India Chapter

The Catalyst Now India Chapter brings together social innovators, grassroots leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, civil society organisations, and impact-driven institutions working across India’s diverse social, environmental, and economic challenges. Rooted in Catalyst Now’s global mission, the India Chapter focuses on strengthening cross-sector collaboration to accelerate systems-level change. It serves as a convening space where local knowledge, lived experience, and innovative practice intersect with global networks, evidence, and resources. The chapter actively engages with themes such as climate action, inclusive economic development, gender equity, education, health, youth leadership, and community resilience, recognising India’s regional diversity and the need for context-specific solutions. Rather than working in silos, the chapter emphasizes co-creation, peer learning, and shared advocacy, enabling members to amplify impact collectively.

Year of the lanuch

2020

Collaborations chair(s)

Shama Karkal

Sunish Jauhari

Contact person

Sheher Bano

Number of members

George Panicker, Ronald van het Hof, Ishita Sharma, Admin BCI, ABHILASHA PANWAR, Claire Simpson, Karen Tse, Ajay Verma, Gauri Malik, Tamilmanian Nagalingam, SUDHEER RAJBHAR, Mabel Jenny Antezana Arispe, AMAN VIRMANI, Santosh Kumar, Kate Cochran, Shiroi Lily Shaiza, P.Adlin Helen, Kunal Vaid, Prema Gopalan, Elizabeth Hartman, Prasanna Nair, Sivaranjani Penna, Navrun Jacob, Rajashri Sai, Shubham Jamwal, Indu Menon, Ashish Shrivastava, CA.Prerna Gupta, MUKUL DIXIT, Aravind Bharathwaj, Nicole Rangel, Laurien Meuter, Ashitha Nayak, Pankaj Vinayak Sharma, Arghya Ghosh, Shantini Murthi, Nalini Saligram, Rushil Palavajjhala, Nandan HS, Richa Pant, Ojas Khurana, Soma Chakraborty, Sreeram Penna, Latha Pandipati, Asiya Chaudhary, Sanjeewa Liyanage, Mehak Verma, Samir Huda, Anna Bruni Sabhaney, Prachi Gupta, Maryam Montague, 'Tomi R, Jasmin Jose, Rupsi Garg, Saima Wasti, Temuulen Bayaraa, Vishal Kumar, Puja Mishra, Cara Arellano, Rita Rego, Keshav Gupta, Dashrath Singh, Sunil Khairnar, Venkatesh Rajendran, Shilpa Sharma, Juhi Pandey, Sunanda Mane, Ashish Srivastav, A. D., Pranab J Patar, Sreevas Sahasranamam, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Hasina Kharbhih, Steven Joseph, Harsh Tiwari, Aofie Ryan, Shruti Goel, Parag Ghosh, Dileep V S, Chirag Mahajan, Jagannath Mishra, Hemal Panchamia, Tanmay Gound, Swathy Rohit, Roja Kandepalli, Padhmavathi Bashyarangan, Ian Carnahan, Monira Rahman, Piyush Tewari, BIJOY MONDAL, Saumya Pankaj, Sonia Bhandari, Ninad Lanjewar, Udara Rathnayake, Vimal Jat, Dhwani Mehta, Shishir Sahoo, Vinita Nanda, Vikram Rajola, Dabormaian Jude, Harshika Dang, Shubhra Gupta, Esther Wang, Mayank Singhal, Maanasa Paramasivam, Mianzi, Nita Aggarwal, Arjun Adya, RASHIKA SHARMA, Santosh More, Sauvik Acharjee, Prachi Chouhan, Ineke Bezembinder, Shravani Kalkonda, Abha Dandekar, Nazim Khan, Suhas Ramegowda, Smita Mankad, Nritya Mala Giridhar, Priya jain, Punam J, Lucie Argelies, Seema Kurian, Roopali Gupta, Praveen Kumar, Shridula Gopinath, Anshuman Singh, Monalisa Padhee, Tishya Gupta, Hansika Chhabria, Winnie Dholakia, Komal Chhabria, Anusha Subramanyam, Dr.Mahammed Osim Aquatar, Deena Kamila, Manu Singh, Ananta Varshney, Sanya Kukreja, Yugandhara Kajare, Priya Rollins, Rijit SENGUPTA, Kunal Singh, Shivani Gupta, Gayatri Biswas, Abhishek Kadam, Avantika Jain, Shivangi Tripathi, Ramachandran parthasarathy, Dipti Mrinalini, Binu Sundas, RAMMOHAN NVS, Sharmista Chaudhury, Tajuddin Khan, Shivaji Thorat, Sunish Jauhari, Samyak Jain, Manohari Doss, Rameez Alam, Shafiul Hassan, Mahesh Sonone, Deepak Sridhar, Sudam Pawar, Pavan Kumar, Latika Thukral, Sunil Kumar Aledia, Mohd Tarique, Sachi Maniar, Gopal Garg, Aditi Padiyar, Sunish Jauhari, Shama Karkal, Sheher Bano

Engagement with Government

Yes

Engagement with Private sector

Yes

Chairs

Shama Karkal

Swasti

Sunish Jauhari

Vitamin Angels

Bangalore

To collaborate and network

Coordinators

Sheher Bano

Catalyst Now

Pakistan

Islamabad

Collaborators

ABHILASHA PANWAR

Qatar

Doha

Collaborate with the stakeholders to innovate Education that supports building a sustainable world for our future generation.

Aditi Padiyar

Independent (Aditi Padiyar)

Toronto

As a South Asian woman and defiant feminist, I aspire to integrate my personal politics in my work. I believe in institutional change instigated by advocacy and shift in public policy influenced by movement building and community-led effort. It’s my conviction that aid provided in the form of skill can be of crucial service which is my primary motivation behind being a Catalyst and I bring my feminist fundraising and participatory grant-making skills to the community.

Abha Dandekar

Mumbai

To gain knowledge and mentoring from the mental health collaboration

Abhishek Kadam

Ananta Varshney

Anna Bruni Sabhaney

London

I believe that Non-Profit leaders and missions deserve funding that is flexible, long term, trust based and collaborative. I Founded The Confluencers in 2018 with the vision of Re-Balancing Funding Relationships through Authentic Impact Communication for Non-Profit Fundraisers. I would like to support as many Non-Catalyst members as possible in overcoming any fundraising challenges they face and overcome together the funding gap, channelling more funding to local or grassroots organizations. I am also a Chartered Civil Engineer and specialist in Climate Resilience, Flood Risk Management and Water Resource Management and would love to connect with and support any member organizations driving change / shifting narratives in this space. Finally, I am a proud mother of one and advocate for equal rights for women in the workplace. I am keen system thinker. Always looking for new ways to work across disciplines to find mutually beneficial solutions to wicker problems. Reach out if you’d like to chat!!!

Anshuman Singh

Anusha Subramanyam

Arghya Ghosh

Howrah

Arjun Adya

Aofie Ryan

International Bridges to Justice

Ashish Srivastav

Ashish Shrivastava

Shahpur, Maharashtra

Ashitha Nayak

Udupi

Asiya Chaudhary

Aligarh

Ajay Verma

International Bridges to Justice

Avantika Jain

Binu Sundas

Cara Arellano

Chirag Mahajan

Claire Simpson

Creative Million

Bangalore

Venkatesh Rajendran

Dabormaian Jude

Dashrath Singh

Deena Kamila

Deepak Sridhar

United States

New York City

I believe a collective effort that drives and supports each other is crucial. My contributions: facilitate connections, help bring ideas to reality with effective planning and operations.

Dhwani Mehta

Bangalore

Dileep V S

Coimbatore

Dipti Mrinalini

Hyderabad

I hope to connect with like minded people and also find similar organisations from around the world. To learn from them as well as share my experiences and learnings with them.

Seema Kurian

Esther Wang

Delhi

Gauri Malik

Sirohi, Rajasthan

Gayatri Biswas

Sustainable Pathways

Mumbai

Aravind Bharathwaj

Aygudi, Tamil Nadu

George Panicker

Gopal Garg

Udara Rathnayake

Nazim Khan

Hansika Chhabria

Harsh Tiwari

Harshika Dang

RAMMOHAN NVS

Hemal Panchamia

Bangalore

Hasina Kharbhih

Shillong

Samir Huda

Ian Carnahan

Tilonia

Ineke Bezembinder

Jagannath Mishra

Monira Rahman

Indu Menon

Ishita Sharma

Manohari Doss

Punam J

Jasmin Jose

Kate Cochran

Upaya Social Ventures

Seattle

I love learning from my colleagues, especially if it means that we avoid reinventing wheels! I also love sharing what my organization has learned.

Roja Kandepalli

Welugu

Keshav Gupta

Komal Chhabria

Karen Tse

International Bridges to Justice

Kunal Vaid

Delhi

Kunal Singh

Palampur

By joining Catalyst 2030, we hope to accelerate our journey towards achieving the SDGs we have set our eyes on. We are from non-business backgrounds passionate environmentalists turned entrepreneurs keen to learn the best practices to achieve the said acceleration. Being a part of Catalyst 2030 opens up a plethora of opportunities to learn from and engage with like-minded entrepreneurs from across the world. An opportunity like this for a tiny project like ours would be life-altering.

Latika Thukral

Laurien Meuter

Amsterdam

Ramachandran parthasarathy

Bengaluru

Play a small role and contribute to change for the better

BIJOY MONDAL

Hyderabad

Lucie Argelies

Maanasa Paramasivam

Mabel Jenny Antezana Arispe

International Bridges to Justice

Mahesh Sonone

Sanjay Bhattacharya

Sreevas Sahasranamam

Manu Singh

Vinita Nanda

New Delhi

Contribute promoting SDGs among students,promote global citizenship in education.get networks for it

Prachi Gupta

Delhi

Dr.Mahammed Osim Aquatar

Delhi NCR

Awareness about Sustainability

Admin BCI

Barefoot College International

United States

Miami

Mehak Verma

Delhi

Monalisa Padhee

Maryam Montague

International Bridges to Justice

MUKUL DIXIT

Delhi

Priya Rollins

Delhi

Nita Aggarwal

Prasanna Nair

Bangalore

Nalini Saligram

Arogya World

United States

Atlanta

We joined Catalyst 2030 because we felt something must be done for the world to meet SDGs, especially SDG#3, and that this was a new platform and partners we could work with. I love the bold vision and the incredible scale with which Catalyst is growing asa movement.

Nandan HS

Navrun Jacob

Ninad Lanjewar

Gandhinagar

Nritya Mala Giridhar

Ojas Khurana

Bangalore

Latha Pandipati

Welugu

Padhmavathi Bashyarangan

Pankaj Vinayak Sharma

Parag Ghosh

Ghaziabad

A. D.

Ashoka, AVPN (Asian Venture Philanthropy Network), CorpsAfrica, Mission Talent, Skoll Foundation, Women Moving Millions

Piyush Tewari

Delhi

P.Adlin Helen

Dindigul, Tamil Nadu

Prachi Chouhan

Pranab J Patar

Delhi

Praveen Kumar

Prema Gopalan

Priya jain

Puja Mishra

Rajashri Sai

Mumbai

CA.Prerna Gupta

Delhi

Rameez Alam

Nicole Rangel

Delhi

Roopali Gupta

Richa Pant

Mumbai, India

Networking

Rijit SENGUPTA

New Delhi

Rita Rego

Mumbai

Ronald van het Hof

RASHIKA SHARMA

Rupsi Garg

Rushil Palavajjhala

'Tomi R

Sachi Maniar

Mumbai

I want to collaborate, learn from other organisations and individuals and contribute to the network and it's mission.

Samyak Jain

Santosh Kumar

Santosh More

Bengaluru

We can enrich our experiences via exchanges with global fellow travellers on the same endeavour.

Sanya Kukreja

delhi

We are a member of World Fair Trade Organization. Our mission is to enable artisans to move from poverty to sustainable economic independence through product innovation, design, process improvement, quality standardisation and skill development, hence providing employment on a sustainable basis to marginalised craftspersons, Our vision is to be a catalyst to transform the cottage sector in India to organised business entities with the objective of helping create sustainable livelihoods, with special emphasis on women’s empowerment.

Sauvik Acharjee

Shruti Goel

Upaya Social Ventures

Shafiul Hassan

Shama Karkal

Swasti

Shantini Murthi

Sharmista Chaudhury

Sheher Bano

Catalyst Now

Pakistan

Islamabad

Shilpa Sharma

Bangalore

Shiroi Lily Shaiza

Kohima, Nagaland

Shivaji Thorat

Shivangi Tripathi

Shivani Gupta

Womanity Foundation

Soma Chakraborty

Kolkata

Shravani Kalkonda

Hyderabad

To make new connections and support grass root level organisations with our CSR projects.

Shridula Gopinath

Shubham Jamwal

Shubhra Gupta

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Mayank Singhal

Sunish Jauhari

Vitamin Angels

Bangalore

To collaborate and network

Sanjeewa Liyanage

International Bridges to Justice

Smita Mankad

Creative Dignity

Sonia Bhandari

Sivaranjani Penna

Welugu

Pavan Kumar

Sreeram Penna

Welugu

Steven Joseph

Chennai

Juhi Pandey

Sudam Pawar

India

Pune City

With over two decades of driving transformative development across Asia and Africa, I bring a unique blend of strategic foresight, cross-sectoral leadership, and innovation in Agri-Business, Climate Action, and Inclusive Growth. My career has been defined by designing and scaling programs that unite governments, not for profits, and private enterprises to deliver measurable socio-economic impact—often in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

SUDHEER RAJBHAR

Suhas Ramegowda

Ooty

Catalyst 2030 is a collective effort towards meeting the sustainable development goals by 2030 which is the need of the hour. Individually, we can do only soo much but together we can do that much more.