To: All Members From: Amit Bhatia, CEO-IIC Date: 24 March 2015 Sub: March 2015 Monthly Update, 2015-16 Elections and 8-10 April Members’ Convention Dear All, In this monthly brief, I want to invite all of you once again to our next Members’ Convention on 8-10 April in New Delhi and specially invite nominations for our 2015-16 Executive Council. This memo is structured in three parts: (i) Monthly Update, (ii) 2015-16 Elections, and (iii) 9-10 April 2015 Members’ Convention I. MONTHLY UPDATE Dear Members- over the last month, IIC achieved the following: ¶ Consulted members and submitted feedback on PSL guidelines to RBI ¶ Completed IIC website (www.iiic.in) and is seeking more member inputs on investee companies ¶ Completed most set-up formalities (Bank A/C, PAN, TAN, except Service Tax registration which is in process) ¶ Collected INR 44,65,000 (pre-TDS) and INR 41,24,719 (post-TDS) in membership subscription with commitments of another ~INR 24,75,000 plus ¶ Reviewed IIC performance with the Board on 5 March 2015 ¶ Created partnership with Sankalp as a Knowledge Partner ¶ Represented IIC at conferences hosted by World Bank, OneGlobe & Ministry of Social Development / Skills Development (GoI) ¶ Submitted an OpEd with Vijay Mahajan (BASIX) to be shortly printed ¶ Syndicated a story with Business World to be shortly printed IIC has following pending and ongoing initiatives: (i) dialogue with a domestic commerical bank on a roadshow to raise awareness about social impact investing with high net worth individuals (as prospective LPs) across India to be addressed by our members; (ii) social impact measurement initiative with Abhijit Banerjee; and, (iii) wider membership drive. We will gather greater momentum on these as we achieve our aspiration to add one resource to IIC and get some permanent office space. I hope to pursue this with our new Board to be elected on 8 April 2015. II. 2015-16 ELECTIONS We currently have an interim Executive Council which is exercising its mandate and calling for an election of a regular Executive Council as decided in the last members convention on 28 January 2015. All Members (who have paid their 2015 annual fees) are eligible to nominate themselves for the five (5) elected EC positions and are eligible to vote. To clarify, Partners (i.e., non-investors) do not have a vote as per IIC constitution. The voting for the EC will take place by secret ballot on 9 April 2015. I want to take this opportunity to both clarify past guidelines and clarify a few guidelines in writing as we elect our new EC. As you can see in the attached images, all of you had decided the following over the last two years: • • A 7-member EC with 5 elected and 2 nominated members. We have operated with the 5 elected members since 21 October 2014 when I came on board Three Committees as follows, each with 2 elected and 1 nominated member. o Definitions & Measurement Sub-Committee o Research & Policy Support Sub-Committee o Outreach & Membership Sub-Committee Please find attached a Nomination Form. On reviewing these images, please fill up the Nomination Form if you are an Investor and if have paid your 2015 fees. Please send your two nominees directly to me. If you have not paid your fees yet, please do so urgently. For payment clarifications, please write to [email protected] Based on the last 6 months experience, the interim EC is proposing the attached guidelines for Elections of the EC and the three Committees. Since we have recast IIC objectives and have really operated as one EC during the last six months, we now need to recast our committees and invigorate them. The new proposed guidelines address the same. If you have paid your 2015 Annual Subscription Fees, you will directly receive a EC Nomination Form from me. If you have not done so, please do so before 31 March 2015 to receive the EC Nomination Form. Some of you have been waiting for IIC to receive its Service Tax Registration and raise a formal invoice. I request you all not to wait and just apply a 12.36% Service Tax and deduct 10% TDS on base fee (Tax Deducation at Source) before remitting the money. If you want to receive a Proforma Invoice, Ashu Gulati ([email protected]) will help (Aspire provides me pro-bono support). I am confident that we will receive a Service Tax Registration soon and we will raise a proper invoice immediately thereon. We’d like all our members to be eligible to contest elections and vote during our upcoming Member’s Convention. III. 9-10 APRIL 2015 MEMBERS’ CONVENTION Dear Members- We will host our upcoming 8-10 April Members’ Convention on the sidelines of Sankalp 2015. IIC is a Knowledge Partner and will host a session on Impact Investing at the conference on 10 April. As an IIC member, your special I Sankalp registration code is (SFIIC2015), along with early-bird discount of 15% is now valid upto 31 March and includes a pre-event Dinner on 8 April 2015. We very much hope that you will attend the IIC Convention, elect a new Board and enjoy Sankalp 2015! Looking forward, Sincerely, * * * AGENDA Wednesday, 8 April 5.30-7.30 pm IIC Members’ Meeting & EC Elections 7.30-10.00 pm Global Leadership Dinner hosted by Intellicap & Asha Impact Thursday, 9 April 2.00-3.00 pm IIC Members’ Meeting Friday, 10 April 2.00-3.00 pm IIC Members’ Meeting 3.00-3.30 pm Sankalp Plenary Address by IIC Guest* 3.30-4.30 pm IIC Plenary Panel Discussion at Sankalp *Tentative Sankalp Forum ends at 5 pm on 10 April 2015
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