Alchemize™ is an acceleration methodology designed and developed by the team at Innovation Alchemy. The approach is focused towards applying innovation thinking in a Social Enterprise context that is seeking to scale the impact of its work. The methodology goes beyond working with just the primary founder, entrepreneur, with an aim to introduce speed, scale and sustainability, into the working of the organization, to achieve significantly higher impact.
The Social Enterprise Opportunity

New age Social Enterprises and more traditional non-profit civil society organizations who form the formidable ‘third sector’, have over the last couple of decades demonstrated impact …

Waste Wise Trust is one of the two programmes selected for in-depth acceleration & incubation, through the Alchemize process, as a part of the Guiding Social Innovations Programme 2011, designed and implemented by Innovation Alchemy in collaboration with the Marico Innovation Foundation.
The Challenge of Solid Waste Management
Urban India (comprising of 35 cosmopolitan cities & 393 class-1 towns) currently generates about 1, 00,000 tons of solid waste every day. Taking into account the estimated rise in population & trends of consumerism solid waste figures are set to significantly increase. It is …

Yuva Parivartan was one of the two programmes selected for in-depth acceleration & incubation, through the Alchemize process, as a part of the Guiding Social Innovations Programme 2011, designed and implemented by Innovation Alchemy in collaboration with the Marico Innovation Foundation.
Yuva Parivartan provides employability training to young people who have either dropped out of formal education (or) are at risk of having no real livelihood options. It is estimated that by 2016 close to 500 million people in India would have dropped out of school, having gone through less than 5 years of …

Innovation Alchemy hosted the 5th Alchemix discussion in Mumbai at the Bombay HUB on Thursday, April 26th 2012. The session focused on the need and opportunity for breakthrough innovation designed for and implemented with the Urban Poor, a rapidly growing challenge in urban centers such as Mumbai where 54% of the population (over 10 million people) live in slums.
In the foreword for the Mumbai Human Development Report in 2009, Kumari Selja, the Minister for Housing and Poverty alleviation states: “…Mumbai contributes 33% of income tax collection, 60% of India’s customs …

It is estimated that every Indian consumes approximately 8 kgs of plastic a year.  If even 20% of the total plastic consumed gets into the waste cycle, that equals over a billion kilograms of plastic waste that will be generated in India just this year alone. The per capita figure usage has gone up from 4 Kgs per Indian in 2006 and is expected to grow to 25 Kgs of plastic used by every Indian per year by 2020. Imagine how much plastic waste we will be dealing with by …