"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 the Conservation of Environmental Resources and Livelihood Enhancement since 2003. Advit Foundation has sought to conserve the environment and empower communities through its Water Centric Design for Life approach where people can manage their life and ecosystems sustainably.

The environmental resources are not limitless. As a result, our mission at Advit Foundation is to identify and address barriers to natural resource conservation goals. Our projects focus on natural resource management especially rainwater conservation, and livelihood enhancement through skill development initiatives. This is achieved by unleashing traditional knowledge, identifying new technologies and skill opportunities, and setting up improved communication tools for raising socio-economic awareness in order to facilitate the adaption of environment conservation practices that promote well-being.

At the national level, Advit has been a training partner with the Skill Council for Green Jobs, the National Skill Development Council of India, and Tata Institute for Social Sciences – School of Vocational Education for Solar Electronics. Advit set up the Solar Information Centre at The National Institute of Solar Energy Gwal Pahari, Haryana under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, GoI. At the state level with the Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited, Govt. of Haryana Advit started a solar training centre at their Gurgaon office. Besides, Advit was also the state nodal partner managing the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park in Gurgaon for Haryana Government from 2009 - 2015.

At the rural level, Advit has set up a rural skill training centre, Aarohan, in village Pachala in Phagi block in Jaipur District of the state of Rajasthan where more than 100 community members are trained on new skills every month.

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

Dr. Thilotham R Kolanu

Director at Greenstratos Consulting Pvt.Ltd.

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.

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.

Sameer Guleria

Finance

Revathi R

Finance

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.

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.

Dr. Agata Konczal

Assistant Professor, Forest, and nature conservation policy, Wageningen University and Research

Manisha Kulkarni

Project Lead

Field team

Prahlad Singh

Rajasthan

Shailesh Pisalkar

Maharashtra and Telangana

Jitendra Singh

Rajasthan

Hemlata

Rajasthan

Advisory board

Samit Jain

Managing Director, Pluss Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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 PN Vasanti

Director General, Centre for Media Studies

Our partners

Corporate
  • Arhant Social Foundation
  • 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
  • USAID
  • 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.