ILID Services

Services

The first three services – Consulting, Incubating, and Networking - are rendered to selected organizations in an intensive, months-long process. We firmly believe that ILID needs to work in the field through these three services; however we realize that these are limited in scope and scale. Hence we have the second set of three services – Training, Research and Teaching – to help us scale up our services to a much larger sector-wide participation.

Client Consulting

We provide comprehensive consulting services to the nonprofit community to develop, strengthen, and grow their organizations through the adoption and application of ILID-developed methodologies in conformance with global best practices.

As an institute that helps build institutions, we adapt the successful processes and models from the corporate sector to the world of nonprofit organizations and help build strong social entrepreneurship organizations. We hope to accomplish this goal by developing the leadership potential that aims at processes for long term progress. Throughout each engagement, we work closely with our client’s staff, leadership and board to ensure broad consensus and a clear plan for moving from analysis to action, and from action to results.

Vistar

We offer “VISTAR” (Vision-Strategies-Structure-Action Plans-Review) to help create an overall diagnostic, planning, and execution blueprint and to maintain a sustained effort to achieve optimum results. We work with clients through the execution phase, helping to review project management practices and evaluating the results.

ILID is planning to create a “Centre for Visual Arts for Social Change”, which will produce documentaries and short films to highlight challenges and solutions, enhance awareness, and spur action for development.

The Centre of Visual Arts for Social Change will have several main purposes:

to advance the study of visual methodologies, (video documentary, radio documentary, digital technology) within social action research;
to promote a production approach to media education not only in the context of student & teacher development but also within community outreach involving children, youth, community workers, local leaders/opinion makers, etc;
to ensure appropriate training opportunities for staff, researchers and students who wish to incorporate visual methodologies into their research.

ILID will soon create a “Centre for Financial Inclusion” to assist other entrepreneurial organizations and service providers to evaluate their programs and explore new strategies and opportunities to build capacity and improve conditions for the poor and underprivileged. Other activities planned under this will include consulting and training for capacity building of MFIs and others.

Incubation

Incubation is the process that accelerates the successful development of startups and existing social organizations by providing entrepreneurs with an array of targeted resources.

We identify socially innovative opportunities for progressive change, evaluate the ideas and the social innovators creating those ideas, and build organizations to sustain and scale up to the intended target. We thus assume, when needed, the role of the creator of social change in the incubation projects.

Since 2005, we have incubated three projects – CHIP (Child Health Improvement Program) ; Pygamlion; Ekalavya. We are now actively working on creating a new project ‘Rural BPO’.

Networking

As a generic strategy underlying all other services, we seek out networking, partnering, and brokering opportunities with like-minded individuals, NGOs, funding organizations, Universities, and other institutions to create and foster relationships that are mutually beneficial and lasting.

We have brought together organizations working in similar areas, connected deserving organizations to potential financial supporters, encouraged partnerships, and shared learning. Not only do our clients benefit from our networking activities, it has also resulted in a growing list of clients seeking our advice.

Research

The paucity of time and resources, and the exigencies of daily operations often prevent NGOs from engaging in meaningful research. We hope to fill this gap by conducting independent research and by collaborating on existing research that would help our clients excel.

ILID is exploring to launch a full-fledged “Centre for Research in Socio-Economic Development”, including the publication of a “Journal for Development”.

Training

We view professional training as key to long term success of an NGO. We conduct workshops and seminars in leadership for social entrepreneur organizations on a regular basis.

Training, specifically targeted to the nonprofit sector, has not been a priority for the training community at large. Therefore, it is our priority to develop and deliver world class training to our existing and potential clients.

ILID is planning to launch a series of training workshops in core areas under a theme – Resource Management – mobilization, maximization and management, on topics like HR & Volunteer mgmt; Finance and Project mgmt.

For further contact or information on all of the above, please write to psridhar@ilid.org or info@ilid.org

Teaching

We intend to create a teaching institute that provides certified and accredited courses in Social Entrepreneurship. We believe that there is a dire need to produce fresh graduates and mid-level Development executives who are professionally educated in the Sciences and Arts of Social entrepreneurship.

This is an idea whose time may have come. Many worthy leaders and organizations are attempting to provide this education. We hope to be in the forefront of this creative field, welcoming any and all collaboration in creating world class institutions.