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Vandana TilakDirector & Advisory Board Member, The Akshaya Patra Foundation
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Vandana is the founder of Bombay Pictures, the Oshan Center and is the Director and Advisory Board member for Akshaya Patra USA. Akshaya Patra, a non-profit based in India, feeds 1.5 million children in 13,000 schools across 11 States in India every day.
Vandana works with thirteen Akshaya Patra chapters across the USA, planning and implementing brand strategy, fund raising and fostering donor relationships. She collaborates with Akshaya Patra India with establishing new kitchens in order to expand the scope of the organization from feeding 1.5 million children to 5 million children daily by 2020.
Vandana travels around the world speaking at conferences and chapter events to grow awareness for Akshaya Patra for it's ever expanding need for resources and funding. She works with the Boston Akshaya Patra team, corporate grant makers and outcome payors for innovative ways to finance Akshaya Nidhi, India.
In the Los Angeles area, Vandana is piloting programs that engage young adults and teens and a team of over 100 volunteers to gather grass root level awareness and support against child hunger.
She is a trained ayurvedic practitioner, an avid reader of philosophy and enjoys travel, poetry, music, portraiture and photography.
She lives with her husband Ravi (class of 1980, IIT Bombay, Metallurgy) in Manhattan Beach and serves as a Board member at Almex USA. The firm was awarded Excellence in Exports by the US Dept of Commerce.
Vandana works with thirteen Akshaya Patra chapters across the USA, planning and implementing brand strategy, fund raising and fostering donor relationships. She collaborates with Akshaya Patra India with establishing new kitchens in order to expand the scope of the organization from feeding 1.5 million children to 5 million children daily by 2020.
Vandana travels around the world speaking at conferences and chapter events to grow awareness for Akshaya Patra for it's ever expanding need for resources and funding. She works with the Boston Akshaya Patra team, corporate grant makers and outcome payors for innovative ways to finance Akshaya Nidhi, India.
In the Los Angeles area, Vandana is piloting programs that engage young adults and teens and a team of over 100 volunteers to gather grass root level awareness and support against child hunger.
She is a trained ayurvedic practitioner, an avid reader of philosophy and enjoys travel, poetry, music, portraiture and photography.
She lives with her husband Ravi (class of 1980, IIT Bombay, Metallurgy) in Manhattan Beach and serves as a Board member at Almex USA. The firm was awarded Excellence in Exports by the US Dept of Commerce.