Turning good intent
into engaged giving.
SVP India is a community for people who want to go beyond funding.
There are people who want to make a difference and feel the pull to create change, but aren't always sure where to start.
They're looking for community, connection, and a way to act together.
If that's you, SVP India is your community.
We connect you with carefully selected, high-impact nonprofits
and build long-term partnerships where you contribute not just funding but also your time, skills and expertise.
Over time, the nonprofits grow stronger.
And you can become a more engaged, lifelong giver.
Our Partners engage with Nonprofits in many ways.
Sujata Deshpande
Sujata co-developed Saheli Sangh’s "Financial Literacy through Drama" program for commercial sex workers. By securing strategic funding and maintaining a core role on the organizing committee, she has been instrumental in bringing this program to life.
Madhavi Ravuri
Madhavi supports Baithak Foundation through strategic leadership and operational strengthening. Her contributions range from developing the Patron Program and managing annual events to refining legal policies.
Nilesh Chitre
Nilesh supported CEQUE in strengthening its financial management systems and is currently assisting with the revamp of Tally, including the mapping of expenses to defined cost heads as a key priority.
Susan Josi
Susan leveraged her extensive experience in marketing, communications, and media to strengthen CACR’s communication strategies and support the team in positioning its proposition for fundraising and partnerships.
Karuna Rao Mahankali
Karuna Rao Mahankali partnered with Digital Equity, an organization working on digital literacy for students, to strengthen their assessment modules, educational content, and curriculum design to improve student learning outcomes and program effectiveness.
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Ram Manjeri
Ram Manjeri partnered with Sparsh Hospice, a palliative care organization, to strengthen their fundraising model by introducing employee engagement initiatives and corporate workshops to help generate funds and build stronger ecosystem networks.
Piyush Chawla
Piyush Chawla has been the Lead Partner to Shakti Foundation, an organisation working with waste pickers and other marginalised communities in the Ghazipur area of Delhi, supporting their growth through CSR connections, communications guidance, and strengthening donor relationships.
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Sanjiv Sachar
Sanjiv Sachar has been the Lead Partner to Slam Out Loud, our grantee nonprofit focused on social-emotional learning and arts-based curriculum in government schools, supporting their growth through key donor introductions and consistent strategic engagement.
Sheela Sundaresan
Sheela Sundaresan partnered with ASSCOD, a women’s empowerment organization working with Irula tribal women, to formulate a strategic development plan and provide hands-on guidance for the nonprofit’s sustainable growth.
Ravi Visvanathan
Ravi Visvanathan partnered with Sri Arunodayam to review and strengthen the nonprofit’s policy documents, while leveraging his expertise in sales and procurement to connect new clients for products made by specially abled children and enable market linkages for the organization’s agricultural products.
Nicole Khurana
Was instrumental in helping Shwas build good reporting structures and donor enagagement models - shwas works in urban slums for improving FLN outcomes for students
Sudhir Kulkarni
Helped build HR systems and reporting hierarchies for increasing work efficiency at Utthan Gujarat - an organization that works for gender equity in rural and urban areas encompassing livelihoods, gender based violence and climate change
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Mukul Mathur
Mukul’s engagement with Winvinaya candidates helped bring greater awareness and confidence around apprenticeship pathways. Through a dedicated session, he encouraged candidates to see the long-term value of starting as apprentices, while his moderation of a fireside chat at one of our Job Melas brought depth and structure to the conversation.
Nagraj Prabhu
His belief in Vedan’s vision and support in building the website helped present the organisation’s work with greater clarity and professionalism.
People join SVP India to give.
They often take away much more.
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How the
SVP Model works
Coming
Together
Partners pool their contributions and collectively select a small group of Nonprofits each year through a diligent, partner-led process.
Understanding
Needs
During this process, partners work to understand which areas of capacity need to be built in the Nonprofit to grow, scale and reach more beneficiaries.
Matching
Partners
Once selected, each Nonprofit is paired with three Lead Partners whose skills and experience align with the organization’s needs.
Working
Together
Lead Partners work alongside the Nonprofit over three years, offering mentorship, guidance and drawing on the wider Partner community whenever needed.
Reviewing
Progress
Every six months, the Lead Partners and Nonprofits come together to present to a Review Committee to reflect on progress, and ensure the partnership continues to feel meaningful.
Over time, these partnerships have created lasting, meaningful impact.
Partners across India
Nonprofits supported
invested in Nonprofit growth
hours volunteered by Partners
SVP India began in 2012 with the belief that engaged giving can create deeper and more meaningful impact.
Shaped by many experiences, united by a shared purpose.
Belur Sethuram
SVP gave me an opportunity to learn more about the sector in a structured manner, get exposed to various nonprofits working in different areas and the impact they have had, how they operate, get funding etc. It has also been great meeting like-minded SVP Partners from a variety of backgrounds.
Govind Iyer
The most important step is to begin. The impact we create over the next decade depends on the choices we make today and the consistency with which we stay engaged.
M. Omkar Nath
As an early-stage nonprofit, SVP India’s mentorship and networks helped us refine our model and scale from 200 to 20,000 students. We couldn’t have succeeded this way with funding alone. SVP India provides the right ecosystem to invest not just money, but time meaningfully.
Parul Vaidya
Meaningful contribution does not always require expertise in the social sector - sometimes, simply bringing your time, perspective, and willingness to engage can make a difference.
Updates from the community.
🫡𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮.
You heard 10 organisations take on some of India's hardest social problems - and what goes into solving them.
💙 𝗦𝗩𝗣 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗞𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗽 – 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴
The greatest giving isn’t measured by what leaves our hands. It’s measured by what changes in someone else’s life.
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There are 78 lakh+ children with disabilities in India.36% of them never enrol in school. Not because they lack potential - but because the classrooms they walk into were never built with them in mind.
Anupam Prayaas Foundation is changing that - one story at a time.
This month, the 𝗦𝗩𝗣 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗿𝘂 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 witnessed exactly that. Upon learning that GBA (Greater Bengaluru Authority) was seeking to enhance the utilisation of infrastructure in municipal schools and public health centres, our Bengaluru chapter's philanthropist partners worked with officials from different government departments to reimagine these public spaces.
𝗦𝗩𝗣 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 – 𝗞𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝘆 (𝗬𝗙𝗣) 𝟰.𝟬 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 IMI Kolkata, marking the beginning of another exciting journey of nurturing young changemakers committed to creating meaningful social impact.
