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Pushpa Sundar
Pushpa is an Independent Consultant and a Senior Advisor to the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation. Concurrently, she also holds the position of the Chair of Winrock International India in New Delhi, a non-profit organization which works on natural resource management and environment issues and Trustee of Partners In Change, a non-profit organization which promotes corporate social responsibility. She was the Founder and first Executive Director (until July 2005) of Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy, N. Delhi, established in 1996 as a national intermediary organization to promote and strengthen Indian philanthropy, and now its Emeritus Director and Trustee.
Earlier, she was a member of the Governing Councils of the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) Jaipur, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, and South Asian Fund Raising Group, New Delhi. She has been associated with the Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) and WINGS Community Foundations (WINGS-CF) since inception and was, until recently a Member of the Advisory Committee of WINGS-CF. Currently, she is a Member of its Programme Planning Sub Committee. She was a Senior Fellow with the International Fellows in Philanthropy Programme of the Johns Hopkins University in 1995.
She has over 30 years of experience in the development field and civil society. She has worked in a various organizations: national and international, non-profit, government and corporate, such as the Ford Foundation, the Government of Gujarat, FICCI, and the National Foundation for India etc. She has also consulted the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank among others.
She has written extensively in national and international journals, newspapers, and magazines. Her published work, apart from several published professional papers includes the following books: Patrons and Philistines: Arts and the State in British India (OUP), an archival history of Indian arts policy during the British Raj; Beyond Business: From Merchant Charity to Corporate Citizenship, (Tata McGraw Hill)—a historic study of Indian business involvement with the community; For God's Sake: Religious Charity and Social Development in India, a book of case studies on religious organizations and charity; Investing in Ourselves—cases of fundraising by non-profit organizations and “NGO Experience in Health: An Overview, ”in S. Pachauri (ed) Reaching India's Poor: Non-governmental Approaches to Community Health, Sage, New Delhi, 1994.
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