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  The Board    
 

Nalini

Ms. Nalini Gangadharan
Promoter & Chairperson
Trustee

A gold medalist from Madras University, is a development professional with considerable experience in change management, scenario development, institutional building and resource mobilization for non-profits both in terms of funding, as well as technical and networking support. Using her experience from a career spanning close to 2 decades in diverse areas of urban poverty, she has defined a viable and sustainable social investment model through public-private partnerships transferring successful business strategies, skills and venture support to develop citizen-based initiatives with civil society organisations, community based organisations, NGOs, governments, networks, business, media, national and international agencies. She is responsible for creation, sustenance and maintenance of the following path –breaking development initiatives

» Livelihood Advancement Business School ( LABS)
» Child & Police (CAP) Project
» Clothes Bank
» Teen Channel program for Linking Learning and Livelihood
» Ek Mouka Employability Training (Workforce Development Initiative)

 

 

Naidu

Dr. C. R. Naidu, IPS (Retd)
Co-founder Trustee

MA Sociology & Ph.D Degree in Commerce & Management studies retired. as IGP APSP Battalions. He has extensive experience in Community service and is instrumental in the setting up of CAP.

 

 

Ravindra

Dr. Ravindra Prasad
Trustee

An urban poverty alleviation specialist and former Director of Regional Centre for urban and Environmental Studies. He has played a critical role in translating the pilot of the Livelihood program into a critical mass with the help of municipal administration department of the Andhra Pradesh.

 

 

Jaya

Dr. Jaya Indiresan
Advisory Council member

A training specialist. She has extensive experience in designing, developing and conducting executive development programmes. She has trained many groups of trainers of Administrative Staff Colleges, Delhi Police and NGOs. Her research interests include facilitating institution building with particular reference to students, faculty and administrators in higher education. She has over sixty research papers published in national and international journals, chapters in books and books.