Corporate-Philanthropy Collaborations for Social Impact Driven Project Design and Delivery

Sanaa leads Investor Relations at United Way Mumbai (UWM) – a premier non-profit organization with a vast footprint in urban and rural communities across the country. UWM has invested INR 480+ crore in the areas of Education, Health, Income, Environment, Public Safety & Social Inclusion and Sanaa works closely with companies on designing their CSR portfolio and philanthropy initiatives.

Priya Kapadia, Heads Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF), an initiative by Marico Ltd. with a mission is to nurture innovation in India. Over the past 7 years Priya has conceptualized multiple programs that support innovations in their journey towards creating real, measurable impact. Her repertoire includes sector and challenge specific programs in the form of #Innovate2Cultivate, to support innovation in agriculture and more recently the #Innovate2Beat Covid Challenge, in response to the pandemic crisis.

Nehal Sanghavi has served with USAID/India as the Senior Advisor for Innovation and Partnership in the Director’s Office since August 2012. He has more than 15 years professional experience in international law, business and development. Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Sanghavi was the Chief Operating Officer of Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, India’s first independent foreign policy think tank. Prior to that, he was with Dasra, a Mumbai- based strategic philanthropy advisory firm for twelve years as Director and General Counsel. Mr. Sanghavi also spent eight years practicing international law at various large international law firms in New York and Texas.

Samar has over 25 years of multi-sector, multi-cultural, and multi-national work experience in leading, undertaking, managing and representing policy research and analysis with policymakers, organisational leadership, advocacy and program management in diverse sectors including higher education and social science research, catalysing and managing regional collaborative learning networks of intellectuals and leaders, technical capacity-building and peer-mentoring of think tank leaders, organisational assessment and strengthening of think tanks in their pursuit of research excellence, policy engagement and strategic communications along with strategic grantmaking experience with international donors. He is an empathetic leader and systems thinker with mature judgement.

Sudarshan Suchi is Save the Children’s Chief Executive Officer. He is a seasoned civil society leader with three decades of local to global experience in academics, development and corporate setting; and, an authority in participatory practices to empower communities to lead transformation.


India CSR Summit & Exhibition is South Asia’s largest CSR, SDGs and social impact forum. The Summit brings together business leaders, board directors, CSR foundations, impact investors, philanthropists, innovators, government agencies, the UN bodies and non-profits leaders to explore synergies and co-create solutions.

Built on the context of mandatory CSR provisions in India, the Summit, in the last 6 years, has truly become the convergence of social impact leaders from across the country. The event has already witnessed participation of over 490 exhibitors, almost 6700 organizations and 11500 professionals. The recent summit on September in 2019 was a benchmark event in terms of the scale, participation and knowledge sharing with 500+corporate heads, 100+ exhibitors and 2000+ delegates from 1900+ organizations coming in one platform to attend 30+ panel sessions on various thematic areas, 10+ masterclasses specially curated for corporate and non-profits, along with keynote talks, product demos and networking sessions.