IDEX Fellowship

The IDEX Fellowship in Social Enterprise is a professional development program that matches mission-focused organizations with highly motivated, entry-level professionals interested in the field of social enterprise & impact investment. IDEX fellows serve with social entrepreneur partners for a 10-month professional, cultural and social immersion fellowship.

ENTERPRISE PARTNER BENEFITS

  • IDEX actively recruits top college graduates from the U.S., the fellowship host country and India, the program welcomes potential young talent from across the globe.
  • IDEX fellows are recruited across various disciplines (i.e. Finance, Operations, Marketing, Business Development, Engineering, International Affairs, Public Health, etc.) to offer a variety of skill-sets to entrepreneurs and are matched to meet specific needs of enterprise partners.
  • IDEX fellow’s project requirements are developed in collaboration with our enterprise partners to ensure fellows address the needs as identified by local entrepreneurs. IDEX fellows receive on the ground training to ensure they are well versed to understand local market and cultural conditions. 
  • IDEX fellows work full-time (up to 35 hours per week) with social enterprise partners.
  • IDEX fellows focus on market-based, sustainable interventions that can be developed and implemented throughout the length of the program and sustained by the enterprise post-fellowship. 

 

IDEX is currently accepting Social Enterprise Partnership requests from organizations in India and Ghana. Please use the following link as requests will only be accepted through the online application until February 15, 2012: Please complete our placement application here.

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Additional Partner Information:

Below is a list of our current and past Social Enterprise Partners:

Classteacher Learning System (www.classteacher.com)

Classteacher Learning System is a decade old leading education company with over 500 schools and 0.5 million student providing consulting and innovative technology solutions in the area of school education.

Indian School Finance Company (www.isfc.in)

Indian School Finance Company (ISFC) is a Non-Banking Finance Co. that provides term loans to affordable private schools for investing in infrastructure and quality improvement programs of schools.

Intellecap (www.intellecap.com)

Intellecap is a social-sector advisory firm serving corporates, non-profits, development agencies, and governments working in developing markets. Intellecap facilitates investments, provides consulting services, and builds knowledge and information focused on scalable and sustainable. 

MILLEE

Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE) is a non-profit organization that uses mobile phone games to improve literacy skills in emerging countries. MILLEE develops human-centred, immersive and enjoyable language learning mobile games which are modeled after the traditional games children play in the community.  

PiPolicy Innovations (www.policyinnovations.in)

PiPolicy Innovations is a policy group creating deep and effective network of experts transcending knowledge domains and geographies to apply their experiences to offer Policy Research, Social Enterprise Advisory and Philanthropy Support to organizations.

Project VOICE 

The Vital Opportunities in Creative Empowerment (VOICE) Project is a pilot 4-week summercamp for girls that will operate at 11 affordable private schools and reach 400 girls throughout Hyderabad, India. Camp VOICE blends learning with doing through interactive activities focused on communicative English and gender empowerment.

Trident Microfinance (www.tridentmicrofin.com)

Trident Microfin, based in Hyderabad India, provides comprehensive financial and business solutions to low income individuals and enterprises.

Village Capital (www.vilcap.com)

Village Capital improves entrepreneurial success with social ventures and accelerates the impact investing space by building peer support organizations for entrepreneurs in cities throughout the world. Inspired by early microfinance lending groups, where entrepreneurs select loan recipients from their own group, VilCap €"crowd-sources"€ the most investable companies for investor partners.

Your Story (www.yourstory.in)

Your Story is India's leading comprehensive online platform for entrepreneurs, dedicated to promoting the startup ecosystem.

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