The Community
Leading by example
The Founders Circle
Funding and supporting us
to realize the vision of GivingPi
Nikhil Kamath
Co-Founder
Zerodha & True Beacon
Nisaba Godrej
Executive Chairperson
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.
Rajan Navani
Founder & CEO
JetSynthesys Pvt. Ltd.
Rohini Nilekani
Chairperson
Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
Sunny (Gurpreet) Singh
Founder
RoundGlass
Tara Singh Vachani
Vice President
Max India Ltd.
We’re also extremely thankful to Ashish & Manisha Dhawan,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Skoll Foundation
for their seed funding in making GivingPi a reality.
A glimpse of our community
Aditi Kothari Desai
Vice Chairperson
DSP Investment Managers
Aditi Premji
Board Member
Sesame Workshop & Teach For India
Amit Chandra
Chairman
Bain Capital
Anand Deshpande
Chairman
Persistent Systems
Anu Aga
Former Chairperson &
Non-Executive Director
Thermax Limited
Ashish Dhawan
Founder & Chairperson
The Convergence Foundation
Desh Deshpande
Co-Founder
Deshpande Foundation
Donald Lobo
Director
Chintu Gudiya Foundation
Govind Iyer
All India Chairperson
Social Venture Partners
Harish Shah
Managing Director
Signet Excipients Pvt. Ltd.
Jalaj Dani
Co-Promoter
Asian Paints Limited
Jayanta Roy
Managing Director
Peerless Gen. Fin. & Inv. Ltd.
Leena Dandekar
Founder
Raintree Foundation
Luis Miranda
Chairman & Co-Founder
Indian School of Public Policy
Maya Patel
Executive Chair
Tarsadia Foundation
Mekin Maheshwari
Founder & CEO
Udhyam Learning Foundation
Nandini Piramal
Executive Director
Piramal Enterprises Limited
Nikunj Jhaveri
Chairman & Founder
Systems Plus
Nitya Khemka
Director
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation
Radha Goenka
Director
RPG Foundation
Raj Mariwala
Director
Mariwala Health Initiative
Rati Forbes
Director
Forbes Marshall
Rizwan Koita
Co-Founder & Director
Koita Foundation
Rumana Hamied
Managing Trustee
Cipla Foundation
Sapphira Goradia
Executive Director
Vijay and Marie
Goradia Foundation
Sonal Sachdev Patel
CEO
GMSP Foundation
Vasvi Bharat Ram
Joint Chairperson
The Shri Ram Schools
Yeshwant Rao Holkar
Partner, Ahilya Experiences &
Board Member, REHWA Society
A glimpse of our community
Aditi Kothari Desai
Vice Chairperson
DSP Investment Managers
Aditi Premji
Board Member
Sesame Workshop & Teach For India
Amit Chandra
Chairman
Bain Capital
Anand Deshpande
Chairman
Persistent Systems
Anu Aga
Former Chairperson & Non-Executive Director
Thermax Limited
Ashish Dhawan
Founder & Chairperson
The Convergence Foundation
Desh Deshpande
Co-Founder
Deshpande Foundation
Donald Lobo
Director
Chintu Gudiya Foundation
Govind Iyer
All India Chairperson
Social Venture Partners
Harish Shah
Managing Director
Signet Excipients Pvt. Ltd.
Jalaj Dani
Co-Promoter
Asian Paints Limited
Jayanta Roy
Managing Director
Peerless Gen. Fin. & Inv. Ltd.
Leena Dandekar
Founder
Raintree Foundation
Luis Miranda
Chairman & Co-Founder
Indian School of Public Policy
Maya Patel
Executive Chair
Tarsadia Foundation
Mekin Maheshwari
Founder & CEO
Udhyam Learning Foundation
Nandini Piramal
Executive Director
Piramal Enterprises Limited
Nikunj Jhaveri
Chairman & Founder
Systems Plus
Nitya Khemka
Director
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation
Radha Goenka
Director
RPG Foundation
Raj Mariwala
Director
Mariwala Health Initiative
Rati Forbes
Director
Forbes Marshall
Rizwan Koita
Co-Founder & Director
Koita Foundation
Rumana Hamied
Managing Trustee
Cipla Foundation
Sapphira Goradia
Executive Director
Vijay and Marie
Goradia Foundation
Sonal Sachdev Patel
CEO
GMSP Foundation
Vasvi Bharat Ram
Joint Chairperson
The Shri Ram Schools
Yeshwant Rao Holkar
Partner, Ahilya Experiences &
Board Member, REHWA Society
The why and the how
"The pandemic has signified the need for the reinvention of Indian philanthropy, focused on flexible and quick funding through creative approaches. The focus on family giving is an important part of the journey towards a more empathetic and generous society. GivingPi will be pivotal in building this long-term change through collaboration rooted in trust, co-creation and mutual learning.”
Rohini Nilekani
Chairperson, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
“As funders, we need to keep refining our giving journeys. GivingPi has an audacious vision to enable that by providing opportunities to learn from one another and build a stronger nation together.”
Tara Singh Vachani
Vice President, Max India Ltd.
“It is the need of the hour to grow India’s giving pie and we are on this journey together to accelerate and bring in the change that we wish to see. It gives me immense pleasure to be a part of the Founders Circle of GivingPi that aims to build an inclusive nation.”
Rajan Navani
Founder & CEO, JetSynthesys Pvt. Ltd.
“With the coalition of GivingPi's luminaries, our vision to fortify our belief that the future of philanthropy has to be designed intelligently is coming to fruition. The pandemic bore witness to the urgency on why we need to develop more efficient ways of collaboration, Giving Pi will be critical to these efforts.”
Nikhil Kamath
Co-Founder, True Beacon & Zerodha
The membership
We're opening our invite-only members cohort to a select group of 200 families.
Additionally, we’re onboarding a select group of Founders Circle members, who are passionate about building the family philanthropy movement in India and are willing to contribute towards the operating costs of GivingPi, while partnering with a founder’s ethos to evangelize and build the network.
Membership to GivingPi is invite-only, extended to families through the referral of existing members and contingent on the approval of the GivingPi membership committee.
