Impact
What We Focus On
Our work is organized around four pillars:
Growing and coordinating giving to India-focused causes, partnering with organizations like Dasra, Give, and the India Philanthropy Alliance to amplify giving to India and in the United States
Helping the diaspora show up in public life, from policy conversations to community organizing to impact campaigns.
Connecting founders, investors, and operators, and convening leaders on the issues shaping the future, including AI.
Philanthropy
Empowering the diaspora giving ecosystem
Indiaspora’s philanthropy works to bolster the ecosystem as a whole. We have worked with partner organizations to create reports on the latest research on diaspora philanthropic giving. The Indiaspora-Dalberg’s Indian American Community Engagement Survey, the first of its kind, found that Indian Americans volunteer at nearly double the national average but give substantially less financially, ultimately leaving significant social impact on the table.
Indiaspora, released at the Indiaspora Philanthropy Summit 2020, “A Study of Poverty in the Indian American Population,” with researchers Devesh Kapur and Jashan Bajwaat of Johns Hopkins’ Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies that focuses on the underprivileged Indian diaspora in the U.S. While the Indian diaspora is one of the most affluent ethnic minorities in the U.S., Census data found about 250,000 of the 4.2 million Indian Americans in the U.S. live below the poverty line.
Our work contributes to the framework of philanthropy to accelerate diaspora giving and encourage systemic engagement across multiple avenues of implementation.
India Philanthropy Alliance (IPA)
We’re also proud partners in the India Philanthropy Alliance (IPA), a coalition that has grown from 11 organizations in 2019 to more than two dozen today, working together to grow and coordinate giving to India; together raising over $5.5 million in a single day during India Giving Day 2024.
Philanthropy Summit
Each year, we bring this community of partners together at our Philanthropy Summit — an action-oriented convening where funders, nonprofits, and diaspora leaders tackle shared priorities, from corporate social responsibility to arts education to climate-focused giving. We’ve partnered with Give India and Dasra in previous years for the Summit.
Global Connect
Bridging gaps around the world
Indiaspora is dedicated to bridging gaps around the world between people of Indian origin.
Core Countries
Indiaspora works closely in the US, India, the UK, Singapore, and Australia, and is active in the UAE following the Indiaspora Forum for Good in 2025.
Building Partnerships
Indiaspora is creating partnerships in additional diaspora countries through delegations, Global Connect events, and government engagements.
Civic Engagement and Social Impact
Turning Research into Action
Our civic engagement and social impact work amplifies our goal of positioning the Indian diaspora to be a force for good. Through reports, thought leadership, and events, this work is integral to our mission.
Indian American Community Engagement Survey
The Invisible Indian Report
Small Community, Big Contributions, Boundless Horizons
The first data-driven report quantifying the Indian-American community’s impact across business, science, philanthropy, politics, and the arts.
Impact Events
Alongside this research, we bring the community together through both virtual and in-person convenings- from the Indiaspora Climate Action Forum at COP28 in Dubai to town halls and regional dinners across the world that turn shared findings into shared action. Our civic engagement and social impact work amplifies our goal of positioning the Indian diaspora to be a force for good. Through reports, thought leadership, and events this work is integral to our mission.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Indiaspora fosters entrepreneurship and innovation both internally and by highlighting members of influence doing the same for their own companies and communities, engaging entrepreneurs, industrialists, and policymakers on opportunities for collaboration.
GCC AI Opportunity Report
GCCs, a longtime strength of India’s technology sector, have evolved from cost centers into engines of innovation, yet much of their core work is now exposed to AI-driven displacement. The central question is no longer whether GCCs will be affected, but whether they can move fast enough to transform vulnerability into advantage.
Top 100 AI Startups in India Report
Our report on the Top 100 AI Startups in India examines where innovation is thriving, where opportunities remain untapped, and what it will take to build an ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs to create products and services with lasting impact.
