Despite innumerable organisations working in and for the social sector and wide spectrum of issues being addressed by them, there are still gaps in the sector and enough scope of improvement in existing approaches. OASiS tries to identify these gaps, research existing practices and develop innovative approaches to address the issues involved. We then pilot the innovative approach ourselves, develop it into a model and then give the model out to the wider social sector for replication.
In the past Six years, OASiS has developed Five Social Innovations out of which:
One has been nationally implemented by the Government of India.
Three are being replicated Pan-India by various NGOs and Citizen Groups.
One is at the Pilot stage.
One is on the drawing board.
OASiS has now moved to the next stage of developing Social Entrepreneurs through its Social Innovations. Through the innovation on the drawing board, OASiS wishes to develop a Social Entrepreneur who would take the model right from the idea to the pilot and then replication stage.
The group of Social Entrepreneurs in OASiS will mentor the person to develop his/her idea, help him/her develop a Business model, help him/her identify a location and funder for piloting the idea, help him/her in making the pilot operationally and financially self-sustainable and then help him/her develop it as a model for replication. OASiS also gives the entrepreneur a small stipend (if required) for his/her sustenance from the idea to the pilot funding stage. When the pilot gets funded, the entrepreneur gets a comfortable remuneration from the fund itself.
When the person becomes a successful entrepreneur and moves to the stage of replication / scaling up his/her model, he/she joins the Mentors group in OASiS to mentor other upcoming social entrepreneurs.
Any individual (people from the corporate wishing to make a move to the social sector, students from any institute and stream wishing to do something for society) having a great / radical / revolutionary / simple idea for social change are welcome to OASiS.
