Impact Foundation (India)

Impact Foundation India (called Dasra) is a nonprofit organization registered in India that strengthens civil society organizations, catalyses strategic philanthropic investments, and enables governments to serve communities better. Since 1999, Dasra has collaborated and supported several nonprofit organizations to ensure that India achieves the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. It has also brought together philanthropists from around the world to support development causes in India and provided them with customized support. This award supports the organization's general operations. 

Founded in 2001, Impact Foundation (India), commonly known as Dasra, is India's leading strategic philanthropic organization working with philanthropists and social entrepreneurs to create large-scale social change. This award supports Dasra to disseminate the report, “Strengthening Philanthropic Giving and Impact Investing for Development” at an event that brings together philanthropists with local, international, and corporate foundations on a single platform to debate ways to unlock strategic capital for development. The intended outcome of the dissemination is to inform and educate new private sector players in approaching their giving and impact investing activities more strategically.

Founded in 2001, Impact Foundation (India), commonly known as Dasra, is India's leading strategic philanthropic organization working with philanthropists and social entrepreneurs to create large-scale social change. Dasra is partnering with MacArthur grantees to build institutional capacity to achieve long-term sustainability on multiple aspects of institution building, and to unlock strategic capital from non-traditional givers, including local corporations and philanthropists to help grantees and others in the field access newer pools of funds.