Integreater - Transforming A Billion Lives In 5475 Days!

How to transform a billion lives in 5475 days? The vision of a beautiful world we seek as our future is what connects us all. We can indeed end poverty and build a happier planet within our lifetime, and that’s the purpose of InteGreater. InteGreater will engage the best minds and hearts across the world to transform a billion lives in 5475 days! It’s not easy, poverty manifests itself in many complex problems, each with many interconnected pieces. But, the truth is, together we have all that is needed - wisdom, conviction, ideas and resources - right here on this planet to solve every problem, within our lifetime! What does it take to build sustainable solutions? Sustainable solutions are possible only when our designs are based on a systemic understanding, taking into account, the inter-relationship between the pieces and the functioning of the system as a whole. In other words, this is possible when all stakeholders have not only an easy access to each other, so they can share best practices, but also an on-demand access to experts from diverse domains, so they can understand the most optimum ways of accomplishing a certain goal. What have we got instead? However, due to the absence of a credible platform that connects all relevant stakeholders, what we see are two un-connected worlds, each of which in turn is highly fragmented. On one hand, there are millions of committed non-profits and socialentrepreneurs around the world working tirelessly, but independently. On the other hand, there are millions of accomplished experts in diverse domains of knowledge, from the industry as well as the academia who wish to contribute their expertise, skills, capabilities, and networks, that can cause a giant leap in the efficacy, efficiency and scale of solutions. So, what’s happening? Without access to each other and therefore to the knowledge, expertise, resources and networks, that can potentially augment change, there is an enormous gap between great intentions and tangible results. Independent efforts to solve the pieces will understandably not yield significant results at the system level. Independent efforts also build redundancies, wasting precious resources often times, in reinventing the wheel. This means unaffordable inefficiencies at the system level. Understanding what needs to be done (Opportunity) This is the best time, both in terms of need and possibility, to leverage the increasingly widespread social consciousness as well as the advances in technology to unite capable people with a purpose.. The Social Change Value Chain - The greatest bottleneck in the social change value chain is the transition from a good intention to a great idea. A great idea is different from any other idea in that it is well considered, and has the potential to create a significant systemic impact.

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InteGreater aims to be the platform that connects all the stake-holders across the social change value chain, and facilitates knowledge exchange, creates access to expertise & resources, minimizes redundancies and supports non-profits/social entrepreneurs in their mission right from ideation to implementation.

InteGreater connects nonprofits and social entrepreneurs with an exclusive, by-invitation-only network of accomplished experts representing diverse domains of knowledge, from Accounting to Zoology! This gives the non-profits and social entrepreneurs an access to expertise, networks and resources that have traditionally been exclusive to businesses. Our Solution – An unprecedented response to challenges through the engagement of the best minds and hearts!

Imagine a non-profit or a social entrepreneur facing a challenge. Now imagine InteGreater Imagine a platform that assembles the most relevant team of experts that can help the particular non-profit/social entrepreneur. Imagine end-to-end support, right from problem definition to developing a solution to implementation support and to measuring the effectiveness! Imagine all this happening pro bono!

By connecting non-profits, social entrepreneurs and other relevant stakeholders with the most relevant experts, InteGreater: Catalyzes the accomplishment of difficult, but common goals -

Minimizes inefficiencies at the system level, through effective utilization of resources Ensures win-win for everyone Experts get a sense of accomplishment, for they will play a significant role in the transformation of communities and the world at large Non-profits and social entrepreneurs are motivated by the support and will achieve their goals with optimum effort

InteGreater categorizes the engagement of experts with Non-profits/Social entrepreneurs into three formats, depending upon the complexity of purpose From the simplest “Projects”, to moderately complex “Initiatives” to the most complex “Causes”. InteGreater will start with “Projects”, and will start “Initiatives” after the first 365 days, and “Causes” after the first 1000 days. Projects - This form of engagement will be the focus in the first 365 days

Initiatives - more complex engagement

Who’s it for: Existing NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs

Who’s it for: New & potential NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs

Projects’ Focus: Streamlining & Scaling-up People (HR) Efficiency - Systems and Processes Scaling up Marketing (Branding, Communication etc) Finance management etc

I n i t i a t i ve s ’ Fo c u s : S u p p o r t Infrastructure and Replication Replicating successful models Building the information infrastructure - To ensure the measurability of Impact Building the support infrastructure for potential social entrepreneurs & NGOs

Causes - Most complex Engagement

Who’s it for: Governments, NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs Causes’ Focus: Frameworks for solving complex problems (Hunger, Education etc) Systemic understanding of problems Ready-to-implement solution frameworks In the first 100 days, the focus is on “Projects” needing expertise in HR particularly, and then we will build capacities in other streams1 within the management domain (and eventually in other domains), to do crossfunctional “Projects” 1

Stream is to Domain what Marketing is to Business Management. Stream is a subset of Domain. The 5 domains of knowledge: Arts, Business Management, Engineering, Humanities and Science

Experts on InteGreater are by invitation only and represent diverse domains of knowledge… but are unified by one mission – to contribute their knowledge to build a happier planet!

Experts - Make your knowledge count!

Experts are organized into “Virtual Societies” based on their respective streams of specialization. Example - An expert in HR is automatically organized into HR Society! In each such society, as an expert, you can:

Support select Social causes from ideation to implementation Share and nurture knowledge Blogs, Q&A, Discussion Forums Web-conferences, Webinars, Webcasts Collaborative Authoring

InteGreater is where you will know where your expertise is needed the most, and indeed makes the greatest difference!

Network with Experts within and across streams

It’s a journey through a billion lives in 5475 days! It’s not for everyone! Become an InteGreater; let’s make history by building a better future!

If you are a non-profit/Social entrepreneur, InteGreater is built to help you enhance the efficacy, efficiency and scale of your impact. It connects you to experts from diverse domains who are willing to contribute their expertise to you pro bono! Non-profits & Social Entrepreneurs

Non-profits and Social entrepreneurs are organized into cause-specific virtual societies - All non-profits/social entrepreneurs addressing the same challenge will automatically become part of the same society! As a non-profits/Social entrepreneur you can Share best practices, and exchange strategic and contextual knowledge with other non-profits/ Social entrepreneurs across areas of work

Get help from the most relevant and highly accomplished experts, end-to-end: Ideation to Implementation

Knowledgesharing tools like Q&A (ask and answer questions), Blogs, and discussion forums.

Knowing what you need to know when you need to know it, is incredibly easy! Whatever your challenges, there are accomplished experts eager to help you out. Just sign-up and ask away!

“Assembling the right team to help a particular non-profit/social entrepreneur is just the beginning. Our endeavor is to manage the engagement end-to-end, right from ideation to implementation” ... Vineet, Co-founder-InteGreater

What happens when the challenges a non-profit/social entrepreneur needs help with, are bigger than can be asked in a question?

iCREATE is the web-based project space, where the engagement between a nonprofit and a relevant team of experts is structured, and managed. iCREATE enables non-profits and experts to: Form teams around a purpose Manage the engagement (Project management) Collaborate online through web-conferencing

When a non-profit/social entrepreneur posts its challenge, the system shares the details with all the relevant experts. Experts who volunteer to help a particular Non-profit/Social entrepreneur, are called the Creators (of possibilities). If these are simple challenges that need experts only from a particular stream, they are automatically matched with experts from that particular stream. It’s as easy as clicking a button! In case the challenge requires intervention of experts from various streams, InteGreater team and its board of advisors (Alchemists) will determine the mix of expertise most appropriate for solving the problem, and will also help the nonprofit/social entrepreneur in picking the expert team.

Partnerships

InteGreater seeks to partner with two kinds of entities:

1. Knowledge Partners: Premier academic institutions, Research & consulting companies, and Industry associations, to add intellectual depth, rigor and authenticity to the stream specific knowledge exchange on InteGreater. Knowledge partners can: •

Explore the applicability of their knowledge in a diverse array of social contexts

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Establish their intellectual leadership in championing the mission that connects everyone on the planet!

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Enrich the learning experience of students, by letting them participate in problem-solving along with the experts

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2. Development Accelerators: Development Accelerators are those entities that play a key role along the social change value chain, facilitating the establishment and growth of non-profits and social entrepreneurs. Let’s work together, minimizing independent and redundant efforts particularly because our goals are common. If you represent an organization that shares the belief, please write to Kalyan ([email protected]) or Vineet ([email protected]), and we will be delighted to explore the possibilities!

We are living through the most significant times in the history of our planet. We are living at the intersection of the greatest possible opportunity, and the worst possible threat. The next generation and the generations there-after will either enjoy unprecedented happiness and peace or suffer through the irreversible path to perdition depending on what our generation will strive for within our lifetime! Our lifetime, is the link between the grim reality and a beautiful possibility! Join us, and let’s build a happier planet in 5475 days!!

Vineet and Kalyan After 6 years of working in Business Research and competitive intelligence, Kalyan quit his job early 2008 with the intent to do something significant in the larger scheme of things. He traveled across India for a few months - saw places, met people , and learned things. The experiences during the journey helped him gain the clarity of purpose, and refine the idea of what InteGreater is now. He knew a little bit about what needed to be done, when he met Vineet in Delhi, in March’09. And Vineet knew the rest. It was as if the two approached the same idea from one end each and met mid-way. Vineet did his masters in business administration from IIM Ahmedabad, and an advanced management program from IMD, Switzerland. He is in a senior management role with a multinational consumer goods company. Over the course of his career he has travelled to 25 countries. InteGreater is based out of Gurgaon, India, but its mission to transform a billion lives, has no geographical boundaries. Contact

[email protected], +91 98862 60238 [email protected]