Atul Kotnala brings 12 years of rich experience in the social impact sector working with various philanthropic foundations. As the Associate Principal at Sattva, Atul leads the Bharat Collective to influence philanthropic capital, and build capacity of hyperlocal organistaion backward areas.
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation partnered with Sattva to evaluate the effectiveness of ed-tech leveraged models to improve spoken English across 14,000 students.
Abhinav leads Sattva’s Innovation and Blended Finance practices. In Innovation, he works to close India’s translational funding gap, helping move promising research out of the lab and into use at scale by convening capital, academia, industry, and government. Through Blended Finance, he structures capital that makes hard-to-fund problems financeable and
Establishing a long-term, sustainable agriculture programme to enhance turmeric cultivation across rural regions in Karnataka, with a clear alignment to their core business in spices.
Status of health indicators in IndiaIndia has displayed significant commitment towards improving its health indicators and achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Although India’s efforts to reduce noncommunicable diseases are in their infancy, it has managed to make significant strides in its fight against communicable diseases.
The emergence of Digital Public Infrastructure like Account Aggregators (AA) paves the way for financial inclusion of many underserved communities in India. It has the potential to empower millions of customers to digitally access and share their financial data across institutions, resulting in the creation of their digital financial identity.
Since private philanthropic funding is not regularly identified and no data is being collected by States or the federal government, there is an absence of data on domestic philanthropy in India.
India’s backward districts received a mere 2.5% of Rs 1.84 lakh crore of corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds spent by companies across the country over the past nine years, said a study, titled ‘State of CSR in India: 2014-2023’, by social impact and consulting firm Sattva Consulting. “While it’s a
At Sattva, we have always believed that in order to end poverty, it is important to strengthen the ability of social organisations to create impact.
A solar power company delivering viable electricity solutions through decentralised renewable energy mini-grids, wanted to spur socio-economic growth in rural and semi-urban areas.
Where Focused Capital Can Move India’s Development Needle
CSR touched Rs. 40,794 crore in FY 2025, but is it going where need is highest?