Design led Social Innovation
Power social innovation & enterprise. With impact development professionals, design and a diverse maker-community. We call this a coalition for a better earth. If you’re looking to seed catalytic change with your CSR funds, invest in purposeful innovation, or support high-impact nano-ventures with operational partners, we’d love to start a conversation.
Innovate Incubate Impact Market
Whether through community led nano-ventures, unique CSR models, impactful local brands, regenerative programs, cultural innovations or purpose-led strategy, we believe that the road to impact has multiple paths. Our foundation is built around one single idea – when purposeful design meets social intent, real change becomes inevitable.
Social innovations start small and possess the wisdom of the earth. But they can be scaled and turbo-charged by a professional community of kick starters, operators, design thinkers, first responders, doers and makers. A cooperative united by a singular vision for good. For better.
The three leg model of Better Earth
Social innovation
If you are a purposeful organisation or a CSR organisation wanting to catalyse innovation at the grassroots, our curated d-base helps you locate and source impact ventures and social innovations that align with your investment themes. Our community of impact designers and makers help with operational support to scale the innovation and grow market linkages. (Terms and conditions applicable).
Community incubation
If you are an enterprising community with a powerful theory of change, our multidisciplinary pool of makers and impact designers will handhold you through the idea to market & launch with design, product development, digital capabilities, strategy and branding to set up a sustainable enterprise (Terms and conditions applicable).
Impact marketing & canvassing capital
As a unique “community first” model, we engage with compassionate capitalists, social angels and CSR wings of corporates to help raise kick-starter funds for impactful community enterprises social innovations. As operational partners we help position your foundation / social enterprise, refine the strategy and help in market development through design led action. (This is done with full transparency by charging a service fee).
FAQs
Funding Corpus
The funding corpus provided to each community enterprise or nano-startup can range from ₹x lakhs to ₹yy lakhs
Blah partners
do good initiative
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faqs don’t end
*Benefactors for the incubation fund get unique benefits with BECF and for being a member of our First Heroes Community – contact for details.
For Investors
Kickstart. Incubate. Innovate. Transform.
Kickstart. Incubate. Innovate. Transform.
Invest to catalyse good.
Join our program.
Be a kick-starter of real change by powering impactful social and community enterprises, nano-ventures that hold the promise of grassroot innovation. You could be a compassionate capitalist, a CSR fund, an impact investor or a social changemaker.
We invite you to explore a collaborative approach where your capital and financial assistance can be multiplied by design-led innovation, capacity building and community empowerment. Your investment in the right community could also help design and incubate a social innovation and take it to market.
What are the themes BEC Foundation aligns with?
One community for another is BEC mission. This helps accelerate social enterprise and build sustainable market linkages.
FARM BASED PRODUCTS
& FARM INNOVATIONS
SOCIAL INNOVATION
& ENTREPRENEURSHIP
RURAL COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES & INCLUSIVE LIVELIHOOD
Indigenous cultural heritage, crafts & skilling
REGENERATIVE
DESIGN
IMPACT & SUSTAINABILITY
EDUCATION
For Founders & Social Enterprises
Pitch. Raise. Scale. Market. Accelerate.
Pitch. Raise. Scale. Market. Accelerate.
A stage for change-makers. List your organisation
Apply for incubation
Present and showcase your micro-venture (your organisation needs to be a section 8 company) to potential investors and CSR funds on our platform (conditions applicable).
Showcase to potential investors
List your social innovation product or service on our sister platform to reach out to conscious companies and access funds, scale and talents (conditions applicable).
Market to grow audiences
Apply for venture incubation where our collective can help you and your social innovation with market-oriented strategies, product development inputs, lean technology, design & branding, and growing a community (conditions applicable).
Tap into design, tech & maker communities
Market your foundation and theme.
Access corporate CSR networks
Tap our design and makers community for internships, apprenticeships and volunteering opportunities in your organisation.
Host internship opportunities
Access our unique design & innovation hackathon with professional campuses to generate ideas, prototype designs, branding and communication support for your enterprise.
Benefit from unique innovation hackathons
Access our unique design & innovation hackathon with professional campuses to generate ideas, prototype designs, branding and communication support for your enterprise.
Social entrepreneurship is the road less traveled, but is one of the paths that can lead to the building of hybrid businesses with triple-bottom lines.
– Oscar Auliq-Ice
