"We can choose to be
affected by the world or we can
choose to affect the world"

- Heidi Wills

Organisation

Advit Foundation (www.advit.org) is a not for profit development organization, working on Conservation of Environment Resources and Livelihood Enhancement. Advit Foundation has sought to conserve the environment and empower communities through its Water Centred Design for Life where people can manage behaviour and ecosystems to live sustainably.

Advit set up the Solar Information Centre at The National Institute of Solar Energy Gwal pahari under Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, GoI. Is a training partner with the Skill Council for Green Jobs and NSDC, GoI for Solar Electronics and runs a solar training centre with HARTRON. Advit was the state nodal partner managing the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park in Gurgaon for Haryana Government from 2009 - 2015.

Our environmental resources are not infinite. Therefore, at Advit Foundation, our endeavour is to explore endless possibilities and solutions for their conservation. Our initiatives are focused on conservation of water and access to clean energy, overall socio economic development of the poor, skill upgradation and entrepreneurship trainings and holistic village development. This is achieved unleashing traditional knowledge, identification of new technology and improved communication tools to undertake environment awareness and conservation initiatives.

Advit team closely works on skill up-gradation for climate change adaptation with communities as well as farm-based livelihood organisations. Advit has set up a rural skill training centre, Aarohan, in village Pachala in Phagi block in Jaipur District of Rajasthan where more than 100 women are trained every month. In a country like India where poverty, lack of nutrients, post-harvest losses, and gender inequality still prevails in the agricultural sector, it is important to address the issues with a promising approach and technology to create an economically aligned community

Trustees

Dr. Thilotham R Kolanu

Trustee

Environment and Sustainability Specialist. A social development expert with in-depth experience in domains of carbon management, energy and environment. As an environmental policy researcher, Kolanu has a combination of experience, and skills in policy aspects, programme design and implementation, research and consultancy.

Samit Jain

Trustee

Managing Director, Pluss Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Advisory Board

Dr PN Vasanti

Director General, Centre for Media Studies

Sanjay Prakash

Architect and Eco-Designer, Sanjay Prakash & Associates

Prof. Pawanexh Kohli

Founding CEO, National centre for Cold Chain Development (NCCD), Govt. of India

Dr. Agata Konczal

Agata’s specialization lies in environmental anthropology, political ecology, environmental history, and in particular forest anthropology. She has extensive experience in working with interdisciplinary research teams as well as on the interface between science, society and policy.

Our team

Charu Jain

Managing Trustee

An environment and livelihood specialist with in-depth experience in domains of water management, with special focus on gender and environment conservation

Tanmay Kumar Dey

Administration

Tanmay is the technical hand managing the solar installations at the Advit, conducting practical solar trainings and undertaking field surveys for industries interested to install solar power systems.

Preeti Monga

Chief People Officer

An instrumentation engineer with a MBA in Human Resources and a degree in Law. Is associated part time with Advit.

Revathi R

Finance

Sameer Guleria

Finance

Dr. Nidhi Prabhakar

Project coordinator

A botanist with extensive experience in reaserch. Is very passionate about soil health rejuvenation and is also a passionate trainer at community level.

Manisha Kulkarni

Project lead

Manisha has extensive experience with handicraft products, sourcing and marketing. She has an eye for quality detail and has facilitated various community -led enterprises.

Field team

Prahlad Singh

Rajasthan

Shailesh Pisalkar

Maharashtra and Telangana

Jitendra Singh

Rajasthan

Hemlata

Community Training, Rajasthan

Our partners

Corporate
  • IKEA Trading South Asia
  • Monsoon Accessorize
  • H&M
  • Coca Cola
  • Applied Materials
  • LeasePlan
  • Gati
  • Good Weave
  • Yum Foods
  • CRISIL
  • Max India Life Insurance
  • Pernod Ricard India
  • Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance
  • Hinduja Foundation
Government & Semi
Government
  • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), GoI
  • Rural Electrification of India (RECL)
  • Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
  • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
  • Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance
  • National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
International Organisations
  • Ford Foundation
  • German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)

Awards

Training Partner awards

  • Green Skill Sector Council and NSDC, GoI for Solar Electronics.
  • HARTRON (Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd.) for Solar.
  • TISS Mumbai B.Voc on Solar Electrical

Advit Foundation is empaneled with TISS CSR Hub.

Advit Foundation is empaneled with NGO darpan and the National CSR Hub of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, MCA.

Empaneled with Skill Council for Green Jobs.

Awarded the first CII beyond the Fence Project award for an industry in Rajasthan in 2009.

Impact Award for Skill Development

  • Awarded at the Impact Conclave by Sambodhi in partnership with Bill and Melinda gates Foundation, SIDBI, YES Bank in 2016.

Managing Partner Awards

  • Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) from 2009-2015.
  • Centre of Excellence on Solar Electronics at National Institute of Solar Energy, MNRE, Govt. of India.