity firm based in USA and launched the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours (formerly known as the Kubera Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours), a national awards programme, managed by EdelGive Foundation, with a vision to recognize, promote and support outstanding innovations that are catalysing positive social change across India.

The objective for the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2010 is to identify and reward organisations that are innovating to empower women in India. This year’s award categories are as follows:
·         Health and well being: Awarding an innovation which promotes women’s health and overall well-being
·         Education: Awarding an innovation which provides women with access to education and /or improved quality of education
·         Livelihoods: Awarding an innovation which helps women increase their income, and / or provides them with employment opportunities.
·         Social and Cultural rights: Awarding an innovation which helps women overcome social and cultural challenges.
·         Governance: Awarding an innovation which prepares women to participate in available legislative positions

Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd., the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and the Institute for Rural Management Anand (IRMA) are partners of the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours to ensure transparency and rigour of processes.

We would like to reach out to as many organisations working to empower women. Therefore, we would also like to request you to help us by passing this information on to relevant organisations.

Alternatively, please inform us about relevant organisations that you may know of and we shall approach them ourselves.

For further information on the award categories, the broad selection criteria, etc please visit – www.edelgive.org/honours.htm or contact us via email: honours@edelcap.com or call on: +91 22 65240579/80

Please note that the deadline for receiving applications is 21st of December 2009.

We have attached the application docket for the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2010 with this email. In case you need the Hindi version, do write in to us and we will send that across.

Thanks & Regards,

Gilroy Correia
EdelGive Foundation