Guarantees can unlock loans for small businesses and there is enough evidence to show that over the years.

If you are in Chicago during SOCAP, join us for breakfast, co-hosted with SharedInterest that has been doing guarantees in Southern Africa for many decades to meet and connect.

Innovations play a key role in solving the big problems that affect people and the planet.

Join us on a panel to hear and question how social startups are creating impact at scale in sectors such as agriculture, water and waste to value; the role of right-capital; the need for systemic approach to addressing social issues.

​India is flourishing with innovations playing a key role in every aspect of growth. Social work is no different.

Join us to hear Srinivas Ramanujam, CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation, supporting for-profit businesses with a people and planet mission since 2001, on their approach and success working with governments, corporates, lenders, founders and philanthropies for scaling enterprises in agriculture, water and waste to value sectors.

Small presentation / talk followed by dinner.

Financing India’s Climate-Resilient Agrifood Transition

Across India, enterprises are developing solutions to help smallholder farmers respond to climate risk, improve productivity and strengthen livelihoods.

​Yet too few promising solutions successfully move from early validation to investable scale.

​The challenge is the absence of a connected pathway between solutions that farmers will adopt, enterprises that are ready to grow, and capital structured around the realities of smallholder markets.

Most early-stage social enterprises face challenges in accessing capital beyond grant funding. After initial grants, early-stage social enterprises have few options to access debt funding. Traditional lenders require profitable accounts and collaterals that the enterprises do not have.

​De-risking lenders through guarantee mechanisms enable access to loans for early-stage social enterprises.

​The webinar deep dives into real world examples of how loans were enabled through guarantees and the importance of these loans in an enterprise's growth journey.

Exploring how philanthropy can unlock greater access to finance for startups addressing climate resilience.

Roundtable session sharing the work on guarantees and grants in India and hearing from others on their experiences on the problem, solutions and suggestions for the program.

Interactive session exploring financing tools that move beyond traditional grants and equity investments.

Examples of how catalytic capital can create systems-level change in key sectors and scale impact.