Philanthropy evolves alongside the social issues it aims to address, with each generation tackling the needs of their time. The India Philanthropy Report 2023, published by Bain & Company and Dasra, presents a case study on GivingPi, which reveals two emerging cohorts within family philanthropy - Inter-Gen and Now-Gen givers - who are reshaping the Indian philanthropy landscape by overcoming …
I returned to India after business school in the late 1990s. India’s rich giving history: Philanthropy has long been embedded in the fabric of Indian society and contributed heavily to the creation of modern-day India. They also established a norm that was propagated through society, much like Jamsetji Tata’s belief that if you’re rich, you must donate money and do …
It is exciting to see that with donations worth $102.4 billion, Tata Group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata is the world’s biggest philanthropist of the last century, much ahead of Bill and Melinda Gates, who came in second. This remarkable revelation, read with the trends of significantly growing philanthropy in India as pointed out year after year by the Bain philanthropy …
