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Our Vision

A VIBRANT AND CREDIBLE

SOCIAL SECTOR

MISSION

  • To gain consensus across stakeholders for common professional
    standards
  • Enhance Visibility, Transparency, Accountability and Efficiency through better use of process and technology in the social sector
  • Enlarge quality resource pool for Social Sector

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

  • Mutual respect for all is the cornerstone of our interactions
  • We will expose ourselves to scrutiny from all stakeholders
  • We will be outcome driven without compromising on ethics
  • Our positions will be based on sound research and professional approach

Our Story

WHY DHWANI?

The development sector in India is going through a significant transformation, with enhanced CSR support, new forms of philanthropy, evolving donor expectations on transparency and scalability, and the influence of technology, among other things. In order to win donor support, both institutional and individual,NGOs today are required to have an ever greater commitment towards capacity-building, transparency and impact reporting.

Dhwani Foundation aims to strengthen and professionalize the NGO sector in India, especially small and rural organisations who are hard pressed to adapt to the rapid changes in the sector.

HOW WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Dhwani Foundation is dedicated to improving the efficiency and accountability of NGOs, and thereby enhancing the credibility of the social sector. We focus on three key areas – organisation development, NGO services and sector development.

 

ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT

Through mentoring and imparting knowledge and skills to NGOs in the areas of compliance, good governance, accounting, MIS, technology adoption, programme management and strategic planning.

 

NGO SERVICES

Focused on building efficiency and compliance, while optimising time and resources. While our Goonjan software helps NGOs with data management and reporting, we also support them in meeting legal and statutory requirements of the government and concerned organisations through information sharing and training.

 

SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

By playing an active role in advocating policy changes; developing NGO networks to foster collective progress; and collaborating with other significant stakeholders, including Government, NGO Federations, Corporate Donors and Donor Agencies.

Today, 23 NGOs across Karnataka have benefitted from our capacity building initiatives and 65 NGOs across India are using our technology solutions. Overall, the Foundation has impacted over 200,000 beneficiaries across India. And this, we believe, is only the beginning.

Key Milestones

Our People

TRUSTEES

Mr. M. J. Aravind

Managing Trustee

MJ Aravind has over 30 years of global experience with large multinational corporations including compaq, DEC, and Xerox in areas such as supply chain, sales and marketing,customer service and field operations. Aravind was a co-founder and VP Operations of Daksh eServices, one of India's earliest and largest independent BPO( business processing organization ) companies. Post Daksh, Aravind leveraged his operational experience and extensive network to help set up the India operations of Artiman Ventures, an early stage Ventures Capital firm. In the last decade, Aravind has been extensively involved with the Social Sector in executive and Board roles.He was on the Board of The Association of People with Disability for 8 years. He is also an Advisor to the Disability NGO Alliance, Bangalore.

Manju Kuchhal

Lifetime Trustee

Manju Kuchhal has close to 20 years of experience in the field of technology, including software
development at Tata Consultancy Services. During the last few years, she has supported Dhwani Foundation in developing technology solutions for NGOs. She works closely with NGOs to identify operational areas where technology can be leveraged, engage with relevant solution providers and help develop effective solutions. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Application from LD College =of Engineering, Ahmedabad.

Dr S Rajagopalan

Trustee

Dr S Rajagopalan heads the IIITB Innovation Centre. A veteran in the social-tech space and an Ashoka Fellow, Dr Rajagopalan was the CEO of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology from 1982 to 1993, and thereafter co-founded Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE), a non-profit development society for innovating social-tech products. As Chairman of TIDE, he was among the four finalists of Social Entrepreneur of India award (2006), and one of the 50 pioneers of India chosen by India Today magazine (2008). TIDE received the International Ashden Award in 2008. He holds a BTech degree from IIT Delhi, PGDM from IIM Bangalore and PhD from IIT Kanpur.

Pramod Kulkarni

Trustee

Pramod has been associated with the social sector for over three decades, holding senior management positions in leading NGOs, including PRADAN (1984-1995), iVolunteer (2000-2010) and Prerana (1990- 2012). He is the founder of SAATHI, a pan-India NGO that reintegrates runaway children with their families.Keen on supporting economically challenged meritorious students, Pramod has been actively involved with organizations such as Vidyaposhak and Prerana Nurture Merit, apart from teaching voluntarily in Government schools. Pramod has an MSc degree from MS University, Baroda, and a PGDM from IIM,Ahmedabad.

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EXECUTIVE TEAM

K. N. Gopinath

Executive Director

Gopinath has over 20 years diverse in the Social Sector with a long stint in The Association of People of Disabilities, Bangalore He is the managing trustee of Motivation India, a subsidiary of the Motivation UK one of the leading international organization in the field of wheelchair provisioning. Gopinath is also a sought after resource person in the Sector.
He holds a master’s degree in Social Work and a Certified Common Purpose Graduate.

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Koushik Yanamandram

Senior Program Manager - Niranthara

Koushik has been an active socio-entrepreneur and development consultant in the clean energy & rural development space for over a decade. He is an active Coach at Climate Launchpad and Member - Institution Innovation Council at TERI School of Advanced Studies. Koushik holds an MTech degree in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management. He was an Acumen India Fellow in 2016 and Entrepreneur in Residence at Villgro Innovations Foundation in 2013-14.

C R Murrali

C R Murali

Master Trainer - Niranthara

Murrali comes with over 30 years experience in Banking sector and Educational institutions. He has a vast experience in training, administration and financial aspects.
He has an exposure to both Indian and overseas banking sectors. He has held various senior positions and currently associated with Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development as its CFO.

He has a special passion towards training and development an avid sports person.

Pradeep BK

Program Officer- Niranthara

Pradeep has dedicated his career to the social sector, working across leading development organisations like GVSSN, Magic Bus India Foundation and NIMHANS. He holds a Master’s degree in Development Management from the University of Mysuru

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Prithwipala K

Manager-Help Desk

Prithwi is a development Sector professional, working in National and international organizations for the last 10 years in the areas of HIV/AIDS, TB, Orphan & Vulnerable children, Adolescent girls, female sex workers, Urban Slum population & working closely with Government departments and public-private partnership program. His key skills are Program planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, community mobilization, capacity building & counselling.
He holds Master’s degree in Social work.

Mahesh Chandra E

Manager – Finance

Mahesh comes with over 17 years of Finance and Administration experience across leading social sector organizations like World Health organization (WHO) – Gulbarga, Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID), Child Fund India and others. He specialises in the areas of accounting, finance management, training, grant management, partnership management and administration. He holds a PG Diploma in Financial Management and Higher Diploma in Software Engineering.

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Thriveni Gandhi

Admin / Operations support

Thriveni Gandhi is a Cluster Manager at Dhwani Foundation. She drives the knowledge transfer and site implementation for four Niranthara partners in central Karnataka. She started her career as a NSS volunteer and then worked in many national and international organisations focusing on Community Health and Research. Amongst other roles, she has been a District Coordinator. She is a Fellow of Deshpande Foundation

Nikil KP

Senior Program Manager - Niranthara, Tamil Nadu

Nikil brings over 15 years of professional experience in office automation and digital printing sector. He held various senior management roles, with skills in project management, production, and technical management. He also developed technical and soft skills for competencies. He has worked in various countries in the area of sales, training, and dealership management of photocopiers
He managed over 36 service providers across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka.
Nikil holds a Diploma in Electronics Production Technology and is based in Chennai.

Isan Magimaidoss

Master Trainer – Niranthara, Tamil Nadu

Isan Magimaidoss brings over 30 years of professional experience in the Social Sector, specifically in Child Rights Focused Community Development. He has managed various responsibilities such as Programming, Grant-making, Strategic Planning and Development, Partnership Management, Alliance building, Capacity Building, Program Monitoring and Evaluation. He has also actively engaged with Partner Organizations, NGO networks, Academic and Resource organizations and Donor agencies in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
He worked with Child Rights and You (CRY), Churches’ Council for Child and Youth Care (CCCYC), Nightingales Medical Trust (NMT).
Isan holds a Master of Philosophy Degree ( M. Phil ) in Social Work from Christ University.

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Jacob D'Souza

Manager - E- Learning (Web portal)

Jacob comes with 16 years of rich experience from development sector. He worked in the areas of Rehabilitation of street Children, Research, Organisation development at different organizations at various capacities. He has special interest in the field of Social Media, General Admin, Research and Development.

He holds Master’s degree in Social Work. His hobbies are reading, music and photography.

Vijay Kulkarni

Program Head – UPADESHAK

Vijay brings in over 42 years of multi-sectoral and multi-institutional experience, having worked in Banking, Entrepreneurship Development, Education, Livelihood and Consulting.
He has also co-founded the Development Resource Centre (an incubator for NGOs) and 3 NGOs – Vidyaposhak, RAPID and SCOPE, and has the experience of working in all 3 sectors- Public, Private and Civil Society institutions. He has been on the Boards of many NGOs and Micro Finance Institutions.
Vijay is a Post Graduate in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. He has also done a PG Diploma in Gandhian Studies and the Management Education Programme (MEP) from IIM Ahmedabad.

G Annapoorani

Asst. Manager, Goonjan and UPDESHAK

Annapoorni worked in the software development and project management fields for over a decade before moving to the social sector with Dhwani Foundation. With a special interest in streamlining operations, she developed her expertise in areas such as process building, resource management, inventory management and financial reporting at the various IT conglomerates she was a part of, including Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. She holds a BE (EEE) degree from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

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Sharadha

Senior Fundraising Manager

Sharadha comes with a rich experience with both corporate and social sectors, she had a long stint at telecoms and finance industries before exploring social sector. she worked in the companies such as Airtel and Vodafone.

In the social sector, she spent time in the areas of donor management, relationship building, fund raising and event management. She was part managerial teams of Give India and Foundation for Excellence India Trust. She also played key role in ensuring Excellence of India Trust to receive awards, certifications and acknowledgements.

Greg Mathias

Greg Mathias

Manager, Nikhaar

Greg comes with 4 years of experience in the areas of Operations Management, Strategy planning, HR, Content writing, Digital Marketing and Client Engagement. He has worked with organizations such as Pana Education, Mangalore– in Domicile Management, Envoy Mortgage, Mangalore – as Process Associate and CMSSS, Hassan – as Operations Manager.

He holds bachelor’s degree in commerce, Certificate course from Azim Premji Foundation on “Exploring sustainability in the Indian Context”. Certificate from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley on “Fundraising: Connecting with donors” and certificate course on “Developing Web Applications Using Servlets and JSP(Adv Java)” from NIIT, Mangalore.
He has special interest in the field of Web development and Photo and Video editing.

Vinaya K

Senior Consultant- Technology Solutions

Vinaya has over 18 years of experience in the IT services industry. She started her career with Infosys, where she spent a decade amassing technical knowledge and honing her management and customer relationship skills. She later founded a design services company for training and development of multimedia solutions. She was selected as one of the privileged few across the country to undergo Goldman Sachs-ISB sponsored - “10000 World Women Entrepreneurs Management Program” in 2011.

Shruthi T

Senior Associate - Technology Solutions

Shruthi started her career in the development sector as a Project Manager in Don Bosco Tech Society, where she worked on skilling and employment programs for underprivileged youth. Prior to that she worked at TCS. She is an IT graduate with an MBA in Global Business.

Jennifer

Maria Jennifer

Assistant Manager, Goonjan

Jennifer comes with 3 years of experience in the areas of Operations Management & Training. She has worked with Chilume Social Service Society, as Operations Manager and Youth for Jobs, as a Trainer for Job assistance and Communication skills.
She holds Master degree in commerce, MBA in Finance and specialized at Organisation Development.

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Sanjay Rao

Program Head – Service Agency

Mr. Sanjay comes with over 27 years of Global Operations. Global business expansion. International JV and merger management. Multinational brand portfolio management. Business restructuring. Brand portfolio restructuring. Business due diligence. Multiple large domain experience. Strategic consulting. Project management. Government policy think tank experience with high level Govt assets. Managing multiple teams spread over diverse locations. Thought leadership. Training . Start-up design and incubation. Operational excellence. KRA focus. Advertising strategic planning regional and national.

Ms. Sunita Dhwani Foundation

Sunita

Technical Head – Service agency

Sunita comes with fifteen years of experience in various fields. She has served in the space of finance management, MIS, credibility assurance, vender management and other areas. She has exposure to Social sector, Corporates and Banking.

Her area of expertise is in capacity building of staff to improve budget, planning, utilization and reporting of financials, partnership management, hiring, vendor conversations, project design & implementations.

She served at various senior levels at Give India, TIDE India, Make a Difference also worked with Deutsche Bank, PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt Ltd and other companies.

She holds MBA and Postgraduate Diploma in Economics from University of Warwick Coventry, UK.
She holds Master degree in commerce, MBA in Finance and specialized at Organisation Development.

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ADVISORY PANEL

Rajiv Kuchhal

Rajiv has over 30 years of management experience in IT, BPO and ITeS industries, a majority of it at Infosys Ltd. He was the COO of OnMobile Global Limited and a co-founder of Progeon Limited. Rajiv is an active angel investor and mentor to multiple startups in the social enterprise and technology space. He has served as a Venture Advisor at TVS Capital Funds Ltd. and is a Non-Executive Independent Director of Expleo Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He is also a general partner at Exfinity Fund and a Mentor at IIMB NSRCEL Social Incubation Programme. He is a graduate from IIT Delhi.

Reva Raghupathi

Based in Pennsylvania, USA, Reva is the Founder of Verika LLC, which delivers strategy and marketing solutions to social impact organizations. She has extensive experience in global marketing, biomedical research and non-profit enterprise. Reva holds a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and MS in Nonprofit Leadership from University of Pennsylvania.

Gurgeet Arneja

A top management executive, Gurgeet has over 40 years of leadership experience across diverse industries, including Textiles, Building Materials, Office Automation/Telecom and Consumer Durables. He has consulted both in India and internationally on core areas such as Benchmarking, Logistics, Marketing and Efficiency Management. Gurgeet also contributes to the non-profit sector as an Advisory Board Member at The Association of People with Disability (APD). He holds a PGDPM degree from FMS, Delhi, and LLB from University of Rajasthan.

Krishna Kumar

Krishna Kumar has extensive experience in Sales, Sales Management, Operations, Global Client Relations and Management Consultancy across various industries. Having spent most of his career in early stage startups, he had the opportunity to set up new centers and engagements for companies like UBICS, Page Point Motorola and GECIS/Genpact across multiple geographies. His key skills include, setting up and scaling operations, bridging gaps between front and back ends, process improvement and working with diverse teams. KK is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Rangarajan

Rangarajan has been an independent Start-up Consultant and Angel Investor since 2018. Prior to this, he held leadership roles in product management, sales and marketing at both large IT companies like Wipro Infotech and Infosys, as well as, startup enterprises like Appnomic Systems and RubanBridge, in a career spanning 30 years. He has also been actively involved in the social sector as Board Member of Makkala Jagriti, an NGO in Bangalore. He holds a BE degree from BITS, Pilani, and an MBA from SPJIMR, Mumbai.

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Bala Giridhar Manchi

Bala comes with rich experience in IT, Technology, and Business areas. Over last 37 years he has served in various capacities. He started with Indian IT industry with LRDE, BEL and had a long stint in Wipro.

He brings in wide range of experience working in different roles in both technology and business areas such as R&D, Product Engg, Quality, Customer Service, Professional Services Business, IT Management, Workplace Management and Shared Services.

He has an expertise in using technology in business processes to achieve process efficiencies, cost optimization and customer satisfaction.

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Ramesh Emani

Mr. Ramesh comes with over 40 years of professional experience and worked with many industry verticals like, Banking, Telecom, High Tech. Worked as CTO for Wipro driving innovation programs. Has lived in USA in the initial period of setting Wipro business in USA.
He served as a President at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India, Had a long and varied career with Wipro for close to 25 years. Last position was as President of Telecom and Product Engineering solutions, business of about $1 Billion with about 19,000 people with operations in USA, Western Europe, Japan. Was member of Wipro’s Corporate Executive Council.
He started Insta Health Solutions, software company focused in providing complete hospital and clinic management software solutions for hospitals and clinics in emerging markets of India, Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.

Presently he is a board member of eMids Technologies, a $100M IT services company focused on healthcare vertical with presence in USA and India. It is majority owned by New York based New Mountain Capital Private Equity Firm. Participated in the growth of company from $6M to $100M in the last 9 years.

Mr. Ramesh holds M Tech from IIT Kanpur.

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Sivaguru

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, has been in the international IT products and services industry since 1980 and has played various senior leadership roles.
His professional interests include: personal and organizational excellence, knowledge management, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Work With Us

Grow as you transform the social sector

Working with Dhwani Foundation gives you the opportunity to work with hundreds of NGOs, and benefit millions of beneficiaries across India and beyond, all at once.

As a non-profit organisation, we have a lean yet proficient team, where each team member acts and works like an independent leader. They represent a diverse mix of expertise and experience across various sectors, including Non-profit, Organisation Development, HR, Technology, Finance and Marketing, among others. We take pride in our inclusive work culture and celebrate diversity. Come be a change-maker at Dhwani!

To apply, send your CV to
contact@dhwanifoundation.com

Current Vacancies

Senior Manager - Government Interface Initiative

Dhwani Foundation is looking for a competent professional having extensive experience of working both in NGO and Government sectors to manage one of its key programs ‘Government Interface Initiative’.

Dhwani Foundation works towards building a vibrant and credible social sector through its various initiatives with different stakeholders of the social sector. The objective is to improve productivity, transparency and efficacy of the social sector.

Position: Senior Manager – Government Interface Initiative (full time)

Location: Bangalore

Contract Period:12 months and renewable based on the performance

Government Interface Initiative:  The goal of this program is to build a successful partnership between the Government and NGOs, to contribute collectively towards effectuation of progressing policies for the social sector.  It has two objectives to be reached by next two years :

  • Influencing a minimum of three Government Policies that effectuate the smooth functioning of NGOs
  • Building working relations with the departments of State and Central Governments 

Responsibilities:  include the following (but not limited to) for the contract period:

  1. Understanding the purpose of Dhwani’s existence, its overall goal, objectives, programs, policies and values
  2. In-depth understanding of the Government Interface Program and developing a reference material on the Program for the use of  various stake holders
  3. Prepare detailed annual action plans
  4. Travel as per need– both within and outside states
  5. Develop contacts with all related Government Departments – State and Central level
  6. Coordinate the existing collaborative efforts with
    1. Integrated Child Protection Society (Women and Child Development Department)
    2. Planning Department – assist them to bring out Karnataka State Policy on NGOs (as part of this assignment, need to review the National Policy, carry out consultations with varied types of stake holders, form and coordinate with the working group to develop draft policy, collect online feedback on the draft policy, and help the department to finalize the State Policy on NGOs)
  7. Establish working relations with other departments to link with various initiatives of Dhwani Foundation
  8. Establish working relations with Niti Aayog – Central Government
  9. Explore possibilities of Dhwani Foundation becoming a member in various Committees of Government
  10. Register Dhwani under KEA of Planning Department, Karnataka
  11. Organize and coordinate a research to explore issues for policy influence
  12. Identify a research institution/individual to carry out research to explore issues that needs policy interventions. Develop TOR and sign the MOU
  13. Monitor the process of research and ensure directions of research as per TOR
  14. Ensure that the research is completed within the agreed timeframe
  15. Organize workshops with stakeholders to decide the issues to be taken up for policy influence and to decide on working approach
  16. Create online dialogue and discussions around the selected issues for policy influence
  17. Submit the memorandum to Government for policy influence – by March 2021
  18. Any other related tasks

Desired qualifications, skills and competencies :

  • Master’s Degree in any Social Science or equivalent from a reputed University/Institution
  • Minimum 10 years of experience of working in the NGO sector
  • Sound knowledge of Government functioning and minimum 3 years working experience with Government (either directly or through collaboration)
  • Positive and excellent people skills, ability to collaborate with all levels of government officials and NGOs, comfortable working within the system of Government, willing to take their inputs and be straight and clear in partnership efforts.
  • Able to reach and negotiate with senior officials of the Government
  • Mandatory working knowledge of Kannada and English (to read, write and speak fluently)
  • Must be able to use a computer and software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Position Availability: Immediate 

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Application Process:

To apply for this position, send your CV and covering letter explaining why think that you are fit for this position, to contact@dhwanifoundation.com  . Only applications of short-listed candidates will be acknowledged.