Rachita Vora

Rachita is co-founder and director at IDR. Before this, she led the Dasra Girl Alliance, an INR 250 crore multi-stakeholder platform that sought to improve maternal, adolescent and child health outcomes in India. She has over a decade of experience, having led teams in the areas of financial inclusion, public health and CSR, and functions across strategy, business development, and communications. Rachita has an MBA from Judge Business School at Cambridge University and a BA in History from Yale University.

Articles by Rachita Vora

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Humour

December 6, 2021

This nonprofit life Ep 17 | 360 degree smog-proof technology

We all need the 'City Sphere 9000'.

by Rachita Vora | 2 min read

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Ecosystem Development

December 2, 2021

Learning from the grassroots

Sujata Khandekar, Founding Director, CORO on integrating grassroots knowledge and lived experience into how we think about and approach social change.

by Rachita Vora, Shreya Adhikari | 7 min read

Hritik Roshan's still from the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with the subtitle saying it's not funny. When you wish the HR in your life is Hrithik Roshan, but it's only Human Resources.

Humour

November 22, 2021

Everyone’s love-hate relationship with HR

When you wish the HR in your life is Hrithik Roshan, but it's only Human Resources.

by Cincy Jose, Rachita Vora | 2 min read

Humour

November 8, 2021

This nonprofit life Ep 16 | The big COP-out

What do Jeff Bezos and Marie Antoinette have in common?

by Rachita Vora | 2 min read

An Olympic 2021 hurdle event in which the running track is an infinite loop in which people are running. The hurdles, from left to right are running out of money, unending feeling of doom, begging funders for overheards, sense of purpose vs crippling self-doublt, quantifying impact every quarter, running out of money, structural inequality, keeping up with compliance, and donor reporting 24/7. The hurdle on the far right, labelled CSR committees, seems to have fallen down. On the far right, one exhausted man lies outside the ring on the floor-nonprofit life

Humour

August 2, 2021

This nonprofit life Ep 15 | Olympics 2021

Special track and field event: Infinite Hurdles, for the nonprofit sector. There's only one way to win: never stop running.

by Rachita Vora | 2 min read

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Humour

May 31, 2021

This nonprofit life Ep 14 | Learning the alphabet

A cartoon series that captures the joys and travails of life in the development sector.

by Rachita Vora | 2 min read

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Philanthropy & CSR

April 16, 2021

To fail is to have dared

Rohini Nilekani on how philanthropy can underwrite social sector failures in practice and what she has learnt from her own failures as an activist philanthropist.

by Tanaya Jagtiani, Smarinita Shetty, Rachita Vora | 6 min read