Meera ANGOG
Meera ANGOG
Meera ANGOG
Asian NGO Governing Council (ANGOG) is the first and only platform dedicated to Asia's Social
Development sector. We empower nonprofit organizations, civil society, socially-responsible
businesses, social enterprises and philanthropists with the knowledge and the tools they need to
achieve their social mission and make a difference in the world. To achieve its mission Asian NGO
Governing Council provides a range of tools to capacitate its users. These tools include a daily
updated web portal containing databases for funds, partners, experts and events. In addition the
portal includes a curated selection of knowledge resources and e-learning tools. Asian NGO
Governing Council Academy also provides in-person training programs with certified instructors.
Asian NGO Governing Council also publishes Impact, a quarterly magazine available online and in
print. The magazine features insights, interviews and practical advice that cut across borders and
themes, from some of the most innovative and influential minds in the social sector today. To
complement Impact, Asian NGO Governing Council releases the weekly e-newsletter with the
upcoming events and news. The e-newsletter provides a powerful snapshot of the current state of
the Social Development Sector. Asian NGO Governing Council was founded by Asia Society for
Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST), which is an innovative,
international capacity building Pan-Asian NGO based in Manila, Philippines with offices in 6
countries in Asia.
Asian NGO Governing Council is a one-stop solution to all your grants, partnership, and learning
needs. We aim to empower and unite NGOs, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises and
philanthropists with NGO funding sources to help them amplify their impact towards society’s
development . Being a highly efficient engine, Asian NGO Governing Council focuses on
supporting and ensuring the sustainability of the key actors in the development sector by providing
information on nonprofit funding sources, relevant funds for NGO’s, securing partnerships and
accommodating learning needs.
ANGOG Specialties
Social Development, Corporate Social Development, Philanthropy , E-Learning, Grants, Funds,
Project Management, Digital Resources, Capacity Building, Knowledge Management, Magazine,
and Media
ANGOG Vision
"To provide a platform to the community to collaborate and conduct business according to ")
ANGOG Objectives
1. To create a body which will accommodate freelancers, SME's, MSME’s, large corporates,
professionals, consultants, start-ups, organized and un-organized businesses, traders & other
small entrepreneurs as members & provide membership in the ANGOG.
2. To offer Category-wise/Industry-wise /segment-wise exchange of business Ideas ,Exchange
of opportunities, collaborations/partnerships, trade, investments, exchange of services,
project funding, agent sourcing, overseas business expansion, rising funds, provide
consultation, freelancing services & other advisory services to the Industry and /or
members.
3. To conduct and participate in different business delegations & govt initiatives, attend
seminars & make presence of business community in different economic forums.
4. To present on behalf of Businesses, any proposal /amendments/modify /change any govt
policies which has negative effect/impact on trade/ business community within the ambit of
legal & constitutional provision.
5. To conduct business seminars & knowledge sharing sessions by domain experts /
intellectuals / successful entrepreneurs.
6. To Provide necessary help to members & non-member in disaster management & to provide
all required assistance to rebuild the loss of business by mobilizing resources
7. To exchange business ideas with similar organisations & leverage their strength to benefit
our members.
8. To create job opportunities.
9. To Nominate business leaders as speakers & give them the right platform to expose their
skills nationally & internationally.
10. To provide data base of national & international businesses to assist their import & export
trade or for any other purpose
11. Sharing information & educating businesses on policy change & its impact.
12. To provide preliminary legal & secretarial advice with regards to FDI & for international
business expansion.
13. To build relationship with foreign embassies, especially with friendly countries to exchange
business opportunities.
14. To conduct training & development programs, online & offline for the benefits of members
& their affiliates
15. To provide assistance to NRIs of our community to invest with Indian businesses.
16. To organize social gathering between members & non-members.
17. To place recommendations to respective governments on improving the trade, commerce,
and investments.
18. To closely interact and develop synergy with similar organisations.
19. To promote friendship, understanding and closer relationship between Indian businesses &
International businesses through Education, Social, Cultural & Economic activities etc.
20. To provide information, promote trade, Joint Ventures, investment.
21. To assist advisory/Consulting services to Indian & International Businesses
22. To print and/or publish any newsletters, periodicals, books, journals or other documents that
the ANGOG may think desirable for internal use.
23. To have Liaison Office(s)/Representing offices in other parts of India & overseas.
24. To Launch Business Portals & promote business activities of members using various social/
business networking platforms.
25. To import or export goods /services/tangible & intangible assets in the interest of ANGOGs
development or for internal use of ANGOG.
26. To handle Conflicts, settle litigations and to perform as arbitrator asper the provisions of
arbitration act.
27. To perform as sponsors in National & International Event to promote activities of
ANGOGs, sponsor community-based programs, education sponsorship for community
students on merit, Sponsor skill development programs for members & for non-members.
28. To setup an angel network to promote business growth and respective businesses’ scaling
up.
29. To act as incubators for young entrepreneurs.
30. To promote micro-finance( non riba)
31. To operate as a Rating agency for community businesses
32. To facilitate and help its members get benefit from diverse initiatives to promote business
and provide employment.
33. To Facilitate interaction of its members with the government and decision makers.
34. To build meaningful relationships among business communities locally, nationally and
internationally.
35. Take active part and have a robust dialogue with the state and central government on public
and business policies
36. To put forward the views of its members and relevant business requirements to be included
in budgets and government policies
37. To mentor and coach upcoming businessmen and Women and train the entrepreneurs and
employees
38. To recognise, encourage and promote noble activities in the society by conferring awards
and felicitating outstanding achievers in areas such as Business & Industry and Education,
Conduct Business Summit, Trade shows & Exhibitions etc.
39. To conduct such other activities which are of public good and benefit to the society in
general.
40. To conduct Exhibitions ,Business Conclave or any other event to promote ,market &
demonstrate the skills of Members or from business community.
41. To do research & do business feasibility studies for any product/service.
42. To do required due diligence or to cross verify the business model of Members /non
members ,towards the interest of benefiting the community
43. To provide educational ,skill development scholarships /sponsorships to the community
students & to under privileged members/non members.
ANGOG Membership
Amplify your reach by registering yourself as an expert from the development sector to get noticed
by donors, philanthropic foundations and organizations,
Register your organization so that the world of development sector knows your good work and are
looking to partner with you or fund your initiatives & services. Connect and work with relevant
groups and philanthropists who give to individuals and organizations as well as developmental
experts from various backgrounds, experiences and origins to create a strong partnership for
delivering impact in the society.
Register as an Expert
Register as an Organisation
Register as a Premium Member
ANGOG Member Services & Benefits
1 . B2B Meetings
3. Liaison Office
Assistance in department related issues, such as expediting licenses to set up plants or getting
clearances. Agency works to help and bridge the gap between organizations (Government,
Ministries, Govt Departments, etc.) and the end user. While setting up big projects in different
sectors, one officer shall liaise across different departments and support members to setup the
facility. ANGOG cannot give commitments, but it is only to offer service, the decisions are made
with the respective departments. The liaison office may have internal team members who will
support its function.
This is Special Service on demand.
4. Investment Pool
Professional teams shall be delegated to other states and countries in order to promote Indian
Muslims owned businesses, enhance business skills of budding entrepreneurs, effect exchange of
opportunities, conduct investors’ meets and arrange for foreign delegation representations. IICCB
shall make arrangements for travel, accommodation, B2B sessions with potential partners,
seminars, presentations and networking dinners wherever applicable.
Indian investment overseas, for development is about 56 billion dollars. There is tremendous
potential for Indian businesses with transparency in tender process and lucrative profit margins.
Capability to execute projects, strong local partners and goodwill facilitate winning projects. We
shall invite foreign investors/other business chambers to visit our members’ businesses to find new
opportunities.
IICCB aims to act as coordinator/intermediary for our business community and help negotiate with
government departments to access government schemes and assure that benefits reach our
community.
This is General service for all members.
IICCB shall identify manpower needs of our community businesses & engage our talent pool with
the businesses, create job portals and organize job fairs /recruitment drives for them.
This is General Service for all members.
10. Technological Advancement And Talent
Identify technology needs & demands across industry & supply adequate resources to the talent
pool of our community. Consultants with niche experience, industry understanding, and problem-
solving abilities will be available through IICCB for consultation.
This is General Service for all members.
IICCB shall identify suitable business opportunities for women and provide guidance till the
establishment of their operations. Ideas shall be studied for feasibility by IICCB experts and robust
opportunities/projects will be made available to women entrepreneurs subsequently. Budding
entrepreneurs having the right aptitude shall be assisted with the required skills and competencies.
This is General Service for all members.
Develop business directory like yellow pages of Muslim community from India & other
countries and make it available online and in print form. This shall be an open-access directory for
the entire community.
This is General Service for all members.
Members will get training on specific areas of interest to skills and add value to manage their
business more efficiently.
To sustain business growth such that the business owners are abreast with latest trends and
demands. Objective is to assist in getting the right skill for continuity of business and reduce
dependency. This could be a family-based business, Micro or Small-scale industry.
This is General Service for all members.
ANGOG will conduct workshops every year and hunt talent to place them at top high-profile
positions at national and International levels.
We believe there are always exceptional people in all teams. ANGOG will groom the professionals
in their respective fields with required sponsorship and support.
This is Special Service for selected members.
Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs), Micro, Small, and Medium sized Enterprises
(MSMEs). Corporate governance is to make the organizations follow the statutory requirements,
such as legal, law, HR, financial and moral obligations, etc… Most Muslim businesses do not
follow corporate governance. Identifying such businesses and helping them implement processes
into their operations shall be the aim of IICCB. Long term benefits of such businesses with right
practices, ethics, processes, etc. would be that International companies prefer to do businesses with
partners who are competent and have good systems and processes in place.
This is Special Service for specific eligible members.
16. Re-Engineering Business Models For Growth, Sustenance, And Leadership
ANGOG shall offer the road map and direction to unorganized sectors to structure their business
models to upgrade & get a level playing field with other mainstream businesses.
ANGOG can also have a vertical of basic popular needs of small-scale business.
The younger generation needs to take advantage of this offering especially those who are
successors of a family-run business.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG shall share case studies and success stories with members at regular intervals to
boost morale and encourage others to implement. This shall be done by bringing experienced
leaders who can share their experiences.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG shall invite members to visit new advanced manufacturing plants & the organizations
to have direct face to face experiences to understand new initiatives, technology, process and
innovations. The initiative is to bring new innovations to IICCB members.
This is a Special Service for specific members.
Members will get a platform wherein they can bring their business conflicts to settle at preliminary
levels under ANGOGs arbitration cell. The Arbitration cell will try to resolve and provide
compromising formulas to conflicts to avoid court cases & unnecessary legal tussles.
Community Lawyers, Judges, IAS, KAS officers shall be in the panel for settlements. The outcome
is productivity, time-saving, financial gain and can spare time to focus on the main business.
This is a General Service for all members.
Provide sponsorships to students, teachers, and professionals to upgrade their skills & knowledge
from time to time with the latest methodology. This is more of social responsibility for the
community, to be up to date and help them for better careers in their respective professions.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG shall offer a platform to list their brands on the portal and social networking sites to
connect global businesses for better market leverage.
The ANGOG will have sub-portal for each of verticals to showcase the product’s availability. The
available information within IICCB will help small companies to have easy access. Also,
entrepreneur members can get internal feedback from the community before the product is launched
in the open market. The Platform will offer research data in the form of community inputs and
market the product.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG shall offer video conferencing facilities to members to have dialogues with other
members. This will help members in connecting the right people and to have good turnaround time
for their business requirements.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG shall organise social events to know each other, interact and share new business ideas
and experiences. This will be helpful to keep the momentum and to strengthen bonding between
businesses. Achievements shall be recognised to encourage members to work towards bigger causes
for the community.
This is a General Service for all members.
24. External Investors Channel For New Business Opportunities Through IICCB
The ANGOG shall invite foreign investors and other business chambers to visit our members’
businesses to find new opportunities.
This is reverse of the delegation process explained already. This is to bring the foreign and external
delegations to show the details of members’ business, and to facilitate the complete program.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG will provide professional assistance in debt restructuring, organisation restructuring,
asset re-structuring to businesses under stress.
Generally, such business owners go to the bank and take repeated loans with high-interest rates and
land in a vicious circle ending in bankruptcies. The ANGOG shall guide and assist with collective
knowledge and experience by providing information, professional advice, and guidance to be
successful. This will also be an opportunity to work with shared risk, to utilise the capacity
available from other community members’ business, spread to risk, share project deliverables, share
profits, and reduce capital investments. With fast rationalisation, members will have lesser financial
burdens, and productivity of the community is increased.
This is a General Service for all members.
26. Preliminary Legal Assistance To Connect And Expand Businesses Through IICCB
Through ANGOG network, we provide preliminary legal assistance or documentation required and
process, and guide owners make the right connects to establish and expand their businesses.
ANGOG will help in choosing the right consultant from the network to provide such services. The
consultants will assist in areas such as; starting the legal process, tax benefits, legal complaints,
labour law, visa process, limitation of a number of employees allowed from the local market and
from abroad, financial deposits to be made, regular tax filing, etc.
Such preliminary advice services will be required by the businessmen wanting to set up business
abroad, and before the going abroad, IICCB will provide preliminary advice from the legal and
Secretarial desk.
This service will be on need base to specific members and using this service will build a good
rapport with the businessman. Initially, few high demand states & country consultants will be
targeted to have tie-up and IICCB acting as a referral agent.
The ANGOG will conduct Personality development programs for upcoming businesses, to create
more trustful relations with the National & international customers. This is to impart the right
practices and professional approach while facing customers and practices to meet finance and time
commitments, polite behaviour. This will secure the interest and image of the ANGOG and the
Nation.
The ANGOG will develop an internal team to impart such skills to IICCB members and to conduct
full-time training sessions.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG will offer donations to poor, orphans and widows to have a dignified life.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A separate vertical will be formed apart from core
business activities. This vertical will be run with responsibilities to manage Profit & Loss
statements, raise donations, and spend it on the needy. In addition to the CSR internal donations, a
percentage of income from other business verticals will be shared with CSR vertical.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG will promote new and innovative IDEAs within the business community by
conducting exclusive seminars and workshops.
It is an ongoing activity for Reward and Recognition. R&R, regular idea box drive will be
conducted to demonstrate the idea, and study the project for technical, financial and commercial
feasibility. Based on the feedback of the team, the idea will be supported for realisation.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG will organise meetings with foreign embassies & our IICCB members to understand
opportunities overseas.
This is a vast area of opportunities, as there are many projects of India being executed in Foreign
countries. Embassies have a commercial division to promote Indian products, and these offices
have targets to promote exports and maintain trade deficits. Embassy offices offer such information
about products.
This is a special service for serious business members.
The ANGOG shall provide information about Govt funded projects at national & international level
so that our community businesses participate in such opportunities directly.
Such projects will be large budget projects, and generally supported by prepayments by the
Government, and generally executed by many sub-contractors.
This is a special case for selected members to manage specific high-end projects. IICCB will only
give the guidance, the business owner decides how to manage the project acquisitions and
executions.
The ANGOG will provide consultancy and services for many projects with bigger budgets.
Circulate this kind of information with the community, and to get the allocated funds from the
government for the deserving community.
This is a special service for selected members.
The ANGOG shall provide talented resource information from IICCB database to other nations to
choose from our community. HR consulting section will collaborate with foreign partners to supply
mass skilled resource/technicians for major projects.
This is a General service for all members.
ANGOG will provide required skill development training to our mid-level company CEO’S and
business heads to uplift their businesses to next levels. This kind of training and consultancy of
leadership programs will be conducted by separate training vertical, to help small-sized enterprises
to mature into Medium-sized enterprise.
This is a General service for all members.
35. Conduct LDP, MDP Programs From Renowned National & International Institutions
The ANGOG will create opportunities to bring foreign manufactured products to IICCB members
to become distributors in India & overseas.
IICCB will identify the market demand for foreign products and work on matching both sides of the
business. Information on such opportunities will be shared with the members about the contributing
factors such as resource availability at lesser prices, product variations, selling price, raw material
availability at cheaper prices to be identified.
This is a special service for specific members.
Create freelancer’s and consultant’s database for members to avail quality services for temporary
assignments or to fulfil any other requirements. With the IICCB skill-based database, it is an
opportunity to utilise the resource from members before going into the open market.
This is a General service for all members.
The ANGOG will organise events and exhibitions by bringing reputable institutions to offer their
courses and act as a mediator between educational institutions & students to place the right
candidates in the right institution. Also, the ANGOG shall negotiate a bulk fee structure for the
community students. ANGOG shall counsel candidates into colleges and courses to choose their
career paths. IICCB shall validate the credibility of the participating institutions thereby avoiding
students from falling prey to fake institutions. Students may avail the assistance of in-house
consultants and organisers during job fairs, whenever required.
This is a General Service for all members.
39. Develop Special Offerings For Low Budget Housing For Poor Through Government
ANGOG will develop special schemes and offerings for low-cost housing for the poor in
association with government schemes and realtors.
Government allocates budget to allot homes for citizens below the poverty line. Frequently public is
not aware of such schemes. ANGOG will structure the complete chain of activities in this, and
ensure it is used in construction activities and in allotment of homes to reach our needy community
effectively. This scope will be under the vertical of Corporate social responsibility.
This is a General Service for all members.
ANGOG will help to promote the family business to the next levels, such that they can compete as
corporate.
ANGOG will have an internal team to conduct business transformation & change management
program and to focus on upgrading the skills to transform a family business into a corporate sector.
This consultancy will be offered through ANGOGs consulting business vertical.
This is a special service for specific members.
41. Help Business To Follow International Audits And Standards (ISO, HEPA, FSSAI)
The ANGOG shall bring such required quality consultants on board to certify our businesses on a
discounted pricing. So that they can compete with national & international opportunities with their
offerings.
This is a special service for specific members.
It is very important that the community have good representation in all government departments.
The ANGOG shall conduct required courses to prepare them to appear for Government job
entrance examinations and provide exclusive counselling to succeed.
This is a General service for all members.
ANGOG will have a team working to be under Liaison department to check Government schemes,
find the sources, initiate dialogue with the Govt officials, and ensure the community gets the
benefits of such schemes without any deviation in between.
This is a General Service for all members.
ANGOG will offer Newsletter with regular IICCB updates and other information which will be
useful to members.
It will have the recognition with hall of fame, ANGOG news, business promotion information, and
selected articles from members.
This is a General Service for all members.
ANGOG will conduct programs in association with NGO’s & other related associations who are
engaged in promoting public civic sense.
This is a General Service for all members.
ANGOG will Provide preliminary due diligence assistance to members, to deal with in the network
without any risks from IICCB members database.
From IICCB database, the data will be as verified or unverified data to have the dependency on the
information. ANGOG will set the process in place for categorisation so that members can deal
without hesitation in their minds for their business engagements.
ANGOG will provide Verified data of members which are prepared after financial scrutiny of
Balance sheets.
This is a General Service for all members.
The ANGOG shall provide intellectual and financial support to educational institutions, and for the
development of our medical and healthcare organizations.
Our community has several secondary care hospitals which have not developed into tertiary or
multispecialty centres. For both Educational and Healthcare organizations, ANGOG shall identify
the needs and find resources within India & abroad, and then support to upgrade them. ANGOG
will also maintain separate funds wherein interested members can participate and bring in
investments from different sources.
This is a special service for specific members.