Arti Dhar

Co-Founder

10 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of an impactful environmental organization.
  • Led large-scale financial inclusion projects.
  • Managed multi-million dollar educational funds.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Environmental Conservation and Social Impact sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementInternational Development

Other Skills

International RelationsResearchPolicy AnalysisNonprofitsQualitative ResearchHuman RightsLeadershipSocial MediaProgram EvaluationPartnershipsSouth AsiaGrant WritingEvent ManagementEducationPhilanthropy

About

I'm the Co-Founder of Farmers for Forests, an organization committed to fighting climate change and rural poverty at scale by protecting and increasing India's biodiverse forest and agro-forest cover in close partnership with agrarian and indigenous communities. Our institutional funders include Omidyar Network, Accenture, Rainmatter Foundation, Nudge Foundation, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies, Mulago Foundation, and Meta.

Experience

Climate impact partners

Senior Manager

Jan 2022Jan 2025 · 3 yrs · United States

Farmers for forests

Co-Founder

Dec 2019Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos · India & United States

  • Farmers for Forests (F4F) is committed to protecting and increasing India's forest cover to fight the climate crisis at scale. We do that by financially incentivizing farmers to convert degraded and abandoned farmland into biodiverse and long-surviving food forests. We also use innovative drone technology and AI models to ensure anybody from anywhere can track our forest survival rates and forest health.
International RelationsResearchPolicy AnalysisNonprofitsInternational DevelopmentQualitative Research+16

Social finance india

Senior Consultant

Dec 2018Nov 2019 · 11 mos

  • Three projects:
  • The India Education Outcomes Fund (IEOF) is seeking to channel $1Billion of investment to improve educational outcomes by supporting initiatives across India. It is the first fund of its kind in education.
  • The India Impact Fund (IIF) will unlock long-term affordable debt to finance intermediaries and impact enterprises in a variety of sectors, including renewable energy, financial inclusion, and healthcare.
  • Worked in collaboration with UNDP to launch SDG Finance Facility, that will channel private capital at scale to SDG-related projects in India as well as aid the growth of SDG-aligned financing.

The global impact investing network

Summer Associate

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Evidence for policy design (epod)

Senior Associate, Financial Inclusion

May 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · India

  • Managed two large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) projects in partnership with the Gates Foundation and State Government of Madhya Pradesh in India aimed to engage rural women with the formal banking system. Also developed a mobile-phone based Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) that would provide real time information to rural women beneficiaries about their financial activity and government benefits.

Care

M&E Consultant

Nov 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Sri Lanka

Ccs fundraising

Associate Director

Jul 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Cornell global solutions

Consultant (Project Coordinator)

Sep 2012Dec 2012 · 3 mos · Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

  • . Managed a 22-member Cornell consulting team in collecting and analyzing data to recommend solutions to help our client, National Research University in Moscow, achieve their goals of improving their branding and improve the philanthropic culture at HSE.
  • . Designed the Community Service Learning programs for students at the University.
  • . Co-wrote the final report and presented the findings and recommendations to the staff and faculty of HSE.

Bosnia initiatives for local development (bild)

Fellow

May 2012Sep 2012 · 4 mos · Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • . Implemented a two month multi-ethnic summer educational program in the post-conflict cities of Tuzla and Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • . Interviewed, selected and taught over 200 students courses in ESL and Social Media for Social Change to empower Bosnian youth and build bridges among students.
  • . Developed and implemented community service project that brought together youth from Tuzla and Doboj, two cities on opposite sides during the Bosnian War.
  • . Conducted a qualitative analysis and co-wrote the evaluation report of the program for the funders, including the British Embassy, Norwegian government and the Soros Foundation.

Education

Cornell University

Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) — International Development

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

MBA — Social Impact and Finance

Mount Holyoke College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — International Relations and Politics

Mount Holyoke College

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