Innovations in Services for Urban Poor Program is partnering with multiple network institutions to be able to reach out to potential nominee institutions.

NEN represents India’s largest and most dynamic community of new and future high-growth entrepreneurs, with over 70,000 members in 30 cities. It provides critical support to start-ups and early-stage entrepreneurs through high-impact entrepreneurship education; access to mentors and experts; fast-track access to incubation and funding; and learning tools and materials. Log on to www.nenonline.org for further details

The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India has set up a platform for networking among Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) cities known as Peer Experience And Reflective Learning (PEARL). This has been done 'to create manageable networks between JnNURM cities for cross learning and sharing knowledge on urban reforms and governance. For further details log on to www.indiaurbanportal.in

Youth Development Foundation envisions empowered youth as the change agents. Its mission is to create a facilitating platform for the youth to recognize, appreciate and support true sense of voluntarism and to be the change agent by sheer display of committed initiatives. Its approach is to Inform, Empower and Involve. For more details, log on to www.ydfindia.org.

Beginning as a Network in 1998, The National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) was registered in 2003 to bring together the street vendor organizations in India so as to collectively struggle for macro-level changes which had become imminent to support the livelihood of around 10 million vendors which stand severely threatened due to outdated laws and changing policies, practices and attitudes of the powers that be. NASVI is a national federation of street vendor organizations. It is a coalition of Trade Unions, Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Non Government Organizations (NGOs) and professionals. For more details, log on to www.nasvinet.org

Voluntary Action Network India (VANI) is an apex body of Indian NGOs. It has a strong base of 2500 non-governmental organizations, spread out in 25 states of India. It strives to be a platform for: national level advocacy on issues and policies confronting the development sector; coordination and action to support and promote voluntary action in the country. VANI has been working as a catalyst between central and state governments and their machineries on the one hand and Indian NGOs on the other. It represents NGOs' concerns and issues through policy advocacy, networking and sensitizing the government and other stakeholders. For more information, log on to www.vaniindia.org

Ashoka Innovators for the Public is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, we have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 63 countries. With our global community, we develop models for collaboration and design infrastructure needed to advance the field of social entrepreneurship and the citizen sector. For more details, log on to www.ashoka.org