Sunil Chavan

Mr. Sunil Chavan aka Sunil Kaka holds an M.Sc. in Statistics and an MBA in Marketing. After working in IT for 17 years, he started his own company in 1996 and then sold it in 2012 to shift to the social sector. Currently he is working Director at Dr. ML Dhawale Trust in Palghar. He is also a Director at BRLF (Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation) and a visitng faculty at Shiv Nadar University. He is a part of Vardhishnu’s advisory board since 2016. As a keen businessman and entrepreneur, himself, armed with his knowledge of finance and economics, he offers strategic and financial advice to us.

Nikunj Jhaveri

Mr. Nikunj founded System Plus in 1987. The company specializes in IT services. He also successfully served as the CIO for PepsiCo Asia Pacific (in an outsourced capacity) while running Systems Plus. Mr. Nikunj is on the board of several non-profits including Pride, VOICE and Indian Women’s Football Association. He is helping Vardhishnu in scaling up the operations along with fund-raising and collaborations. Mr. Jhaveri is part of the Vardhishnu’s advisory board since June 2022.

Shubhada Joshi

Architect by education, Ms. Shubhada dedicated her life to provide quality education to the underprivileged children in Pune. She is working with Khelghar, an initiative of Palakneeti Pariwar since last more than 25 years now. She happily accepted our request to be on advisory committee of Vardhishnu. Her expertise and experience in the education domain is helping us a lot in designing curriculum and creating content for our children.

Isabel Rodrique

Ms. Isabel currently resides in Osla, Norway and works as a Marketing & Communications Executive in the Higher Education Segment to help Colleges and Universities reach their enrollment goals, increase their brand visibility and solve their technology needs. Just over the last year, Isabel successfully consulted +300 universities across 50 different countries bringing an average increase of 10% in their ROI’s strategies. Cumulative to her consulting marketing skills Isabel also acts as a board member for AND - A Sustainable Humanitarian NGO based in Europe that provides mission reliefs in more than +40 countries through 8 different strategy projects, covering correspondence with institutes inside the European Union, UNDP and several Foreign Affairs departments.

Adwait Dandwate

Our Team Adwait has spent a decade in the development space and is leading the organization since its inception in 2013. He holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from University of Pune. He has also completed a leadership accelerator program offered by IIM - Banglore. As a Executive Director he is mainly responsible for stakeholder management, collaborations, strategic planning and fundraising while representing Vardhishnu on national and international platforms. He is the recipient of fellowships from Samajik Kritadnyata Nidhi, Janarth, Wipro Foundation along with Acumen India Fellowship. Adwait has spent a decade in the development space and is leading the organization since its inception in 2013. He holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from University of Pune. He has also completed a leadership accelerator program offered by IIM - Banglore. As a Executive Director he is mainly responsible for stakeholder management, collaborations, strategic planning and fundraising while representing Vardhishnu on national and international platforms. He is the recipient of fellowships from Samajik Kritadnyata Nidhi, Janarth, Wipro Foundation along with Acumen India Fellowship. Turn on screen reader support To enable screen reader support, press Ctrl+Alt+Z To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press Ctrl+slash

Pranali Sisodiya

Pranali Sisodiya holds M.Sc. (Anthropology) from University of Pune and B.Sc (Biotechnology) from North Maharashtra University. After working for 3 years with SEARCH, Gadhchiroli & MKCL Knowledge, Pune; Pranali re-joined Vardhishnu as a Director from January 2019. She is mainly looking after on-ground implementation of Anandghar initiative. Her role comprises of curriculum and content development, monitoring and evaluation of Anandghar initiative. Currently she is a fellow of 'Wirpo Seeding Program'. She loves to spend quality time with children.

Khyati Momaya

Khyati holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Azim Premji University. Previously she has worked with Vidya Integrated Development for Youth & Adults, a Mumbai based not-for-profit for 5 years as a Program Manager. Currently she works alongside Pranali as a Program Co-Lead. Her role comprises of working closely with Fellow – Educator in program implementation along with designing systems and processes for smooth functioning of Anandghar program.

Abhishek Sananse

Abhishek worked with Vardhishnu as a volunteer and Fellow-Educator for almost 3 years before joining Azim Premji University to pursue M.A in Education. Post his masters degree he has joined us back and is currently taking care of curriculum building along with Anandghar Fellowship

Nisha Masram

Nisha belongs to a very humble background from Nagpur. After completing her Masters, she decided to pursue a career in development sector and joined Vardhishnu as Anandghar Fellow. For 2 years Nisha worked very closely with children, parents and community members in Samata Nagar, Anandghar. After completing her fellowship she has joined us in a new role as a Program Associate from December 2023. Having first hand experience of Anandghar Fellowship, Nisha now works with Fellows to make their journey more meaningful.

Vinod Chaudhari

After completing his Masters in psycology, Vinod worked at different locations before taking up a role of Adminstrator in a coaching institute. He worked for 6 years with them before joining Vardhishnu in March 2023. As an Accounts-Administrator Vinod takes care of the finances, compliances while looking after smooth funcitioning of all the program locations.

Bajranj Pawra

Vijaya Randhe

Vijaya works at Samata Nagar, Anandghar where she teaches young children. Vijaya likes to cook.

Prathmesh Gojrekar

Ashwini Sonawane

Shubham Shirsale

Shital Raut

Monali Gedekar

Kalusing Pawra

Ritika Devate

Nirmarani

Vineet Patil

Our Team Vineet is an Engineer by qualification. He worked in a corporate for a while before shifting to development sector. He ran his own initiative called as ‘Ninavi Mitra’; where they used to ran learning spaces for so called ‘failed students’, women empowerment and for the youths who are victim of addiction. Apart from designing strategy, workshops, coordination; Vineet plays a crucial role of a coach, facilitator for the the cohort members of Community Collectvies Vineet is an Engineer by qualification. He worked in a corporate for a while before shifting to development sector. He ran his own initiative called as ‘Ninavi Mitra’; where they used to ran learning spaces for so called ‘failed students’, women empowerment and for the youths who are victim of addiction. Apart from designing strategy, workshops, coordination; Vineet plays a crucial role of a coach, facilitator for the the cohort members of Community Collectvies Turn on screen reader support To enable screen reader support, press Ctrl+Alt+Z To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press Ctrl+slash

Pradeep Gujar

Pradeep holds a Master Degree in Science from Pune University. He transitioned from the biotechnology sector to the development sector through the Chief Minister Fellowship in Maharashtra. He dedicated three years to the overall development of a core tribal area in Nandurbar district, fostering partnerships for impactful village development initiatives. As a Program Manager of Community Collectives, Pradeep works very closely with the cohort members helping them build organisational as well as programatic capacities. He travels extensively to the work locations of our cohort members to give on-field support.

Shrikant Pawar