No-Cost Extension with Deval Sanghavi
It’s time for India’s philanthropy sector to step down from its pedestal, stop hiding behind lofty jargon, and have a frank conversation about what’s really working, and more importantly what’s not. After dedicating twenty years to the philanthropy sector, Deval Sanghavi, co-Founder of Dasra, is now on a mission to hold a mirror up to the country’s philanthropy sector and examine why even after so much innovation and investment, the inequality gap in India is ever widening.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Lessons in Leadership
The Dasra Social Impact Leadership Programme began in 2006 as the DSI accelerator programme for leaders of not-for-profit organisations early in their scaling journeys. The DSI Leadership Programme …
Game changer for Good? Exploring the role of data, tech and AI in social impact
Earlier this year during Dasra Philanthropy Week 2025, innovators, changemakers, and thought leaders came together in Bengaluru to explore the role of Data, Technology, and AI in driving social impac…
Bhagwan Thacker: Giving With An Open Heart And Mind
Bhagwan P Thacker is the founder of The Empowerment Fund, a private, charitable foundation with an aim to support underserved communities in the Kutch District of Gujarat with a focus on education, …
Meet Chhattisgarh Mitwa Sankalp Samiti
Meet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
The Chhattisgarh Mitwa Sankalp Samiti is a Commu…
Funding Pride: Meet Deepshika Samiti
Meet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
Deepshikha Samiti is committed to fostering soci…
Funding Pride: Meet Vikalp
Meet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
Vikalp is a women’s rights group that advocates …
Funding Pride: Meet Payana
Meet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
What is Payana? Payana means Equality.
Payana i…
Funding Pride: Meet Basera Samajik Sansthan
Meet the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
Basera is a non-profit organization that strive…
Funding Pride: Meet Karna Subarna Welfare Society
Over the next few episodes we’ll be meeting the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
The Karna…
Funding Pride: Meet Ya_All, The Youth Network
Over the next few episodes we’ll be meeting the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
Sadam Han…
Funding Pride: Meet Sappho for Equality
Over the next few episodes we’ll be meeting the grassroots organizations who are part of the first cohort of The Pride Fund, India’s first dedicated LBTQIA+ fund launched in February 2025.
Sappho fo…
Funding Pride: Radhika Piramal on Empowering LGBTQIA+ Communities in India
We're kicking off a new season of No-Cost Extension with a conversation with Radhika Piramal. Radhika Piramal is one of the founding patrons of the Pride Fund India.
Radhika Piramal holds several se…
#RootedinHerPower: Deepa Pawar (Re-release)
To coincide with the launch of the Rebuild India Fund’s 7th cohort of grassroots NGOs, entirely women led AND assessed by women leaders from within the Rebuild portfolio, we thought we would revisit …
Dasra Philanthropy Week - Divya Varma from Aajeevika Bureau
Divya Varma represented the Ajeevika Bureau and Work Fair and Free Foundation at Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024.
She spoke passionately about India’s internal migrant population who are often forced t…
Dasra Philanthropy Week: Jackie Jones from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Jackie Jones is the Director, Gender Norms Portfolios and Office of the President at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where amongst many other things she thinks of gender dimensions and how they …
Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024 : Rooted Power - Investing in Women Leaders at the Grassroots
Join Maya Patel from the Tarsadia Foundation, Hechin Haokip from the Centre for Women and Girls, Manohari Doss from the Institute for Self Management and Farida Kathawalla from Circle of Hope in a co…
Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024: Binoy Acharya from Unnati
Binoy Acharya is the Founder-Director of Unnati - Organisation for Development Education. Unnati works in the spaces of Civic Leadership and Governance and Social Accountability, Disaster Risk Reduc…
Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024: Kuldeep Dantewadia from Reap Benefit
Kuldeep Dantewadia is the founder of Reap Benefit, a non-profit based in Bengaluru, India that is igniting a movement of young changemakers to redefine civic and climate leadership, one action at a …
Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024: Dr Arunabha Ghosh from CEEW
In today's episode, we're bringing to you Dr Arunabha Ghosh's Keynote Address from Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024 held in New York. Dr Arunabha Ghosh is a public policy expert, author and columnist and…
Celebrating 25 years at Dasra
We’re taking a break from regular programming with a series of conversations and microtalks from the recently concluded Dasra Philanthropy Forum 2024.
2024 was a milestone year with Dasra celebrating…