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20 Years of Serve, Learn, Lead
- “Rekindling our Dreams” Wall art as an expression of future, progress, and a gender equal society
- “That’s a You Problem”…Or Is It? Finding Community in India
- “We Have Always Been the Heroes”: Lessons from a Gender Training in Kesla
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Kimberly Parekh
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Rachna Mathur
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Sachin Shah
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Tanvi Pandit-Rajani
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Vikas Mehta
- 2025: A Year Set to Strengthen and Scale the Cooperative Model
- 5 Steps for Developing Strategic Initiatives
- A Beginner’s Guide to the Galaxy of Climate Change Education
- A Beginning with an ‘Intermission’ – Settling in HO
- A Brewing Revolution in STEM Education: Zero-Cost TLMs
- A Community Rebuilds
- A Conversation With an Anganwadi Worker
- A Daughter’s Diagnosis: (Part 1/2)
- A Day at Bobha Primary School
- A Day in the Life: Jamshedpur Edition
- A day with ArtReach – Video Blog
- A Fellowship Journey with Satya Special School
- A Few Hundred Feet From the Top
- A Glimpse of My Fellowship: 9 Months in 90 Seconds
- A Global Citizen? Part 1: The Geographer
- A Global Citizen? Part 2: India’s Educational Goals
- A Guide to Preparing for Your Next Conference
- A Handprint for Every Footprint: CEE’s Handprint Day
- A Holistic Lens on Housing: The Story of People’s Resistance in Ambujwadi (Part 1/2)
- A Journey of Discovery: My Visit to Stellar Montessori School
- A Letter to the Dogs at CEE
- A Lion-less Thanksgiving: Being an American Sports Fan in India
- A Love Letter to Jamshedpur
- A Love Letter to WhatsApp
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance for Persons with Disabilities (PART – 2)
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance to Persons with Disabilities
- A Primary Perspective on Preserving Traditional Knowledge as key to Sustainable Agriculture
- A story of transformative leadership- I
- A story of transformative leadership- II
- A Story to Tell: An Interview with Dilip Surkar
- A Tale of Two Cities: Delhi and Paris
- A Third-Generation Glimpse into Indian Identity
- A Visual Letter To Puducherry
- A Year at the Department of School Education
- Active Hope Helps Us Hold Steady in Times of Change
- Adolescents’ Health and the Challenge of “Public-Private”: An Experience in Dismantling the Culture of Silence
- AI Is Changing the Social Impact Sector—How Can Young Professionals Adapt?
- An Eventful Weekend in Jamshedpur with Fellows and Friends
- An NRI Walks Into an Aadhar Office…
- An Observer’s Perspective of India’s Ultimate Frisbee Mixed National Championship
- An Ode to My Notebook
- An Umbrella Approach to Make Public Health Accessible and Affordable
- Are Indian Newsrooms Disabled Friendly?
- Arriving at a School Without Any Students
- Art in Udaipur Part. 2, Halftime Report
- Attending RGCON 2025: My Professional Development Grant
- Attending the World Health Summit (WHS) 2025 as an AIF Fellow
- Auspicious Timing and the Power of New Beginnings
- Bananas, Biscuits, and Chai
- Banking Barriers: The Struggle for Accessibility in India’s Financial Institutions
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- Basic Steps for Starting a Women’s Livelihood Project
- Be a dog lover, not just a pet lover
- Behind the Scenes of CEE’s 40th Anniversary Conference
- Behind the Scenes: The Road to UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership (Part 1)
- Behind the Scenes: The Road to UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership (Part 2)
- Beyond a Checkbox – The Strategic Role of Impact Measurement
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- Beyond Chalk and Talk
- Beyond the Ballot: Pioneering Pathways to Inclusive Elections
- Beyond the Lens: A Photographic Journey of My Life in Sawai Madhopur
- Beyond the Ordinary: A Glimpse into Gramin Shiksha Kendra’s Organisational Dynamics
- Beyond the Stream: Listening to Mothers, Learning from Villages
- Biodiversity Management Committees- A sustainable mechanism for localising SDGs
- Blending Worlds: How India Adapts Global Cuisine
- Blooming Livelihoods in Maharashtra’s Palghar District
- Bridging the Gap: Centering Extreme Poverty in Data-Driven Climate Change Solutions
- Bridging the Gap: How an Online Course Transformed My Research Project
- Bridging The Gap: Strategies for Enhancing Genetic Awareness in Rural India
- Bridging the Gap: Traditional vs. Modern Methods of Agriculture and the Role of Young Farmers
- BuddhiMoney Didi: Local Leadership in Mobilization
- Building Bridges in the Development Sector
- Building Bridges: Inclusive Education Through Holistic Development
- Calibrating Impact: Lessons from a ‘Little Spicy’ Meal
- California to India: Colors, Change, and Community
- Can Education Eradicate Poverty for Adivasis? Exploring Authentic Self-Determination
- Celebrating New Dawn: How My First Puja Nurtured Belonging
- Centering community voices
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- Chai breaks, Lunchtime, and Furniture: Moments of Culture Shock
- Changing Patterns in the Lives of Farmers: An Introspection from Past, Present, and Future
- Claiming Space in Unaccommodating Rooms: How Women with Disabilities Lead
- Climate Education and Communications: Parallels and Insights
- Climate Smart Agriculture – A Mantra for Climate Action
- Combating loneliness via Teaching Learning Materials Workshop
- Compassion and Resilience: Akila ‘Akka’s’ Journey of Embracing Change
- Confessions of a Liaison
- Confusion to Clarity- A journey of purpose, people, and endless possibilities
- Conversations on Crop Procurement, Fair Pricing, and Organic Transitions on a Small-Scale Farm in Punjab
- Cooking with Dipsa
- Crafting Change in Kachchh: Stories from Khamir’s World of Print and Plastic
- Crafting Impactful Narratives in Social Impact Communications
- Crafts, Sketches, and Strings
- Cultivating Communications for Social Good
- Culture, Environment & Education: Learnings from my Time in the Van Gujjar Basti
- Dancin’ in the Street: Jumping into the whirlwind of Navratri
- Data Analysis and Skill Development in the Social Development Sector
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Days in Banswara
- Dear Disabled, You are Unsung Heroes, Create Your Own Niche!
- Deep Dish Pizza, Cricket, and Baby Showers: Joining New Communities
- Democratising and decentralising philanthropy in India
- Design Strategy for Social Impact
- Designing Hands-On Child Learning Activities in a Zero-Cost Model
- DETOURS TO MY HEART
- Developing New Strategic Initiatives: The Road to Bhayli’s Growth
- Digital Education in India- Avenues and Challenges
- Discovering Home in Delhi
- Discovering the Power of Theatre: A Catalyst for Change
- Diwali in Udaipur
- Diwali: A Journey of Emotions, Beyond Wealth and Status
- Downtime in Kashmir- Eid-ul-Fitr
- Dropout & Retention Challenges in Madhya Pradesh’s Education
- Drylands are No Dry Topic: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in North Gujarat Drylands
- E-learning for Community Health Workers in India: Challenges and Opportunities
- Early Reflections: Learning, Growing, and Moving Forward
- Education in Motion: Cultivating Inclusive Learning with a Mobile Classroom
- Education in the age of AI
- Embarking on a Journey of Learning and Growth in Auroville
- Embracing the Longevity Revolution: Navigating Dual Education, Multi-Stage Relationships, and Two-Phase Migration in upcoming 120+ Year Lifespan
- Empathetic mentorship and engaging workshops: Reflections from a PDG Exchange
- Empathy for Victim & Perpetrator: How to Address Crimes Against Women
- Empowering Climate Action and Sustainable Development through AI
- Empowering Girls to Dream: Opportunity Born from an Accomplished Alumni
- Empowering Women and Girls Through the Art of Knitting and Crochet
- Enabling Spaces and Holding Space for Young People
- English Vinglish -Teaching language and confidence
- Enhancing Women’s Workspaces: A Visualisation Exercise on WASH Facilities in Podampeta, Odisha
- Epistemic Disconcertment: Local Knowledge vs Expert Knowledge
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Exploring Diverse Forms of Communication: Unlocking New Channels of Expression
- Exploring Gender Perspectives in Agriculture | Comparing Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya
- Exploring Indigenous Farming Practices: Learnings from Meghalaya
- Exposure visit to Sristi Foundation: Learnings and Reflections
- Facing Poverty: Learnings from Indian Non-Profits’ Livelihoods Lens
- Fair Trade: An Ethical and Sustainable Way Forward.
- Falling in Love with Bhavnagar
- Fellowship Closing Seminar 2021: 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead
- Fellowships for Service : Part I – Perspectives from India
- Field Visits in Pune: Professional Development Grant
- Field Visits in Surat, Gujarat: Understanding the Barriers to Successful UTC Implementation
- Fieldwork in the Tribal Communities of Jharkhand
- Fieldwork Lost in Translation
- Fighting for the Road Non-Taken in the Midst of Diwali
- Finding Home Between Continents: A Cultural Journey
- Flexibility and its Limits
- For Every Child, A Thriving Life: My Visit to Dream a Dream
- Fostering Collaborative Learning: Academic Partnerships in Public Health
- Free To Be Me: Perspective on Hijab- Local And Global
- From Coffee Beans to Chai Bliss: Sipping through Change and Finding Happiness
- From Education to Employment: Skill Pathways in Madhya Pradesh
- From Fixed to Flourishing: Building Resilient Learners
- From Informal to Impactful: Empowering Minority Women Entrepreneurs
- From Numbers to Narrative
- From Outsider to RCBian: How Cricket Made Me Mysurian
- From Planning to Impact – My Fellowship Experience
- From Powerless to Powerful: How Community Led Initiatives Put Power in the Hands of Vulnerable Communities
- From the hills to the beach: Hopping India
- Funding landscapes in India Part I: Introduction
- Gamification in Educational Technology – A Review
- Good Morning Bangalore!
- Gora the Explorer
- Gratitude to the Banyan Impact Fellows of 2024–25
- Grounded: The Turbulent Path to Sustainable Air Travel in India
- Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge and Beliefs: Weather Forecasting Practices of farmers for Sustainable Agriculture
- Health Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Part 1/2)
- Health Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Part 2/2)
- Heat, Health and Harmony: Disability in the Time of Climate Change
- Hi Mom, It’s Me: Reflections on Heritage and Culture
- Hidden Between the Rows: When Growth Leaves People Behind
- Highlights from my Professional Development Visit in Pune
- Hindi, English and My Stolen iPhone
- HIV/AIDS healthcare as a human right
- Honoring Tradition, Advancing Health: Samvaad 2025
- House Hunting and Hanuman
- House Hunting and Hanuman
- How STEM is Branching Out: VASCSC’s Strategy to Engage Students
- How to Create More Inclusive Visual Communications: Ensuring Diverse Representation and Accessibility
- How We Begin to Belong
- Human-in-the-Evaluation: AI Roadmap to Culturally Responsive Evaluation
- Implementing a Multi-Actor Platform
- In Defense of Boredom
- Inclusive Education – The only way preferred
- India: Incessantly, Intensely, Incomparably, Inspiringly Interesting
- Infant Mortality and Low Birth Weight in the Kolhan Region of Jharkhand
- Innovating Rural Training: The Story Behind Developing ‘Samarth Village – A Livelihoods Game’
- Innovative Solution for Menstrual Health: A Collaborative Endeavor
- Inside Hyderabad’s Labyrinth
- Insights from Working on Multisectoral Initiatives
- Intentional Community
- Interdisciplinary “Khichdi”: Navigating Your Niche at your Host Organization
- International Purple Fest 2024: Dispatch from Goa
- It Is in the Ache of the Instrument That We Find the Soul of the Song
- It’s Not Just Pretty Colors
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 2
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 3
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 4
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 5
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 6
- JOHAR to all of you!
- Just like the Little Mermaid: Finding comfort in the cohort’s kindness while losing my voice
- Kasol in Monochrome
- Key Learnings from Midpoint: To Future Fellows
- Key takeaways from the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68)
- Know Them, Reach Them: Building Customer Personas and Boosting Visibility with SEO
- Koraput District, a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System
- Kutch Part 1
- Leaning into Discomfort: The Four Stages of Cultural Immersion
- Leaning into the Unfamiliar: A Train Ride Back from Agra, Uttar Pradesh
- Learning STEM is Fun With Toys
- Learning to Build Workplaces that Work for All
- Learning to Lead: A Trainer’s Journey into Plastic Weaving
- Learning to Love STEM: Engaging with STEM approaches to climate resilience as a social sciences and humanities enthusiast.
- Leaving Kamgar Nagar
- Lessons from the Ground: Why a Participatory Approach to Learning is Critical to Empowering Tribal Children
- Lessons in Qualitative Research: The Public Health Lens
- Letter to Bnaya, my Banyan in the Sky
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 1.
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 2.
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 3.
- Lions, Tigers, and Bears
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- Lost and then Found in Pethapur: The Gift of Plans Gone Astray
- Lost in the Maze: Rethinking Economy and Ecology
- Lost in Translation: The Need for Multilingual Resources in Indian schools
- Low Birth Weight: Causes, Consequences and Interventions
- Makerspace Tinkering Labs: Breaking Barriers to STEM Education in Rural Schools
- Making the Invisible Visible: A Visual Storytelling Guide for Nonprofits
- Mastering NGO Networking in Disability Sector (India)
- Maybe Trying Was All I Needed
- Meditating on Expectations: How I Stumbled into Heartfulness
- Mirrored Rhythms: Finding a Home in Dediapada
- Missing Context: Maintaining Relationships Across Distance and Countries
- Monitoring and Evaluation Does Not Need To Be Scary
- Mumbai for Beginners
- My First Diwali: A Trip to Pune and Mahabaleshwar
- My Learnings from Other Professionals: Climate Discussions in Delhi
- My Trips Around India
- Narratives of Resilience: The Story of People’s Resistance in Ambujwadi (Part 2/2)
- Natter with Nukkad’s Team
- Navigating Life as a BIF Fellow
- Neurodiversity (Livelihoods) from the lens of a Social Worker
- New Venture in an Old Place
- Night One: Finding Meaning in the Challenges of Being an Outsider
- North East Network Celebrates Women As Custodians of Biodiversity
- Nurturing Change Through Coaching & Mentorship in Social Advocacy
- Nurturing leadership- Insights from Playquity project in Assam’s rural communities
- October’s Art in Udaipur
- Of Blood and Field Work
- On Distance and Engagement: A Reflection from an American Fellow in India
- On International Day of Cooperatives: Lessons from SEWA Bank
- On Loving Delhi: A Stalwart City Seen with Affection
- On transitions
- One Month in Review: Early Reflections from India
- One Week in the Crown of India
- Organic farming in Kangra- Learnings from the field
- Organizing Events and Experiencing Jagori
- Orientation Session on ‘Ethnographic Research in the Development Sector’
- Out-Migration, Education, and FLN: A Curious Connection
- Overcoming gender barriers and menstrual health challenges in sport participation
- Participatory Methods: Evolving Community-Empowerment Tools in Rural Areas
- Partnership Building for Program Development
- Perinatal Mental Health in India: A Policy Silence and Representation Analysis through Bacchi’s WPR Framework
- Pitching For Impact
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Power of People’s Institutions
- Preparing the Jungle for 500 People
- Prescribing Sustainability: Understanding the Need and Importance of Crafting a Climate-Resilient Healthcare System
- Press Record: How an NGO teaches Documentary Filmmaking in the Development Sector
- Promise and Peril of AI
- Public Health and its Torch Bearers: An Experience of Working with Local Health Institutions
- Public Transportation in India: Part 1
- Public Transportation in India: Part 2
- Puducherry or Pondicherry? – A question through time
- Quality, Dignity, and Delivery: Inside Uttarakhand’s RMC Pilot Program
- Ramdev Pir: Inspiring Service to Others
- Ramjibhai’s Guide to a Perfect Cup of Chai
- Ramzan in Hyderabad
- Reaching the Last Mile: Lessons from Walking with ASHAs
- Reading Between the Lines: The Literacy Illusion
- Reflections from the Fellowship -1
- Reframing Narratives
- Reliant on Poison: Fluoride Contamination in Rural Rajasthan
- Resources for Cultural Sensitivity in Communications Work
- Rethinking Impact in the Field
- Revisiting The Alien Question Now
- Reviving Craftsmanship: Bridging Tradition and Skill for Artisan Empowerment
- Role of Youth in Nation Building: Need for Equity Perspectives in Y20?
- Rural Himachal against the world: A few thoughts
- Rural Water Infrastructure: Earthen Dams
- Same Mission, Different Ethos
- SaturDATA: The difference in days.
- Seaweed Livelihoods: Green from the Deep Blue
- Seeking Serenity at Sristi: A Day in My Life in Rural Tamil Nadu
- Self-Assessments: Why Women Nano-Entrepreneurs Deserve Better Tools
- Settling in: 2 months of being an AIF Fellow
- Smart Circular Innovation: Lessons from G20 and COP28
- Starting Strong: Reflections on 30 Days at Panorama
- State of School Education – Part I – Evaluation mechanisms and results
- State of School Education – Part II – NEP 2020 and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
- State of School Education – Part III – Early Childhood Care and Education
- STEM Education for a Future Ready Society
- STEM Education for Green Jobs: Powering India’s Net Zero Future
- STEM Education for LiFE
- Stigma Vs Resilience: Empowering Mental Health in the Disabled Community
- Stories from the Field: Celebrating the Grassroot Workers of MNCH
- Stories from the Field: Education and Livelihoods
- Stories from the Field: The Experiences of Educators with Samanta Foundation
- Strategic Vision: Mapping Out Madhya Pradesh’s Policy Trajectory for the Next Five Years
- Stree on Streets
- Stretching Across Continents: Yoga, Partnership, and Possibility for Building Inclusion
- Striking the Balance Between Personal Hobbies and Professional Development in the Communications Field
- Tales from the Northeast: Promise and Challenges in Assam’s Solar Sector
- Tapas Roy’s Multi-Layer Farm: Sustainable Agro-ecological Practices
- Ten Lessons From Ten Months
- The Agony and Artistry of Womanhood
- The Art of Temporary Belonging: Cora’s Creation of Home
- The Bread Demonstration & the Forgotten Potential of Soil in CO2 Emissions Reduction
- The Case for Ecological Ethics in Climate Change Education
- The Complexities of Alcoholism in Tribal India
- The Foundation of Effective Organizations: Communication
- The Journey Ahead: Notes for New Banyan Impact Fellows
- The Listening Lens: A Participatory Approach to Storytelling
- The Magic of Last-Minute Traveling: Diwali in Udaipur
- The Marvels of Mistakes
- The Mosaic of Aspirations: A Journey through Shifting Dreams
- The Need for Comprehensive Sex Education in India
- The Overlooked Rights of a Consumer with Disability
- The Plastic Problem: Spherical Economy for the win!
- The Power of Expectation: A Story of Transformation in the Classroom
- The Power of Staying Connected: Life After the Banyan Impact Fellowship
- The Prices of Mahua
- The Rise of Rapid-Delivery Services in Urban India: Instant Gratification Comes At A Cost
- The Role of Filmmaking in India’s Social Justice Movements
- The Role of Men in Menstruation
- The Samaveshi Cup: How A Cricket Bat Can Break Gender Norms
- The Stories Behind Ammamma’s Piercings
- The Wonderfully Varied World of the Climate Space
- This Was Supposed to Be an Event
- Thought Leadership for a sustainable future
- Threading the Needle in Jamshedpur
- Three days at SVSU: Experiencing Skill Education Firsthand
- Three Women, One Question
- Through Children’s Eyes: Uncovering Village Waste Issues in Odisha
- Tiny Love Stories: AIF Edition
- TO FUTURE FELLOWS: an Eating Guide For Vegetarian, semi-rural life
- To My Dear Students: Until We Meet Again
- Top 9 things to do in the first week of the Fellowship
- Tracing Signs of Home
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 1
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 2
- Transformative Travels Connecting with India’s Roots – A Story of People, Culture, and Progress Through Tradition and Innovation
- Transforming Odisha: A State Government’s Plan for the Next Few Decades of Development
- Transforming Rural Madhya Pradesh: Insights from the Safe Tourism Destination for Women and Rural Tourism Projects
- Traveling to Forts and connecting with the Fellowship
- Understanding the Flow of Funding for Child Nutrition Programs: A Case Study of Odisha
- Understated ADHD/ADD in Children
- Unequal Childhoods and the Cultural Capital of Indian Education
- Unlocking India’s Potential: How the Development Sector is Forging Pathways to Prosperity
- Unlocking Personal Growth and Branding ~ A Guide to LinkedIn
- Unlocking the Potential of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Model
- Unraveling the Culinary Treasures of Hyderabad: A Voyage through Hyderabadi Cuisine
- Unseen Steps, Unspoken Courage
- Unveiling Deep Societal Issues through the Unusual Names of Girls in Rajasthan
- Unveiling Purpose: The Evolutionary Journey of Crafting a Project Proposal
- Village Climate Action Plan: A Framework for Rural Climate Resilience
- Voices Unheard: Amplifying the Experiences of Women with Disabilities in India
- Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes
- Walking the fields at Jagori
- Walking the Tightrope of Trust: A Two-Way Street
- WASH in Ganjam: A Gendered Perspective
- What comes after settling in?
- What does it take to scale impact on-ground?
- What Happens When We Stop, Listen and Reflect!
- What I Learned About the Realities of Life for a Person with a Disability
- What I see on my way to work
- What Is the Role of Life Skills Education?
- What Motivates People? A Reflection on Motivation and Compulsion
- What The Dust Inherits
- What We Can Learn from the Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Center
- What We Learned at the International Purple Fest Goa, 2025: Reflections on Health, Rights, and Livelihoods
- What We Risk Losing: Stories of Scholarship, Language and the Power of Immersive Learning
- When Children Lead: A Day With Balsena
- Where are women in the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem?
- Where Practice Meets Policy: Learning from Academic Institutions in India’s Capital
- Where the Banyan (Fellow) Roots
- Where the Desert Meets the Sand: A Letter from Rajasthan
- Why Children’s Mental Health Needs Immediate Attention
- Why Harda? – Reflecting on Place
- Why Hiring Inclusively is a Good Business Decision: Leveraging an Underutilized Asset
- Why I Belonged to Playquity Already
- Why Indian Donor Organizations Need to Invest in Data-driven Narrative Change
- Why Indian Sign Language should be part of the Constitution and Curriculum!
- Why is Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV Intervention Campaigns So Difficult in India?
- Women Entrepreneurship: Lessons from My First Field Visit with ACCESS Developement Services
- Women of the Waves: A Canvas of Coastal Fishery Livelihood
- Women’s Day with Utthan
- Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Organizations
- Women’s Employment and Skill Development in Rewari
- Words Work Wonders: Strengthening Communication in the Social Development Sector
- World Wetlands Day: Good for Wetlands, Good for Communities
- You Are Real
- Youth involvement in Agriculture for a sustainable future_ A Primary prospective
AIF
- “Earlier, I used to wonder what my future would be. Now I have no fears.”
- “I am now interested in things that people think only boys love doing”
- “Rekindling our Dreams” Wall art as an expression of future, progress, and a gender equal society
- “That’s a You Problem”…Or Is It? Finding Community in India
- “We Have Always Been the Heroes”: Lessons from a Gender Training in Kesla
- 2025: A Year Set to Strengthen and Scale the Cooperative Model
- 22 Women of MAST produced and distributed 35,000 masks and 2,710 health and hygiene kits
- 3 Reasons Why Donating Crypto to AIF is a Game-Changer
- 4 Ways AIF’s Charity Fundraising Events Promote Philanthropy and Community Engagement
- 4 Ways to Maximize Impact With Your Gifts
- 5 Meaningful Ways to Introduce Your Children to Philanthropy
- 5 Ways Educational Non profit Organizations Like AIF Are Transforming Lives In India
- A Beginning with an ‘Intermission’ – Settling in HO
- A Brewing Revolution in STEM Education: Zero-Cost TLMs
- A Conversation With an Anganwadi Worker
- A Covid-19 warrior protecting her village through awareness and surveillance around the clock
- A Day at Bobha Primary School
- A day in the field with intersection realities!
- A Day in the Life: Jamshedpur Edition
- A day with ArtReach – Video Blog
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- A Dialogue with Madhuri Dixit and Dr. Ram Nene
- A Few Hundred Feet From the Top
- A Global Citizen? Part 1: The Geographer
- A Global Citizen? Part 2: India’s Educational Goals
- A Guide to Preparing for Your Next Conference
- A Handprint for Every Footprint: CEE’s Handprint Day
- A Holistic Lens on Housing: The Story of People’s Resistance in Ambujwadi (Part 1/2)
- A Journey of Discovery: My Visit to Stellar Montessori School
- A Letter to the Dogs at CEE
- A Lion-less Thanksgiving: Being an American Sports Fan in India
- A Love Letter to WhatsApp
- A Message from Our CEO, Nishant Pandey
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance for Persons with Disabilities (PART – 2)
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance to Persons with Disabilities
- A Playquity Village. A Frisbee Tournament. A Movement.
- A Primary Perspective on Preserving Traditional Knowledge as key to Sustainable Agriculture
- A story of transformative leadership- I
- A story of transformative leadership- II
- A Story to Tell: An Interview with Dilip Surkar
- A Tale of Two Cities: Delhi and Paris
- A Third-Generation Glimpse into Indian Identity
- A Tribute To Those We’ve Lost to COVID-19: Arjun, Abhilash, Jockim
- A Year at the Department of School Education
- Active Hope Helps Us Hold Steady in Times of Change
- Adapting to Different Work Cultures as an Introvert
- Adjusting to Life as an AIF Fellow
- Adolescents’ Health and the Challenge of “Public-Private”: An Experience in Dismantling the Culture of Silence
- AIF AWARDED THE “7TH CSR IMPACT AWARDS 2021: LARGE COVID-19 RESPONSE CATEGORY”
- AIF Dallas Fall 2019 Benefit Celebrates Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative and Launches Texas Board
- AIF Fellowship 2020-21 COMMENCES
- AIF Leadership Team meets with Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
- AIF leverages Corporate Partnerships to Drive Social Good In India
- AIF NYC visits the DAG Modern Art Gallery!
- AIF Partners with UNICEF for Nepal Earthquake Rehabilitation
- AIF PROGRAM DATA (As of October 31, 2019)
- AIF Summer Intern Experience 2013
- AIF’s SNEH Program: A Blueprint for Integrated Community Development
- AIF’s CEO Nishant Pandey Named “CEO of the Year”
- Alleviating Poverty Cannot Happen in Isolation
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- American India Foundation Leadership Trip 2016
- An Evening of Hope: Carl Pope on Climate Stewardship
- An Eventful Weekend in Jamshedpur with Fellows and Friends
- An NRI Walks Into an Aadhar Office…
- An Observer’s Perspective of India’s Ultimate Frisbee Mixed National Championship
- An Ode to My Notebook
- An Umbrella Approach to Make Public Health Accessible and Affordable
- Anjula Acharia-Bath to give Keynote Address at the 9th Annual AIF New York Young Professionals Gala, Honoring Maternal & Newborn Healthcare
- Announcing People Powered Partnerships, Volume 2
- Arriving at a School Without Any Students
- ART FOR A CAUSE
- Art in Udaipur Part. 2, Halftime Report
- Attending RGCON 2025: My Professional Development Grant
- Attending the World Health Summit (WHS) 2025 as an AIF Fellow
- Auspicious Timing and the Power of New Beginnings
- Bananas, Biscuits, and Chai
- Banking Barriers: The Struggle for Accessibility in India’s Financial Institutions
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- Basic Steps for Starting a Women’s Livelihood Project
- BAY AREA’S CIRCLE OF HOPE ANNOUNCES A GRANT FOR LAMP IN RAJASTHAN
- Be a dog lover, not just a pet lover
- Behind the Scenes of CEE’s 40th Anniversary Conference
- Behind the Scenes: The Road to UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership (Part 1)
- Behind the Scenes: The Road to UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership (Part 2)
- Beneficiary turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav
- Beneficiary Turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav.
- Beyond a Checkbox – The Strategic Role of Impact Measurement
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- Beyond Chalk and Talk
- Beyond the Ballot: Pioneering Pathways to Inclusive Elections
- Beyond the Lens: A Photographic Journey of My Life in Sawai Madhopur
- Beyond the Ordinary: A Glimpse into Gramin Shiksha Kendra’s Organisational Dynamics
- Beyond the Stream: Listening to Mothers, Learning from Villages
- Biodiversity Management Committees- A sustainable mechanism for localising SDGs
- Blending Worlds: How India Adapts Global Cuisine
- Blooming Livelihoods in Maharashtra’s Palghar District
- BREAKING FREE FROM THE MULTI-GENERATIONAL CYCLE OF POVERTY. WestBridge Capital is an Enabler
- Bridging the Gap: Centering Extreme Poverty in Data-Driven Climate Change Solutions
- Bridging the Gap: How an Online Course Transformed My Research Project
- Bridging The Gap: Strategies for Enhancing Genetic Awareness in Rural India
- Bridging the Gap: Traditional vs. Modern Methods of Agriculture and the Role of Young Farmers
- BuddhiMoney Didi: Local Leadership in Mobilization
- Building Bridges in the Development Sector
- Building Bridges: Inclusive Education Through Holistic Development
- Calibrating Impact: Lessons from a ‘Little Spicy’ Meal
- California to India: Colors, Change, and Community
- Campaign VEER
- Can Education Eradicate Poverty for Adivasis? Exploring Authentic Self-Determination
- Catalysts for Change: How the AIF Youth Ambassador Program Empowers Young Leaders
- Celebrating New Dawn: How My First Puja Nurtured Belonging
- CELEBRATING THE HEARTBEAT OF HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ON MOTHER’S DAY
- Centering community voices
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- Chai breaks, Lunchtime, and Furniture: Moments of Culture Shock
- Changing Patterns in the Lives of Farmers: An Introspection from Past, Present, and Future
- Circle of Hope: AIF’s Efforts to Mobilize Women in Philanthropy
- Claiming Space in Unaccommodating Rooms: How Women with Disabilities Lead
- Climate Education and Communications: Parallels and Insights
- Climate Smart Agriculture – A Mantra for Climate Action
- Clinton Fellows attend Midpoint Conference
- Clinton Fellowship Alumni: Stories of Service and Inspiration
- Colour Outside the Lines: Decolonizing Design
- Combating loneliness via Teaching Learning Materials Workshop
- Compassion and Resilience: Akila ‘Akka’s’ Journey of Embracing Change
- Confusion to Clarity- A journey of purpose, people, and endless possibilities
- Congratulations to the 2019-20 AIF Clinton Fellows
- Connecting with a Cause, an Idea, and Communities
- Cooking with Dipsa
- Crafting Impactful Narratives in Social Impact Communications
- Crafts, Sketches, and Strings
- Creating a Dump-Free India: one start-up’s model for cleaner cities
- Creating a More Compassionate World: A Deep Dive into Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning with Neha Bhatia : Month 2
- Cross-cutting Alliances Drive Social Change
- Cultivating Communications for Social Good
- Cultivating Cultural Humility in an Indian Context
- Culture, Environment & Education: Learnings from my Time in the Van Gujjar Basti
- Dancin’ in the Street: Jumping into the whirlwind of Navratri
- Data Analysis and Skill Development in the Social Development Sector
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Days in Banswara
- Dear Disabled, You are Unsung Heroes, Create Your Own Niche!
- Decentralizing Health governance : The Way Forward
- Deep Dish Pizza, Cricket, and Baby Showers: Joining New Communities
- Delivering Dignity: AIF’s Respectful Maternity Care in Childbirth Initiative
- Democratising and decentralising philanthropy in India
- Design Strategy for Social Impact
- Designing Hands-On Child Learning Activities in a Zero-Cost Model
- DETOURS TO MY HEART
- Developing New Strategic Initiatives: The Road to Bhayli’s Growth
- Digital Education in India- Avenues and Challenges
- DIGITAL EQUALIZER NARROWS THE EDUCATION GAP IN INDIA
- Dinner and Discourse opens up conversations around what it means to be a “Modern Indian”
- Discovering Home in Delhi
- Discovering the Power of Theatre: A Catalyst for Change
- Diwali in Udaipur
- Diwali: A Journey of Emotions, Beyond Wealth and Status
- Donating from Your IRA: What Is a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) and Should You Use One?
- Donor-Advised Funds vs. Private Foundations: Choosing What’s Right For Your Family
- Downtime in Kashmir- Eid-ul-Fitr
- Dr. Brian Pereira, MD Joins the Board of AIF
- Dropout & Retention Challenges in Madhya Pradesh’s Education
- DRY RATION KITS FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AFFECTED BY MIGRATION
- Drylands are No Dry Topic: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in North Gujarat Drylands
- E-learning for Community Health Workers in India: Challenges and Opportunities
- Early Reflections: Learning, Growing, and Moving Forward
- Education in Motion: Cultivating Inclusive Learning with a Mobile Classroom
- Education in the age of AI
- Ek Disha Foundation Joins with American India Foundation to Become AIF’s Houston Chapter
- Embarking on a Journey of Learning and Growth in Auroville
- Embracing the Longevity Revolution: Navigating Dual Education, Multi-Stage Relationships, and Two-Phase Migration in upcoming 120+ Year Lifespan
- Empathetic mentorship and engaging workshops: Reflections from a PDG Exchange
- Empathy for Victim & Perpetrator: How to Address Crimes Against Women
- Empowering Education in Karnataka: AIF & Guru Krupa Foundation Launch Transformative Learning Initiative
- Empowering Girls to Dream: Opportunity Born from an Accomplished Alumni
- Empowering Migrant Children Through Education: A Glimpse into Aarti Play School
- Empowering Parents and Caregivers: Strengthening Foundations of STEM Ecosystems
- Empowering Women and Girls Through the Art of Knitting and Crochet
- Enabling high-impact giving to India: The Role of Donor-Advised Funds
- Enabling Spaces and Holding Space for Young People
- End of the Road
- English Vinglish -Teaching language and confidence
- Enhancing Women’s Workspaces: A Visualisation Exercise on WASH Facilities in Podampeta, Odisha
- Epistemic Disconcertment: Local Knowledge vs Expert Knowledge
- Exploring a career switch to the development sector in my 20s
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Exploring Diverse Forms of Communication: Unlocking New Channels of Expression
- Exploring Genders and Sexualities: A visit to the queer trans wellness and support centre
- Exposure visit to Sristi Foundation: Learnings and Reflections
- Facing Poverty: Learnings from Indian Non-Profits’ Livelihoods Lens
- Fair Trade: An Ethical and Sustainable Way Forward.
- Falling in Love with Bhavnagar
- Family Philanthropy: Building a Legacy That Lasts Beyond Wealth
- Fellows Meet Infosys Co-Founder and Chairperson on Campus Visit
- Fellowships for Service : Part I – Perspectives from India
- Field Visits in Pune: Professional Development Grant
- Fieldwork Lost in Translation
- Fighting for the Road Non-Taken in the Midst of Diwali
- Financial Literacy and Livelihood Revival: Learnings From the Fellowship
- Finding comfort in the uncomfortable zones
- Finding Family in Unexpected Places
- Finding Home Between Continents: A Cultural Journey
- For Every Child, A Thriving Life: My Visit to Dream a Dream
- Fostering Collaborative Learning: Academic Partnerships in Public Health
- Free To Be Me: Perspective on Hijab- Local And Global
- From Coffee Beans to Chai Bliss: Sipping through Change and Finding Happiness
- From Dream to Desk: Rediscovering a Tapestry of Culture, History, and Governance in Bhopal
- From Education to Employment: Skill Pathways in Madhya Pradesh
- From Fixed to Flourishing: Building Resilient Learners
- From Informal to Impactful: Empowering Minority Women Entrepreneurs
- From Numbers to Narrative
- From Planning to Impact – My Fellowship Experience
- From Powerless to Powerful: How Community Led Initiatives Put Power in the Hands of Vulnerable Communities
- From the hills to the beach: Hopping India
- Funding landscapes in India Part I: Introduction
- Gamification in Educational Technology – A Review
- Gender Inequality: Realities, Reasons, and What We Can Do About It
- Gratitude to the Banyan Impact Fellows of 2024–25
- Grounded : of coffee, soil and humility
- Grounded: The Turbulent Path to Sustainable Air Travel in India
- Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge and Beliefs: Weather Forecasting Practices of farmers for Sustainable Agriculture
- Have Fun to Help
- HCL Foundation, Madurai Corporation & AIF launch the ‘Robotics Lab Project’ in five corporation schools
- Health Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Part 1/2)
- Health Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Part 2/2)
- Heat, Health and Harmony: Disability in the Time of Climate Change
- Hi Mom, It’s Me: Reflections on Heritage and Culture
- Highlights from my Professional Development Visit in Pune
- Hindi, English and My Stolen iPhone
- Honoring Tradition, Advancing Health: Samvaad 2025
- House Hunting and Hanuman
- House Hunting and Hanuman
- How AIF is Pioneering Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities in India
- How Diaspora Philanthropy is Transforming India
- How I Ended Up At The Delhi Police Academy: A Reflection On LGBTQIA+ Sensitization
- How Joining AIF’s Young Professionals Program Can Transform Your Career and Community
- How STEM is Branching Out: VASCSC’s Strategy to Engage Students
- How the Covid-19 Lockdown Transformed 15-Year-Old Doctaren Khadia as the Head of the Household
- How to build a cordial relationship with your Host Organization
- How to Create More Inclusive Visual Communications: Ensuring Diverse Representation and Accessibility
- How to Interview in 5 Languages…
- HOW TO MAKE FELLOWSHIP FROM HOME SUCCESSFUL: 5 INSIGHTS FROM A REMOTE FELLOW
- How to prepare for the American India Foundation’s Banyan Impact Fellowship Interview?
- How We Begin to Belong
- Human-in-the-Evaluation: AI Roadmap to Culturally Responsive Evaluation
- Implementing a Multi-Actor Platform
- In Defense of Boredom
- Inclusive Education – The only way preferred
- Infant Mortality and Low Birth Weight in the Kolhan Region of Jharkhand
- Innovating Rural Training: The Story Behind Developing ‘Samarth Village – A Livelihoods Game’
- Innovative Solution for Menstrual Health: A Collaborative Endeavor
- Inside Hyderabad’s Labyrinth
- Insights from LAMP in the Field: A Volunteer’s Experience and Perspective
- Insights from Working on Multisectoral Initiatives
- Intentional Community
- Interdisciplinary “Khichdi”: Navigating Your Niche at your Host Organization
- International Purple Fest 2024: Dispatch from Goa
- It Is in the Ache of the Instrument That We Find the Soul of the Song
- It is one’s ability, not disability, that defines any individual.
- It’s Not Just Pretty Colors
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 2
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 3
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 4
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 5
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 6
- JOHAR to all of you!
- Junior AIF Fundraiser Empowers over 540 Children with Quality Education!
- Just like the Little Mermaid: Finding comfort in the cohort’s kindness while losing my voice
- Kasol in Monochrome
- Key Learnings from Midpoint: To Future Fellows
- Key takeaways from the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68)
- Know Them, Reach Them: Building Customer Personas and Boosting Visibility with SEO
- Knowledge-Sharing and Dissemination Event for MANSI Evaluation Report Findings
- Koraput District, a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System
- Kudumbashree Kitchen: The Transformation of Geetha Parameshawaran From Homemaker to Entrepreneur
- L&T and AIF join hands for the Engineering Futures project
- Lamakaan: The Seventh Heaven of Hyderabad!
- LAMP Powered by Guru Krupa
- Leading Through Servanthood in India’s Development Sector
- Leaning into Discomfort: The Four Stages of Cultural Immersion
- Leaning into the Unfamiliar: A Train Ride Back from Agra, Uttar Pradesh
- Learning STEM is Fun With Toys
- Learning to Build Workplaces that Work for All
- Learning to Love STEM: Engaging with STEM approaches to climate resilience as a social sciences and humanities enthusiast.
- Leaving Kamgar Nagar
- Lessons from the Ground: Why a Participatory Approach to Learning is Critical to Empowering Tribal Children
- Lessons in Qualitative Research: The Public Health Lens
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 1.
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 2.
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 3.
- LIGHTING THE WAY: BAISHNAVI’S LUMINARY TALE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND SKILLING
- Lions, Tigers, and Bears
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- Lost and then Found in Pethapur: The Gift of Plans Gone Astray
- Lost in the Maze: Rethinking Economy and Ecology
- Lost in Translation: The Need for Multilingual Resources in Indian schools
- Luqma By SAFA: A Journey of social enterprise
- Makerspace Tinkering Labs: Breaking Barriers to STEM Education in Rural Schools
- MAKING A BUZZ IN THE ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Mastering NGO Networking in Disability Sector (India)
- Maybe Trying Was All I Needed
- Meditating on Expectations: How I Stumbled into Heartfulness
- Meet Asma – DE
- Meet Gemmeli – Maternal and Child Health
- Meet Kalyani – LAMP
- Meet Navya – Digital Equalizer
- Meet Ritu – Sustainable Livelihoods
- Meet Sonia – Livelihoods
- Meet Suman – Sustainable Livelihoods
- Meet Sunita – Livelihoods
- Meet Zubaida – Livelihoods
- Mirrored Rhythms: Finding a Home in Dediapada
- Monitoring and Evaluation Does Not Need To Be Scary
- Mumbai for Beginners
- My experience of selection, Orientation, and arriving at the Host Organization
- My First Diwali: A Trip to Pune and Mahabaleshwar
- My Learnings from Other Professionals: Climate Discussions in Delhi
- Narratives of Resilience: The Story of People’s Resistance in Ambujwadi (Part 2/2)
- NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY: Tips to Ensure a Safe and Healthy Pregnancy
- Natter with Nukkad’s Team
- NBA has created a platform for so many people to follow as a model, says Dikembe Mutombo
- NBA partners with AIF to create a legacy with their first ever NBA India Games
- New book ‘Climate of Hope’ shows climate solutions are win-win
- New Venture in an Old Place
- Night One: Finding Meaning in the Challenges of Being an Outsider
- North East Network Celebrates Women As Custodians of Biodiversity
- Nurturing Change Through Coaching & Mentorship in Social Advocacy
- Nurturing leadership- Insights from Playquity project in Assam’s rural communities
- October’s Art in Udaipur
- Of Blood and Field Work
- On International Day of Cooperatives: Lessons from SEWA Bank
- On Loving Delhi: A Stalwart City Seen with Affection
- On the Eve of Giving Tuesday, AIF’s CEO reflects on the Learning and Migration Program
- On transitions
- One Month in Review: Early Reflections from India
- One Week in the Crown of India
- Opening Act of Adventure
- Organic farming in Kangra- Learnings from the field
- Organizing Events and Experiencing Jagori
- Orientation Session on ‘Ethnographic Research in the Development Sector’
- Out-Migration, Education, and FLN: A Curious Connection
- Overcoming gender barriers and menstrual health challenges in sport participation
- Participatory Methods: Evolving Community-Empowerment Tools in Rural Areas
- Passing the Baton of Leadership
- Paying Tribute to Venky
- Peering at Orientation from a Psychological Standpoint
- Perinatal Mental Health in India: A Policy Silence and Representation Analysis through Bacchi’s WPR Framework
- Pitching For Impact
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Power of People’s Institutions
- Prescribing Sustainability: Understanding the Need and Importance of Crafting a Climate-Resilient Healthcare System
- Press Record: How an NGO teaches Documentary Filmmaking in the Development Sector
- Promise and Peril of AI
- Public Health and its Torch Bearers: An Experience of Working with Local Health Institutions
- Public Health in Kalahandi: A Brief Overview ‘Troubling Survival: Mounting Resistance’
- Public Transportation in India: Part 1
- Public Transportation in India: Part 2
- Puducherry or Pondicherry? – A question through time
- Quality, Dignity, and Delivery: Inside Uttarakhand’s RMC Pilot Program
- Ramdev Pir: Inspiring Service to Others
- Ramjibhai’s Guide to a Perfect Cup of Chai
- Ramzan in Hyderabad
- Reading Between the Lines: The Literacy Illusion
- Reflecting on Trainings for Rural Women in India: How Can We Ensure Effective Outcomes?
- Reflections from the Fellowship -1
- Reflections on Cooperatives, Ambiguity and Governance
- Reflections on Digital Equalizer in Delhi
- Reframing Narratives
- Reliant on Poison: Fluoride Contamination in Rural Rajasthan
- Remote Learning Strategies in COVID times
- Resources for Cultural Sensitivity in Communications Work
- Rethinking Impact in the Field
- Review of “Eight Dollars and a Dream: My American Journey” by Raj Gupta
- Revisiting The Alien Question Now
- Revitalizing Social Work: A Call for Indianizing Social Work Education and Practice with Integration of Indigenous and Modern Approaches
- Reviving Craftsmanship: Bridging Tradition and Skill for Artisan Empowerment
- Right Out of College, Right into the Field: Month 1
- Role of Youth in Nation Building: Need for Equity Perspectives in Y20?
- Round-table on Disability and the Future of Work: Ensuring inclusiveness and equality for Persons with Disabilities
- Run for India, Run for AIF
- Rural Himachal against the world: A few thoughts
- Rural Water Infrastructure: Earthen Dams
- Sakir Sayyed – A Resilient And Confident Young Person
- Same Mission, Different Ethos
- Sanya Goenka’s Visit to AIF’s ABLE Site
- SaturDATA: The difference in days.
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
- Seaweed Livelihoods: Green from the Deep Blue
- Seeking Serenity at Sristi: A Day in My Life in Rural Tamil Nadu
- SEEL from different angles: Perspectives from all across – Month 3
- Self-Assessments: Why Women Nano-Entrepreneurs Deserve Better Tools
- Settling in: 2 months of being an AIF Fellow
- SHINING A LIGHT ON CHILDREN WALKING THE PATH OF DISTRESS SEASONAL MIGRATION
- Skill Development is Key to India’s Future
- Solving the Ultimate Equation: How to Make Math Fun for Elementary Learners
- Some Fresh Perspectives and Breakthroughs on Governance
- Starting a Startup in India’s Social Development Sector
- Starting Strong: Reflections on 30 Days at Panorama
- State of School Education – Part I – Evaluation mechanisms and results
- State of School Education – Part II – NEP 2020 and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
- State of School Education – Part III – Early Childhood Care and Education
- STEM Education for a Future Ready Society
- STEM Education for Green Jobs: Powering India’s Net Zero Future
- STEM Education for LiFE
- Stigma Vs Resilience: Empowering Mental Health in the Disabled Community
- Stories from the Field: Education and Livelihoods
- Stories from the Field: The Experiences of Educators with Samanta Foundation
- Strategic Vision: Mapping Out Madhya Pradesh’s Policy Trajectory for the Next Five Years
- Stree on Streets
- Striking the Balance Between Personal Hobbies and Professional Development in the Communications Field
- Support My School: Mission Recycling Sensitizing and Raising Awareness on Recycling PET Waste for 1.1 Million students
- Swaraj, Education and CSR
- Taking a Walk: Community Action using Transect Mapping and Visual Action Plan
- Tales from the Northeast: Promise and Challenges in Assam’s Solar Sector
- Tapas Roy’s Multi-Layer Farm: Sustainable Agro-ecological Practices
- Teaching Kids About Giving: 7 Activities to Instill Generosity Early
- The 2026 Guide to Tax-Efficient Charitable Giving
- The Agony and Artistry of Womanhood
- The Amazon India Partnership – A Broader Picture of Integrated Development
- The American Society of Civil Engineers… in India
- The Art of Temporary Belonging: Cora’s Creation of Home
- The Benefits of Donating via DAF
- The Bread Demonstration & the Forgotten Potential of Soil in CO2 Emissions Reduction
- The Dangs: From New Delhi to Subir
- The Genetics of Inequality: Can Our Environments Biologically Shape Our Opportunities?
- THE HAPPINESS CURRICULUM
- The Inspiration Behind Philanthropy
- The Listening Lens: A Participatory Approach to Storytelling
- The Magic of Last-Minute Traveling: Diwali in Udaipur
- The Marvels of Mistakes
- The Merasi School: A School in the Midst of Inequality
- The Mosaic of Aspirations: A Journey through Shifting Dreams
- The Need for Comprehensive Sex Education in India
- The need for transforming our schools into centers of excellence
- The Overlooked Rights of a Consumer with Disability
- The Plague of Patriarchy
- The Plastic Problem: Spherical Economy for the win!
- The Power of Expectation: A Story of Transformation in the Classroom
- The Power of Staying Connected: Life After the Banyan Impact Fellowship
- The Role of Filmmaking in India’s Social Justice Movements
- The Role of Men in Menstruation
- The Samaveshi Cup: How A Cricket Bat Can Break Gender Norms
- The Stories Behind Ammamma’s Piercings
- The Unsung Heroes of Rural Health Care in India
- The Women in Hiding: Are Neurodivergent Women Being Overlooked By The System?
- The Wonderfully Varied World of the Climate Space
- Thinking about the Future by Looking at the Past: Travels to South Gujarat
- THIS MOBILE LIBRARY IS A LIFELINE
- This Was Supposed to Be an Event
- Thought Leadership for a sustainable future
- Threading the Needle in Jamshedpur
- Three days at SVSU: Experiencing Skill Education Firsthand
- Three Women, One Question
- Through Children’s Eyes: Uncovering Village Waste Issues in Odisha
- Tiny Love Stories: AIF Edition
- TO FUTURE FELLOWS: an Eating Guide For Vegetarian, semi-rural life
- To My Dear Students: Until We Meet Again
- Top 9 things to do in the first week of the Fellowship
- Towards Gender Equality, Through Work with Men and Boys
- Tracing Signs of Home
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 1
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 2
- Transformative Travels Connecting with India’s Roots – A Story of People, Culture, and Progress Through Tradition and Innovation
- Transforming Odisha: A State Government’s Plan for the Next Few Decades of Development
- Transforming Rural Madhya Pradesh: Insights from the Safe Tourism Destination for Women and Rural Tourism Projects
- Traveling to Forts and connecting with the Fellowship
- Tribute to Bhulabhai Vannmalibhai Patel
- Understanding Multi-party Social Impact Sector in India
- Understanding the Flow of Funding for Child Nutrition Programs: A Case Study of Odisha
- Understanding Walking As A Research Method
- Understated ADHD/ADD in Children
- Unlocking India’s Potential: How the Development Sector is Forging Pathways to Prosperity
- Unlocking Personal Growth and Branding ~ A Guide to LinkedIn
- Unlocking the Potential of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Model
- Unraveling the Culinary Treasures of Hyderabad: A Voyage through Hyderabadi Cuisine
- Unseen Steps, Unspoken Courage
- Unveiling Deep Societal Issues through the Unusual Names of Girls in Rajasthan
- Unveiling Purpose: The Evolutionary Journey of Crafting a Project Proposal
- Village Climate Action Plan: A Framework for Rural Climate Resilience
- Virtual and in-person fieldwork for contextual inquiry: An atypical case of YUWA School in rural Jharkhand
- Vivek Bantwal Joins the AIF Board
- Voices Unheard: Amplifying the Experiences of Women with Disabilities in India
- Volunteering for Impact
- Walk With AIF: A Movement of Hope, Community, and Changemaking
- Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes
- Walking the fields at Jagori
- Walking the Tightrope of Trust: A Two-Way Street
- WASH in Ganjam: A Gendered Perspective
- We use our eyes every day. Why not take care of them?
- Well, Oriented Well
- What comes after settling in?
- What does it take to scale impact on-ground?
- What Happens When We Stop, Listen and Reflect!
- What I Learned About the Realities of Life for a Person with a Disability
- What I learnt, when I taught: Lessons from my first ever teaching experience
- What I see on my way to work
- What Is the Role of Life Skills Education?
- What Makes a Nonprofit Effective? A Donor’s Guide to Evaluating Impact
- What Motivates People? A Reflection on Motivation and Compulsion
- What The Dust Inherits
- What We Can Learn from the Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Center
- What We Learned at the International Purple Fest Goa, 2025: Reflections on Health, Rights, and Livelihoods
- What We Risk Losing: Stories of Scholarship, Language and the Power of Immersive Learning
- When Children Lead: A Day With Balsena
- Where are women in the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem?
- Where Practice Meets Policy: Learning from Academic Institutions in India’s Capital
- Where the Banyan (Fellow) Roots
- Where the Desert Meets the Sand: A Letter from Rajasthan
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
- Why a Stock Donation is the Ultimate Charitable Gift
- Why Evidence Matters
- Why Giving Feels Good: The Psychology Behind Our Generosity
- Why Harda? – Reflecting on Place
- Why Hiring Inclusively is a Good Business Decision: Leveraging an Underutilised Asset
- Why Hiring Inclusively is a Good Business Decision: Leveraging an Underutilized Asset
- Why I Belonged to Playquity Already
- Why Indian Donor Organizations Need to Invest in Data-driven Narrative Change
- Why Indian Sign Language should be part of the Constitution and Curriculum!
- Why is Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV Intervention Campaigns So Difficult in India?
- Women and Water: Reflections on World Water Day
- Women Entrepreneurship: Lessons from My First Field Visit with ACCESS Developement Services
- Women of the Waves: A Canvas of Coastal Fishery Livelihood
- Women’s Day with Utthan
- Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Organizations
- Women’s Employment and Skill Development in Rewari
- Words Work Wonders: Strengthening Communication in the Social Development Sector
- World Wetlands Day: Good for Wetlands, Good for Communities
- You Are Real
- Youth ambassador for AIF raises money for children of laborers in India
- Youth involvement in Agriculture for a sustainable future_ A Primary prospective
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- AIF Raises $1.35 Million at New York Gala
- AIF raises 150K for people with disability in India
- AIF Raises A Record Breaking $1.03 Million At The 6th Annual New England Annual
- AIF Raises More Than $900,0000 for India’s Unemployed Youth
- AIF Raises Over $1 Million at Boston Gala for its Flagship MANSI Initiative in India
- AIF Raises Over $1.5 Million at Annual New York Gala
- AIF Recognized in Annual National Skills Development Corporation Performance Awards
- AIF Report Pitches for More Differently-Abled Professionals in Private Sector
- AIF Richmond Gala – The Social Seen
- AIF SF Gala Raises $1.56M in Glittering Event
- AIF Student Film, “Water Problem” to Debut at Seattle International Film Festival
- AIF Students win Adobe Youth Voices’ Music Video “Aspire” Award
- AIF Teaches Digital Storytelling Techniques to Digital Equalizer Students in Tamil Nadu
- AIF to assist Corpn. schools to improve performance in examinations
- AIF to honor Chintu and Chirag Patel at its Philadelphia gala on Feb. 25
- AIF to Receive Funding From the MacArthur Foundation and Others to Promote Girls’ Secondary School Education in Kutch, Gujarat
- AIF to Scale up Programs Across India
- AIF Washington gala raises over $300,000
- AIF Weighs In on the Growing Draw of India for Young Americans
- AIF Young Professionals Los Angeles Chapter Holds 1st Annual Gala
- AIF YP DC Chapter Holds Discussion on Indian Supreme Court Ruling – Section 377
- AIF, SVCF Hosts Chat With Author Gurcharan Das
- AIF’s Boston Gala Raises $800,000 to Empower India’s Less Fortunate Youth
- AIF’s Digital Equalizer Implements Innovative Teaching Methods in Tamil Nadu Schools
- AIF’s Digital Equalizer Installs Technology in a Tamil Nadu Classroom
- AIF’s Digital Equalizer Trains Chennai School Teachers to Use Technology in Classrooms
- AIF’s Mission Corona Vijay Successfully Vaccinates 2 Million People
- AIF’s New England gala raises over $900,000 to empower India’s unemployed youth
- AIF’s Newest Trustees Featured in India West’s “Career Moves”
- AIF’s pioneering work in education and migration featured in USA Today
- AIF’s Arts Innovation Fund Grantee Mandeep Sethi Discusses his Multicultural Influences
- AIF’s Digital Equalizer Sees Success with Flipped Classroom Model
- AIF’s Philadelphia gala raises more than $190,000
- AIF’s Youth Summit Spotlights Cultural Diplomacy Initiative
- American India Foundation (AIF) and NDTV to Co-Host a Telethon Fundraiser for Migrant Workers Most Impacted By COVID-19
- American India Foundation (AIF) Works with World Central Kitchen to Provide 20,000 Meals to Frontline Health Workers in Under-Resourced Hospitals
- American India Foundation and WestBridge Capital Announce Four-year Partnership
- American India Foundation Annual Bay Area Gala Celebrates Women’s Empowerment, Maternal Health
- American India Foundation Annual Gala Raises $1.3 Million to Help Underprivileged in India
- American India Foundation DC gala raises $300,000
- American India Foundation DC Gala Raises $300K to Benefit its Learning and Migration Program
- American India Foundation Earns Top Ratings from Independent Agencies
- American India Foundation felicitates 27 young leaders from US, India
- American India Foundation felicitates 27 young leaders from US, India
- American India Foundation Fellows felicitated
- American India Foundation Honors 4 at Annual Spring Gala
- American India Foundation Hosts Roundtable Discussion on Leveraging CSR for Social Impact
- American India Foundation kicks off 9th Annual Chicago Gala: “Bow Ties and Bangles”
- American India Foundation launches 10th branch in the United States, in Virginia
- American India Foundation launches 11th Chapter in Philadelphia
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- American India Foundation presents ‘Music for Social Change’
- American India Foundation previews Bow Ties and Bangles Gala
- American India Foundation raises $100,000 at Atlanta gala to support livelihoods programmes in India
- American India Foundation raises $280,000 for India’s poor
- American India Foundation Raises Over Rs 15 Crore at the AIF-NDTV Telethon for Rebuilding Lives of Migrant Workers
- American India Foundation raises Rs 20 crore at New York Gala
- American India Foundation scales its US presence to increase impact in India
- American India Foundation’s inaugural Atlanta gala raises $100,000
- American India Foundation’s unique vaccination initiative successfully facilitates over 2 Million vaccinations across 26 Indian states
- At the 2017 AIF Gala – Sahiyas and A Civil World
- Atlanta gala puts the spotlight on maternal and neo-natal health in India
- Author Ravi Venkatesan Discusses India’s Future at AIF Event in DC
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- Boston Harbor Soars with Colorful Kites with AIF’s ‘Reach for the Sky’
- Campaign VEER Concludes a Success
- Campaign VEER’s Launch Featured on IBN Live
- CEO Nishant Pandey featured in Economic Times: Saving the Lives of Newborns in India
- CEO of Foremost U.S. Water Firm to Attend American India Foundation Event on April 2
- Circle of Hope Raises $25,000 for the American India Foundation
- Citi Foundation Launches Financial Literacy Training in Partnership with AIF
- Coimbatore Corporation school students represent TN in AIF’s national contest
- Connecting with a Cause, an Idea, and Communities
- Corpn. school teachers bring remarkable changes in classrooms
- Corpn’s Class X Students to Get Special Training
- Cover Story – Shoulder to Shoulder
- Cross Learning visit hosted by MANSI project
- Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Odisha Inks MoU with the American India Foundation to Implement the Integrated Program for Children
- Diamonds Do Good Announces 2024 Grant Allocation
- Digital Equalizer Conducts Educational and Fun Summer Camp for Coimbatore Students
- Digital Equalizer Honors Government Teacher in Punjab
- Digital Equalizer Implements EnglishHelper Software in Schools
- Digital Equalizer Institutes Digital Storytelling Project in 5 Schools in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
- Digital Equalizer to Utilize Tablets in Teaching
- Digital Equalizer Uses Technology for Long-Term Empowerment
- Digital Equalizer’s Audio-Visual Teaching Techniques Transforming Classrooms
- Digital Equalizer’s Digital Storytelling Project Empowers Youth to Tackle Social Issues through Media
- DWCD, Govt of Madhya Pradesh, Inks MoU with American India Foundation to Roll out SAMAGRA – Integrated Program for Children in MP
- Fellowship Alum Manleen Sandhu Conducts Interviews with Survivors of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan
- FIVE ASHAS TRAINED UNDER AIF’S MANSI PROGRAM RECEIVE THE 2019 HEALERS OF INDIA AWARDS
- Focus on opportunity creation is what gets the NRI Vote
- Fox 25’s Sorboni Banerjee Emcees Gala to Benefit the American India Foundation
- Healthcare Leader and Executive Brian Pereira Makes a Plea to Help India at AIF Gala That No Indian Diaspora Can Ignore
- High profile non-profit raises $300,000 for William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service
- HIV/AIDS Program Positive Care Launches Inaugural Manual
- Inaugural American India Foundation gala in Richmond raises $118,000
- Indian diaspora launches new philanthropy initiative in Atlanta in USA
- It was simply ‘code innovation’ at Google’s Code for India contest
- Javed Akhtar, Neera Tanden among honorees at AIF DC gala on November 6
- L&T and AIF join hands for the Engineering Futures project
- Learning opportunity; Andover High twins aim to help teach children in India
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- Lydia Barraza, AIF Clinton Fellowship Alumnus, Named Press Attaché in US Consulate General in Lahore
- Market Aligned Skills Training Facilitates Call Center Training for Visually Impaired Women
- Modi Launches Rickshaws at American India Foundation’s Rickshaw Sangh Program
- NBA has created a platform for so many people to follow as a model, says Dikembe Mutombo
- Nitin Sacheti, Maneesh Goyal Join AIF Advisory Council
- O3’s Arts Innovation Fund Grantee Mandeep Singh Uses Music to Bridge Cultural Gaps
- Obama appoints India-American to Fulbright scholarship board
- On Returning to India: The Story of two AIF Fellows
- Orphaned by our education system
- Promoting Philanthropy While Celebrating India-US Ties
- Punjab State Education Department Lends its Support to Digital Equalizer
- Richmond Gala 2015 in India Abroad
- Rural India Supporting Trust and the American India Foundation announce a USD 7.6M partnership on India’s 74th Republic Day
- Rural Microcredit Gains Popularity with Private Banks
- SBI Foundation, Microsoft, and American India Foundation Building Career Pathways for Persons with Disabilities
- Scientific co-operation between India & US seeks to have greater social impact
- Second AIF Atlanta gala on April 2
- Shahnaz Taplan-Chinoy Reflects on AIF in Huffington Post
- Stories of Service from the AIF Clinton Fellowship 2017-18
- Students and Young Professionals Raise $17,155 for AIF
- Students Shoot It, Turn Filmmakers
- Sunday Sentiments: The Full Story
- Tehelka Profiles Video Volunteers, founded by AIF Clinton Fellowship Alumnus Jessica Mayberry
- Telangana Minister KTR Inaugurates American India Foundation’s First Chapter in Hyderabad
- The Hindu Business Line Profiles Journey of AIF Clinton Fellow Ryan Ballard
- The MANSI Way
- The New York Times’ India Ink Blog Highlights AIF’s Use of Video Tutoring
- This American India foundation is rebuilding the lives of many Indians by raising $10 million
- TIME names Anjali Gopalan, Founder of AIF Partner Naz Foundation, one of 100 Most Influential People in the World
- Underserved youth showcase their movie making prowess through ‘Adobe Youth Voices
- Wonderful Moment in Indo-U.S. Ties, Says U.S. Senator Tim Kaine
- Wonderful moment in Indo-US ties: US Senator Tim Kaine
- Youth ambassador for AIF raises money for children of laborers in India
- मिशन कोरोना विजय:हर बाजू में ताकत ने टीकाकरण अभियान को तेज करने में की मदद
American India Foundation
- “Rekindling our Dreams” Wall art as an expression of future, progress, and a gender equal society
- “Support My School Mission Recycling” launched by AIF in Mumbai
- 10 Steps to conduct a consumer survey at one of India’s largest Exhibitions
- 107 Youth with Disabilities successfully complete training under AIF’s Ability Based Livelihood Empowerment (ABLE) program
- 5 Steps for Developing Strategic Initiatives
- A Beginning with an ‘Intermission’ – Settling in HO
- A Brewing Revolution in STEM Education: Zero-Cost TLMs
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- A Glimpse of My Fellowship: 9 Months in 90 Seconds
- A Global Citizen? Part 1: The Geographer
- A Global Citizen? Part 2: India’s Educational Goals
- A Journey of Discovery: My Visit to Stellar Montessori School
- A Letter to the Dogs at CEE
- A Look at For-Profit Organizations in Development
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance for Persons with Disabilities (PART – 2)
- A Playquity Village. A Frisbee Tournament. A Movement.
- A Primary Perspective on Preserving Traditional Knowledge as key to Sustainable Agriculture
- A story of transformative leadership- II
- A Third-Generation Glimpse into Indian Identity
- A Tribute To Those We’ve Lost to COVID-19: Arjun, Abhilash, Jockim
- A Visual Letter To Puducherry
- AIF and Amazon-India have partnered once again for the “Amazon Cares Project” in Chennai and Haryana
- AIF PROGRAM DATA (As of October 31, 2019)
- Alleviating Poverty Cannot Happen in Isolation
- American India Foundation (AIF) and NDTV to Co-Host a Telethon Fundraiser for Migrant Workers Most Impacted By COVID-19
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- Art in Udaipur Part. 2, Halftime Report
- Bananas, Biscuits, and Chai
- Banking Barriers: The Struggle for Accessibility in India’s Financial Institutions
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- Be a dog lover, not just a pet lover
- Behind the Scenes of CEE’s 40th Anniversary Conference
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- Biodiversity Management Committees- A sustainable mechanism for localising SDGs
- Bridging the Gap: How an Online Course Transformed My Research Project
- Bridging The Gap: Strategies for Enhancing Genetic Awareness in Rural India
- Bridging the Gap: Traditional vs. Modern Methods of Agriculture and the Role of Young Farmers
- Bringing Mental Health into Maternal Care: A Training Room Reflection
- CELEBRATING THE HEARTBEAT OF HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ON MOTHER’S DAY
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- Changing Patterns in the Lives of Farmers: An Introspection from Past, Present, and Future
- Claiming Space in Unaccommodating Rooms: How Women with Disabilities Lead
- Colour Outside the Lines: Decolonizing Design
- Combating loneliness via Teaching Learning Materials Workshop
- Compassion and Resilience: Akila ‘Akka’s’ Journey of Embracing Change
- Confessions of a Liaison
- Crafts, Sketches, and Strings
- Creating a Dump-Free India: one start-up’s model for cleaner cities
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Dear Disabled, You are Unsung Heroes, Create Your Own Niche!
- Discovering the Power of Theatre: A Catalyst for Change
- Dropout & Retention Challenges in Madhya Pradesh’s Education
- DRY RATION KITS FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AFFECTED BY MIGRATION
- Embarking on a Journey of Learning and Growth in Auroville
- Empowering Education in Karnataka: AIF & Guru Krupa Foundation Launch Transformative Learning Initiative
- English Vinglish -Teaching language and confidence
- Enhancing Women’s Workspaces: A Visualisation Exercise on WASH Facilities in Podampeta, Odisha
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Exploring Gender Perspectives in Agriculture | Comparing Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya
- Exploring Indigenous Farming Practices: Learnings from Meghalaya
- Exploring the History and Cuisine of Hyderabad’s Migrant Communities
- Fair Trade: An Ethical and Sustainable Way Forward.
- Fighting for the Road Non-Taken in the Midst of Diwali
- Financial Literacy and Livelihood Revival: Learnings From the Fellowship
- From Dream to Desk: Rediscovering a Tapestry of Culture, History, and Governance in Bhopal
- From Fixed to Flourishing: Building Resilient Learners
- From the hills to the beach: Hopping India
- Grounded: The Turbulent Path to Sustainable Air Travel in India
- Heat, Health and Harmony: Disability in the Time of Climate Change
- How STEM is Branching Out: VASCSC’s Strategy to Engage Students
- How to Create More Inclusive Visual Communications: Ensuring Diverse Representation and Accessibility
- How to prepare for the American India Foundation’s Banyan Impact Fellowship Interview?
- Insights from Working on Multisectoral Initiatives
- Lamakaan: The Seventh Heaven of Hyderabad!
- Leading Through Servanthood in India’s Development Sector
- Learning to Love STEM: Engaging with STEM approaches to climate resilience as a social sciences and humanities enthusiast.
- LIGHTING THE WAY: BAISHNAVI’S LUMINARY TALE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND SKILLING
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- Lost in the Maze: Rethinking Economy and Ecology
- MAKING A BUZZ IN THE ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Mastering NGO Networking in Disability Sector (India)
- My Learnings from Other Professionals: Climate Discussions in Delhi
- My Trips Around India
- Navigating Life as a BIF Fellow
- Nurturing Change Through Coaching & Mentorship in Social Advocacy
- Partnership Building for Program Development
- Peering at Orientation from a Psychological Standpoint
- Perinatal Mental Health in India: A Policy Silence and Representation Analysis through Bacchi’s WPR Framework
- Preparing the Jungle for 500 People
- Public Transportation in India: Part 1
- Reaching the Last Mile: Lessons from Walking with ASHAs
- Reflections from the Fellowship -1
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
- SHINING A LIGHT ON CHILDREN WALKING THE PATH OF DISTRESS SEASONAL MIGRATION
- Smart Circular Innovation: Lessons from G20 and COP28
- Some Fresh Perspectives and Breakthroughs on Governance
- Starting a Startup in India’s Social Development Sector
- STEPPING UP TO MAKE FACE MASKS IN RURAL AND REMOTE MOUNTAINS
- Stigma Vs Resilience: Empowering Mental Health in the Disabled Community
- Stories of Service from the AIF Clinton Fellowship 2017-18 ~Crossing Cultures, Sharing Solutions, Shaping Leaders~
- TARAMUNI SANKH PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN FIGHTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
- The Bread Demonstration & the Forgotten Potential of Soil in CO2 Emissions Reduction
- The Dangs: From New Delhi to Subir
- The Marvels of Mistakes
- The Mosaic of Aspirations: A Journey through Shifting Dreams
- The Role of Filmmaking in India’s Social Justice Movements
- The Stories Behind Ammamma’s Piercings
- THINGS YOU WILL FIND IN THE BAG OF AN AIF FELLOW!
- Three days at SVSU: Experiencing Skill Education Firsthand
- Through Children’s Eyes: Uncovering Village Waste Issues in Odisha
- To My Dear Students: Until We Meet Again
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 1
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 2
- Understanding Multi-party Social Impact Sector in India
- Understated ADHD/ADD in Children
- Voices Unheard: Amplifying the Experiences of Women with Disabilities in India
- WASH in Ganjam: A Gendered Perspective
- Well, Oriented Well
- What I Learned About the Realities of Life for a Person with a Disability
- What Is the Role of Life Skills Education?
- What We Can Learn from the Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Center
- Where are women in the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem?
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
- Why Hiring Inclusively is a Good Business Decision: Leveraging an Underutilised Asset
- Why Indian Donor Organizations Need to Invest in Data-driven Narrative Change
- World Wetlands Day: Good for Wetlands, Good for Communities
BIF Fellow
- A day in the field with intersection realities!
- A Guide to Preparing for Your Next Conference
- A Love Letter to Jamshedpur
- Active Hope Helps Us Hold Steady in Times of Change
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- Beyond Chalk and Talk
- Beyond the Stream: Listening to Mothers, Learning from Villages
- Bringing Mental Health into Maternal Care: A Training Room Reflection
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Designing Hands-On Child Learning Activities in a Zero-Cost Model
- Good Morning Bangalore!
- Gratitude to the Banyan Impact Fellows of 2024–25
- Hi Mom, It’s Me: Reflections on Heritage and Culture
- Implementing a Multi-Actor Platform
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- My Learnings from Other Professionals: Climate Discussions in Delhi
- Partnership Building for Program Development
- Reliant on Poison: Fluoride Contamination in Rural Rajasthan
- Removing the Rocks in the Road: Streamlining Capacity Building
- Seaweed Livelihoods: Green from the Deep Blue
- STEM Education for Green Jobs: Powering India’s Net Zero Future
- The Bread Demonstration & the Forgotten Potential of Soil in CO2 Emissions Reduction
- The Complexities of Alcoholism in Tribal India
- The Power of Staying Connected: Life After the Banyan Impact Fellowship
- Transforming Odisha: A State Government’s Plan for the Next Few Decades of Development
- Unlocking India’s Potential: How the Development Sector is Forging Pathways to Prosperity
- Well, Oriented Well
- Women’s Day with Utthan
- Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Organizations
CASE STUDIES
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- Beneficiary turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav
- Beneficiary Turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav.
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- Leading Through Servanthood in India’s Development Sector
- Where are women in the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem?
CEO's Corner
- A LOVE FOR GIVING STARTS YOUNG
- A Message from Our CEO, Nishant Pandey
- AIF PROGRAM DATA (As of October 31, 2019)
- AIF’s Mission Corona Vijay successfully vaccinates 2 million people
- American India Foundation Joins India’s COVID Fight #AIFCOVID19Response
- American India Foundation’s unique vaccination initiative successfully facilitates over 2M vaccinations across 26 Indian states
- Beneficiary Turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav.
- Empowering Women: AIF CEO’s Insights on Gender-Transformative Philanthropy at UN’s CSW Roundtable
- Fighting junk science in COVID-ravaged India
Chapters
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- A Dialogue with Madhuri Dixit and Dr. Ram Nene
- AIF Celebrates 15th Anniversary Gala By Honoring Victor Menezes, Raising $2.25 Million
- AIF Gala Raises $1.4 Million to Educate Girls in India
- AIF Hosts Book Readings with Acclaimed Author Gurcharan Das
- AIF Instagram Live Series: Our Community Rising to the Challenges of COVID-19
- AIF New York Spring Gala Highlights Skills Training in India
- AIF Partners with Photographer Greg Vore to Promote Rickshaw Sangh
- AIF Raises $2.85 Million at New York City Gala
- AIF Raises $200,000 at Washington, D.C. Gala
- AIF Summer Intern Experience 2013
- AIF Supporters Connect Passion of Art with Commitment to Philanthropy
- AIF-Stanford MedTech Awards: Another Legacy of Our Symposium on Maternal and Child Health
- AIF’s Boston Gala Raises $800,000 to Empower India’s Less Fortunate Youth
- AIF’s Southern California Chapter Holds Mother’s Day Dinner
- Alex Counts
- American India Foundation DC gala raises $300,000
- American India Foundation launches 11th Chapter in Philadelphia
- American India Foundation Leadership Trip 2016
- American India Foundation Orange County Chapter Inaugurated
- American India Foundation scales its US presence to increase impact in India
- An Evening of Hope: Carl Pope on Climate Stewardship
- Announcing the Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund
- At the 2017 AIF Gala – Sahiyas and A Civil World
- Celebrating the Fab Five: My Night at the Indiaspora Gala
- Columbia’s 13th Annual India Business Conference
- Ek Disha Foundation Joins with American India Foundation to Become AIF’s Houston Chapter
- Event with Pan-Asians@SAP: Diwali, the Festival of Lights and Giving
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Gurcharan Das Talks Economic Reform
- Have Fun to Help
- Help Support Families and Rebuild Communities in Uttarakhand
- High School Club Raises $1,500 to Educate Children of Migrant Workers
- Inspiring Students Step Up to Help India in Times of Crisis
- Introducing AIF’s 2015 – 16 Young Professionals Leaders
- Junior AIF Fundraiser Empowers over 540 Children with Quality Education!
- MANSI: The Program
- Massachusetts High School Student Combines Love of Dance with Passion for Social Impact
- New England YP Chapter Hosts Sustainable Investing Info Session
- NYYP Presents Mental Health and Mindfulness
- Our Time Has Come: What I Learned from Alyssa Ayres
- Over 100 Leaders Take Part in AIF’s Inaugural MANSI Summit
- Over 200 New York Young Professionals Take Part in 8th Annual Gala
- Run for India, Run for AIF
- Sanya Goenka’s Visit to AIF’s ABLE Site
- Service and Giving Back around Diwali: A Volunteer-Led Panel
- Shabana Azmi Engages Greater Philadelphia Community in Gender Conversation
- Shraysi Tandon Joins AIF’s U.S. Advisory Council
- South Asians for Black Lives Matter Panel-New England YP Chapter
- Stuyvie Comfort Fellows
- The AIF-Stanford Symposium: Shining a Light on MANSI and Other Programs that Work
- The lifesaving Sahiya
- The story of a Sahiya: Sophia Nesamoney’s visit to a MANSI site
- Trivia Night with Indian Matchmaking’s Vyasar Ganesan
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
- Wonderful moment in Indo-US ties: US Senator Tim Kaine
Circle of Hope
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- AIF’s Circle of Hope Lends a Hand to India’s Women and Children During COVID-19
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- Chicago Girls Raise Money to Help Mothers In India Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic
- CIRCLE OF HOPE NE GIVES 25K to LAMP IN BARMER, RAJASTHAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF 300 ADOLESCENT GIRLS
- Circle of Hope: AIF’s Efforts to Mobilize Women in Philanthropy
- Delivering Dignity: AIF’s Respectful Maternity Care in Childbirth Initiative
- Mobile Learning – A Library that is Shaping Children’s Lives in COVID
- Shadowing Asha Workers on the Frontline
- THIS MOBILE LIBRARY IS A LIFELINE
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
COVID-19 RESPONSE
- “Every day counts” in India’s Covid crisis: American India Foundation appeal
- 22 Women of MAST produced and distributed 35,000 masks and 2,710 health and hygiene kits
- A Covid-19 warrior protecting her village through awareness and surveillance around the clock
- AIF’s Circle of Hope Lends a Hand to India’s Women and Children During COVID-19
- American India Foundation (AIF) and NDTV to Co-Host a Telethon Fundraiser for Migrant Workers Most Impacted By COVID-19
- American India Foundation (AIF) Works with World Central Kitchen to Provide 20,000 Meals to Frontline Health Workers in Under-Resourced Hospitals
- American India Foundation CEO Nishant Pandey Talks About Efforts To Help India Amid COVID
- American India Foundation launches vaccination campaign
- American India Foundation Raises Over Rs 15 Crore at the AIF-NDTV Telethon for Rebuilding Lives of Migrant Workers
- American India Foundation to send portable beds to combat covid crisis in India
- American India Foundation wins Gold for MANSI and Special Jury Award for COVID-19 Response
- American India Foundation, Xerox Come Together for Covid Relief in India, Send 30,000 Ventilators, 13,000 Monitors
- ART FOR A CAUSE
- Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, and American India Foundation launch 100-Bed portable integrated care center in New Delhi
- Chicago Girls Raise Money to Help Mothers In India Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic
- CIRCLE OF HOPE NE GIVES 25K to LAMP IN BARMER, RAJASTHAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF 300 ADOLESCENT GIRLS
- DRY RATION KITS FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AFFECTED BY MIGRATION
- Everyone is funding oxygen. This is a problem.
- How the Covid-19 Lockdown Transformed 15-Year-Old Doctaren Khadia as the Head of the Household
- HOW YOUR SUPPORT IS REACHING THOSE THAT ARE THE MOST IN NEED
- Lockdown Survey: How The Covid-19 Crisis Has Affected Daily Wage Workers
- Mastercard donates $8.9 million to AIF for India Covid relief efforts
- Paytm Foundation to set up oxygen plants for long-term sustainable supply across India
- Remote Learning Strategies in COVID times
- Ride-hailing platform Uber pumps Rs 3.65Cr in COVID-19 relief package
- Sakir Sayyed – A Resilient And Confident Young Person
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
- Sozosei Foundation Awards $100,000 to American India Foundation (AIF) COVID-19 Response Fund
- STEPPING UP TO MAKE FACE MASKS IN RURAL AND REMOTE MOUNTAINS
- TARAMUNI SANKH PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN FIGHTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
- The Needs of Seasonal Migrants Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- THIS MOBILE LIBRARY IS A LIFELINE
Digital Equalizer
- “I am now interested in things that people think only boys love doing”
- “I want to be a cardiologist. I couldn’t even dream of doing that until I started this program.”
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- AIF and Amazon India partner to launch – Amazon Future Engineers
- AIF and Desai Sethi Foundation join forces for DEEP-Shaala
- Empowering Parents and Caregivers: Strengthening Foundations of STEM Ecosystems
- Empowering students as creators, not just consumers of technology
- I Want To Be A Public Official When I Grow Up
- International Women’s Day: Women pioneers and leaders on how to make STEM careers open for girls across India
- L&T and AIF join hands for the Engineering Futures project
- LEARNING AGAINST ODDS
- MAKING A BUZZ IN THE ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Remote Learning Strategies in COVID times
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
Display on Home Page
- “I am now interested in things that people think only boys love doing”
- A Covid-19 warrior protecting her village through awareness and surveillance around the clock
- Glimpses of Madhopur
- It is one’s ability, not disability, that defines any individual.
- STEPPING UP TO MAKE FACE MASKS IN RURAL AND REMOTE MOUNTAINS
Education
- “I am now interested in things that people think only boys love doing”
- “I feel more confident to carry out the tasks on my own”
- “I Want To Be A Collector”
- “I want to be a doctor”
- “I feel far more confident now. While earlier I was shy and could barely speak up in class, now I lead the morning prayer sessions in school. I want to become a nurse when I grow up and serve my community.”
- “I want to be a cardiologist. I couldn’t even dream of doing that until I started this program.”
- “Support My School Mission Recycling”: Cricket icon Saurav Ganguly visits a DE school
- A day in the field with intersection realities!
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- AGAINST THE ODDS
- AIF and Amazon India partner to launch – Amazon Future Engineers
- AIF and Desai Sethi Foundation join forces for DEEP-Shaala
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- Arya & Diya Anand Hope to Light Many More LAMPS
- Balancing the Equation
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- Behind the Scenes of CEE’s 40th Anniversary Conference
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- BREAKING FREE FROM THE MULTI-GENERATIONAL CYCLE OF POVERTY. WestBridge Capital is an Enabler
- Building Rome, Day by Day
- Circle of Hope – From one group of women to another
- Corpn. school teachers bring remarkable changes in classrooms
- COVID-19: CHILDREN FROM MIGRATING COMMUNITIES NEED TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION
- Designing Hands-On Child Learning Activities in a Zero-Cost Model
- Digital Equalizer (DE) Teachers win Awards
- DIGITAL EQUALIZER NARROWS THE EDUCATION GAP IN INDIA
- Digital Equalizer Teachers win top positions at the DELL PolicyHack Challenge!
- Dropout & Retention Challenges in Madhya Pradesh’s Education
- DRY RATION KITS FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AFFECTED BY MIGRATION
- Empowering Education in Karnataka: AIF & Guru Krupa Foundation Launch Transformative Learning Initiative
- Empowering Parents and Caregivers: Strengthening Foundations of STEM Ecosystems
- Empowering students as creators, not just consumers of technology
- Enhancing the Love of Classroom Learning with Robotics
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Fellows are Leading Sustainable Change
- Financial Literacy and Livelihood Revival: Learnings From the Fellowship
- Fueling inclusive, sustainable growth
- How STEM is Branching Out: VASCSC’s Strategy to Engage Students
- How the Covid-19 Lockdown Transformed 15-Year-Old Doctaren Khadia as the Head of the Household
- I Want To Be A Public Official When I Grow Up
- I Will Grow Up and Be A Teacher
- Insights from LAMP in the Field: A Volunteer’s Experience and Perspective
- International Women’s Day: Women pioneers and leaders on how to make STEM careers open for girls across India
- Introducing Light a LAMP 2015!
- Kunal Nayyar’s “Lets Light a LAMP and Make a Difference”
- L&T and AIF join hands for the Engineering Futures project
- LEARNING AGAINST ODDS
- Light a LAMP Campaign Raises Over $250,00 to Educate and Empower Children in India
- Light A LAMP on the Festival of Lights
- LIGHTING THE WAY: BAISHNAVI’S LUMINARY TALE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND SKILLING
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- Makerspace Tinkering Labs: Breaking Barriers to STEM Education in Rural Schools
- MAKING A BUZZ IN THE ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Massachusetts High School Student Combines Love of Dance with Passion for Social Impact
- National Consultation on Education of Migrant Children in India
- NBA partners with AIF to create a legacy with their first ever NBA India Games
- Now I Can Read And Write Fluently
- Nurturing Young Minds At Risk of Seasonal Distress Migration
- Reflections from the Fellowship -1
- Reflections on Digital Equalizer in Delhi
- Remote Learning Strategies in COVID times
- Sanya Goenka: Every Child Has a Right to an Education
- Saving for his Daughters’ Education
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
- SHINING A LIGHT ON CHILDREN WALKING THE PATH OF DISTRESS SEASONAL MIGRATION
- Shrunothra Ambati: Education sparks creativity, wonder, and curiosity
- State of School Education – Part I – Evaluation mechanisms and results
- Swaraj, Education and CSR
- The Marvels of Mistakes
- The Needs of Seasonal Migrants Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- The Plague of Patriarchy
- THE TEACHERS WE NEED FOR THE EDUCATION WE WANT
- THIS MOBILE LIBRARY IS A LIFELINE
- Tribute to Bhulabhai Vannmalibhai Patel
- Understanding Gender Equality Paradox in STEM Education: Status, Issues, and Strategies
- Understanding Walking As A Research Method
- Understated ADHD/ADD in Children
- Vedant Pathak To Hold Live Charity Stream for LAMP
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
- Youth ambassador for AIF raises money for children of laborers in India
Fellowship
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- Bhavnagar Banter: Stories from Living in a Tier 3 City
- Disaster and Gender
- It’s Actually Us Who are the Ones with the Disability”
- ‘Dancing’ through the Fellowship Journey
- ‘Peht Puja’ and Durga Puja
- ‘Shifting’
- ‘Utthan’ (Development) through Utthan
- ‘Zoom’ing Across the Digital Divide
- ‘Gender’ and ‘Women’ are not Synonymous
- “…violence happens in every house, what’s the big deal?”
- “A Recipe to Thrive:” How the Shared Ownership of Stories Changes the Script of Adversity
- “Aaj ka Chanda aur Suraj kaun kaun hain?” Students Creating Awareness about Hygiene
- “Bhaiyya chutta hain kya?” “Brother, do you have change?”
- “But Where Can We Put the Scale?”: Challenges of Data Collection in Rural India
- “Chai, Anyone?” Exploring Workplace Culture in India
- “Discovering Ability” Art Awards: Stories of the Winners (Part 1)
- “Finding the whey”
- “Go Forth, and Set the World on Fire”
- “Hai Kali, Calcutte Wali!”
- “India, that is Bharat…”
- “Just by doing it you’re saying it all”
- “Looking through the Purdah:” Finding New Possibilities
- “Lucky for Kachchh”
- “Rekindling our Dreams” Wall art as an expression of future, progress, and a gender equal society
- “Service,” Part 2 – Strategy in Action
- “Teaching English in India is not an innocent act”
- “The Field”
- “The Immaculate Inception:” When Technology Answers to a Higher Purpose
- “They Never Asked Me to Sit Down”
- “We’re Getting There”
- “We” Is All Who Want to Belong. Everyone Is Welcome
- “Welcome to India”
- “Witches will find housing but mother’s of small children will not” And Other Nepali Idioms
- “You have to be there to understand it…”
- “Ah, I Was so Much Older Then / I’m Younger Than That Now.”
- “City of Joy, City of Charm, City of Hope”
- “For the Children, by the Children and of the Children:” Students Understanding Democracy
- “I not only learned project planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation from the fellowship but i was also able to bring perceptible change that efficiently bettered the lives of the community”
- “Kabad se Jugad” Creating the Best out of Waste: Children Innovating on Waste Management
- “Lights Up”
- “Living Lightly” in Ahmedabad, a Celebration of Preserving Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage
- “Service,” Part 1 – It’s the Relationships
- “So, how was India?”, by Carolyn Florey
- “That’s a You Problem”…Or Is It? Finding Community in India
- “We Have Always Been the Heroes”: Lessons from a Gender Training in Kesla
- “What Did You Do in India?”
- “When the Sky is Clear, a Mountain Will Appear”
- 10 Reasons Why I Can’t Leave India
- 10 Steps to conduct a consumer survey at one of India’s largest Exhibitions
- 10 Steps to Finding An Awesome and Cheap Flat in Delhi
- 10 Things I Love About Garhwal
- 20 Rupees and 1 Hour
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Kimberly Parekh
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Rachna Mathur
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Sachin Shah
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Tanvi Pandit-Rajani
- 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead: Vikas Mehta
- 2025: A Year Set to Strengthen and Scale the Cooperative Model
- 23 Days
- 3 Bags and Olson in Tow
- 3 Buffets a Day
- 3 Most Significant Learnings from my Fellowship Journey
- 3 Questions to Ask Yourself About a Social Impact Career
- 5 Steps for Developing Strategic Initiatives
- 5 Tips for Beginner Nonprofit Storytellers
- 7 Life Lessons I Learned from Creating Native Forests in the Himalayas
- 7 Reasons Why I’m Tamil
- 9 Things I Learned as An AIF Clinton Fellow
- 9 years in the making
- 9Nights
- A “Sunshine of Hope”: The Tale of a Night School
- A Bag Full of Perspectives
- A BB Walk
- A Beginner’s Guide to the Galaxy of Climate Change Education
- A Beginning with an ‘Intermission’ – Settling in HO
- A Bengali Breed of Love
- A Better Piece of Meat
- A blackout in Gujarat
- A Blog About Not Blogging
- A Brewing Revolution in STEM Education: Zero-Cost TLMs
- A Bridal Fashion Show?
- A Closer Look
- A Coconut Saga in Three Parts
- A cold welcome
- A Community Rebuilds
- A Comparison of Rural Mountain Communities
- A Conversation With an Anganwadi Worker
- A Crash Course in Tea Snobbery
- A Crisis of Faith
- A Daughter’s Diagnosis: (Part 1/2)
- A Day at Bobha Primary School
- A day in the field with intersection realities!
- A Day in the Life of a SocialCops Data Analyst
- A day in the life of… by Kirsten Anderson
- A Day in the Life: All Work, All Play
- A Day in the Life: Jamshedpur Edition
- A day with ArtReach – Video Blog
- A Different India
- A different kind of aspiration
- A Different Kind of Neighborhood
- A Fellow’s Perspective on AIF’s Learning and Migration Program (Part II)
- A Fellow’s Perspective on AIF’s Learning and Migration Program (Part III)
- A Fellowship Journey with Satya Special School
- A Few Hundred Feet From the Top
- A Few Months of India
- A Flat Tire Amongst Mustard Seeds and Stars
- A Flavor for Learning
- A Fresh Perspective to a Fresh Start
- A Fundraising Sketchnote with AIFT President and CEO
- A Glimpse of My Fellowship: 9 Months in 90 Seconds
- A Global Citizen? Part 1: The Geographer
- A Global Citizen? Part 2: India’s Educational Goals
- A Guide to Designing Your Life and Work for Crisis
- A Guide to Preparing for Your Next Conference
- A Handprint for Every Footprint: CEE’s Handprint Day
- A Happiness Education: A Case Study in Resilience and Wellbeing
- A Helping Hand: From Exclusion to Inclusion
- A Helpline in Aid of Children
- A Historical Understanding of Gender in the Tibetan Community
- A Holiday in a New Home
- A Holiday in Kashmir
- A Holistic Lens on Housing: The Story of People’s Resistance in Ambujwadi (Part 1/2)
- A Hurdle Race: Education in Rural Areas
- A Journey of Discovery: My Visit to Stellar Montessori School
- A Knife that Cuts Both Ways
- A Lasting Campaign: School Chale Hum
- A Letter to the Dogs at CEE
- A Letter to the Lion City: Hyderabad, I Bid You Adieu
- A Lion-less Thanksgiving: Being an American Sports Fan in India
- A Look at For-Profit Organizations in Development
- A Look into Labor-Based Migration in Uttarakhand
- A Lot Can Happen over Chai: Analyzing the Extremes, Appreciating the (Indian) Monotony
- A Love Letter to Jamshedpur
- A Love Letter to WhatsApp
- A luta continua
- A Mic to the Mic-less
- A More Just Workspace for Women
- A Morning Reflection
- A Multitude of Experiences New
- A mystery, a hero, and a new day
- A Narrative of Vicarious Traumatization and Vicarious Resilience in Prisons
- A new beginning
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance for Persons with Disabilities (PART – 2)
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance to Persons with Disabilities
- A New Normal
- A new year full of activities and opportunities
- A Picnic in the Hills
- A Poem
- A Positive Output from a Negative Input
- A Possibility Named Khushi
- A presidential rendezvous in the city that never sleeps
- A Primary Perspective on Preserving Traditional Knowledge as key to Sustainable Agriculture
- A Quip On The Quota System
- A Rea(LIST)ic Reminiscence
- A Reflection after Four Months
- A Revolution In Education
- A Route of One’s Own
- A School’s Purpose and the Place for Alternative Education
- A Seedi Fellow On Abject Failure
- A Series of India “Firsts”
- A Sikkim New Years
- A Single White Football: How a Community Photography Workshop Encouraged the Emergence of Self and the Ownership of Narratives
- A Story From Kumbh
- A story of transformative leadership- I
- A story of transformative leadership- II
- A Story to Tell: An Interview with Dilip Surkar
- A Survey, a Woman, and a Development Dilemma from Haridwar
- A Tale of Two Cities
- A Tale of Two Cities: Delhi and Paris
- A Third-Generation Glimpse into Indian Identity
- A tour of India, north and south
- A Tour of Khandar: Part 1
- A Tour of Khandar: Part 2
- A Trip on Mumbai’s Magic Bus
- A trip to the field…
- A Trip Up the Mountain
- A Typical Day for a Caucasian Guy Working for an NGO
- A View from the Mountains…
- A Vipassana Education
- A Vipassana Education
- A Visit to Aravind
- A Visual Letter To Puducherry
- A Walk in the Valley
- A Weaver’s Companion: A Bunkar Sakhi’s Purpose
- A Week in Darjeeling
- A Week of Workshops: Narratives on the Forest
- A Year at the Department of School Education
- A-Block Market
- Aamchi Mumbai
- About Shame
- Accelerating Development Through Technology
- Acknowledging Privileges: The “Air Conditioner” Blog
- Act Globally, Think Locally
- Active Hope Helps Us Hold Steady in Times of Change
- Adam Campbell – Personal Inquiry
- Adapting to Different Work Cultures as an Introvert
- Adapting to the New Normal during COVID-19 as a Fellow
- Adapting, Standing Still, and Moving On: A Reflection
- Adivasi Access: Impact of Microfinance on Tribal SHGs in Southern India (Part 1)
- Adivasi Access: Impact of Microfinance on Tribal SHGs in Southern India (Part 2)
- Adjusting to Life as an AIF Fellow
- Adjusting to Service-Oriented Environments and Domestic Workers
- Adolescents’ Health and the Challenge of “Public-Private”: An Experience in Dismantling the Culture of Silence
- Adventures in Code Switching: Navigating a Multilingual Office & Home
- Adventures in Madurai
- Adventures of ‘The Extraordinary Swapanchaiwalhe’
- Advice for Future Fellows
- AI Is Changing the Social Impact Sector—How Can Young Professionals Adapt?
- AIF Alumni Rock
- AIF Fellow Taylor Robinson Reflects on Her Service with the Wadhwani Foundation
- AIF Fellowship 2020-2021: Unlocking Potential with a Virtual Orientation
- AIF in the valley: Part 3
- AIF Instagram Live Series: Our Community Rising to the Challenges of COVID-19
- AIF Leadership Conference Speech
- Aiming for Accessibility in a Digital Space
- Akka! Akka!
- All Ahoy Allepey!
- All in 2 Weeks
- All my bags are packed. I am ready to go. Well, almost…. I still have 24 hours.
- All Possibilities are Possible
- Alumni Meet with Alex Counts in Delhi
- An Adventure Checked Off My Bucket List
- An Affirmation of Dirt
- An Akanksha Campout
- An Engineer Experimenting in the Social Sector
- An essential ecosystem: The Sunderbans
- An Evening of Hope: Carl Pope on Climate Stewardship
- An Eventful Weekend in Jamshedpur with Fellows and Friends
- An Exposure Visit to the Ocean of Songs and Dance
- An Illustrated Journey of New Horizons
- An Innovation: How to Blend Mangoes Without a Blender
- An Intervention Succeeds with Sacrifices of People behind the Scenes
- An NRI Walks Into an Aadhar Office…
- An Observer’s Perspective of India’s Ultimate Frisbee Mixed National Championship
- An Ode to Hyderabad
- An Ode to Jaisalmer
- An Ode to My Notebook
- An Umbrella Approach to Make Public Health Accessible and Affordable
- An Unconventional NGO: Combating Child Marriage in Rajasthan
- Analysing the Impact of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
- Analyzing Sentiment in Metiabruz, Kolkata: What Training Looks Like at iMerit
- Ancient Farmers in the Modern World
- And the Mountains… HONKED!
- and we’re off!
- Announcing People Powered Partnerships, Volume 2
- Annual Kattaikkuttu Festival
- Answering the ‘Whys’ with ‘Whys’: Data in Development
- Any Given Monday: Tejgadh’s Weekly Haat
- Applying Design Thinking to Coconut Farming
- Approaching a Conversation on Whiteness in India (Part I)
- Approaching a Conversation on Whiteness in India (Part II)
- Approaching a Research Question
- Architecting Systemic Change: A Framework for Addressing the Climate Crisis
- Archiving for artisans, by artisans, with mobile phones
- Are carbon credits the correct answer to climate change?
- Are Indian Newsrooms Disabled Friendly?
- Are We Family?
- Arrival
- Arriving at a School Without Any Students
- Art in Udaipur Part. 2, Halftime Report
- Ashoka’s Green Plan-It: Youth in Action
- Ashwin Advani, AIF Clinton Fellow 2014-2015
- Ask Someone for Their Story
- Assam ki Mehman Nawazi: The Hospitality of Assam
- Assumptions and Awakenings
- At War with the Unseen: COVID-19 and Its Effects (Part 1)
- At War with the Unseen: COVID-19 and Its Effects (Part 2)
- Atharvaaaaaaaaa Bhaiyaaaaa,,,,,Come Here !!!!!
- Attending RGCON 2025: My Professional Development Grant
- Attending the World Health Summit (WHS) 2025 as an AIF Fellow
- Audio-transcription at the Welfare Society for the Blind, Calcutta
- Auspicious Timing and the Power of New Beginnings
- Auto! Stories of Movement (Let’s Chaat, episode 5 transcript)
- Avoiding Single Stories: Through a Photographer’s Lens
- Awesomely Inspiring and Endlessly Frustrating
- Awkward Beginnings, Acceptance
- Baby steps
- Baby’s First Bombay Diwali
- Bachau and Back Again — Part III
- Back to Basics: How I Learned to Fall in Love With India
- Back to the Pink City
- Bad habits
- Bal Utsav at the Adivasi Academy
- Balancing Act
- Bananas, Biscuits, and Chai
- Bangalore on 77 Ruppees
- Banker to the Poor: My Inspiration to Join the AIF Clinton Fellowship
- Banking Barriers: The Struggle for Accessibility in India’s Financial Institutions
- Barefoot Solutions: Questioning Problem Solving in Development, Part 1
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- Basant Aiya!
- Basic Steps for Starting a Women’s Livelihood Project
- Be a dog lover, not just a pet lover
- Beauty in the Mundane
- Before and After
- Behind the Scenes of “Wow! What’s that sound?”
- Behind the Scenes of CEE’s 40th Anniversary Conference
- Behind the Scenes: The Road to UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership (Part 1)
- Behind the Scenes: The Road to UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership (Part 2)
- Being a Black American Girl in India
- Being an Indian from the North East: My Thoughts on Social Inclusion
- Being tourist in my city
- Bell Bajao!
- Best Interests of the Child
- Best of Both Worlds: My Journey to the AIF Clinton Fellowship
- Better jobs, for everyone
- Better late than never…
- Better Off (Un)knowing
- Better than Nothing?
- Beyond a Checkbox – The Strategic Role of Impact Measurement
- BEYOND ABC and 123: WHY ‘SEL’ MATTERS MORE THAN EVER IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
- Beyond Chalk and Talk
- Beyond the Ballot: Pioneering Pathways to Inclusive Elections
- Beyond the Clouds
- Beyond the Field: Public-Private Partnerships and the Role of CSR for Social and Economic Development
- Beyond the Lens: A Photographic Journey of My Life in Sawai Madhopur
- Beyond the Ordinary: A Glimpse into Gramin Shiksha Kendra’s Organisational Dynamics
- Beyond the Stream: Listening to Mothers, Learning from Villages
- Bhachau and Back Again – Part I
- Bhachau and Back Again — Part II
- Bhojn-Samay: Finding Comfort While Embracing My New Surroundings
- Bhuj
- Bhuj in Winter, by Brenna Nan Schneider
- Big Data in Development: Opportunities for Public Policy
- Big Projects, Small Developments: Thinking about Connectivity
- Bihari In Bihar
- Bimla Devi: An International Design Icon from Rural Rajasthan
- Bindis on the Blackboard
- Biodiversity Management Committees- A sustainable mechanism for localising SDGs
- Birthday Wishes and Community Connection
- Biryani and Fish Fry with Torture Survivors
- Blending Worlds: How India Adapts Global Cuisine
- Blog 2: Field research, Diwali and Vellaricundu
- Blooming Livelihoods in Maharashtra’s Palghar District
- BLUFFING
- Blurred vision
- Body Image: More than A Mirror
- Bollywood: The Film Ka Chor
- Bombay – The Sea City
- Bombay aur Bhojan – Mumbai and Food
- Bonded to Forced Labour: Behind Brick Making
- Bonding over Food: Community Building across Difference
- Books and seizures
- Bounding Space, Defining Place
- Breaking Taboos on Menstruation and Disability
- Breaking the (Auto) Mode
- Breaking the Bihari Stereotype: The Artisan
- Breaking the Bihari Stereotype: The Community Mobilizer
- Breaking the Bihari Stereotype: The Entrepreneur
- Breathe: Anatomy/Anxiety of a Field Visit
- Bridging the Gap: Centering Extreme Poverty in Data-Driven Climate Change Solutions
- Bridging the Gap: How an Online Course Transformed My Research Project
- Bridging The Gap: Strategies for Enhancing Genetic Awareness in Rural India
- Bridging the Gap: Traditional vs. Modern Methods of Agriculture and the Role of Young Farmers
- Bridging the Rural Education Gap
- Bridging the Virtual Gap: Lessons From Central Tibetan Administration
- Bringing India Home
- Bringing Mental Health into Maternal Care: A Training Room Reflection
- Bringing the Period to the Workplace
- Broken Systems
- BuddhiMoney Didi: Local Leadership in Mobilization
- Building Bridges in the Development Sector
- Building Bridges, Breaking Walls: Women-Led Entrepreneurship in Rural India
- Building Bridges: Inclusive Education Through Holistic Development
- Building Home: From New York to Khandar, Rajasthan
- Building Livelihood by Celebrating Culture
- But Have You Tried This Dosa? Women in the Public Space
- But What About the Boy Child?
- But, It was great to……
- By Way of Introduction
- Calibrating Impact: Lessons from a ‘Little Spicy’ Meal
- California to India: Colors, Change, and Community
- Campaign Trails
- Can Development Interventions Reduce Human Trafficking?
- Can Education Eradicate Poverty for Adivasis? Exploring Authentic Self-Determination
- candy chai and the benevolence of cow eyes
- Caring about Care
- Cash Rules Everything Around Me
- Catching a Train
- Caution or Courage? A Sad Calculation
- Celebrating Death
- Celebrating New Dawn: How My First Puja Nurtured Belonging
- Celebrating the Fab Five: My Night at the Indiaspora Gala
- Centered
- Centering community voices
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- Chai and Chura with the Gharwali: Lessons From Uttarkashi
- Chai breaks, Lunchtime, and Furniture: Moments of Culture Shock
- Challenges in Access to Medicine
- Challenges of Agriculture Part 2: To Till or Not to Till
- Challenges of Agriculture: Learning the Ways of the Land in a New Climate
- Change is Slow
- Changing Patterns in the Lives of Farmers: An Introspection from Past, Present, and Future
- Chaotic Beginings
- Chaotic Commuting and The Blessing Bovine
- Charlotte Brown, AIF Clinton Fellow 2014-15
- Check your passport…it’s no trick.
- Chennai
- Chennai
- Chennai Fellows – Sunday Brunch
- CHHIP Exercise Day
- Child Labor and Occupational Disabilities
- Child Participatory Methods: A New Standard for the HBR Approach
- Children Leading Change: Notes from the Field
- Citizens without a city
- Claiming Space in Unaccommodating Rooms: How Women with Disabilities Lead
- Clearing the Fence: Inclusion, not just Accommodation
- Climate Education and Communications: Parallels and Insights
- Climate Smart Agriculture – A Mantra for Climate Action
- CLINGING
- Clinton Fellows attend Midpoint Conference
- Coco Compost: Ladakh’s Eco Toilets
- Collaboration and Co-Independence among NGOs in India
- Coloring Beauty in India: Part One
- COLOUR MY SCHOOL
- Columbia’s 13th Annual India Business Conference
- Combating loneliness via Teaching Learning Materials Workshop
- Coming Home in COVID
- Common Denominators – A visit to iMerit
- Communication can Trump Medicine
- Community Building during Diwali: Hospitality and Kindness in South India
- Community Colleges in India
- Community Narratives and Institutional Change
- Community Organizing – Masala Style
- Community Police Force
- Community Screening in a Tribal Village in Goa
- Company In Solitude
- Compassion and Resilience: Akila ‘Akka’s’ Journey of Embracing Change
- Completing a Project
- Conducting the Orchestra
- Confessions of a Liaison
- Conflict, Chaos and Transformation
- Confronting Complexity: Why treating mental illness demands an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach
- Confusion to Clarity- A journey of purpose, people, and endless possibilities
- Congratulations to the 2019-20 AIF Clinton Fellows
- Constraints
- Conversation on Snakes and the Myths that Surround Them
- Conversations on Crop Procurement, Fair Pricing, and Organic Transitions on a Small-Scale Farm in Punjab
- Conversations with Ex-Inmates
- Conversing About Conservation: A Tool for Development?
- Cooking Southern Indian Food in Iowa
- Cooking with Dipsa
- Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis
- Corporate Philanthropy in India
- Counting Breaths
- COVID-19 and the Exodus of Migrant Labourers
- COVID-19 and the Migration Crisis
- COVID-19 Vaccine Drive in Kalahandi: An Illustrated Ground Report
- Cow Urine, Carved Kaddu, and a Sing-Along-Song
- Cows, Plastic, and Upset Stomachs
- Crafting Change in Kachchh: Stories from Khamir’s World of Print and Plastic
- Crafting Impactful Narratives in Social Impact Communications
- Crafts, Sketches, and Strings
- Crash
- Creating a Culture of Gratitude
- Creating a Dump-Free India: one start-up’s model for cleaner cities
- Creating a More Compassionate World: A Deep Dive into Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning with Neha Bhatia : Month 2
- Creativity Used to Empower: My Visit to Chindu
- Crossing Cultures in Khandar: Creating a Rural Village Homestay Program in Rajasthan
- CSR and Public Sector Enterprises: Tips for Social Sector Organizations
- CSR in the Public Sector
- Cultivating Communications for Social Good
- Cultivating Cultural Humility in an Indian Context
- Cultural Intricacy: Moments of Bewilderment & Enlightenment
- Cultural understanding in the workplace
- Culture shock
- Culture, Environment & Education: Learnings from my Time in the Van Gujjar Basti
- Customary unremarkable “First Days in India” blog post in standard numerical format
- Cyclone Vardah
- Daily Lifestlye Leading to Health Hazards in Kangra
- Dancin’ in the Street: Jumping into the whirlwind of Navratri
- Dancing to the Beat of Their Own Drum
- Dangerous Beauty: The Story of Pine Trees in the Himalayas
- Dasra and the Middlers
- Data Analysis and Skill Development in the Social Development Sector
- Data in Social Impact: What are the Limitations?
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Days in Banswara
- Days Under the Banyan Trees
- Dazed in the Mumbai Maze
- DE Exposure Trip Part 1: Where Books Come to Life
- DE Exposure Trip Part 2: Engaging with the Children of Ganjam
- DE Exposure Trip Part 3: Comparative Study of Schools
- De-Colonising Development Sector Work in India
- Dear Binod
- Dear Disabled, You are Unsung Heroes, Create Your Own Niche!
- Dear India, I miss you already
- Dear Poverty:
- Decentralizing Health governance : The Way Forward
- Dedicated to Rahul “Kamble”
- Deep Dish Pizza, Cricket, and Baby Showers: Joining New Communities
- Defining Entrepreneurship in Rural Bihar
- Defining the Humanisation of Climate Change: An Endeavour to Bring Numbers to Life
- Delay in Justice Is Denial in Justice
- Delhi
- Delhi, Kerala and the Cookie Monster!
- Delhi, Ladakh, Kerala, Mumbai, Delhi, and back to Kerala again.
- Delving into Darjeeling
- Delving into the Incredible Wool Crafts from Kachchh
- Democratising and decentralising philanthropy in India
- Demystifying Academic Research: My First Time
- Dengue-Licious
- Departure
- Desi Wool: Harmony between Man and Sheep
- Design Strategy for Social Impact
- Designing Hands-On Child Learning Activities in a Zero-Cost Model
- Detachment, Wisdom and Solidarity
- DETOURS TO MY HEART
- Developing New Strategic Initiatives: The Road to Bhayli’s Growth
- Development Debates, Disaster & Assam: Chapter I “In Search of the Mis’s’ing”
- Development Debates, Disaster & Assam: Chapter II “On the field with Umanand Pathori”
- Development Debates, Disaster & Assam: Chapter III “Mising Tribal Village”
- Development Debates, Disaster & Assam: Chapter II “On the field with Umanand Pathori”
- Development Debates, Disaster and Assam
- Development Debates, Disaster and Assam : Chapter V Proposing a Holistic Approach to Livelihoods
- Development Debates, Disaster and Assam: Chapter IV Livelihood in villages of Uttar Mohura
- Development Debates, Disaster and Assam: Chapter VI – Grassroots!
- Development: progression of human societies
- Digital Education in India- Avenues and Challenges
- Digital Learning: Access and Scope in Rural India
- Digital Tools at Khamir: An Update
- Dilli Chapter
- Disability Futures Virtual Festival
- Disabled People’s Organizations: A Voice of PwDs in Advocacy
- Discerning December, Part I: Defining Development
- Discerning December, Part II: The Ethics of Engagement
- Discovering Home in Delhi
- Discovering India
- Discovering Possibilities
- Discovering the Power of Theatre: A Catalyst for Change
- Discovering what Life Has in store for Meee!!
- Dismantling the Power Structure and Enabling Free Speech in Classrooms: Part 2
- Dismantling the Power Structure and Enabling Free Speech in Classrooms: Part 3
- Dismantling the Power Structure, Enabling Free Speech in Classrooms: Part 1
- Disruptions
- Distance Learning and the Future of Education post COVID-19
- Diversifying Inclusion in the Workplace
- Diving into digital communications at Khamir
- Diwali in Udaipur
- Diwali: A Journey of Emotions, Beyond Wealth and Status
- Do It Yourself: Curd in the Kitchen
- Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth?
- Do you have a ‘Purpose’?
- Do’s and Don’ts
- DOES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION BUDGET CONNECTS WITH SCHOOL NEEDS??
- Does this Make me a Delhiite? How I Integrated with My Host Community
- Domestic Abuse: A Right Granted by Society?
- Don’t be deceived…mega malls and high heels have not driven out patriarchy in India…
- Downtime in Kashmir- Eid-ul-Fitr
- Dream Connect – Part 1
- Drenched in Sweet, Sweet Sweat
- Driving Away: Leaving the Kattaikkuttu Sangam
- Dropout & Retention Challenges in Madhya Pradesh’s Education
- Dry Pipelines: How Water Shortage Affects Rural Madhya Pradesh
- Drylands are No Dry Topic: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in North Gujarat Drylands
- Durga Puja in Kolkata!
- E-learning for Community Health Workers in India: Challenges and Opportunities
- Early Reflections: Learning, Growing, and Moving Forward
- Eat, Eat; Careful – There May Be a Bee in the Honey
- Eating by the Rules
- Economic Empowerment as a Human Rights Intervention
- Economic Empowerment: Enhancing Autonomy of Persons with Disability
- Education for Livelihood
- Education in Motion: Cultivating Inclusive Learning with a Mobile Classroom
- Education in the age of AI
- Eid Mubarak
- electrification
- Elijah Monroe – Personal Inquiry
- Embarking on a Journey of Learning and Growth in Auroville
- Embellishing the everyday
- Embracing Diversity in Perspectives, by Diego Solares
- Embracing the Longevity Revolution: Navigating Dual Education, Multi-Stage Relationships, and Two-Phase Migration in upcoming 120+ Year Lifespan
- Embracing the Slump
- Empathetic mentorship and engaging workshops: Reflections from a PDG Exchange
- Empathy for Victim & Perpetrator: How to Address Crimes Against Women
- Empowered Women Empower Women
- Empowering Climate Action and Sustainable Development through AI
- Empowering Girls to Dream: Opportunity Born from an Accomplished Alumni
- Empowering Migrant Children Through Education: A Glimpse into Aarti Play School
- Empowering Women and Girls Through the Art of Knitting and Crochet
- Empowerment through Self-Help: Observations from Site Visits
- Enabling Spaces and Holding Space for Young People
- Encouraging Micro Entrepreneurship in Rural Bengal
- End of the Road
- Ending human trafficking in Jharkhand and creating safe mobility
- Endpoint Publications: Behind the Scenes
- Enduring Change
- Energy in Rural Uttarakhand
- English Vinglish -Teaching language and confidence
- English: The Language of Power
- Enhancing Women’s Workspaces: A Visualisation Exercise on WASH Facilities in Podampeta, Odisha
- Ensuring Gender Mainstreaming in the Tibetan Administration
- EPIC India
- Epistemic Disconcertment: Local Knowledge vs Expert Knowledge
- Ethnographic Field Expedition I: Bagepalli
- Ethnographic Field Expedition II: Sirsi
- Evening Songs for New Beginnings: The Backdrop of Kattaikkuttu Theater
- Event with Pan-Asians@SAP: Diwali, the Festival of Lights and Giving
- Ever-changing Landscapes
- Every Child In School – Part I
- Every Child in School – Part II
- Everything is Harder Here
- Excerpts from my Journal: A Retrospect on Confronting Privilege, Identity, and Independence in Puducherry
- Exclusion from Employment and Means to Livelihood (Part 1)
- Exiled Services: Identity and Nation Building in the Tibetan Diaspora
- Expectations and Service
- Expecting the Unexpected
- Expecting the Unexpected: India 2012
- Experiencing the Journey of Serve, Learn, Lead: Part I
- Experiencing the Journey of Serve, Learn, Lead: Part II
- Exploring a career switch to the development sector in my 20s
- Exploring APV: Rethinking Education and Poverty
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Exploring Diverse Forms of Communication: Unlocking New Channels of Expression
- Exploring Gender Perspectives in Agriculture | Comparing Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya
- Exploring Genders and Sexualities: A visit to the queer trans wellness and support centre
- Exploring HAAT Bazaars: A Step Towards Understanding Rural Markets in Southern Rajasthan
- Exploring Indigenous Farming Practices: Learnings from Meghalaya
- Exploring Kattaikkuttu and an All-Night Performance
- Exploring the Benefits and Market Viability of Vermicompost
- Exploring the History and Cuisine of Hyderabad’s Migrant Communities
- Explosions in the sky
- Exposed in Chennai
- Exposed to CHAI in Darjeeling
- Exposure Visit
- Exposure visit in Dharamsala
- Exposure visit to SAATH, Ahmedabad
- Exposure visit to Sristi Foundation: Learnings and Reflections
- Facing Poverty: Learnings from Indian Non-Profits’ Livelihoods Lens
- Fair Trade: An Ethical and Sustainable Way Forward.
- Falling in Love with Bhavnagar
- Families, Human Rights, and Mrs. Chandaram’s Unwanted Pity
- FAQs – American Style
- FAQs — Indian Style
- Farewell to An Able Leader: Dr. Pema Yangchen
- Farewell Uttarakhand, Farewell India
- Fate or Not
- Feet on Fire: My Life in the Garden
- Fellow’s Perspective on AIF’s Digital Equalizer Program (Part I)
- Fellows are Leading Sustainable Change
- Fellowship Alumni and Young Professionals Meet in New York
- Fellowship and Beyond: The Importance of Women-Led Change
- Fellowship Closing Seminar 2021: 20 Years of Serve-Learn-Lead
- Fellowship in the Time of Coronavirus
- Fellowships for Service : Part I – Perspectives from India
- Feminism in India: Part 1
- Feminism in India: Part 2
- Feminist Outreach in Rural Bihar
- Festival Season
- Fevikwik: Stories of Breaking (Let’s Chaat, episode 1 transcript)
- Field Visits in Pune: Professional Development Grant
- Field Visits in Surat, Gujarat: Understanding the Barriers to Successful UTC Implementation
- Fieldwork begins!: The Ramaj Watershed
- Fieldwork in the Tribal Communities of Jharkhand
- Fieldwork Lost in Translation
- Fighting for the Road Non-Taken in the Midst of Diwali
- Filming Destruction (and Recovery)
- Financial Literacy and Livelihood Revival: Learnings From the Fellowship
- Finding ‘Masti’ in Sa‘Masti’pur: A Tale of Joy
- Finding a different Delhi
- Finding a home in a homeless shelter
- Finding comfort in the uncomfortable zones
- Finding Community in Healthcare Activism
- Finding Family in Unexpected Places
- Finding February: Poetries and Homes
- Finding Home Between Continents: A Cultural Journey
- Finding Home in Lucknow
- Finding my Footing in Bharuch
- Finish line
- Fire and Water
- First Impressions: Development Finance and CSR
- First month in Delhi
- First you Make a Square…
- Fissures in the Mirage of Development: When Exclusions Hinder the Process of Development in India
- Flexibility and its Limits
- Flip-Flops and a Firm Stance
- Floodgates Open at the Shrinathji Temple
- Fly by night
- Folk Dancin’ for Maternal and Newborn Health
- Followed by Food: Blessing or Curse?
- For Every Child, A Thriving Life: My Visit to Dream a Dream
- For She Who Tills
- For the Love of a Place
- Forced Contraception: Normalizing the Crisis
- Foregrounding Adversity: Dissecting ‘Pathos,’ a Mode of Persuasion
- Formula for a Successful Community Visit
- Fostering Collaborative Learning: Academic Partnerships in Public Health
- Four Things I Miss From the U.S. (and Four Things I Don’t)
- Free To Be Me: Perspective on Hijab- Local And Global
- From Baton Rouge to Bangalore
- From Brigrade to Martahalli in 170 INR
- From Buffalo to (Nizamuddin) Basti
- From Burghal to Woodland
- From Cambridge to Cambridge Via Tejgadh
- From Child Laborer to AIF Clinton Fellow: A Cycle of Hope
- From Coffee Beans to Chai Bliss: Sipping through Change and Finding Happiness
- From darkness to light
- From Doubt to Relief: Lessons on Data Monitoring and Evaluation
- From Dream to Desk: Rediscovering a Tapestry of Culture, History, and Governance in Bhopal
- From Education to Employment: Skill Pathways in Madhya Pradesh
- From Expectation to Reality: A Journey to Kumaon
- From Fixed to Flourishing: Building Resilient Learners
- From Informal to Impactful: Empowering Minority Women Entrepreneurs
- From Ladakh with Love
- From Numbers to Narrative
- From Outsider to RCBian: How Cricket Made Me Mysurian
- From Pallets to Working in a Prison: My Introduction to India
- From Personal to Professional: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- From Planning to Impact – My Fellowship Experience
- From Policy to Ground Reality
- From Powerless to Powerful: How Community Led Initiatives Put Power in the Hands of Vulnerable Communities
- From Researcher to Spokesperson –The Accidental Lessons From Pithoragarh
- From subtleness of Assam to sweetness of Gujarat
- From the Hands of Others
- From the hills to the beach: Hopping India
- From the Mentor’s Desk: Calcutta Kids
- From the Mentor’s Desk: Pravah
- From the Mentor’s Desk: Saath
- From the Mentor’s Desk: Tata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS)
- From the Mentor’s Desk: Ummeed
- From Weddings to Plane Rides
- Funding landscapes in India Part I: Introduction
- Fusing Arts, Culture and Education: High Impact Strategies for Social Change
- Gamification in Educational Technology – A Review
- Garhwali Morning
- Gaurs and Tigers and Elephants, Oh My
- Gender Equality is Not Just a Crusade for Women – Reflections on the 2018 Difficult Dialogues Conference
- Gender Sensitization in a Youth Space
- Get it Done in Delhi: The How-to guide for settling down in India’s capital city
- Getting ready to be the change I wish to see!
- Getting Started With Designing in Social Development: Part 1
- Getting Started with Designing in Social Development: Part 2
- Getting Started with MANSI, the Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative, in Jharkhand, India
- Ghadai: by the Potters of Kutch
- Girl makes plans, God laughs…
- Give youth skills. Give India strength.
- Giving Back
- Glimpses of Govandi
- Glimpses of Madhopur
- Global Goa Gets Its Think On
- Going to School for an Open Mind
- Good Morning Bangalore!
- Good Schools
- Google Earth All Mighty
- Gora the Explorer
- Gorum Gorum Chai in an REI Campware Cup
- Governing Diaspora: Tibetans in Exile in India
- Grassroots Work to Promote Maternal Health in Tribal Areas: Seba Jagat
- Gratitude to the Banyan Impact Fellows of 2024–25
- Grime and the City
- Grinding Away
- Grounded : of coffee, soil and humility
- Grounded: The Turbulent Path to Sustainable Air Travel in India
- Gujarat: A “Dry” State
- Guts to Guwahati: Feelings from My First Week of Working in Assam
- Hadad
- Haircuts and Weddings
- Halfway There! (Ohhhh, Living on a Prayer!)
- Hand-Knotted Rugs: The 2,400-Year-Old Journey that Needs to Continue
- Haplessly Embedded
- Happenings of the Past Few Weeks
- Happiness Happens
- Happy Thanksgiving from Delhi
- Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge and Beliefs: Weather Forecasting Practices of farmers for Sustainable Agriculture
- Harnessing the Power of the Collective Wisdom
- Health by the Sambhar Lake: Part I
- Health by the Sambhar Lake: Part II
- Health Care: The Semi Urban/Rural Version
- Health Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Part 1/2)
- Health Justice for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Part 2/2)
- Healthcare Between Two Countries
- Healthcare options in Udaipur
- Heat, Health and Harmony: Disability in the Time of Climate Change
- Heisenberg in Bhavnagar
- Helping Communities to Help Themselves
- Here we go!
- Here’s My Story: What’s Yours?
- Hi Mom, It’s Me: Reflections on Heritage and Culture
- Hidden Between the Rows: When Growth Leaves People Behind
- Higher Standards: A reflection on a “Reading Rainbow” Gone Rogue
- Highlights from my Professional Development Visit in Pune
- Highlights from the 2019-20 Closing Seminar
- Hilary Fischer-Groban – Personal Inquiry Brief
- Hindi, English and My Stolen iPhone
- Hindsight 20/20 (Let’s Chaat, episode 6 transcript)
- Hinglish
- HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF
- Hitchhiking through Chennai: A Mirror to People-Powered Partnerships
- Hitler’s not such a bad guy after all
- HIV/AIDS healthcare as a human right
- Holding On, Letting Go: Notes from the Field
- holi hai
- Holi Sh*t
- Home Away from Home: From Nagaland to Chhattisgarh
- Home Away From Home?
- Honoring Tradition, Advancing Health: Samvaad 2025
- Hosting a fellow? How to make it an enriching experience.
- House Hunting and Hanuman
- House Hunting and Hanuman
- How can cultural campuses best engage their visitors?
- How Can Non-Profit Organisations Work Better With Less: Sustainable Development in the Post-COVID Era
- How Can We Learn From People, to Design for People?
- How did I End(point) up here?
- How Far I’ll Go
- How I Ended Up At The Delhi Police Academy: A Reflection On LGBTQIA+ Sensitization
- How I Ended Up With a Kashmiri Carpet on the First Day
- How I Live
- How I Met My Mentor
- How Interdisciplinary Teams Can Tackle Public Health Challenges
- How much to know is enough………………..
- How STEM is Branching Out: VASCSC’s Strategy to Engage Students
- How to build a cordial relationship with your Host Organization
- How to Build Resilience: Leaning into the Fall
- How to Create More Inclusive Visual Communications: Ensuring Diverse Representation and Accessibility
- How To Exposure Visit like Sridar
- How to Interview in 5 Languages…
- How to jump off busses (and master living in India)
- HOW TO MAKE FELLOWSHIP FROM HOME SUCCESSFUL: 5 INSIGHTS FROM A REMOTE FELLOW
- How to prepare for the American India Foundation’s Banyan Impact Fellowship Interview?
- How to start
- How Ultimate Frisbee Can Change the World
- How We Begin to Belong
- Human Trafficking in India: Shifting to a Labour Approach
- Human-in-the-Evaluation: AI Roadmap to Culturally Responsive Evaluation
- Humanizing Health Statistics
- I am strong and resilient. I can face challenges on my own.
- I Am the Rain. Here I Come.
- I Can Ride My Bike With Rusted Handle Bars
- I live here
- I met ambiguity
- I Quit My Job to Move to India…Why You Ask
- I Will Not Wait for Hindsight
- i’m in india. I’M IN INDIA!!!
- I’m from the ‘Show Me’ State: What I Learned from Seeing the World
- If it is to be perfection or nothing…
- Illustrations From the Indigenous Communities: Status, Rights, Issues
- Imminent India: Thoughts, Reflections, and Aspirations
- Impact Fellowships: The Secret Lies in the Structure
- Impact Stories: CrowdFlower Contributors at iMerit, Kolkata
- Implementing a Multi-Actor Platform
- Impressions of Holistic Youth Development
- IMPROVING SCHOOL HEALTH DELIVERY IN RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED SETTINGS
- In a new place, Asking “Who now?”
- In Defense of Boredom
- In Pursuit of Shamelessness
- In Search of Sustainability
- In the Field, by Sarah Hine
- In Theory, In Practice – Part I
- In Theory, In Practice: Part II
- Inaugural Post from the 2008-2009 Fellows, by Michael Yau
- Inclusion: A Holistic Way of Living
- Inclusive Education – The only way preferred
- Inclusive India, Part I: Changing Mindsets
- Inclusive India, Part II: Seeing the Big Picture
- Incredible India, Indeed
- India and It’s Youth: Maneuvering Sports to Empower
- India Calling
- India Revisited
- India Vs. Paraguay
- India with Strangers, by Neela Pal
- India, can you make room for one more?
- India: From Enchantment to Appreciation
- INDIA: I WORK HERE
- India: Incessantly, Intensely, Incomparably, Inspiringly Interesting
- India’s Entrepreneurial Spirit
- India’s Solar Energy Landscape: A Brief Overview
- India’s Forgotten People
- Indian Pressure Cookers: Chef’s Best Friend or BOMB?
- Infant Mortality and Low Birth Weight in the Kolhan Region of Jharkhand
- Influencing change: One mindset at a time
- Infusing Cash into a Rural Economy amidst a Global Economic Slowdown
- Innovating Rural Training: The Story Behind Developing ‘Samarth Village – A Livelihoods Game’
- Innovative Solution for Menstrual Health: A Collaborative Endeavor
- Inside Hyderabad’s Labyrinth
- Insights from Working on Multisectoral Initiatives
- Intentional Community
- Interaction: Revised
- Interdisciplinary “Khichdi”: Navigating Your Niche at your Host Organization
- International Purple Fest 2024: Dispatch from Goa
- Interview with Steffi John, MCBT Education Officer
- Intro to Broadleaf and Indian NGO 101
- Introduce Sara Tiffany
- Introducing Aarti Nuzella
- Introducing AIF’s 2015 – 16 Young Professionals Leaders
- Introducing Aliza Lailari
- Introducing Amber Luong
- Introducing Archana Patel
- Introducing Bhumi Purohit
- Introducing Broadleaf Health and Education Alliance
- Introducing Jennifer Chowdhury
- Introducing Jessica Mausner
- Introducing Krupa Asher
- Introducing Lauren Lauter
- Introducing Lorenz Noe
- Introducing Mandy LaBreche
- Introducing Maressa McCall
- Introducing Margaret Elliott
- Introducing Martha Farnsworth
- Introducing Megan Gordon
- Introducing Michael Matergia
- Introducing Michael Schulte
- Introducing Nikita Arora
- Introducing Ramya Naraharisetti
- Introducing Ryan Ballard
- Introducing Sexual & Reproductive Health Education in Schools
- Introducing Sukanya Purukayastha
- Introduction to the CSR Lifecycle
- Iowa to India
- Is Empowerment an Empowering Term?
- Is Entrepreneurship Development? The Challenges & Contradictions of the Social Enterprise Model
- Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
- It is entirely up to you
- It Is in the Ache of the Instrument That We Find the Soul of the Song
- It’s a Start
- It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…
- It’s Not Just Pretty Colors
- It’s Really Happening: Our First Pride March, by Praveen Basaviah
- Jagori Grameen: Feminist Approaches to Community Impact
- Jai Kisan: Incentivizing Agriculture
- Janani Suraksha Yojana and the Bumpy Road to Maternal Health
- Jealousy
- Jharkhand’s Mighty Heroes
- Jimmy’s Travel and Work Unite in a Single Blog Entry
- Joey Stromberg — Personal Inquiry
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 2
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 3
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 4
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 5
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 6
- JOHAR to all of you!
- John Van Rooy-Personal Inquiry
- Journey with In(dia) Poetry
- Journey With No Boudaries
- Joy Amidst the Madness
- Joy in Jaipur
- Jugaad: Stories of Desi Innovation (Let’s Chaat, episode 2 transcript)
- Juggling my dual identity and re-examining my role as a human rights activist
- Juley, in Every Way: Learning in Ladakh
- Just a bit.
- Just like the Little Mermaid: Finding comfort in the cohort’s kindness while losing my voice
- Just Me and My Closest 40,0000 Friends
- JY Day 1: Exploring Nationhood
- JY Day 2: Personal Journeys
- JY Day 3: Powering Rural India
- Kali Pooja
- Kasol in Monochrome
- Katie Osterhage: Pre-departure Reflections
- Kayalyn Kibbe, AIF Clinton Fellow 2014-15
- Key Learnings from Midpoint: To Future Fellows
- Key takeaways from the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68)
- Key to Sustainability: Pass the Baton to Local Leaders
- Khimsa: Waste Management in Ladakh
- Kicking off the BEMPU Research Award in Belgaum, Karnataka
- Kindness, the Indian Kind
- Kishore Eechambadi – Personal Inquiry
- Kitchari Happy
- Kiy Mangpo Duk: Dog-Wildlife Conflict in Ladakh
- Know Them, Reach Them: Building Customer Personas and Boosting Visibility with SEO
- Koraj Pahadi: A Little Hill of Great Importance
- Koraput District, a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System
- Kovalam Narratives: Voices of Illness and Recovery
- Krishnamurti and APV
- Kutch Part 1
- Kyi-Dhuk: Finding Community from New York to Gurgaon
- La Tomatina, Bangalore!!!!!!
- Labor & Empowerment as Community
- Lamakaan: The Seventh Heaven of Hyderabad!
- Language, Politics and Education in North India, Part I: Experiencing Urdu
- Language, Politics and Education in North India, Part II: The National Languages of South Asia
- Language, Politics and Education in North India, Part III: The Problem with Hindi
- Larry Reinhard, AIF Clinton Fellow, 2014-15
- Last Words
- Laughter and Light – Diwali in India
- Launch of the 2019-20 Fellowship Yearbook
- Laurie’s New Groove
- Leading Sustainable Farming with Educating Women in Farmers Field School
- Leading Through Servanthood in India’s Development Sector
- Leaning into Discomfort: The Four Stages of Cultural Immersion
- Leaning into the Unfamiliar: A Train Ride Back from Agra, Uttar Pradesh
- Leapfrogging and Solar Energy
- Learning Begins at Home
- Learning by Laughter
- Learning from Children
- Learning from Kolkata
- Learning from the Golden Triangle: Rethinking Tourism
- Learning STEM is Fun With Toys
- Learning the Ropes at Dream A Dream
- Learning to Build Workplaces that Work for All
- Learning to Lead: A Trainer’s Journey into Plastic Weaving
- Learning to Love STEM: Engaging with STEM approaches to climate resilience as a social sciences and humanities enthusiast.
- Learning: Building Solidarity
- Learnings From The Field
- Leaves from a Rural Library
- Leaving Delhi for dosas: a new beginning
- Leaving Kamgar Nagar
- Lesson One: Worth It and More
- Lesson Two: Never a Drop-Out
- Lessons from the Ground: Why a Participatory Approach to Learning is Critical to Empowering Tribal Children
- Lessons in Chulichan on Consumption: Part 1
- Lessons in Qualitative Research: The Public Health Lens
- Lessons Learned from a Virtual Fellowship
- Lessons Learned from Distance Learning
- Let the Sun Fall Its Rays: Hope amidst COVID-19
- Let There Be Art
- Let’s Chaat: A Story of Connection
- Let’s Go Fly A Kite
- Let’s Talk About Sexual Reproductive Health
- Letter to Bnaya, my Banyan in the Sky
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 1.
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 2.
- Letters from Odisha to Tamil Nadu to Chhattisgarh: A Collaborative Photo Exchange on Art and Its Stories, Part 3.
- Leveling the Playing Field: Art as an Equalizer in Youth Education
- Life in a TCS Guest House
- Life in India: An Instagram Photo Blog
- Life in the Present
- Life on a (Bollywood) Film Set
- Life Skills Day, Every Day
- Life, Frisbee, and Legacy: A Conversation With Coach Anjona Mahji
- Life: some relived, some realized
- Lighting of a Fire
- Like the Sharp Edge of a Razor
- Lindsey Adkisson – Personal Inquiry Brief
- Lingering in the Clouds
- Lions, Tigers, and Bears
- LISTENING BEFORE LEADING – A REFLECTION ON LEARNING IN MY NEW JOURNEY
- Listening to the voices of the poor
- Livelihoods Project: Artisans of the Rug Industry in Rajasthan
- Living by Yourself
- Living in Delhi
- Living in Mumbai is like being in Disneyland.
- Living in the moment
- Living Memory
- Living Through History
- Living with Floods
- Logistics of Development (Or How I Survived a Hailstorm)
- Looking Forward
- Looking into the Lives of Communities in Coal Field Areas of Ramgarh
- Lost and then Found in Pethapur: The Gift of Plans Gone Astray
- Lost in the Maze: Rethinking Economy and Ecology
- Lost in Translation: The Need for Multilingual Resources in Indian schools
- Love, Belonging, and Feminism in Jharkhand
- Low Birth Weight: Causes, Consequences and Interventions
- Lullaby for my nephews
- Lunchtime in Hindi
- Luqma By SAFA: A Journey of social enterprise
- Madhya Pradesh Musings
- Maher
- Mahila
- Mainstreaming the Tribals- Lessons learned and future directions.
- Majuli Needs a Leader
- Majuli to Mandakani
- Makerspace Tinkering Labs: Breaking Barriers to STEM Education in Rural Schools
- Making it in Mumbai
- Making the Case for Digital in a Distinctively Un-Digital Place
- Making the Invisible Visible: A Visual Storytelling Guide for Nonprofits
- Mama McCall comes to India: Delhi, Agra, & Rishikesh
- Manchaha Mela: A Deadline for a Difference
- Manchaha Part 1: What is Artisan Originals?
- Manchaha Part 2: Artisan Originals Collection Isn’t a Product, It’s a Life Skill
- Mango Season
- Mango Season and Learning to Let Go
- Manhattan to Madanapalle
- March Ahead: Super Girls
- Marvelous / Chaos
- Massachusetts High School Student Combines Love of Dance with Passion for Social Impact
- Mastering NGO Networking in Disability Sector (India)
- Matter of Choice: Notes from the Community
- Matter of Choice: Notes from the Community II
- Maybe Trying Was All I Needed
- Meditating on Expectations: How I Stumbled into Heartfulness
- Meet the AIF Clinton Fellows!
- Meet Tsering Kyi: An Inspiring Woman Leader from the Tibetan Community in India
- Memory Marg
- Meri Zindagi Ka Ek Din
- Metamorphic Landscapes: “First There Were Forests, Then Came the Agricultural Fields and Now the Saltpans”
- Midpoint at Anandwan, by Sophie Namy
- Midpoint, Reassignment, and More
- Migration of freedom and opportunities
- Mindful Development
- Mindfulness in Action
- Mirrored Rhythms: Finding a Home in Dediapada
- Missing Context: Maintaining Relationships Across Distance and Countries
- MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE NORTHEAST
- Mission Maruti: The Journey to APV School
- Misunderstood: The Bronx, Bihar, Stereotypes, and Cardi B
- Mobilising for Livelihood : Women Farmers Demand Water
- Moderating May: Buddhism and the Environment in Ladakh
- Momentum in the community
- Mommy and Me: Basti Edition
- Momos, Swasitkas and the Dalai Lama
- Mondays with Manish
- Money Money Money
- Monitoring and Evaluation Does Not Need To Be Scary
- MONSOONing
- Mood Swings
- Moral(ly) Outrage(ous)
- More Nonsense Acronyms, or, What We Do Here (MNAOWWDH) by Brian Heilman
- More, From Laurie
- Morning Bus to Garia
- Mountain Grain Madness
- Mourning the Loss of a Human Rights Institution
- Movies and Ableism: Are You “Normal” Enough To Watch Movies?
- Moving Backwards? A Ride on the Noida Metro
- Moving Forward
- Moving Forward with Chatpati Chat!
- Mud and Bamboo Houses are Proving Our Stereotypes of Poverty Wrong
- Mumbai
- Mumbai and Me: Examining the Environment
- Mumbai for Beginners
- Mumbai Madness: Diwali with the AIF Clinton Fellows
- Music for Harmony 2013: From the Anchor’s Seat
- Musings and Doodles, by Tahmid Chowdhury
- Muslim and Woman: Two Intersections of My Experience
- My Cat Eyes in Chennai
- My City Of Joy
- My Daily Commute
- My Encounter with Indus Action’s Women Social Entrepreneurs
- My Experience as an AIFSCF in Himachal Pradesh, by Sarah Hine
- My Experience Interning with AIF during the 2020 Summer
- My experience of selection, Orientation, and arriving at the Host Organization
- My Experience with Pneumonia: Exploring Emergency Medicine in India
- My Experience with the Status Quo
- My Experiences in Pagdandi Yatra: A Rural Immersion Program
- My Fellowship Journey: A Road to Discover a New Self
- My Fellowship Journey: From Chaos to Charisma
- My Fellowship Journey: Of Gender, Hills and Tibetan Lemon Tarts
- My Field
- My Field Visit to an Indian Prison
- My First Diwali: A Trip to Pune and Mahabaleshwar
- My first site visit to the Apna Clinic
- My glossary of Indian business terms
- My Introduction to the AIF Clinton Fellowship
- My Journey of Service: As the Rainbow of Emotions wrapped in Memories & Words
- My Journey of Understanding Exclusion and Inclusion
- My Journey to Explore Gypsy Culture in Tamil Nadu
- My Journey with Project Potential: Lessons on Leadership and Culture Building for Growth
- My learning of disability issues
- My Learnings from Other Professionals: Climate Discussions in Delhi
- My Life in Rural Rajasthan
- My life inside the Shalini Hospital Network
- My Many Firsts
- MY NAME IS???
- My Newfound Love for Motorcycle Rides
- My Sunday…
- My Trips Around India
- My Tryst with Tarari
- My visit to a Pankh training center
- My World, My Eyes
- Mystics Say…
- Myths and Legends
- Naksha: Stories Lost and Found (Let’s Chaat, episode 4 transcript)
- Namak Haram: Treacherous Salt
- Namza Spiti: Spring Gardening, Traditional Medicine, and Food Security in Ladakh
- Nari Adalats: Changing Lives at the Community Level
- Narotam Sekhsaria & Infosys Foundation USA Partner with AIF to Scale Innovation through the Clinton Fellowship
- Narratives of Resilience: The Story of People’s Resistance in Ambujwadi (Part 2/2)
- Natter with Nukkad’s Team
- Navigating COVID-19: How AIF Alumni Are Adapting to the Crisis (Part I)
- Navigating COVID-19: How AIF Alumni Are Adapting to the Crisis (Part II)
- Navigating Life as a BIF Fellow
- Navigating November: Personal Poetics of the Present
- Neurodiversity (Livelihoods) from the lens of a Social Worker
- New BEGINNING!!
- New Beginnings in a Human Rights Community in Tamil Nadu
- New beginnings in new year!!!
- New England YP Chapter Hosts Sustainable Investing Info Session
- New Kid on the Block
- New skill to add to the CV: Firefighting…
- New Venture in an Old Place
- New York Holiday Alumni Mixer
- Next stop for the BEMPU Research Award: East Delhi
- Night One: Finding Meaning in the Challenges of Being an Outsider
- No Loans, No Smoking, No Bargaining
- No Longer Silenced: A Voice Found Through Education
- No Need for Tension!
- No Refrigeration Necessary
- No regrets
- No Voter Left Behind: Including Persons with Disabilities in Decision-Making
- Non-Communicable Diseases: Deconstructing the Leading Causes of Death Globally
- North East Network Celebrates Women As Custodians of Biodiversity
- Note from our CEO: A Classic Indian Travel Story
- Notes at the End of a Journey
- Notes from a Field Trip
- Notes on Needfinding: Co-Creating the Future
- Nothing Like It Used To Be
- Nowhere to Go
- Nurturing Change Through Coaching & Mentorship in Social Advocacy
- Nurturing leadership- Insights from Playquity project in Assam’s rural communities
- NYYP Presents Mental Health and Mindfulness
- October’s Art in Udaipur
- Ode to the Newspaper
- Of Blood and Field Work
- Of Boars and Babies (Part 1)
- Of Boars and Babies (Part 2)
- Of Goats and Kids: Finding Unlikely Friends
- Of Joy and Jaipur
- Of Plums and Horizons — Part I
- Of Plums and Horizons — Part II
- Of red balloons and Capricorn shopkeepers
- Of saris and Christmas
- Oh POOP I gotta go
- Oh The Places You’ll Go
- Old mantra, new perspectives
- On Cold and Community
- On Conservation and Climate – Part 1
- On Conservation and Climate – Part 2
- On Distance and Engagement: A Reflection from an American Fellow in India
- On International Day of Cooperatives: Lessons from SEWA Bank
- On Loving Delhi: A Stalwart City Seen with Affection
- On Serving in India
- On the Malleability of Life, and Other Lessons from Ladakh
- On the path to enroll 1 million kids in school
- On transitions
- One Month in Review: Early Reflections from India
- One night in Kabini
- One Step towards Sustainibility
- One Week in the Crown of India
- Online Cross-Border Learning Contribution in Professional Development
- Online Gender Training: Does It Really Work?
- Only in India, by Pooja Bhatia
- Only In The Movies, by Rick Desai
- Open for Business!
- Open Source Platforms As A Path To Innovation
- Organic farming in Kangra- Learnings from the field
- Organic food: not quite inclusive for all
- Organic Rights
- Organizational Partnerships & Organic Harmony
- Organizing Events and Experiencing Jagori
- Organizing October: Lessons in Nubra Valley on Impermanence
- Organizing the International Rural Development Immersion Camp 2018
- Orientation
- orientation + field action = AIF fellow
- Orientation Session on ‘Ethnographic Research in the Development Sector’
- Our Community, Our Textbooks: Developing a Locally Relevant Primary School Curriculum
- Our Morning Assembly
- Our Time Has Come: What I Learned from Alyssa Ayres
- Our Values: Reflections on the Fellowship
- Out-Migration, Education, and FLN: A Curious Connection
- Outsider no more
- Outsourcing
- Over 200 New York Young Professionals Take Part in 8th Annual Gala
- Overcoming Alone
- Overcoming gender barriers and menstrual health challenges in sport participation
- Overcoming My Fear of Cold Water and Elephant Snot
- Packing
- Pagdandi Yatra 2020: Photo Journal
- Panchayati Divorce: Its Implications and Legal Sanctity
- Pani Ki Kahani, Hamari, Zabaani
- Panipuri Party
- Parshaben: Khumbar of Kutch
- Part I of Navigating COVID-19: How AIF Alumni are Adapting to the Crisis?
- Part II of Navigating COVID-19: How AIF Alumni Are Adapting to the Crisis?
- Part III of Navigating COVID-19: Design Thinking Workshop
- Participate and Communicate – Part 1
- Participate and Communicate – Part 2
- Participatory Methods: Evolving Community-Empowerment Tools in Rural Areas
- Partnership Building for Program Development
- Partnership for the Future
- Passage to India, A Personal Inquiry Brief, Ré Phillips
- Patience and the Unexpected: My Personal and Professional Journey in India
- Peace in Unpreparedness and Existential Crisis: Lekha’s Philosophy of Art and Life
- Peering at Orientation from a Psychological Standpoint
- People around me
- Peregrination!
- Perinatal Mental Health in India: A Policy Silence and Representation Analysis through Bacchi’s WPR Framework
- Perseverance Is Her Middle Name – Priyanka Kotwal
- Personal Inquiry Brief
- Personal Inquiry Brief
- Personal Inquiry Brief
- Personal Inquiry Brief
- Personal Inquiry Brief
- Phases of Delay
- Phones and Goats
- Photo Essay: Fieldnotes from Tejgadh Market
- Pidgeonji and His Compass
- Pitching For Impact
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Policy Perversion
- Policy to Practice: Does Indian Mental Healthcare Stand a Chance?
- Politics and the English Language (in India)
- Poop as a Social Construct
- Pop It Like Its Chaat
- Portraits of Bangalore, by Meera Sinha
- Possibilities of a Holistic Approach in Anti-Trafficking Advocacy
- Possibility
- Poverty, Charity, Austerity… et al…!!!
- Power of People’s Institutions
- Practicing Mindfulness: a collection of letters exchanged between AIF Clinton Fellows and the students of the APV School
- Preparing the Jungle for 500 People
- Prescribing Sustainability: Understanding the Need and Importance of Crafting a Climate-Resilient Healthcare System
- Press Record: How an NGO teaches Documentary Filmmaking in the Development Sector
- Private Schools in Rural Communities of the Darjeeling Hills (Part I): A Quiet Revolution
- Private Schools in Rural Communities of the Darjeeling Hills (Part II): A Glimpse into the Reality
- Private Schools in Rural Communities of the Darjeeling Hills Part III: A Critical Appraisal
- Problem Identification in Development: The Accountability Model
- Problem Solving in Development Part 2
- Problems in Policy: Registering a Producer Company in India
- Profile: My Friend Parthi
- Progressive voices for women’s rights
- Project and Organisation Detail
- Promise and Peril of AI
- Public Health and its Torch Bearers: An Experience of Working with Local Health Institutions
- Public health in action
- Public Health in Kalahandi: A Brief Overview ‘Troubling Survival: Mounting Resistance’
- Public Transportation – A cultural and philosophical journey
- Public Transportation in India: Part 1
- Public Transportation in India: Part 2
- Puducherry or Pondicherry? – A question through time
- Pune Possibilities
- Purse Strings
- Putting the FUN in FUNdamental Human Rights
- Q&A with Ismael Byers, AIF Clinton Fellow 2019-20
- Quality is a habit
- Quality, Dignity, and Delivery: Inside Uttarakhand’s RMC Pilot Program
- Quelling the Chaos
- Questions and Answers
- Questions and Observations
- Questions on Hold: Unpacking my Journey
- Quiet Solace in Our City
- Race, Caste, and What We Consume
- Rakkar Road
- Ramdev Pir: Inspiring Service to Others
- Ramjibhai’s Guide to a Perfect Cup of Chai
- Ramzan in Hyderabad
- Ranchi’s Coalmen
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Rann of Kutch – Education in Rural Gujarat
- Re-inspired to Hope
- Re: Navratri
- Reaching the Last Mile: Lessons from Walking with ASHAs
- Reading Between the Lines: The Literacy Illusion
- ready and willing….
- Ready for new learning!
- Realizing the Possibilities: A Journey to Believe in Yourself
- Reclaiming the Forest
- Recognition of Prior Learning for Future Progress
- Recollecting Memories
- Red Waste: Rethinking Menstruation, Taboo, and the Environment
- Rediscovery
- Reducing the Distance: Museums in the Post-COVID-19 World
- Reflecting on Trainings for Rural Women in India: How Can We Ensure Effective Outcomes?
- Reflections from the Fellowship -1
- Reflections on Cooperatives, Ambiguity and Governance
- Reflections on midpoint and all the rest…
- Reflections on My Fellowship Journey
- Reflections on the African-American Encounter with Gandhiji: A Letter
- Reflections on the Interdependence of Village Life and Natural Resources
- Reflections on Warmth
- Reframing Narratives
- Regarding Temple Elephants and Child Rights
- Reimagining scale
- Reimagining the Justice System at the Local Level
- Relationships are Complicated: India and I
- Reliant on Poison: Fluoride Contamination in Rural Rajasthan
- Religion and Belonging
- Reliving India
- Remaining Humble: My Personal Journey of Re-Embracing Learning as a Mindset
- Remembering the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake
- Reminiscence: Digging into the Past Ten Months
- Researching life
- Resilience of children
- Resources for Cultural Sensitivity in Communications Work
- Rethinking ‘Fieldwork’ in Times of Pandemic
- Rethinking Education
- Rethinking Impact in the Field
- Rethinking Women’s Empowerment
- Retrospect and Nostalgia: Start of the Journey
- Returning Home?
- Revisiting The Alien Question Now
- Revitalizing Social Work: A Call for Indianizing Social Work Education and Practice with Integration of Indigenous and Modern Approaches
- Reviving Craftsmanship: Bridging Tradition and Skill for Artisan Empowerment
- Ri Gyancha: Jewels of the Mountains and Ladakh’s Geology
- Rickshaw Ramble
- Right Out of College, Right into the Field: Month 1
- Right Place, Right Time
- River of Life: My Ten Months of Experience in the AIF Fellowship
- Roads less traveled
- Rock the Vote, by Hamsa Subramaniam
- Rockin’ the Suburbs
- Roj Nishale Jaiye (We all go to school everyday), by Diane Coffey
- Role of Youth in Nation Building: Need for Equity Perspectives in Y20?
- Roshan Vikas
- Routines and Surprises
- Rural Education: More Questions than Answers
- Rural Electrification in India: Problems, Progress, and the Power of Citizen’s Media
- Rural Himachal against the world: A few thoughts
- Rural Water Infrastructure: Earthen Dams
- Ryan Corrigan, AIF Clinton Fellow 2014-15
- Safe provision saving lives
- Safety in Statelessness: Tibetan Women Helpline
- Same Mission, Different Ethos
- Sand Dunes to Monsoons
- Sarahben: Kumbhar of Kutch
- SaturDATA: The difference in days.
- Savings Seeds, Saving the Planet
- Scenes from Lucknow
- SCHOOL CHALE HUM …..
- School Libraries as Dynamic Learning Spaces
- Schooling to a New Life
- Searching for “Authenticity” in Traditional Textiles
- Searching for Space in the Slum Community
- Searching for the “Real” India: Cultural Exchange, Dominance, and Disappearance
- Seaweed Livelihoods: Green from the Deep Blue
- Second Chances, Second Glances
- Section 377 Goes Straight to Court
- Seeing Kachchh
- Seeing the Ability in Disabilities
- Seeking Serenity at Sristi: A Day in My Life in Rural Tamil Nadu
- Seeking Solutions in Crisis: A Social Enterprise Navigates COVID-19
- SEEL from different angles: Perspectives from all across – Month 3
- Seen and Unseen: Some Reflections on the Surreal in Kumaon
- Self-Assessments: Why Women Nano-Entrepreneurs Deserve Better Tools
- Self-Help Groups: An Overview
- Selling development work to marginalized communities
- Sense and Impressions
- Sensitized Development: The Importance of Religion in the Indian Context
- Serve, Learn , Lead (and stay motivated while doing it!)
- Service and Giving Back around Diwali: A Volunteer-Led Panel
- Service beast, fellowship monster
- Service from Local to Global
- Serving As A Fellow During a Personal Crisis
- Serving during the Pandemic Year I: At my Host Organisation
- Serving during the Pandemic Year II: In Virtual Capacity
- Serving, Leading and Learning: My Journey as an AIF Fellow
- Setting the Context
- Settling and unsettling in Rajasthan (as the lights come on)
- Settling in: 2 months of being an AIF Fellow
- Seva Mandir
- Shades of Summer at the Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh
- Shadow Pandemic: To Be or Not to Be at Home
- Shadows and Light
- Shake That
- Shan: Ghost of the Outdoor Classroom
- Shared Experiences
- Sharing with Others
- She got her life back!
- She walks with me
- She: The Invisible Bread Earner (Part I)
- She: The Invisible Bread Earner (Part II)
- She.
- Shifting September: Lessons in Leh on Ecology
- Should I stay or Should I go? – Part 1
- Should I stay or Should I go? – Part 2
- Shuba’s Smile
- Shutting off the Tap: Managing Waste in the Development World
- Single White Female Traveling Through India Seeks Adventure, Risk, and Reward
- Sisyphus and the Pigeons
- Sita’s Jungle-Jungle Heart
- Sitting with the Sunrise.
- Sixteen ten on my mind
- Sleepless Eyes and Undying Excitement
- Small Windows of Opportunity
- Smart Circular Innovation: Lessons from G20 and COP28
- Snapshot into the Life of a Community Media Journalist
- So it begins…
- So Many Indias
- So Much to Learn, So Little Language
- So what is the National Skills Development Initiative anyways??
- So You Want to Switch from the Corporate to the Development Sector?
- So, You Think Working in the Social/Development Sector is Boring?
- Social Enterprise Growing Pains
- Social Enterprises: Using Business as a Social Impact Tool
- Solutions Laundered
- Solving the Ultimate Equation: How to Make Math Fun for Elementary Learners
- Some Fresh Perspectives and Breakthroughs on Governance
- Something Corporate This Way Comes
- Somewhere between an iPhone and an iPheno
- South Asians for Black Lives Matter Panel-New England YP Chapter
- Soy Beans and Self Reliance
- Spare Some Change
- Sports as a Means of Social Harmony and Change
- Sports!
- Spreading Awareness on Government Schemes for Health
- Stages of a Storm: Life-Cycle of the Commitment to Serve as a Fellow in Times of the Pandemic
- Star-Crossed, Caste-Crossed Lovers in Kanpur
- Starfish Stories: AmeriCorps to AIF
- Starting a Startup in India’s Social Development Sector
- Starting an Odyssey in Odisha: Rethinking Gender, Tradition, and Culture
- Starting Strong: Reflections on 30 Days at Panorama
- Starting with what you know
- State of School Education – Part I – Evaluation mechanisms and results
- State of School Education – Part II – NEP 2020 and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
- State of School Education – Part III – Early Childhood Care and Education
- Status of Mental Health in India
- Staying Curious
- STEM Education for a Future Ready Society
- STEM Education for Green Jobs: Powering India’s Net Zero Future
- STEM Education for LiFE
- Stepping Into Budwar Peth
- Stigma Vs Resilience: Empowering Mental Health in the Disabled Community
- Still Rooted as One
- Stories from the farms
- Stories from the Field I: Engaging with the Community in Trying Times
- Stories from the Field II: Engaging with the Community in Trying Times
- Stories from the Field: Celebrating the Grassroot Workers of MNCH
- Stories from the Field: Education and Livelihoods
- Stories from the Field: The Experiences of Educators with Samanta Foundation
- Stories of First-Generation Tibetans in India
- Stories of Service Day 1
- Stories of Service Day 2
- Stories of Service Day 3
- Stories of Service Day 4
- Stories of Service: Highlights from June 22-26 Virtual Events
- Story of the Merasi School
- Stranger in my hometown
- Strategic Vision: Mapping Out Madhya Pradesh’s Policy Trajectory for the Next Five Years
- Strategizing the Next Step: 10 Months On the Clinton Fellowship
- Stree on Streets
- Street Plays, A Flash Mob, and Bringing Awareness to the Elimination of Violence Against Women
- Strength in Numbers, by Suzanne Rizzo
- Stretching Across Continents: Yoga, Partnership, and Possibility for Building Inclusion
- Striking the Balance Between Personal Hobbies and Professional Development in the Communications Field
- Striving For Progress, Not Perfection
- Strong Laws, Weak Implementation: Dissection of Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act, 2005
- Student, Fellow, Daughter…Farmer?
- Students Taking Action at Samastipur Schools to Curb Absenteeism
- Stuff Happens
- Stuyvie Comfort Fellows
- Successful Project Launch!
- Summary of My Research Presentation at International Conferences (PPT Deck Included)
- Sun Burned Wrists: 175 kms of Freedom
- Sundays in Vizag
- Sundry observations on Himachali life
- Supporting the artisans as well as the art
- Surpassing Sustenance: A Chronicle of Food in India
- Sustainable Change in Action – An Experience to Learn From!
- Swaraj, Education and CSR
- Swathi’s day out in The Field
- Swimming Upstream The Health System River
- Systemic Change or Baby (Puppy) Steps
- Tackling the Employment Crisis for People with Disabilities
- Tactile
- Taking a Walk: Community Action using Transect Mapping and Visual Action Plan
- Tale of Aspirations – Past, Present and Future
- Tales from the Northeast: Promise and Challenges in Assam’s Solar Sector
- Tales of a Keyboard Warrior: Human Resources, Fundraising, and Training
- Talk Periods: A Book Launch & Discussion
- Tandoor: Stories of Heat (Let’s Chaat, episode 3 transcript)
- Tapas Roy’s Multi-Layer Farm: Sustainable Agro-ecological Practices
- Tea time, CSSGGS style
- Teacher Trainings in Baran
- Teaching India’s Teachers
- Teamwork at its best
- Tech Enabling the Last Mile: India’s Rural Development
- Technology at the Dump
- Tej Dhillon – Personal Inquiry
- Ten day… ahem, month… vipassana
- Ten days with Sambhaav
- Ten Lessons From Ten Months
- Ten Months of Takeaways
- Ten things to do if you’re visiting Mumbai (on a shoestring budget)
- Tension, madam
- Thank you, Babita
- Thank you, India
- Thanks Akanksha
- Thanks Mom and Dad
- The ‘As’ in ASHA
- The ‘I’ in ‘AIF’ – Being an Indian Fellow
- The “Other” NGOs: Pursuing Profit for the Social Good
- The A-Z Kaleidoscope of India… thus far
- The Advantages of Globalization and the advent of CSR in India
- The Agony and Artistry of Womanhood
- The agriculture revolution
- The AIF Clinton Fellowship Gave Me Exposure To Grassroots Aspects Of Policies…
- The AIF-APV Connection
- The American Society of Civil Engineers… in India
- The Art of Facilitation
- The Art of Temporary Belonging: Cora’s Creation of Home
- The Backbone of Rural Health
- The Bandhani of Kachchh: Ties Across Time
- The Barefoot Teacher
- The Beginning
- The Beginnings of a New Program
- The best hug I’ve ever had
- The Boy With No Chappals
- The Bread Demonstration & the Forgotten Potential of Soil in CO2 Emissions Reduction
- The Bystander Effect in Sexual Assault Cases
- The Campaign Trail: The Road to 1000andyou
- The Case for Ecological Ethics in Climate Change Education
- The Case for Mulch: Growing in Understanding New Perspectives
- The Challenge of College Admissions in Rural India
- The Changing Face of India
- The Christmas Spirit in Rural Rajasthan
- The City that Became Home
- The Complexities of Alcoholism in Tribal India
- The Creative Minds of Children
- The Croc Adventures Begin!
- The Cultural Legacy of a Social Evil: Dowry
- The Dangs: From New Delhi to Subir
- The Darkness
- The Doctor Will See You (Literally Right) Now
- The Dump
- The Education Troopers: A Walk through an Ancient Civilization and a Mystifying Ecosystem – Kutch, Gujarat
- The Effects of Sound on Reptiles
- The Empowerment of Women in Rajasthan: AIF Livelihoods Thematic Conference
- The Ethics of Being Sick
- The Evolution of an AIF Clinton Fellow
- The Evolution of Nonprofit Impact Reporting: Beyond Basic Storytelling
- The Expedition of Myth and Narratives in South Asia
- The Faces of AIDS
- The Fellows are coming!! The Fellows are coming!!!
- The Fellowship
- The Fellowship Experience is Forever
- The Female Faces of Fair Trade
- The Fierce Urgency of Now, by Natassia Rozario
- The Final Performance
- The First Month: Lessons in the Importance of Patience
- The Foundation of Effective Organizations: Communication
- The Fourth “T” of Darjeeling
- The Genetics of Inequality: Can Our Environments Biologically Shape Our Opportunities?
- THE GLOBAL ABILITY PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE
- The Good, the Bad, and the Strange of Flat Hunting in Hyderabad
- The Great Automatic Instagrammatizator, Part 1
- The Great Automatic Instagrammatizator, Part 2
- The Great Divide
- The Greatest Miracle: A Story of Restoration through Education
- THE HAPPINESS CURRICULUM
- The Happiness Project: How an American Filmmaker Came to Understand Life Skills Education in New Delhi
- The Hidden Heroes: The Role of NGOs in Public Policy
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AIF Fellowship
- The hope for a journey of awakening
- The Humor In Flexibility
- The Incurable Language Bug
- The Jigsaw Puzzle
- The Journey Ahead: Notes for New Banyan Impact Fellows
- The journey begins
- The Joys of Getting to Work Early
- The Kattaikkuttu Sangam: Academic Education and Theater Arts
- The key learning and actionables of this Fellow designate
- The Ladies’ Car
- The LAMP Delivery System
- The Last Drop
- The Latest From Laurie
- The Limits of One
- The Listening Lens: A Participatory Approach to Storytelling
- The Little Electric Tea Kettle That Could – And Has Been
- The Liveability Lens
- The Long Road to Recovery: Reopening Schools in a Pandemic
- The Longest Morning
- The Loudest Light
- The Magic of Last-Minute Traveling: Diwali in Udaipur
- The Many Layers of India
- The Marvels of Mistakes
- The Men Who Wrestle Bulls
- The Merasi School: A School in the Midst of Inequality
- The Mesmerizing Mahila of the Mandakani
- The Morning Saga – Imagining India
- The Mosaic of Aspirations: A Journey through Shifting Dreams
- The Most Epic Rickshaw Ride in the History of Humankind
- The Motorcycle Diaries.
- The Motorcycle Diary
- THE NEED FOR ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING IN INDIA
- The Need for Comprehensive Sex Education in India
- The need for transforming our schools into centers of excellence
- The Need of the Hour
- The Nilgiris: A Golden Goose Fighting Extinction
- The One Where Caleb Plants a Tree
- The Only Place
- The Opportunity to Speak
- The Overlooked Rights of a Consumer with Disability
- The Parallels of Caste in the United States and India: Book Review
- The Path Ahead: Serving as a Fellow This Winter
- The Perfect Mix
- The Pillars of Happiness Part 1: Follow Your Bliss
- The Pillars of Happiness Part 1: Forge On
- The Pillars of Happiness Part 2: Say YES!
- The Plague of Patriarchy
- The Plastic Problem: Spherical Economy for the win!
- The Points to Our End
- The Politics of Cultural Change
- The Power of a Single Word: Passion
- The Power of a Story: Perceptions and Attitudes Towards People with Disabilities
- The Power of Collective Thinking
- The Power of Educating Women: MANSI’s Sahiyas
- The Power of Expectation: A Story of Transformation in the Classroom
- The Power of Narrative
- The Power of Perspective: A Guide to Intentional Community Entry, Building Trust with Marginalized Populations, and Informed Consent in Ethical Storytelling
- The Power of Staying Connected: Life After the Banyan Impact Fellowship
- The Price of Human Rights Work
- The Price of India’s Caste System: The Case of Rohit Vemula
- The Prices of Mahua
- The Principal
- The Problem of Tang, or, the Dangers of Normalizing Pollution
- The Process of Collective Learning
- The Pursuit of Discomfort
- The Pursuit of Innovation in Building Climate Sustainability I: Defining the Area of Battle
- The Pursuit of Innovation in Building Climate Sustainability II: Energy Efficiency Alliance for Industry
- The Pursuit of Innovation in Building Climate Sustainability III: Insights from the Region
- The Real India?
- The Reverse Indian Diaspora: Indian Americans Going Back to the Motherland
- The Rise of Rapid-Delivery Services in Urban India: Instant Gratification Comes At A Cost
- The Roads Don’t End: I Work in the Clouds
- The Role of Filmmaking in India’s Social Justice Movements
- The Role of Men in Menstruation
- The Rules of Making a Mixtape
- The Rush-Hour Crawl of Progress
- The Samaveshi Cup: How A Cricket Bat Can Break Gender Norms
- The Scavenger Worker and Me: A Story of Lost and Found, Part 1 – First Contact
- The Scavenger Worker and Me: A Story of Lost and Found, Part 2 – Deliverance
- The Seeds of Revolution are Planted in Concrete
- The Show Must Go On!
- The Slow March of Progress: An Overview of the History of Disability Legislation in India
- The Small Yet Undeniable Legacy Of Kusum, A Fair Trade Artisan
- The Social Determinants of Non-Communicable Diseases
- The Stories Behind Ammamma’s Piercings
- The Story of My Name
- The Strength of the Fellowship
- The stunning s(treats) of DC: A picturebook
- The Surprise Beauties of India
- The Sweeter Side of Life: Jaggery Production in Tamil Nadu
- The Thinking Shoes
- The time has come!
- The Time I Ate Nothing but Delhi Street-Food for a Week
- The Top Down (Approach)
- The Train That Tells
- The Twisty Dirt Road
- The Unexpected
- The way things are.
- The Winning Formula, by Alex Counts, President, American India Foundation
- The Women in Hiding: Are Neurodivergent Women Being Overlooked By The System?
- The Women of BEMPU: Dr. Archana
- The Women of BEMPU: Gini
- The Women of BEMPU: Mona
- The Wonderfully Varied World of the Climate Space
- The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one
- The Year That Was: Embracing Failure
- The Year That Was: Fieldwork and Facilitation
- The Year That Was: Finishing Service in Rural Gujarat at the Onset of a Pandemic
- The Year That Was: Learning about Life Skills
- The Year That Was: Navigating the Office Space
- The Year That Was: Restructuring the English Curriculum
- There is No Thank You in Friendship
- There’s always more to learn
- They’re not just poor, They’re kids.
- THINGS YOU WILL FIND IN THE BAG OF AN AIF FELLOW!
- Thinking about the Future by Looking at the Past: Travels to South Gujarat
- Thinking About Toilets, and then Thinking Beyond Toilets
- This and That
- This Intercultural Retreat
- This Was Supposed to Be an Event
- Those Who Hunt Honey
- Thought Leadership for a sustainable future
- Threading the Needle in Jamshedpur
- Three days at SVSU: Experiencing Skill Education Firsthand
- Three Pieces of Plastic
- Three Women, One Question
- Through Children’s Eyes: Uncovering Village Waste Issues in Odisha
- Through the Lens of 18-55 mm: Power and Passion of Storytelling
- Through the Lens: A Toolkit for Preserving Dignity Through Adversity in Development Sector Media
- Thukjechey Ladakh, Thank You AIF
- Tibetan, Indian, and backpacker culture in Dharamshala
- Till Next Time
- Tiny Love Stories: AIF Edition
- To Begin: Seven Questions
- TO FUTURE FELLOWS: an Eating Guide For Vegetarian, semi-rural life
- To Jaganpura, with Love
- To Listen.
- To My Dear Students: Until We Meet Again
- To The Next 10 Months in India: Remarks from a Current Fellow
- Toffee and the Solar Entrepreneur – Part I
- Toffee and the Solar Entrepreneur-Part II
- Together, in Tungi
- Top 10 Things Every Female Traveler Should Bring to India
- Top 7 Surprising Things About My AIF Fellowship, by Jimmy Ossman
- Top 9 things to do in the first week of the Fellowship
- Top Ten at Thanksgiving
- Top to Bottom – explaining complex institutions at the level they most simply affect
- Towards Gender Equality, Through Work with Men and Boys
- Tracing Signs of Home
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 1
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 2
- Tracing the History of Scientific Forestry in Uttarakhand
- Train of Thought: My Commute
- Training the Trainers: A Lesson On Sustainability
- Trains, Rickshaws & Jeeps: Calcutta to Darjeeling
- Transformative Travels Connecting with India’s Roots – A Story of People, Culture, and Progress Through Tradition and Innovation
- Transforming Odisha: A State Government’s Plan for the Next Few Decades of Development
- Transforming Rural Madhya Pradesh: Insights from the Safe Tourism Destination for Women and Rural Tourism Projects
- Transportation Aunties: The Best Part of Traveling in India
- Travel and Tourists
- TRAVELING
- Traveling in Times of COVID-19
- Traveling to Forts and connecting with the Fellowship
- Travels across Kachchh
- Tribal Concerns in South Goa
- Trivia Night with Indian Matchmaking’s Vyasar Ganesan
- Trust the Process
- Tuesdays at the OPD
- Tughluqabad
- Tumbling Es
- Two days at VOICE Camp
- Two Mangoes, One Leg
- Two Schools in Jaipur
- Two Women in Rural Rajasthan
- Two-Sided Markets
- Ultimate India
- Understanding community-level medical device implementation
- Understanding Impact Through Community Volunteers
- Understanding Silhouettes: Exemplary Commitment in Banswara
- Understanding The Community : A Child During Seasonal Migration
- Understanding the Community: First-Generation Learners
- Understanding the Community: Life at a Seasonal Hostel
- Understanding the Community: Meeting a Scientist
- Understanding the Community: Perspectives and Facts
- Understanding the Community: Relationship and Ownership
- Understanding the Flow of Funding for Child Nutrition Programs: A Case Study of Odisha
- Understanding Tibetan Culture Through the Tibetan Language
- Understanding Walking As A Research Method
- Understated ADHD/ADD in Children
- Unequal Childhoods and the Cultural Capital of Indian Education
- Unforunately my life is not like the movie ‘Wake Up Sid’, and no, I am not ‘Dreaming in Hindi”
- Universal Language
- Unlikely Assistants
- Unlocking India’s Potential: How the Development Sector is Forging Pathways to Prosperity
- Unlocking Personal Growth and Branding ~ A Guide to LinkedIn
- Unlocking the Potential of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Model
- Unpacking My Journey in India (all the questions)
- Unraveling the Culinary Treasures of Hyderabad: A Voyage through Hyderabadi Cuisine
- Unseen Steps, Unspoken Courage
- Unsettlement
- Unstructured Classrooms and the Nuances of Teaching Learning Methods
- Unveiling Deep Societal Issues through the Unusual Names of Girls in Rajasthan
- Unveiling Purpose: The Evolutionary Journey of Crafting a Project Proposal
- Urbanization After Paris, Part 1
- Urbanization after Paris, Part 2: COVID-19 Recovery
- Using Participatory Theater against Gender-Based Violence
- Using Playback Theatre in Development
- Using Sketching as a Tool in Development
- Uttarakhand, by Matt French
- Uttarayan: Kite Joy, Kite Lament
- Vellusami’s Testimony
- Video and Girl Empowerment
- Vijay: Against All Odds
- Village Climate Action Plan: A Framework for Rural Climate Resilience
- Violence on the way to Gandhi’s House
- Virtual and in-person fieldwork for contextual inquiry: An atypical case of YUWA School in rural Jharkhand
- Virtual Bollywood Trivia Night with Bay Area Young Professionals
- Virtual Interventions in Development Sector Trainings: Part 1
- Virtual Interventions in Development Sector Trainings: Part 2
- Visiting Sheroes Hangout: A Cafe Founded by Acid Attack Survivors
- Visual Art Instruction for the Visually Impaired
- Visualizing a Day in the Life of a Woman of Rural Champawat
- Voices Unheard: Amplifying the Experiences of Women with Disabilities in India
- Walking Down Memory Lane: 10 Months of Service in Kachchh
- Walking Hand-in-Hand
- Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes
- Walking the fields at Jagori
- Walking the Tightrope of Trust: A Two-Way Street
- WASH in Ganjam: A Gendered Perspective
- Water – Pani – Water – Pani
- Water and sanitation in Bangalore
- Waters of March
- Watershed Management On the Ground, Day 1: Learning about the Lambadis
- Watershed Management, Day 2: Some Basics
- Waxing Philosophical: The What, How, and Why of Foreign Aid
- We Need to Talk
- We use our eyes every day. Why not take care of them?
- We will either find a way or make one
- Wealth from Waste & Rags to Riches.
- Welcome to India: Finding Hope in a Land of Dichotomies
- Welcome to Mumbai!
- Welcome to the PARIvar: Reflections from a Newcomer to the People’s Archive of Rural India
- Welcome!
- What a Difference a Year Makes
- What about the Rock: Contextualizing the Ripple Effect Theory
- What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Conservation?
- What Are You Looking at When Helping People? Discussion From the Lens of Socio-Economic Analysis
- What comes after settling in?
- What Do Loan-Sharking Self-Help Groups Mean for Rural Development?
- What does it take to scale impact on-ground?
- What good are human rights?
- What Happens When We Stop, Listen and Reflect!
- What have you been drinking?
- What I Learned About the Realities of Life for a Person with a Disability
- What I learned from Jacqueline Novogratz
- What I learnt, when I taught: Lessons from my first ever teaching experience
- What I see on my way to work
- What I’m actually doing in Chennai…
- What is Equity? And How Do You Measure it?
- What is Fair Trade?
- What Is the Role of Life Skills Education?
- What matters?
- What Motivates People? A Reflection on Motivation and Compulsion
- What The Dust Inherits
- What the future holds
- What We Can Learn from the Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Center
- What We Learned at the International Purple Fest Goa, 2025: Reflections on Health, Rights, and Livelihoods
- What We Risk Losing: Stories of Scholarship, Language and the Power of Immersive Learning
- What We’re Doing Now….
- What’s in a bell?
- What’s in a Language? (Part II)
- What’s in a name?
- What’s in a Skill?
- What’s in Front of Your Nose
- What’s My Age Again?
- What’s the Deal with Poverty?
- What’s in a Language? (Part I)
- When are you coming back?
- When Children Lead: A Day With Balsena
- When Development Work Ceases to Exist
- When education wins
- When I drive…
- When the Cabinet Nods to the First Human Trafficking Bill in India
- When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
- When was the last time you used a typewriter?
- When Water Turned to Blood (Menses)
- When Women Fight Back
- When Work Becomes Home: Safe Spaces and Belonging in a Women’s Cooperative
- Where are the Women? Finding Leadership, by Clara Presler
- Where are women in the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem?
- Where Crickets go to Die
- Where is the Hippocratic Oath?
- Where Practice Meets Policy: Learning from Academic Institutions in India’s Capital
- Where the Banyan (Fellow) Roots
- Where the Desert Meets the Sand: A Letter from Rajasthan
- Where there is no Psychiatrist: leap-frogging the status quo of mental health in India
- Who is Worried About Periods During a Pandemic
- Who Shall Win the War: Salt or Water?
- Why
- Why an Adivasi Museum Should Matter
- Why Children’s Mental Health Needs Immediate Attention
- Why do you rise for justice?
- Why everyone should have an Indian Aunty: My Journey in India’s Affluent Healthcare system – Part 1
- Why everyone should have an Indian Aunty: My Journey in India’s Affluent Healthcare system – Part 2
- Why Harda? – Reflecting on Place
- Why He Stayed
- Why Hiring Inclusively is a Good Business Decision: Leveraging an Underutilized Asset
- Why I Belonged to Playquity Already
- Why I Never Learned to Cook Indian Food: A List of Three Excuses, by Joy Mischley
- Why Indian Donor Organizations Need to Invest in Data-driven Narrative Change
- Why Indian Sign Language should be part of the Constitution and Curriculum!
- Why is Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV Intervention Campaigns So Difficult in India?
- Why Is There an Urgent Need for a New Textile Economy? (Part 1)
- Why Is There an Urgent Need for a New Textile Economy? (Part 2)
- Why Open Content Improves Education for All
- Why Vulnerability Was the Best Thing I Experienced in India
- Why Was it Wearing Clothes?
- Why Won’t People Openly Talk about Sexual Health and Hygiene?
- Will you be in Kolkata for Puja?
- William J Clinton Fellowship Program Orientation Report October 2009
- Winding Roads Through Uttarakhand
- Winners and Losers
- Within the Gates
- Woman: A Full Circle of Power to Create, Nurture, and Transform
- Women and the Environment
- Women and Water: Reflections on World Water Day
- Women Behind the Wheel: Stories from Steer to Change
- Women Entrepreneurship: Lessons from My First Field Visit with ACCESS Developement Services
- Women Leadership (or the lack thereof) in the Tibetan Itinerant Trade
- Women Of The Field
- Women of the Watershed
- Women of the Waves: A Canvas of Coastal Fishery Livelihood
- Women with a Vision: Celebrating International Women’s Day 2017
- Women with Disabilities and Menstrual Hygiene: An Ethical Evaluation
- Women’s Day with Utthan
- Women’s Empowerment: Building a Bridge
- Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Organizations
- Women’s Employment and Skill Development in Rewari
- Wonder Kids!
- Wooing India
- Words Work Wonders: Strengthening Communication in the Social Development Sector
- Work Projects (1): The Katha CommunITy!
- Working in Life and Living in Work!
- Working with AIF Fellow Alumni: The Making of Entangled
- World Wetlands Day: Good for Wetlands, Good for Communities
- Xenoglossic Dream
- Year Two, A Beginning
- Yojna Lama, AIF Clinton Fellow 2014-15
- You Are Real
- You Can’t Force Creativity
- You Look Like a Movie Star…..an Ugly Movie Star
- You win some, you lose some
- Young Changemakers
- Young Hands Guide Strings to Revival of a Lost Art
- Youth Engagement and Empowerment through Creativity
- Youth involvement in Agriculture for a sustainable future_ A Primary prospective
- Yuwa Moments, Part II: Storytelling for Impact
- Yuwa Moments: Courage and Confidence in Rural Jharkhand
- Zero Waste in India
- चलो स्कूल चलें हम ! An Anecdote of a Village Women’s School
- भाईचारा | Brotherhood
LAMP
- “I feel more confident to carry out the tasks on my own”
- “I feel far more confident now. While earlier I was shy and could barely speak up in class, now I lead the morning prayer sessions in school. I want to become a nurse when I grow up and serve my community.”
- AGAINST THE ODDS
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- BREAKING FREE FROM THE MULTI-GENERATIONAL CYCLE OF POVERTY. WestBridge Capital is an Enabler
- Circle of Hope – From one group of women to another
- COVID-19: CHILDREN FROM MIGRATING COMMUNITIES NEED TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION
- Designing Hands-On Child Learning Activities in a Zero-Cost Model
- DRY RATION KITS FOR NEEDY FAMILIES AFFECTED BY MIGRATION
- Empowering Education in Karnataka: AIF & Guru Krupa Foundation Launch Transformative Learning Initiative
- How the Covid-19 Lockdown Transformed 15-Year-Old Doctaren Khadia as the Head of the Household
- LIGHTING THE WAY: BAISHNAVI’S LUMINARY TALE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND SKILLING
- Makerspace Tinkering Labs: Breaking Barriers to STEM Education in Rural Schools
- Now I Can Read And Write Fluently
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
- SHINING A LIGHT ON CHILDREN WALKING THE PATH OF DISTRESS SEASONAL MIGRATION
- The Needs of Seasonal Migrants Children in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- THE TEACHERS WE NEED FOR THE EDUCATION WE WANT
- THIS MOBILE LIBRARY IS A LIFELINE
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
Livelihoods
- “Earlier, I used to wonder what my future would be. Now I have no fears.”
- “AIF and SAMEIP have transformed my life, both personally and professionally. While the skills in banking operations developed through SAMEIP have enabled me to secure a job at a multi-national bank in Chennai, it has also helped me develop soft skills that are useful in both personal and professional life.”
- “Today, I am earning and helping my family financially. It has helped me become more confident, plan my life better and discover my passion for healthcare.”
- 22 Women of MAST produced and distributed 35,000 masks and 2,710 health and hygiene kits
- 40 Women with Disabilities from Mysore Complete their Self-Defense Training
- A New Learning: Assistive Technology and its importance for Persons with Disabilities (PART – 2)
- Ability not Disability Defines an Individual
- AIF raises 150K for people with disability in India
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- Basic Steps for Starting a Women’s Livelihood Project
- Beneficiary Turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav.
- Bridging the Gap: How an Online Course Transformed My Research Project
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Empowering Women, Transforming Communities: How AIF Livelihood Programs in India Are Shaping Futures
- Fair Trade: An Ethical and Sustainable Way Forward.
- From Informal to Impactful: Empowering Minority Women Entrepreneurs
- Fueling inclusive, sustainable growth
- Immersive Impact: Experience Social Change in India through AIF’s India Mission Trips (IMT)
- Insights from Working on Multisectoral Initiatives
- It is one’s ability, not disability, that defines any individual.
- Kudumbashree Kitchen: The Transformation of Geetha Parameshawaran From Homemaker to Entrepreneur
- Leading Through Servanthood in India’s Development Sector
- Luqma By SAFA: A Journey of social enterprise
- Migrant Workers’ Woes upon Homecoming
- Modi Launches Rickshaws at American India Foundation’s Rickshaw Sangh Program
- MULTI SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN WITH DISABILITY – A Partnership with Hero MotoCorp Ltd.
- My Visit to a MAST Center in Mumbai
- RAISEWISE: Empowering Women with Disabilities
- Reflections on Cooperatives, Ambiguity and Governance
- Round-table on Disability and the Future of Work: Ensuring inclusiveness and equality for Persons with Disabilities
- Rural Water Infrastructure: Earthen Dams
- Sakir Sayyed – A Resilient And Confident Young Person
- Same Mission, Different Ethos
- Sanya Goenka’s Visit to AIF’s ABLE Site
- Saving for his Daughters’ Education
- Self-Defense Project Gives Them a Fighting Chance
- Skilling is Building a Better India
- STEPPING UP TO MAKE FACE MASKS IN RURAL AND REMOTE MOUNTAINS
- Tapas Roy’s Multi-Layer Farm: Sustainable Agro-ecological Practices
- The Bread Demonstration & the Forgotten Potential of Soil in CO2 Emissions Reduction
- This Job Gives Me Dignity And Independence
- Tracing the Green Revolution via the Green Silk Road – Part 2
- Where are women in the Indian Agricultural Ecosystem?
- With These Skills, We Can Earn An Income Wherever We Go
- Women and Water: Reflections on World Water Day
- Women are leveling the playing field
- WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES LEARN SKILLS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM DANGER
MANSI
- “We could not understand how critical the baby was. It was the timely intervention of Sahiya didi and MANSI that saved my child’s life.”
- A Covid-19 warrior protecting her village through awareness and surveillance around the clock
- A day in the field with intersection realities!
- American India Foundation wins Gold for MANSI and Special Jury Award for COVID-19 Response
- Beyond the Stream: Listening to Mothers, Learning from Villages
- Bringing Mental Health into Maternal Care: A Training Room Reflection
- CELEBRATING THE HEARTBEAT OF HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ON MOTHER’S DAY
- NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY: Tips to Ensure a Safe and Healthy Pregnancy
- Shadowing Asha Workers on the Frontline
- TARAMUNI SANKH PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN FIGHTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
- The ASHA, Poonam Didi, Taught Me How To Extract Breast-milk And Spoon-feed My Babies…
MANUALS
Partners
- 5 Steps for Developing Strategic Initiatives
- AIF Partners with UNICEF for Nepal Earthquake Rehabilitation
- Ek Disha Foundation Joins with American India Foundation to Become AIF’s Houston Chapter
- Listening and Learning from Leaders
- Tehelka Profiles Video Volunteers, founded by AIF Clinton Fellowship Alumnus Jessica Mayberry
Press Releases
- ‘Adobe Youth Voices’ gives voice to underprivileged youth in the city
- “Girls Can Do Anything” – Building Bridges for Girls’ Education at the AIF Annual Bay Area Gala
- 2022 AIF Bay Area Gala
- 2022 AIF New York Gala
- 2023 AIF Bay Area Gala
- 2023 AIF New York Gala
- 2024 AIF Bay Area Gala
- 2024 AIF New York Gala
- 2025 AIF Bay Area Gala
- 2025 AIF New York Gala
- 2026 AIF New York Gala
- 30,000 Ventilators and 13000 monitors land in India – American India Foundation and Xerox come together for COVID 19 relief
- 42nd Annual India Day Parade in New York City
- AIF and UMA Create Uttarakhand Relief Fund
- AIF Announces A Partnership with Micron Technology To Support Healthcare Workers And Those Affected By The COVID-19 Pandemic In India
- AIF Announces Appointment of Alex Counts as President and CEO
- AIF Announces Appointment of Dinesh Paliwal, Anjali Sharma, and Arvind Ragunathan to Board of Directors
- AIF Announces Appointment of MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga as Co-Chair
- AIF Announces Changes in its Board of Directors
- AIF Announces New Chapter in Atlanta
- AIF Announces William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India Class of 2012-2013
- AIF awarded “The CSRUniverse COVID Response Impact Award 2021”
- AIF Celebrates 15th Anniversary Gala by Honoring Victor Menezes, Raising $2.25 Million
- AIF Celebrates Diaspora Power at 43rd India Day Parade in NYC
- AIF Celebrates US-India ties at 44th India Day Parade in NYC
- AIF Clinton Fellowship Alumnus Jennifer Chowdhury Named one of Diplomatic Courier’s “Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders”
- AIF Dallas Fall 2019 Benefit Celebrates Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative and Launches Texas Board
- AIF mourns the loss of Prime Minister Vajpayee
- AIF New England celebrates 10 years of its Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI) at Gala on March 23
- AIF New York Gala raises $2.9 million
- AIF New York Spring Awards Gala Showcases William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India
- AIF New York Spring Gala Highlights Skills Training in India
- AIF New York Spring Gala Raises Over $1.5 Million
- AIF Presents Folk Lok: Hip-Hop meets Punjabi Folk Music
- AIF Receives 2024 Best Nonprofits to Work For Award
- AIF-BYJU’S PARTNERSHIP
- AIF’s Banyan Impact Fellowship Launches a New Era of US-India Bridge Building
- American India Foundation (AIF) and NDTV to Co-Host a Telethon Fundraiser for Migrant Workers Most Impacted By COVID-19
- American India Foundation (AIF) Hosts its 14th Annual New England Gala virtually with Special Honoree Susan Whitehead
- American India Foundation (AIF) hosts National Seminar on Financial Inclusion of Urban Poor
- American India Foundation (AIF) Works with World Central Kitchen to Provide 20,000 Meals to Frontline Health Workers in Under-Resourced Hospitals
- American India Foundation and Atlas Corps enhance U.S.-India civic diplomacy through expansion of the AIF Banyan Impact Fellowship
- American India Foundation and WestBridge Capital Announce Four-year Partnership
- American India Foundation Bay Area Gala Raises Over $2.6 million at 25th Anniversary Celebration Honoring Lata Krishnan
- American India Foundation Earns Prestigious 4-Star Rating From Charity Navigator
- American India Foundation Hosts Roundtable Discussion on Leveraging CSR for Social Impact
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- American India Foundation partners with Hero Electric to upskill and create green jobs for youth, and micro-entrepreneurs in India
- American India Foundation Raises $500,000 at 3rd Annual Orange County Gala
- American India Foundation Raises Over Rs 15 Crore at the AIF-NDTV Telethon for Rebuilding Lives of Migrant Workers
- American India Foundation wins Gold for MANSI and Special Jury Award for COVID-19 Response
- American India Foundation, Goldman Sachs and Lenovo India Launch the First Portable Hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Applications Open for the 2017-18 Clinton Fellowship
- Avasant Awards AIF Multi-Year Grant to Help Bridge India’s Educational and Digital Divide
- AWARDEES OF THE SHRISHTI– AIF GRANT ANNOUNCED
- Best Public Health Initiative Award for American India Foundation’s MANSI program
- Corporate Philanthropy Transforms Life of Student at Annual AIF Bay Area Gala
- Delhi celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 2019
- Dell Giving’s “Powering the Possible” Invests $700,000 to Close Learning Gaps with Technology Tools through AIF’s Digital Equalizer
- Dell Technologies, American India Foundation and NSDC collaborate to launch ‘Project Future Ready’, aiming to impact 100,000 students
- DigiQuity – AIF’s Annual Education Knowledge event deliberates access, quality, and the future of learning in the post-COVID era
- Dr. Venkat Srinivasan named Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
- Ek Disha Foundation Joins with American India Foundation to Become AIF’s Houston Chapter
- Future of Livelihoods – AIF’s Annual Livelihoods Knowledge Event unpacks the Role of CSR in Building Women’s Livelihoods
- Global Recognition for AIF’s Learning and Migration Program (LAMP): Transforming Education for Migrant Children
- HCL Foundation, Madurai Corporation & AIF launch the ‘Robotics Lab Project’ in five corporation schools
- Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Launches 101 E-Rickshaws and 501 Cycle Rickshaws at AIF’s Rickshaw Sangh Program in Varanasi
- Indian Diaspora in the US Donates One Million Dollars for Bharat Ke Veer
- Infosys and Levi Strauss & Co. Highlight American India Foundation Annual Bay Area Gala
- Knowledge-Sharing and Dissemination Event for MANSI Evaluation Report Findings
- L&T and AIF join hands for the Engineering Futures project
- Mastercard and American India Foundation (AIF) launch first portable hospital in Jalna
- Mastercard and American India Foundation (AIF) launch portable hospital in rural Pune
- NHM, Tata Steel and AIF to improve access to Maternal and Neonatal Care in Jharkhand
- Nishant Pandey Appointed AIF’s CEO after Successful Tenure as Country Director
- PNB Housing Finance and American India Foundation launch 22 bedded portable hospital in Raipur, Chhattisgarh
- Raj And Nalini Sharma To Support Transformational Program At Thirthapathi Higher Secondary School In Ambasamudram, Tamil Nadu
- Round-table on Disability and the Future of Work: Ensuring inclusiveness and equality for Persons with Disabilities
- Rural India Supporting Trust (RIST) and AIF Announce a $7.6M Partnership on India’s 74th Republic Day
- Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment launches AIF Report on Disability
- State Level Consultation on Education and Care of Migrant Children in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- Stories of Service from the AIF Clinton Fellowship 2017-18
- Stories of Service from the AIF Clinton Fellowship 2018-19
- The American India Foundation Receives 2025 Best Nonprofits to Work For Award
- The American India Foundation Receives 2026 Best Nonprofits to Work For Award
- THE FIRST MILLION: American India Foundation launches its vaccination campaign to inoculate one million vulnerable population
- THINKING AHEAD: American India Foundation to set up Oxygen Plants across 25 cities in India
- Towards an Inclusive Workforce
- Vaccination Drive for a Group of Persons with Disability Kickstarts The First Million, an American India Foundation Initiative to Vaccinate a Million Most Vulnerable Indians
- Vaccination for Persons With Disability Kickstarts the American India Foundation Initiative to Vaccinate a Million Most Vulnerable Indians
- Vice Chair Dr. Venkat Srinivasan Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by TiE
- Walk to Freedom: Celebrations for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Public Health
- ‘Sahiya’ in Top 20 Films in ‘YES! i am the CHANGE’ Challenge
- “We could not understand how critical the baby was. It was the timely intervention of Sahiya didi and MANSI that saved my child’s life.”
- 168 women health volunteers felicitated for project MANSI
- A day in the field with intersection realities!
- American India Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Effort
- At the 2017 AIF Gala – Sahiyas and A Civil World
- Atlanta gala puts the spotlight on maternal and neo-natal health in India
- Best Public Health Initiative Award for American India Foundation’s MANSI program
- Beyond the Stream: Listening to Mothers, Learning from Villages
- Bringing Mental Health into Maternal Care: A Training Room Reflection
- CELEBRATING THE HEARTBEAT OF HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ON MOTHER’S DAY
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- COVID-19 Vaccine related Misconceptions and Other Barriers
- Decentralizing Health governance : The Way Forward
- Empowering Young Girls Through SAHELI–A Roadmap to Self-Reliance
- Enhancing Women’s Workspaces: A Visualisation Exercise on WASH Facilities in Podampeta, Odisha
- FIVE ASHAS TRAINED UNDER AIF’S MANSI PROGRAM RECEIVE THE 2019 HEALERS OF INDIA AWARDS
- Fostering Collaborative Learning: Academic Partnerships in Public Health
- Highlights from my Professional Development Visit in Pune
- HIV/AIDS healthcare as a human right
- Knowledge-Sharing and Dissemination Event for MANSI Evaluation Report Findings
- Manita Saves a Life in Rural Jharkhand
- MANSI: The Program
- NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY: Tips to Ensure a Safe and Healthy Pregnancy
- Reaching the Last Mile: Lessons from Walking with ASHAs
- Reliant on Poison: Fluoride Contamination in Rural Rajasthan
- Stories from the Field: Celebrating the Grassroot Workers of MNCH
- TARAMUNI SANKH PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN FIGHTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
- The AIF-Stanford Symposium: Shining a Light on MANSI and Other Programs that Work
- The ASHA, Poonam Didi, Taught Me How To Extract Breast-milk And Spoon-feed My Babies…
- The story of a Sahiya: Sophia Nesamoney’s visit to a MANSI site
- Tracing Signs of Home
- Understanding the Flow of Funding for Child Nutrition Programs: A Case Study of Odisha
- Understated ADHD/ADD in Children
- We use our eyes every day. Why not take care of them?
- Why is Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV Intervention Campaigns So Difficult in India?
- Women Helping Women
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
REPORTS
- BEST PRACTICES IN EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN INDIA
- Beyond the Ballot: Pioneering Pathways to Inclusive Elections
- IMPACT ASSESSMENT: DIGITAL EQUALIZER
- IN THEIR VOICE: HOPES AND ASPIRATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN INDIA
- JOB MAPPING FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
- SMALL STEPS LEAD THE WAY
Stories
- “Earlier, I used to wonder what my future would be. Now I have no fears.”
- “I am now interested in things that people think only boys love doing”
- “I feel more confident to carry out the tasks on my own”
- “Rekindling our Dreams” Wall art as an expression of future, progress, and a gender equal society
- 40 Women with Disabilities from Mysore Complete their Self-Defense Training
- A Covid-19 warrior protecting her village through awareness and surveillance around the clock
- A Day With the Girls at Marla Government School, Gurgaon, India
- A Letter to the Dogs at CEE
- A Visual Letter To Puducherry
- Ability not Disability Defines an Individual
- Barely Solving the Impossible Math: How a teacher shortage is managed in a Jharkhand School
- BAY AREA’S CIRCLE OF HOPE ANNOUNCES A GRANT FOR LAMP IN RAJASTHAN
- Behind the Scenes of CEE’s 40th Anniversary Conference
- Beneficiary Turned Benefactor: The Story of Sudhanshu Yadav.
- Beyond the Lens: A Photographic Journey of My Life in Sawai Madhopur
- Beyond the Ordinary: A Glimpse into Gramin Shiksha Kendra’s Organisational Dynamics
- Centring Communities for Strengthening MNCH Services: The role of Qualitative Assessments
- COMPUTERS MAKE LEARNING EASY!
- Daughters of Jharkhand: Unheard Voices and Unyielding Strength in the Battle for Gender Equality
- Enhancing the Love of Classroom Learning with Robotics
- Exploring Assumptions and Adapting Conversations
- Fellows are Leading Sustainable Change
- Finding my Footing in Bharuch
- Fostering Collaborative Learning: Academic Partnerships in Public Health
- From Coffee Beans to Chai Bliss: Sipping through Change and Finding Happiness
- From Dream to Desk: Rediscovering a Tapestry of Culture, History, and Governance in Bhopal
- Fueling inclusive, sustainable growth
- Gokul’s Dream has Come True
- How the Covid-19 Lockdown Transformed 15-Year-Old Doctaren Khadia as the Head of the Household
- I am strong and resilient. I can face challenges on my own.
- I own a rickshaw and earn with dignity
- I Want To Be A Public Official When I Grow Up
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- It is one’s ability, not disability, that defines any individual.
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 2
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 5
- JOHAR to all of you – Episode 6
- MANSI has Helped Me Break this Taboo
- Meet Shukoor
- My Trips Around India
- Navigating Life as a BIF Fellow
- NBA has created a platform for so many people to follow as a model, says Dikembe Mutombo
- NBA partners with AIF to create a legacy with their first ever NBA India Games
- Now I Can Read And Write Fluently
- Our visit to India this Summer
- Reflections from the Fellowship -1
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- Saving for his Daughters’ Education
- Scrap Collector’s Daughter, Thireya Devi, Wins Award At A Robotics Competition
- Some Fresh Perspectives and Breakthroughs on Governance
- Stories from the Field: Celebrating the Grassroot Workers of MNCH
- Students are Eager to Learn
- Support My School: Mission Recycling Sensitizing and Raising Awareness on Recycling PET Waste for 1.1 Million students
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- The Amazon India Partnership – A Broader Picture of Integrated Development
- The ASHA, Poonam Didi, Taught Me How To Extract Breast-milk And Spoon-feed My Babies…
- The Evolution of Nonprofit Impact Reporting: Beyond Basic Storytelling
- THE GLOBAL ABILITY PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE
- The Marvels of Mistakes
- The Overlooked Rights of a Consumer with Disability
- The Stories Behind Ammamma’s Piercings
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- Through Children’s Eyes: Uncovering Village Waste Issues in Odisha
- Unraveling the Culinary Treasures of Hyderabad: A Voyage through Hyderabadi Cuisine
- What I see on my way to work
- While Lilies Bloom, Girls Take Charge in Nandurbar’s Circle of Hope Project
- Why Indian Sign Language should be part of the Constitution and Curriculum!
- With These Skills, We Can Earn An Income Wherever We Go
- Women are leveling the playing field
- Women Helping Women
- WOMEN OF CHICAGO CIRCLE OF HOPE INVEST IN MANSI
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- A New World – The Second Mural
- A Picnic in the Hills
- AIF annual Virginia Gala raises over $60,000 for disability empowerment training
- AIF Boston Gala Raises Over $850,000 for Charity in India
- AIF Clinton Fellow’s Op-Ed Published in The Hindu
- AIF Clinton Fellows Featured on NDTV for Discussion of Indian Economy
- AIF Clinton Fellows Publish National Youth Survey
- AIF Clinton Fellowship Alumni Auction Their Photographs to Raise Money for AIF
- AIF Country Director Hemanth Paul Talks to the Financial Chronicle About Education in India
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- AIF Honored To Meet Shri Kailash Satyarthi – Nobel Winner
- AIF Introduces Financial Literacy Mobile Application for Beneficiaries of Livelihood Programs
- AIF New York Young Professionals Raise Over $60,000 at Annual Charity Ball
- AIF organizes Swachh Vidyalaya campaign 50 schools take the AIF Swachh Vidyalaya Pledge in Digital Equalizer schools across the country
- AIF to assist Corpn. Schools to Improve Performance in Examinations
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- American India Foundation, Xerox Come Together for Covid Relief in India, Send 30,000 Ventilators, 13,000 Monitors
- An Inside Look at Domestic Workers in India: Spotlight on Maitri (Part One)
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- An Interview with Smita – Director, Education – American India Foundation
- Ants, Cooperation and the Mental States in Which We Fall Asleep
- Art in Udaipur Part. 2, Halftime Report
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- Bringing Mental Health into Maternal Care: A Training Room Reflection
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- Challenges and Lessons Learned – Part 2
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- Claiming Space in Unaccommodating Rooms: How Women with Disabilities Lead
- Climate Change throws Salt on Rampura’s Agriculture Game… Literally!
- Clinton Fellow Gaurang Raval Recognized at Cinema of Resistance Film Festival
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- Coloring Beauty in India: Part One
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- Delivering Healthcare and Health Education in Darjeeling – Part 1
- Development of English Language Curriculum – Part 1
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- Digital Equalizer Announces Student Contest Winner
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- Do Elementary Education Budgets Connect with School Needs?
- Domestic Workers Rally, New Delhi
- Empowering Parents and Caregivers: Strengthening Foundations of STEM Ecosystems
- Ethical Practices for Data and Story Collection in the Field: A Guide for NGOs in India
- Evaluating Local Governance Institutions: How Monitoring Tools Enable Clarity, Trust, and Ownership
- Everyone is funding oxygen. This is a problem.
- Filming Destruction (and Recovery)
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- Followed by Food: Blessing or Curse?
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- Good Morning Bangalore!
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- How Ultimate Frisbee Can Change the World
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- In Conversation with Hanumant Rawat – Director of Livelihoods, AIF
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- Indian Ambassador Hosts AIF Supporters to Discuss Philanthropy in India
- Learning to Live on My Own: A Month in Sawai Madhopur
- Living in the Moment
- Lost in translation: The role of language in assesment design
- Makerspace Tinkering Labs: Breaking Barriers to STEM Education in Rural Schools
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- Moments of Departure
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- Of Plums and Horizons — Part II
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- Overcoming My Fear of Cold Water and Elephant Snot
- Participatory Methods: Evolving Community-Empowerment Tools in Rural Areas
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- Raj And Nalini Sharma To Support Transformational Program At Thirthapathi Higher Secondary School In Ambasamudram, Tamil Nadu
- Reflecting on International Development After Motherhood
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- Regarding Temple Elephants and Child Rights
- Renuka Pullat’s opinion piece of Sengupta’s “The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young”
- Rethinking Education
- Retropective: Looking Back on my Fellowship Journey
- Revitalizing Social Work: A Call for Indianizing Social Work Education and Practice with Integration of Indigenous and Modern Approaches
- Rust and Glass
- Sahiyya Summi Demonstrates MANSI’s Power to Save Lives Through Health Education
- Selling development work to marginalized communities
- Soul Food
- Spotlight – EnAble India: Focus on Disability
- Stories of Service from the AIF Clinton Fellowship 2018-19
- Students Showcase Creativity for Social Change at “AYV Live!” Events
- Studying Malnutrition through Food Journals
- Support India’s Disabled by Giving to Campaign Veer
- Support Mothers and their Babies this Mother’s Day
- Support Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts in the Philippines
- Swathi’s day out in The Field
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- Teamwork at its best
- Thank You, India
- The 3 Biggest Reasons that India’s Girls Drop Out of School
- The Barefoot Teacher
- The Case for Ecological Ethics in Climate Change Education
- The Clinton Fellowship Orientation: A Social Justice and Leadership Conference
- The Development Sector in India
- The Jigsaw Puzzle
- The Men Who Wrestle Bulls
- The One Where Caleb Plants a Tree
- The Privilege That is Mine – Part 1
- The Privilege That is Mine – Part 2
- Through Children’s Eyes: Uncovering Village Waste Issues in Odisha
- Unlocking the Future: The Power of Legacy
- Uttarakhand Relief Campaign – Updates on Work in Progress
- Uttarakhand’s Children Struggle to Return to School
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- Welcoming the 14th Class of AIF’s William J. Clinton Fellows for Service In India
- What Do Loan-Sharking Self-Help Groups Mean for Rural Development?
- Why Open Content Improves Education for All
- Women Entrepreneurship: Lessons from My First Field Visit with ACCESS Developement Services
- WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES LEARN SKILLS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM DANGER
- World Wetlands Day: Good for Wetlands, Good for Communities
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- Youth Fundraise for AIF on Their Birthdays
- Youth Raise Money to Support Education for Rural Indian Children Through the New England Crowdfunding Challenge
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