Jul 2017 – Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Rishabh's current assignments include:
• Advisor at Rainmatter Foundation
• Senior Advisor at the India Climate Collaborative
• Resource mobilisation advisory - Make A Difference, Karta Initiative, Udhyam Learning Foundation, India Justice Report
• Training, mentoring and coaching on money and relationships at large
• In the past, he has consulted for large-scale resourcing at the GROW Fund (anchored by Edelgive Foundation), YWNXT (anchored by UNICEF), Wipro Foundation and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to name a few. He has also consulted with niche organisations like Sangama, People's Archives of Rural India, Rootbridge Academy of Giving, Shiksharth, Agami among many others.
• Rishabh is on the board of Apni Shala Foundation and on the advisory board of Kshetra.
• Major efforts:
• INR 23 crores raised for Covid-19 relief for 120+ causes across India
• INR 18 crores raised thru a vibrant employee giving program for Wipro Foundation
• USD 2 mn in fundraising and tech advisory for Jan Sahas on the Migrants Resilience Collaborative
• Key Skills
• Building deep and personal relationships that result in monetary and non-monetary support
• Managing disparate and diverse sets of stakeholders to build common ground and purpose
• Wide networking and engagement capabilities to expand trust and connection in development sector
• Creating narratives to make sense of complex social problems

Dec 2016 – Jun 2017 · 6 mos

• Led the fundraising team nationally. During this period, I was responsible for:
• 1. Designing the neighbourhood fundraising strategy for local partners
• 2. Building city level teams to decentralise fundraising
• 3. Forging strategic and long term partnerships with corporate sponsors
• Some milestones during this tenure:
• Built the India fundraising practice raising US $2.4 mn / INR 16 crores in less than 3 years
• Created an annual pipeline of US $1 mn / INR 6.5 crores from corporate philanthropy
• Organised 3 CxO roundtables resulting in 5 partnerships worth US$ 80k / INR 52 lakhs
• Conducted 2 mass contact events reaching ~4000 people raising US $15k / INR 10 lakhs
• Designed individual giving (also crowdfunding) raising US $8k/ INR 5.25 lakhs annually
• Decentralised fundraising in 2 cities ensuring self sufficiency through local corporate giving

Aug 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Part of the team that initiated domestic resource mobilisation in India. Built fundraising from scratch. Designed the fundraising strategy and plan for India to raise close to 60% of the annual outlay from domestic sources.

Jun 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Raised US $100k / INR 60 lakhs through institutional donors within first six months
• Conceptualised and designed early warning intervention to prevent trafficking of tribal girls
• Led the community health portfolio focusing on improving RMNCH in 2 districts of Gujarat
• Reduced redundancies of Gender Justice program by 4x through process mapping
• Mapped migrant tribal families and children engaged in cotton farming using geo-informatics
• Piloted in-house IVR to disseminate information on panchayat elections to villages in Shihor

Apr 2013 – May 2013 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Short term research assignment to produce mini studies on various social security schemes of Govt. of India.

Feb 2012 – Mar 2012 · 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Short term assignment involved prioritising survivors of the AMRI Hospital fire in 2011 based on need for compensation through in depth interviews. Used interviews to create descriptive analysis of survivors and wrote a concept paper on Urban Disasters.

May 2007 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Kolkata

• Automated risk related training modules eliminating human involvement in 7 locations
• Designed award winning knowledge management framework to create institutional memory
• Reduced audit and risk assessment time by 50% by adherence to calendarised schedules
• Improved mid-management training feedback on risk modules from 3.9 to 4.5 on a scale of 5