Varthana and the Science of Building a Social Impact Business
By Saumya Saxena, LGT Impact Fellow for Varthana, India What do you want to learn from this fellowship? ... Andrew Papp asked me during my LGT Impact Fellowship interview. As…more
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Financial Consulting for Private Schools in India
LGT Impact Fellow Spotlight: Smiti Sahoo Smiti is working as a Fellow for our Portfolio Organisation Varthana in India. Thinking of Schools, the initial associations that come up are academic…more
Alumni Spotlight: Amandeep Singh, 2012 cohort
Amandeep is a 2012 LGT Impact Fellow and currently works at Clinton Health Access Initiative in Cambodia as Director - Country Support, Global Vaccines Delivery The LGT Impact Fellowship offers…more
Journeying into the (Un)known
By Gayatri Suri – LGT Impact Fellow 2018 “Follow your passion” – a phrase that is more elusive than it sounds. This phrase has challenged me time and again in…more
Sliding Down the Indian Rabbit Hole
by Pete Troiano - LGT Impact Fellow 2016/17 I remember the exact moment it started. My bank card got rejected from every ATM I tried to use. The screen displayed…more
Social Mapping – How colorful hues are making door-to-door surveys more effective
by Prianka Sharma - LGT Impact Fellow 2017 A 4 hour journey from Indore in the wee hours of the morning and we arrived in Pipal Tola – a village…more
Celebrating the Girl Child… for the Wrong Reasons
by Kausha Shah - LGT Impact Fellow 2017 Bundi- my last frontier. On my assignment interviewing Educate Girls’ stakeholders, I had already travelled to Udaipur, Pali and Jhabua. I had…more
Digital Marketing: Special Considerations & Challenges for Social Entreprises
by Rachel Messina – LGT Impact Fellow 2015 At the end of August 2015, I embarked on a whirlwind move from New York City to Mumbai. In New York City…more
David versus Goliath
On the 4th of November I went for the second time to the Govandi slum in Mumbai. Govandi is situated next to one of the biggest and oldest garbage dumping…more
Celebrating International Youth Day and youth civic engagement in Mumbai
After more than 10 years I found myself in a classroom again, surrounded by more than thirty 14 to 17-years-old. I was participating in a very important meeting, a celebration…more
ICats Alumna talks about founding lovedoctor.in after her Fellowship
Former ICats Fellow Avani talks about how the ICats Fellowship helped her founding lovedoctor.in in India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R9xOeaN7Mw&feature=youtu.bemore
Some views, figures and stories on government education
A field visit and the importance of the context A few months ago, I travelled to the district of Pali, Rajasthan, for my first field visit. It was an essential…more