Social Impact Corporate
Resume:
EDUCATION
SUVENI WALI
SOCIAL IMPACT EXPERT
CONTACT
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New York Metropolitan Area
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Executive Progamme in Social
Impact Strategy
2024
2015 - 2017
TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Masters in Social Work
Community Organization and
Development Practice
English (Fluent)
Hindi (Fluent)
Kashmiri (Basics)
LANGUAGES
WORK EXPERIENCE
PROFILE
Social Impact Professional with over 7 years of experience, specializing in driving transformational initiatives, building community partnerships, and designing impact campaigns. Having worked with organizations like Rakuten India, The Better India, and Bridge International Academies, I bring expertise in empowering underserved communities, particularly through education and women’s empowerment initiatives. With a strong academic foundation, including a Master’s in Social Work from TISS and an Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy from UPenn, I am passionate about creating meaningful and sustainable social change.
Rakuten India - Corporate Social Responsibility APR’24 - AUG’24 Consultant - CSR & DEIB
JUL’19 - DEC’23
Senior Manager - Projects and Impact Campaigns
Led Corporate Social Responsibility efforts with a deep commitment to creating meaningful, sustainable impact, ensuring compliance with Indian Laws while empowering partner NGOs to succeed.
Handheld and guided partner organizations, developing a strategic roadmap for CSR partnerships that maximized community benefit and recognition opportunities. Spearheaded ‘Rakuten’s Run with Pride 2024,’ a landmark DEIB event uniting over 1,000 participants from diverse organizations across Bengaluru, fostering inclusion and unity.
Captured and shared powerful stories of transformation through case studies, articles, and blogs, giving voice to the communities uplifted through CSR initiatives. Corporate Giving:
Managed ‘School of Hope and Empowerment (SHE)’ - an initiative by Tata Communications CSR and The Better India to inspire and create enabling environments for women-led entrepreneurship in hard to reach geographies in India - with an aim to reach a million women every year. Worked on Dettol India’s Corporate Social Responsibility project Dettol Salutes - finding and honouring stories of ordinary citizens who did extraordinary work during the second wave of the pandemic.
Executed impact campaigns with Morris Garage (MG Motors) CSR, HUL CSR, Accenture CSR, Nokia CSR, Dell CSR, Infosys Foundation CSR. Social Impact Award Campaigns:
Organised India’s Water Warrior awards in association with ATE Chandra Foundation CSR to award those who went above and beyond in their mission to save and conserve water.
Organised and led the country’s largest COVID warrior digital awards - India’s COVID Soldiers Awards, in association with ATE Chandra Foundation CSR. 2012-2015
Bachelors of Science in Home
Science Honours
Human Development and
Childhood Studies
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
2014
Certificate Course in Human
Rights
The Better India
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EXPERTISE
WORK EXPERIENCE
JUN’17 - JUN’19
Fundraisers:
Led the fundraiser campaign, Better Together, to raise money to support civil service officers in their battle of providing ration and supplies to daily wagers and migrant labourers in their cities. Successfully raised a sum of INR 4.2 Million. Launched a fundraiser ‘To India’s Children’ partnering with 4 NGOs across the country, reaching out to children who lost their parents to COVID-19, raising a sum of INR 4 Million.
Organised the Project Dream School campaign by successfully raising funds to sponsor the education of children studying in low cost private or government schools.
Organised a fundraising campaign, called Diwali Karnival, to support five NGOs, working with women in distress, children, PWDs and animals to provide them supplies and other products needed by them.
Miscellaneous:
Launched and implemented the Free Period Campaign, partnering with industry stakeholders, to organise sessions in Bengaluru schools on safe and sustainable menstrual practices.
Impact Measurement of The Better India’s support to change makers across the country.
Curated weekly and brand specific newsletters to deliver inspirational stories to inboxes of 400K+ subscriber base of The Better India. Author at The Better India, covering stories of impact that The Better India’s stories have on their protagonists.
Bridge International Academies (Now NewGlobe)
Facilitated and conducted trainings in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria under the Education Board’s BEST (Basic Education Sector Transformation) Project that trained around 2000 Government School Teachers
Successfully planned, budgeted and implemented the Bridge School Management Committee in 6 schools across rural Andhra Pradesh Led admission campaigns in 6 school locations
Designed and conducted Parent Satisfaction Surveys to build relationship with parents and providing a holistic environment for a child’s education Developed scalable working tools for reporting school operations by Academy Managers across 6 locations
Represented Bridge in the training of Mandal Education Officers organised by Andhra Pradesh Commissionerate of School Education Programme Officer - School Operations
Nonprofit Management
Global Giving
Impact Measurement
Corporate Citizenship
Strategic Partnerships
Behaviour Change
Communications
Project Management
Digital Media for Social Change
Storytelling for Impact
Volunteer Management
INTERNSHIP PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Mercer Consulting (India) Pvt Ltd, Mercer Cares CSR, New Delhi: Managed Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and reporting requirements of partner nonprofits.
Vikalp Sansthan, Udaipur, Rajasthan: Conducted Baseline Survey of Child Brides - Part of TISS-VIKALP study on experiences of Child Brides and Gender Violence. Jindal Steel Work and TISS, Jawahar, Maharashtra: Designed and Conducted sessions with children, Anganwadi workers, ASHA workers, pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls on malnutrition, hygiene and early marriage. RECOGNITIONS
Excellence Award by Rakuten
India - June 2024
Star of the Month Award by The
Better India - November 2020
BOARD MEMBER
Shiksha Bharti NGO School
Providing strategic guidance
and oversight to support the
education and development of
underserved students from
migrant laborer families.
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