CAF Community - Member Profiles

Avani Parekh, Socent Consultant

Avani is a socent consultant, tech for good specialist, and lean-startup for social enterprise lover. She's a mean karaoke singer and always wanted to have blue hair. With stints in the US, Kenya and India - and in sectors ranging from clean energy/biogas, community economic development, microfinance, education, gender-based, financial literacy, human rights, and violence and reproductive and sexual health, you don't have to tell her twice about intersectionality. She's big on experimenting for social good and loves early stage projects, pivots and opportunities to do storytelling. She's also a #grassroortsgal - loving all things on the ground. With 15 years of experience leading and ideating for all kinds of organisations, even as a social entrepreneur herself as the founder of lovedoctor.in she's ready to add value to your organisation too!

She's currently seeking consulting opportunities

Mail: avaniparekh@gmail.com

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Dharmendra Bana, Entrepreneur, NPO Management

I am Dharmendra Bana, co-founder of Rangbari Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd. Rangbari was founded in December 2016, the result of my interest and aim to work towards art and artisan development in India. I have completed my Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. After my Masters I had joined Seva Mandir, Udaipur and worked there for 2 years. After Seva Mandir, I worked with Ranchi Based NGO Pratigya (Right to Education), Tata Steel Rural Development Society, Jamshedpur and Karma Primary Healthcare Private Ltd. as Manger Analytics and Operations. I have experience of working with non profit organisations, CSR, Social Enterprise and of running an enterprise. Due to working in different regions and organisations I am very well equipped with all needed expertise for non profit sector, documentation and management.

Since January 2016 I am working as freelance consultant for Non Profit Sector Management. I am very good in public relation. I can be contacted for Non profit sector’s management, project proposal writing, entrepreneurship development, annual report writing, devising monitoring framework, training on financial management of non profit, FCRA etc.

I am a kind of guy who works very well without supervision and with deadlines. I am a nocturnal by nature and like reading books on different subjects and travelling to keep exploring and enhancing my skills.

Mail : dharm6286@gmail.com

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Manju Menon- Strategy, and Project Management

“Jack of all trades and Master of few”

A social impact professional, entrepreneur , student and a proud mom, I switch my hats every day, every moment.

I am passionate about Social Impact .After graduating with an MBA from XIM Bhubaneshwar, I got inducted to the social development sector where for the last 12 years I worked at both grassroots (NaandiWater project at Naandi Foundation) and strategy level (SMILE Foundation). These stints helped me develop a competency to convert ideas into executional programs by conceptualizing, designing and implementing them. In the past, I have set up pilot projects and scaled them to national level initiatives in the areas of Mobile Health Clinics and Skill Training for youth . In my role of managing the Action for Children programme in India (Wild Geese Foundation’s multi country initiative for building capacity of non profits working with children) and the brief stint with Impact investment (Unitus Impact) helped me honed my skill on capacity assessment of organisation, due diligence and market research.

I believe that true success of a social impact program is realized when the community do not need that intervention any more or the when initiative self sustains. To satisfy my urge to learn more about sustainable operational models for social development, I am currently researching in the area of Social Entrepreneurship, as a part of my PhD from TISS, Mumbai.

I Co-founded NuSocia in 2017 which is an impact advisory that enable clients to co-create effective social impact solutions. At present , I am associated with Fondazione ACRA - an Italian origin international NGO, as their India Representative, overseeing an EU funded project on sustainable transportation. I am a MDF certified trainer on fund raising and supports non-profit leaders with training and coaching .

The exposure of living and working in several regions of India and extensive travels to Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin Americas has helped me understand cultural diversity and offered chance to learn new languages.

I loved to read and thrillers are my all time favorite. I dream of a society where responsible and sustainable living is a way of life.

Specialties: Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation, Process Development, Strategy for Non-Profits

Mail: manju@nuscocia.com

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Mayank Lodha

I am an MBA from FMS Delhi with experience across the education, rural development and public health ecosystems, both at the grassroots as well as strategic levels. In my current role, with the Department of Social Welfare, Govt of Andhra Pradesh, I work towards the systemic transformation of the residential school system for students from underprivileged backgrounds.

Prior to this, as a Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellow I have worked in a remote left-wing extremist-affected district in Jharkhand to improve last mile public service delivery. At the Chief Secretary's office, I focused on making pragmatic recommendations and driving innovative programs and processes at scale. As a Teach for India fellow, I have taught in a Govt. school in Pune leading a class of 62 kids and spent the summer at Teach for China.

Earlier, I worked in the public health ecosystem, focusing on using data-driven insights towards improving the implementation and effectiveness of Antara’s programs, drive advocacy efforts to increase the saliency of child nutrition and explore demand-side interventions at the grassroots

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Priyambada Nath, Marketing and Sales

I am a management professional with more than 9 years of experience in the field of Marketing and Sales. I have worked in various aspects of the entertainment industry, right from newspaper, television, multiplex, and exhibition. I have been a part of the Communications Team in conducting multi sporting event of International stature. Presently, I am attached with Spicejet in their Marketing team as an Events Management Consultant.

Additionally, I have also enjoyed a short stint, well not very short if you count two years with various private institutes in and around Guwahati as a Visiting Faculty, wherein I taught Communications and Personality Development. I have also taught Retail Management to a batch of premier institute in Guwahati.

I am a fellow with an NGO called Doing Good Fellows (DGF) although right now for quite some time I have not done anything significant with them. As a part of DGF I have designed content for Youth Development Foundation. In the same capacity I have also worked with Teach for India as a volunteer for their initiative Maya.

Additionally, I am an avid photographer and my work has been featured in various blogs and online magazines. My photograph has also been showcased in an exhibition titled “Women of India”. I am an avid writer and have written a number of short stories.

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Mail: nathpriyam@gmail.com

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Rahul Ahmad, Content Marketing

Though more common today, the thought of frequently switching careers 15 years ago definitely raised a number of eyebrows. However, that’s just what I did – and with no regrets!

Having started my professional career in 2002 after a Masters in Multimedia from the UK, I worked in the online edition of national dailies in Delhi and Dubai. An eye-opening experience given that online news content and management were relatively new and technology like smartphones as well as social media were in their infancy. Being in Dubai, I fell into the real estate boom during the mid-2000s creating marketing collateral and research papers for the global advisory firm Jones Lang LaSalle (now simply known as JLL). A significant experience given the sheer number, size and scale of projects in the region. Four years on and with the markets floundering I decided to take a break from employment and move onto something completely different. After much thought and even visits to various institutes, I enrolled in a course in film-making in Prague, Czech Republic. The beautiful city leant itself to stunning locations for film-making and I wrote, directed and edited a number of short films.

On completion, I found myself back in Delhi working as a scriptwriter for an animation firm creating corporate promotional videos. However, now that online news content was a different entity from my previous stint I decided to join a new weekly newspaper in Goa (yes, Goa!) to run their online edition. A challenging move given the location and the somewhat limited resources but the experience itself was definitely memorable.

However, big city life was calling me and I found myself in Bangalore where I first worked for a global ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi leading the digital content team and then on the client side with IBM working as a content marketing manager.

Using all of this experience I recently decided to start my own outfit, Brevity (a take on the clear, concise content principles of less is more), to provide compelling narratives to businesses as part of their marketing strategies. Using visual devices and story-telling I breakdown complex concepts into bite-size, snackable content which can be delivered both online and offline. I provide input and strategy within the marketing communication and content space across a number of media. I aim to create content which connects with the audience, is impactful and creates a lasting impression.

Mail: rahul.ahmad@brevity-ink.com

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Jyotsna Siddharth

A Chevening Scholar, I have background in Development Studies and Anthropology. My current professional engagement with UN Women provides me richer opportunities to learn about government system of operations and budgeting procedures while I am involved in mainstreaming gender and gender responsive budgeting in Directorate of Women Empowerment with Government of Rajasthan. In the past, I have worked as a Consultant to UNICEF, to provide technical support to Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Delhi. Technical guidance and support was provided to the Ministry to organise audio-video commercials of Vidya Balan on building toilets for open defecation free villages along with assistance to UNICEF wash team for brainstorming on integrating gender frameworks in water sector. I have also worked with several non-government organisations, including Centre for Equity Studies to support a study on assessing status of bonded labourers across four states in India. The findings of data collection informed the section on Bonded Labours in the India Exclusion Report- 2013-14.

Whenever time permits, I contribute to Roundtable India- an exclusive platform to publish writings on caste and gender with mass readership in India and abroad. I enjoy acting in theatre, was part of Pandies- an activist theatre group works with children living in juvenile homes and railway platforms. Apart fromthat, I also enjoy writing, painting, and organising film screenings and discussions.

I am currently based in Jaipur, Rajasthan and open for taking freelance work in areas related to Gender, WASH, Governance and Strategy building and Monitoring and Evaluation.

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Email: siddharth.jyotsna@gmail.com

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