About the founder
Ever since I remember, I have been a spiritual person with a concern for the society. So, after an initial, four and half -year stint at The Indian Express, when I decided to work for a social cause, joining the development sector was a rather obvious choice. I had lost my father to a long battle with cancer; and thus, when I joined Global Cancer Concern in 2000 with the urge to give back to the society, received a rather very personal touch. Life followed and the desire to reach out to larger societal groups and varied beneficiary communities gave me reasons to work with numerous NGOs from across sectors such as childcare, sanitation & housing, livelihood, environment, health to name a few. Over my 17 years of working in the development sector, I have worked for numerous European, US and other international NGOs and managed to have Partnership from across industries such as Dell, ONGC, Indian Oil, Coal India, Barmer Lawrie & Co, HPCL, Federal-Mogul, Oberoi Group, Taj Group, Air India, Indigo Airlines, United Airlines and so on. The vast experience of dealing with global & grassroots NGOs as well as multinational corporate giants gave me an insight into the inter-relation between these two crucial, yet, diabolically opposite stakeholders of the development sector.
After analysing the dynamics of NGOs & Corporate India, in terms of present status of sectoral interventions across many geographies and Corporate India’s desire to help communities at large, it was felt that there is a genuine need for a social consulting firm to help NGOs & Corporate India, to ensure inclusive growth with sustainable development for poor masses across various geographies
My long year of work experience in the development sector, has shown me that there is a need to bridge the gap between NGOs and corporate, to ensure large scale poverty reduction & social development through sustainable models. Currently, Most of dedicated NGOs are struggling to offer time bound solution for community led sustainable development model and need support for capacity building on aspects of program designing, Team management and system development, whereas Corporate India is grappling with issues of finding efficient partners & timely utilisation of CSR funds for offering model solutions to various problems, plaguing India across various geographies. This aforesaid gap has led to genesis of “The Bridge”. The Bridge would strive to become enabler for NGOs and Corporate India by adding value in their present endeavours of CSR programs. It is the need of the society. I want to see both- corporates and NGOs working in tandem, to transform the society in more responsive and transparent manner. I wish that Corporate look at CSR, as a strategic opportunity to get involved in governance of the country to have long term benefits, whereas NGOs should look at it as increased opportunities for system development and resource mobilisation leading to widespread transformation in lives of millions of poor families. They should jointly co-create and aim to replicate sustainable and scalable model. Through Bridge, I dream of a day- when the corporate and NGOs will work in tandem to transform millions of poor families across many geographies and showcase a model, to state agencies for large scale replication.
My long year of work experience in the development sector, has shown me that there is a need to bridge the gap between NGOs and corporate, to ensure large scale poverty reduction & social development through sustainable models. Currently, Most of dedicated NGOs are struggling to offer time bound solution for community led sustainable development model and need support for capacity building on aspects of program designing, Team management and system development, whereas Corporate India is grappling with issues of finding efficient partners & timely utilisation of CSR funds for offering model solutions to various problems, plaguing India across various geographies. This aforesaid gap has led to genesis of “The Bridge”. The Bridge would strive to become enabler for NGOs and Corporate India by adding value in their present endeavours of CSR programs. It is the need of the society. I want to see both- corporates and NGOs working in tandem, to transform the society in more responsive and transparent manner. I wish that Corporate look at CSR, as a strategic opportunity to get involved in governance of the country to have long term benefits, whereas NGOs should look at it as increased opportunities for system development and resource mobilisation leading to widespread transformation in lives of millions of poor families. They should jointly co-create and aim to replicate sustainable and scalable model. Through Bridge, I dream of a day- when the corporate and NGOs will work in tandem to transform millions of poor families across many geographies and showcase a model, to state agencies for large scale replication.
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