Deval, Partner and Co-founder at Dasra has provided philanthropists with intelligent investment strategies directing over $30 million into the Indian social sector over the past 13 years.

He has an impressive track record of scaling and sustaining non profit organizations and social businesses including Magic Bus, Aangan Trust, Muktangan and Educate Girls impacting over 1 million lives.

His experience in the social sector enabled Deval to play a vital role in the inception of the Times of India Social-Impact Awards 2011. He is engaged with both philanthropists and social entrepreneurs and has spoken about this unique investment model at leading events such as the Global Philanthropy Forum, Unconvention, Maidan Summit, SOCAP, CSR-CSO Bridge and ICICI Fellows Programme.

Deval's background as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley has equipped him to develop a unique philanthropic investment model that brings rigor and discipline to the sector. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, completing his Bachelor of Business Administration with a dual Honors degree in Business and Finance and a minor in Asian Studies.

• About Dasra

• Founded in 1999, Dasra has become India's leading strategic philanthropy foundation. Over the past 14 years, Dasra has strengthened the growth plans of more than 200 non-profits and social businesses, engaged with and educated over 250 philanthropists on strategic philanthropy, enabled over $20 million in funding to social entrepreneurs, and published 11 research reports in education, health and livelihoods.

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Current Operations-Dasra

• Increase the number of partnering organizations from 120 to 1000• Help organizations (for the past 16 years) who are focusing on poverty from ground

up• Find the organizations that do phenomenal work and provide them with the skills,

knowledge and the networks enabling them to scale

• Filling the gaps of the democratic government• Mr. Sanghavi said in a statement that “There is a need for NGOs to work and make

govts good to great. That’s what its (Dasra) today and that’s what the next 4 years are all about

• Enable communities to take charge and create social impacts• Take citizen justice to the next level

• Ease the difficulty of foreign funding

“No one works harder in this country and no one in this world want to move people out of poverty faster than those individuals who are in poverty”-Deval Sanghavi

#MagicBus#Bridgespan#Akshayapathra#Kiawah

• The Bridgespan Group is a U.S. nonprofit organization in Boston, Massachusetts that provides management consulting to nonprofits and philanthropists.

• The Akshaya Patra Foundation commonly known as Akshaya Patra is a non-profit organisation in India that runs school lunch programmeacross India.

• The Kiawah Trust is a U.K. family foundation that exists to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable young people.

• Dasra’s research report Owning Her Future, funded by the Kiawah Trust, shows the root cause of maternal and child mortality is closely linked to the age of marriage and first pregnancy. This in turn is heavily influenced by level of schooling, livelihood options, access to clean drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene.

• Magic Bus steers children towards a better life with better awareness, better life skills, and better opportunities, in the journey from childhood to livelihood.

• Our Activity Based Curriculum (ABC) is a learning model that uses activities and games to change attitudes and behaviours. 40 sessions per year - each with a key message, teach children important life skills around education, gender and health.