Join Changemakers and Citi in the search for innovative and cutting-edge methods that allow financial security to become a reality for everyone. Enter and showcase your work to key decision-makers and investors. Nominate a project that inspires you! Enter Your Blueprint for Change!
Innovation and pioneering has been our strength. At Citi, we believe the best solutions arise from the need within to excel, and to find and create financial solutions for all using innovative approaches while continuously improving on ideas that exist. Which is why we have joined with Ashoka, a leading innovator for social change, to launch the Citi-Ashoka’s Changemakers Competition: “Banking on Social Change—Seeking Financial Solutions for all.”
This competition is designed to reach the world’s entrepreneurs and to challenge them to use their substantial talents and skills to providing financial services for all. We are proud to partner with Ashoka’s Changemakers initiative to channel our collective energy toward using entrepreneurial ideas and skills as a means to create economic and social change in the broader world.
Ashoka’s Changemakers and Citi have partnered in a worldwide search for financial services projects that use the transformative power of innovation and skills to achieve real social change. We invite you to join us. Between July 16 and October 1, 2008, we invite you to share your new ideas for financial services that can bring about strong and positive economic and social impact.
Even if you do not offer a proposal of your own, we invite you to be part of the change by joining the online dialogue in which your experience and insights will be invaluable to the ever-growing field of 'financial services' for economic and social change. Through your participation in the online review discussion, you can make suggestions and recommend resources that will help refine and strengthen the strategies presented by competition entrants. Tell us what you're thinking, how you see the field, and where its challenges and opportunities lie.
We’ll need your help again between November 10-24, 2008 to vote for three winners from the finalists who will be selected by our panel of judges—a group of experts and influential leaders in their respective fields.
Together, we have the potential to create sustainable change and bring real financial solutions for all in addressing one of today’s most pressing economic issues. You may already be engaged in activities that are helping to change your corner of the world. Now bring this knowledge to a global community. We encourage you to invite others to the competition as well, so together we may uncover the creativity—and natural drive to innovate—within each of us.
Sincerely,
Sanjay Nayar CEO, Citi India Area Head—Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Nepal