Value Lessons from the Grassroots
By Aditi Khatri, LGT Impact Fellow for The Antara Foundation, India In November 2023, I had the opportunity to visit a Community Health Centre (CHC) in central India, where various…more
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Empowering Futures With 21st Century Skills
By Siddharth Sivashankar, LGT Impact Fellow for Quest Alliance, India My role as an LGT Impact Fellow at Quest Alliance has me focused on strengthening the organization's processes and systems,…more
Alumni Spotlight: Rachel Messina, 2015 cohort
In her Fellowship, Rachel worked as a Digital Marketing Consultant with Sabka Dentist in Mumbai in 2015. With her background in digital marketing and ecommerce in the fashion industry, she…more
Launching the M&E Health Check tool – how LGT VP collaborated with IDinsight to support organizations in tapping into the potential of data
The ever-increasing need for data capacity among social organizations has led IDinsight and LGT Venture Philanthropy to embark on a joint journey with the mission to support organizations in tapping…more
Real time journey of quality monitoring
By Pratik More, LGT Impact Fellow for Educate Girls, India Data for Development Synonyms for data are facts, figures, statistics, details, particulars, specifics, features, information, evidence, intelligence, material, background, input,…more
The Future of Work – Changing Work Paradigms
By Saurabh Karamchandani, LGT Impact Fellow at Porter, India It was May 2021 and India was in the middle of a deadly second wave of the COVIDpandemic when I first…more
How COVID-19 adds another layer to struggles for Girls’ Education in Rajasthan/India
By Dr. Geeta Deshmukh, LGT Impact Fellow at Educate Girls, India Being from Public health background, I have always believed that education is one of the primary social determinants of…more
A Data Science Engineer’s Fellowship Journey in the Post-COVID-19 Scenario
By Sutapa Bhattacharya, LGT Impact Fellow for Educate Girls, India When I applied for the LGT Impact Fellowship in mid-March of last year, it was a different world altogether. There…more
Testimonial by Saumya Saxena, Fellow at Varthana, India
Drawing from his management consulting and not for profit experience in the urban development and education sectors, Saumya was tasked with augmenting the process of scaling the management consulting for…more
Testimonial by Tracey Albert, Fellow at Aangan Trust, India
Having worked in the social impact space for over 7 years, Tracey’s mission during her Fellowship was to assist the leadership team at Aangan Trust, in building a platform that…more
Empowering communities towards sustainable impact
By Tracey Albert, LGT Impact Fellow for Aangan Trust, Mumbai, India Aangan works in 15 hotspots across Mumbai, wherein the city’s drastic economic disparity is placing its vulnerable children at…more
What does a day of an LGT Impact Fellow look like?
Fellows of the LGT Impact Fellowship 2019 cohort are approaching the last months of their 1-year engagements. By now the Fellows have fully immersed in their roles at host organizations…more