The Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours, sponsored by Kubera Partners, a private equity firm in the US and Edelweiss Capital, Indian financial services firm, consists of three awards totaling US$60,000 to felicitate outstanding innovations that positively impact the status of the girl child, through the delivery of services in three areas: education, health and nutrition, and future employability of the girl child. EdelGive Foundation, the not for profit subsidiary of Edelweiss Capital is managing the entire process of these awards.
The jury consists of Indu Shahani, Sheriff of Mumbai, Zia Mody, leading corporate lawyer, Harsh Mander, human rights activist and author, Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, Express Group, Shivnath Thukral, Managing Editor, NDTV Profit, Farida Lambay, Vice Principal Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work and Devaki Jain, development economist and Gandhian activist.
For further information on the award and the application form, please visit
http://www.edelcap.
or
Contact Aditi Thorat/Anisha Padhee, EdelGive Foundation
at +91 22 23675621/23
or at edelgive@edelcap.
The deadline for receiving applications is the 20th of December 2008.
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