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2021-22
AWARDS CONFERRED 2020-21
AIF won the Gold AIF won the
Award for its 7th CSR Impact
COVID-19 Relief Awards 2021 in
Response at Large COVID-19
the CSR Times Response
Awards 2021 Category
MISSION
The American India Foundation is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with
a special focus on women, children, and youth. AIF does this through high impact interventions in
AIF felicitated for
its exceptional education, health, and livelihoods, because poverty is multidimensional.
COVID-19 relief
response across AIF’s unique value proposition is its broad engagement between communities, civil society, and
Uttar Pradesh by expertise, thereby building a lasting bridge between the United States and India. Working closely
her excellency
with local communities, AIF develops and tests innovative solutions in partnership with NGOs and
Smt. Anandiben
Patel, Governor, Governments to create and scale sustainable impact.
Uttar Pradesh
AIF PROGRAMS
EDUCATION
Digital Equalizer (DE) ......... 12
Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) ......... 16
PUBLIC HEALTH
Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI)....... 22
LIVELIHOODS
Ability Based Livelihood Empowerment (ABLE) ......... 28
Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) ......... 32
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Banyan Impact Fellowship ......... 38
Outreach and Engagement US ......... 42
Financials US ......... 44
People ......... 46
Supporters ......... 49
Step Up to the Plate ......... 63
CONTENTS
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his past year truly tested our resilience and determination in striving for excellence,
amidst the unparalleled ravages of COVID-19. Along with the lives of vulnerable
communities, AIF’s impact continuity plans were also put to the test, along with the
mettle of our people in facing adversity. We are honored to say that we have weathered
the storm and emerged stronger, striving towards our vision, while continuing to pursue
operational excellence and our long-term growth strategies.
Recognizing the power of synergy between the US and India and the role that these two
nations can play collectively, AIF championed multi-stakeholder collaborations with the
governments, the private sector, the civil society, and the communities, reaching out to
4.5 million Indians at the margins of society through our work in Health, Education, and
Livelihoods this year.
Although the life-threatening phase of the pandemic is thankfully in retreat, vulnerable
communities still continue to reel under the disproportionate medium-term impact of the
crisis. This past year, AIF has worked to help children bounce back from the loss of learning,
nutrition, and emotional well-being; create a re-imagined job and entrepreneurship
ecosystem in India, that not only rebuilds but also uplifts the livelihoods upended by the
pandemic; and build anticipatory capacities for disaster relief and management in public
health, while strengthening public health delivery at the last mile in underserved rural/tribal
communities.
In one of our rehabilitation efforts, designing innovative, tech-driven, solutions to
assist school children at risk of dropping out, or being left behind, AIF spearheaded its
‘Education Accelerator Model’, to address learning deficit. The initiative works to reverse
the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy regression observed and recorded in children
because of COVID-19-induced school closures.
In our Livelihoods Program, rebuilding the businesses of 1 million street vendors - India’s
nano-entrepreneurs - across 25 cities, we designed a high-impact intervention for one of
the worst affected communities - street vendors. Through Project – ‘Entre-Prerana’, AIF is
creating sustainable livelihoods for street vendors by unlocking access to $150 million of
working capital, mainstreaming their businesses through formal registration, and facilitating
access to newer e-commerce markets and platforms.
AIF also remained strongly committed and focused to ensure the health, safety, and well-
being of our people. We applaud the incredible energy put forward by the team to safeguard
the lives of the people we serve and the integrity of our operations. And, our efforts did not
go unnoticed, as AIF was awarded three of the biggest CSR awards in the country, for our
work.
In the next pages, we look forward to sharing with you how we reinforced the ecosystem
towards holistic and collective action to accelerate India’s development and our vision.
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t the forefront of COVID-19 relief
response, the American India
Foundation (AIF) worked round the
clock to augment the existing healthcare
infrastructure, which was brought to the brink
due to overwhelming needs.
Since the first outbreak, the American India
Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Hon’ble Union Minister
Foundation mounted one of the largest relief of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India,
responses in its history, helping close to 4 inaugurating the 50-bed portable health care unit in
million people fight the health, economic, and Baramulla, Jammu & Kashmir.
social impact of COVID-19.
Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, India, virtually
Our efforts focus on critical areas of saving inaugurating PSA Oxygen Plants set up by AIF in Motihari,
lives, fighting systemic shortfalls, bourgeoning Bihar.
poverty and inequality for the poor and
vulnerable, supporting job creation, and
rebuilding in better ways. From April 2021
through March 2022, AIF raised over $44
million through 19,217 donors and leveraged
more than $9.5 million worth of Government
Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Hon’ble Chief Minister,
assets and resources to reach 560 districts
Madhya Pradesh, and government officials at the
across 31 States and Union Territories of India launch of Mission Coron Vijay - the 360 degree Behavior
with COVID-19 relief efforts. Change Communication Campaign to address vaccine
hesitancy and myths in the identified population.
PUNJAB
MIZORAM
13 Districts, 427 Schools UTTARAKHAND
1 District, 1 School
7 Districts, 146 Schools
HARYANA
15 Districts, 537 Schools UTTAR PRADESH ASSAM
18 Districts, 54 Schools 11 District, 11 Schools
SIKKIM
MADHYA PRADESH 2 Districts, 2 Schools
14 Districts, 341 Schools
NAGALAND
GUJARAT 4 Districts, 4 Schools
13 Districts, 116 Schools
MANIPUR
4 Districts, 4 Schools
DAMAN & DIU (UT)
1 District, 1 School
WEST BENGAL
10 Districts, 10 Schools
DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI (UT)
1 District, 1 School JHARKHAND
9 Districts, 9 Schools
MAHARASHTRA ODISHA
14 Districts, 341 Schools 8 Districts, 97 Schools
PONDICHERRY (UT)
TAMIL NADU 4 Districts, 4 Schools
6 Districts, 114 Schools
PARTNERSHIPS 2021-22
• Akamai Technologies Delhi NCR, Gujarat, Chemicals Limited
• Amazon Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, • IBM
• American Tower Corporation Karnataka, Maharashtra, • Larsen & Toubro - Energy
30 students from Uttarakhand took part in the STEM for Girls India (SFGI) project supported by
IBM and successfully built PICO satellites and drones. The Uttarakhand Chief Minister -
Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami lauded AIF’s efforts in this regard as well.
UTTAR PRADESH
JAMMU & KASHMIR
No. of children 5,914
No. of children 20,627
RAJASTHAN JHARKHAND
No. of children 4,209 No. of children 4,104
MADHYA PRADESH
No. of children 7,223
ASSAM
50 Villages
1 District
GUJARAT
No. of children 29,682
TRIPURA
LEARNING AND MIGRATION MAHARASHTRA
No. of children
13,435
The Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) is working to universalize access ODISHA
to education for children at risk of migration. Promoting special educational No. of children 59,686
KARNATAKA
CHHATTISGARH
provisions for migrant households, who have been especially hit by COVID-19, No. of children 10,473
No. of children 45,933
LAMP is bringing bold solutions to complex problems.
CUMULATIVE IMPACT
PARTNERSHIPS 2021-22
• Aga Khan Rural Support • Herbalife Nutrition • St. Xavier’s Non Formal
Program (AKRSP) • Lokadrusti Education Society
• Amazon • Lokmitra • Sterlite Tech Foundation
940,566 3,269 17 • BlackRock
• Dental Hygiene
• MasterCard
• Prayas
• Swadeep
• Tarsadia Foundation
CHILDREN AT RISK VILLAGES STATES & UNION
• GiveIndia • Samerth Charitable Trust • Tata AIG General Life Insurance
of seasonal migration steered to eliminate TERRITORIES
• Government of Tripura, • SARTHI • Tata Chemicals Society for Rural
empowered with access obstacles to access covered
to quality education education Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, • Sarva Mangal Family Trust Development (TCSRD)
Maharashtra, Jammu & (MSI) • Telstra India Pvt. Ltd.
Kashmir, Haryana, Jharkhand • Shell • Unnati
• Gurukrupa Foundation • Shikshan ane Samja Kalyan • Uplift Humanity
• HDFC Parivartan Bank Kendra (SSKK) • Westbridge
UTTARAKHAND
2,230 Villages Covered
1,510 ASHAs Trained
JHARKHAND
4,624 Villages Covered
2,013 ASHAs Trained
UTTAR PRADESH
250 Villages Covered
ODISHA
301 Villages Covered
368 ASHAs Trained
CUMULATIVE IMPACT
PARTNERSHIPS 2021-22
• Amazon • Hospira
• Circle of Hope (COH) • Rural India Supporting Trust (RIST)
• GILEAD Sciences • Tarsadia Foundation
MANSI Adolescent Health Initiative (MAHI) organized Swasthya Mela for adolescent girls in
Uttarakhand and also helped the community by conducting tests to identify Blood groups in
children, COVID-19 Rapid tests, Haemoglobin tests, and counseling for adolescent girls.
HARYANA DELHI
108 Persons with 35 Persons with
Disabilities Trained Disabilities Trained
WEST BENGAL
88 Persons with
MAHARASHTRA
Disabilities Trained
232 Persons with
facilitates the entry of persons with disabilities into the job market, thus
TAMIL NADU
promoting inclusive growth in India 47 Persons with
Disabilities Trained
CUMULATIVE IMPACT
PARTNERSHIPS 2021-22
• Cheshire Disability Trust • Microsoft
• Cheshire Homes India-Mumbai • Pahal Foundation
• Extreme Networks India Pvt. Ltd. • Sarva Mangal Family Trust
Leveraging AIF’s Digital Studio resources, ABLE, designed a beginner sign language course module,
which, along with being widely lauded, also encouraged organizations to step forward and seek
more support in building an inclusive culture, paving the way for more persons with disabilities
being recruited and retained in the active workforce.
HARYANA
407 Disadvantaged
Youth Trained UTTARAKHAND
1,134 Disadvantaged
Youth Trained
RAJASTHAN
12,369 Street UTTAR PRADESH
Vendors Enrolled 1,184, Disadvantaged
Youth Trained
22,957 Street Vendors Enrolled
GUJARAT
221 Disadvantaged
Youth Trained
MADHYA PRADESH
4,866 Street Vendors
Enrolled
WEST BENGAL
TRAINING (MAST)
35,971 Disadvantaged
Youth Trained
6,652 Street Vendors Enrolled
ODISHA
Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) provides underprivileged youth with skills 303 Disadvantaged
training and access to formal employment opportunities. KARNATAKA Youth Trained
1,280 Disadvantaged
Youth Trained
UTTARAKHAND
HARYANA 1 Fellow
1 Fellow
JHARKHAND
DELHI 2 Fellows
3 Fellows
RAJASTHAN
3 Fellows
ODISHA
1 Fellow
CUMULATIVE IMPACT
Prakriti Pandia, an AIF Fellow, conducting a session on “social-emotional learning” with a group of
teenage boys at Mangura Panchayat, Jharkhand. Prakriti designed and conducted interventions
in the form of workshops for over 800 adolescents and women, tackling issues of child or early
marriages, sex education, and gender discrimination in three marginalized districts of Jharkhand.
Harit Talwar and Lata Krishnan, AIF Board of Spearheaded by Jonathan Bush and Raj
Directors, Co-Chairs, Nishant Pandey, CEO, AIF, Sharma and supported by Abhijit Gupta and
Ali Velshi and Reena Ninan (AIF 2021 NY Gala Prakash Khot, New England Chapter’s “Save
Co-Hosts) thanking the attendees for joining Lives” campaign raised $1.98M for COVID-19
the event. The New York Virtual Gala raised relief in India.
$1,681,721.
FINANCE
Stanford University.
NET ASSESTS
$29.4M SUPPORT & REVENUE UTILIZATION
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6% 3% 3%
40000000
20000000
TOTAL ASSESTS
$34.9M 0
94% 94%
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Contribution and Grants Program Services
NET LIABILITIES Benefits Events Income Management and General
$5.5M Revenue (USD) Expenses (USD)
Investment and Other Income Fundraising Expenses
GLOBAL BOARD Farah Khan Shashin Shah Jayant Tambe Nammy Patel Rajesh Swaminathan
Partner, L Catterton Founder & Managing Partner, (Co-Chair) Riyad Shahjahan Seema Deshpande
Lata Krishnan Think Investments
Co-Chair, Chief Financial Officer, Jayant Tambe Raj Seshadri & Rick Ostrander Robert Chatwani Shubi Arora
Shah Capital Partners Partner, Jones Day Sumir Chadha (Co-Chair - April 2021 - January 2022)
Vice Chair & Chair, Development Rohan Shah Vijay Murugappan
Karan Ahooja Niharika Cabiallavetta
Harit Talwar Committee, Co-founder & Managing Shashin Shah
Principal & Portfolio Manager at (Co-Chair - January 2022)
Co-Chair, Board Member, Mastercard
Eminence Capital
Director, Westbridge Capital
Yamini Rangan FOUNDER’S CIRCLE
& Infostretch, Former Chairman Abhinav Anand & Hitika Tanwar
Venkat Srinivasan Abhinav & Hitika Anand
of Marcus, Goldman Sach’s Global Michael Steinberg Ajay & Malini Khorana
Managing Director,
Consumer Business Managing Partner, Steinberg Asset REGIONAL BOARD - Adarsh & Ranvir Trehan
Innospark Ventures Amit & Sonali Garg
Ajay Banga Management NEW ENGLAND Amitabh & Meenu Sharma
Victor Menezes Anish & Dhwani Shah
Chair Emeritus, Nishant Pandey Chair Emeritus, Sunita & Dr. Brian Pereira Andris Zoltners
Vice Chairman, General Atlantic Chief Executive Officer, Anjali & Deven Sharma (Chair)
Retired Senior Vice Chairman, Anil & Rajni Monga
American India Foundation Citigroup Aparna Ramaswamy
Ash Lilani Amita & Sanjiv Chopra
Pradeep Kashyap Arun & Asmita Bhatia
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Vijay Vishwanath Ashish Chandarana Anu Chitrapu & Rama Ramakrishnan
Saama Capital Director Emeritus & Co-Chair, Senior Partner, Bain & Company Arvind Raghunathan & Sribala
Council of Advisors Ashish Contractor Farida & Imtiaz Kathawala Subramanian
Ashish Dhawan Vimal Bahuguna Bhaskar Menon
Prashant Lal President, Drona Group, LLC Gita Iyer & Vijay Vishwanath Ashish & Ritu Jain
Founder and Chairman,
Central Square Foundation & Partner, Hudson River Trading Gopi Tamanna Joan & Bill Boecke
Vivek Bantwal Ashish & Varsha Kaura
Ashoka University Raj Seshadri Global Markets Division New York, Gouri Sadhwani & Paul Giacomini Meena & Sundar Subramanyam Atul & Parita Singla
Diaz Nesamoney President, Data & Services, Goldman Sachs Hannah and Harish Sharma Nalini & Raj Sharma Bhikubhai & Pushpa Patel
Vice Chair & Chair, Governance Mastercard
Hari Moorthy & Lavanya Hari Namita & Santhana Krishnan
Committee, President & CEO, Jivox Raj Sharma Carl Pope & Shahnaz Taplin
Corporation Harit & Reena Talwar Nithya Iyer & Navjot Singh
Director Emeritus, Managing Director Deepak & Christina Kamra
of Wealth Management & Head, Jay Bhinde Pratima & Venkat Srinivasan
Dr. Brian Pereira Dinesh & Ila Paliwal
The Sharma Group Kamal Shah
President & CEO, Visterra Preetha & Mammen Chally Dr. Nammy Patel
Riaz Taplin Karambir Singh Kang
Dr. Tasneem Chipty Ramani Varanasi & Vin Antarkar Drs. Manjeri & Hasi Venkatachalam
Principal & Founder, Riaz Capital
Chair, Finance & Audit Committee Kush Saxena Sangita & Nick Thakore Farooq & Farida Kathwari
Managing Director, Rohit Kapoor
Mickey Bhatia Sumeit & Sanjay Aggarwal
AlixPartners Vice Chairman & CEO, EXL George & Karen Oliver
Pradeep Kashyap Suneeta Chacko-Varkey & Harmit & Cherra Singh
Priti & Vikram Dewan Tom Varkey
Harvey Schwartz
Priya Kambhampati Tasneem Chipty & Aleks Franz
Jitendra & Sonia Saxena
Raj Goyle & Monica Arora Vandana & Vivek Sharma
Joan & Bill Boecke
Rajiv Kamilla
REGIONAL BOARD - CHICAGO Jonathan & Ann Marie Macrae
Rakshit Chugh
Vandana and Ravi Badlani Julian & Ana Salisbury
Rushabh Kapashi
Bulbul and Vimal Bahuguna Jyoti & Shivan Subramaniam
Shikha & Rohit Kapoor
Supria and Mohit Bhalla Krishna Veeraraghavan
Veena Mosur & Sejal Shah
Rumki and Sumit Dutta
Vivek Bantwal & Sarika Singh Kumar Mahadeva & Simi Ahuja
Jasma and Rahul Ghai
Zarna Garg Kumar & Vijaya Malavalli
Varsha and Ashish Kaura
Lisa Brighton
REGIONAL BOARD - Prerna Mamgain and Ankur Gupta
Mammen & Preetha Chally
CALIFORNIA Garima Nahar and Sumit Dangi
Manu & Rika Shah
Riaz Taplin Mukta and Kailash Purohit
(Co-Chair) Michael & Elizabeth Fascitelli
Masha and Rohan Sajdeh
Sumir Chadha Neeru & Arun Oberoi
Reena and Harit Talwar
(Co-Chair) Pradip & Shalini Patiath
Rohit Vishnoi
Arun Paul Pramod & Roshni Patel
Basant Kedia REGIONAL BOARD - TEXAS Puneet & Nandini Mansharamani
Jagadha Sivan Amiya Setu Rachna & Arun Pau
Joy Chopra Arun Dhingra Rahul & Jasma Ghai
Jyotika Gupta Dee Brown Raj & Seema Bhatia
Braden Lay-Michaels
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS Chief Development Officer
Adil Zainulbhai
Chia Ni Wu
Anjali Sharma
Digital Marketing Officer
Anuranjita Kumar
Devang Laddha Metcalf*
Bakul Joshi Intern
Carl Pope
Divya Bhardwaj*
Deepak Chopra Non-Profit Development Consultant-
Frank Wisner Events
Co-Chair
Elena Constabile
Gurcharan Das Events Manager
Harjiv Singh
Jeanine Racciopo
Jacqueline Lundquist Development Director - East Coast
K. Srinath Reddy
Kanan Gole*
Kailash Joshi Development Marketing Officer
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