The Impact of COVID-19 on India’s Nonprofit Sector

A Special Lecture by Ingrid Srinath on The Impact of COVID-19 on India’s Nonprofit Sector

Center for Human Dignity and Development (CHDD) at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to an IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk –

A Special Lecture on

The Impact of COVID-19 on India’s Nonprofit Sector

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: August 10, 2021
Time: 11:30 a.m. IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Speaker:

Ingrid Srinath
Director, Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy, Ashoka University, Sonepat

Ingrid Srinath is presently the founder Director of the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP) at Ashoka University, the first academic centre in South Asia to focus on these themes. CSIP has produced path-breaking research on philanthropic flows, the impact of changes in foreign funding, the non-profit ecosystem and regulatory reform, besides providing world class capacity building programmes for non-profit leaders and young people starting their careers in the sector.
A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, Ingrid transitioned from her 12-year career in advertising to the non-profit sector in 1998 with CRY (Child Rights and You), where she was CEO from 2004-08. At CRY she re-engineered resource mobilisation strategies and systems to achieve rapid and resilient growth through pioneering innovative fundraising channels and reinventing the brand to embrace rights based advocacy. Spearheading the movement to amend India’s constitution to make education a fundamental right was a key achievement of her tenure as CEO.
She served as Secretary General from 2008-12 at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, an influential global network of non-profit organisations, steering its leadership of civil society through the turbulence of the global financial crisis.
She was Executive Director of CHILDLINE India Foundation, India’s emergency helpline for children in distress and, subsequently, CEO of Hivos India, the Indian arm of the Dutch global NGO, managing both through challenging circumstances.
Ingrid is a member of Niti Aayog’s Voluntary Sector Committee and served on SEBI’s Technical Committee for the Social Stock Exchange. In 2020, she received the Distinguished Alumna Award from her alma mater the Indian Institute of Calcutta.
She has also served on the advisory boards of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Development Co-operation Forum (UN DCF), the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Young Lives project at Oxford University, Alliance magazine, Hasirudala, Danamojo, the Prajnya Trust, India Development Review (IDR), the Centre for African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI), GIVE India COVID Relief Fund and Fair Share of Women Leaders and on the boards of the Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS), the Resource Alliance, the INGO Accountability Charter, The Rules, Public Interest Registry and Majlis Law.
She has been a passionate advocate for human rights, social justice and civil society for over 20 years. Ingrid is married to N Srinath, lives in Mumbai, India, reads omnivorously and collects hippopotami (the inanimate kind).

Link to the CSIP’s Study: https://csip.ashoka.edu.in/research-and-knowledge/

Link to the CSIP’s Research Report: https://csip.ashoka.edu.in/resilience-strategies-nonprofit

Chair:

Amitabh Behar
CEO, OXFAM India

Discussants:

Ms Medha Uniyal
Program Director, Livelihoods at Pratham Education Foundation, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Mr Binoy Acharya
Founder Director, UNNATI – Organisation for Development Education, Ahmedabad

Link for Report on Civil Society in the Second Wave of COVID-19: UNNATI’s Report

Mr Jagadananda J
Mentor & Co-Founder, Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD), Orissa