Projects
India Leaders for Social Sector
ILSS aims to build leadership talent and capacity within India’s social sector to create catalytic impact at scale. Antara supported ILSS’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Board Governance through a research-led engagement.
Institute of Social Studies Trust
ISST is a four-decade-old feminist research organisation that specialises in women’s work and their role in the economy, and gender transformative evaluation.
Antara supported ISST through strategic advisory and leadership accompaniment.
Engagement on CSR with a leading business conglomerate
Antara provided research, knowledge, curatorial, and communication tools.
Women’s Fund India
WFI is a donor that supports organisations working to advance gender equality in India. ​Antara supported them through a strategy-level engagement.
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The Better World Agenda: How Can Universities and Philanthropy
Co-Evolve to Meet the Challenges of Our Time?
Antara is collaborating with the University of Toronto and SiX to seed the Better World Agenda, a bold, innovative aspiration rooted in community wisdom, propelled by university-led innovation, and resourced by philanthropy’s catalytic capital.
Toolbox India
TBXI is an Indian non-profit that connects grassroots civil society organisations that have capacity-building requirements with skilled volunteers from the corporate sector.
Antara supported them through landscape research and strategic advisory.
GROW+
The GROW+ Fund is an initiative by the EdelGive Foundation. It aims to support grassroots organisations working at the frontlines of climate action.
Antara is the knowledge partner for GROW+.
Building guiding frameworks for community resilience
Antara supported a collaborative to put together comprehensive research and guiding frameworks that help make the case for philanthropy to invest in long-term recovery and community resilience as a response to disasters.
ANANDI
Antara supported ANANDI through an engagement at the intersection of strategy, structure, and collective leadership.
Social Alpha
Social Alpha is a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform focused on addressing the most critical social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Antara Advisory is supporting Social Alpha to chart a research-backed narrative roadmap to leverage catalytic philanthropic support for science and technology-based social innovation in India.
Convenings
Feminist Organisations in India
Antara played the role of a thoughtful interlocutor among a small group of feminist organisations and philanthropists in India. Applying its theory of facilitation and transformation, Antara held space for a dialogue among resource seekers and resource holders who have a shared agenda to advance gender equity through resilient feminist organisations.
Enabling Empowerment in Digital Times: What Next for Gender Equality?
IT for Change works towards an equitable digital society by engaging across discourse, policy advocacy, and practice, reimagining digital futures that are inclusive and democratic.
IT for Change invited Antara to design and facilitate a space for feminist leaders and technologists to confront the tensions of the digital present.
Through dialogue, reflective prompts, and careful holding of divergent perspectives, the convening enabled participants to examine how power, safety, and agency are being reshaped online and created fertile ground to collectively chart possibilities for feminist action amid these complexities.
Resource Holders’ Dialogue hosted by Protsahan India Foundation
Protsahan India Foundation empowers girls living in situations of vulnerability with access to education and healthcare through art and technology-based approaches.
Protsahan sought Antara Advisory’s support to bring together critical stakeholders in philanthropy and the child protection ecosystem in India for a day-long discussion on how catalytic capital, strategic philanthropy, and grassroots leadership can shape the next decade of care and resilience in India’s child protection ecosystem. Antara Advisory served as a transmediary — translating ideas and coalescing views towards the collective imagination of an architecture of care for the child.
Other engagements and explorations
Partnership/Collaboration Strategies
We are supporting a key player in social innovation with research and narrative development to enhance their visibility in the Indian philanthropy landscape.
Child Protection and the Care Economy
The relationship between child protection and the care economy presents a critical area for research, given the symbiotic nature of these two sectors. The strength of the care economy, which includes support for caregivers, fair wages, training, and policies, plays a crucial role in enhancing the effectiveness of child protection systems.
Antara is currently engaged in an advisory role in helping organizations build their strategy-structure-impact continuum in this area.
Philanthropy - trends, archetypes
Building on a deep understanding of the philanthropic landscape and the giving motivations of diverse types of funders, Antara is developing learning modules and frameworks to help funders design trust-based and strategic approaches to giving, enhance impact, and ensure accountability to the communities they serve.
Mental Health
Evaluating mental health services requires a thoughtful, multifaceted approach that goes beyond traditional outcome measures. It involves sensitivity to the personal, long-term, and context-dependent nature of mental health, while also navigating the ethical complexities of working with vulnerable populations.
Antara is in the process of building a set of tools and frameworks to bridge this gap.