It All Started with One MADster and 120 Children

Our MAD Community has now grown to 50,000+ Member Strong Across 20 Cities

2 million mentorship hours

7.5k+ children

mad in a nutshell

Make A Difference (MAD) is an award-winning NGO founded in 2006 by Jithin Nedumala. MAD works at the intersection of human development, community organizing, and technology to end generational poverty in India. Through its flagship initiative, the Progression Mentoring Program, MAD delivers an 18-year-long intervention for vulnerable children in need of care and protection—starting at age 10 and continuing until age 28.
The volunteer based intervention supports children through every major life milestone—emotional and academic development, higher education, job placements, and even marriage and parenting. The community-powered model relies on mobilizing passionate young leaders as Community Organisers, to ensures high-touch, age-appropriate, and scalable mentoring that helps children break the cycle of poverty permanently.

We imagine a future where no child remains trapped in poverty simply because they were born into it. A future where every child has a caring mentor, a strong community, and the deep connections they need to thrive.

At MAD, we’re building that future — one where local communities rise with compassion, where progress replaces the current stagnation, and where children break free from generational poverty in their own lifetime. This is our vision: a caring ecosystem that powers progress, one connection at a time.”

MAD’s work has made it 8 times more likely for a child born in poverty to move above the empowerment line by age 28, giving them and their families a real chance at a stable, dignified future.

Central Team

Akshay Chawda

Technology

Function Lead

Afsar T. A.

Programs

Project Associate

Kavya Somasekhar

Human Capital

Project Associate

Chetan Pruthi

Technology

Project Lead

Jithin Nedumala

Founder + Leadership

Akshay Anand

Fundraising

Function Lead

Ashna Mittal

Community Organising Institute

Project Lead

Sarikonda Medha

Fundraising

Project Associate

Gautham Devadath

Demand Generation

Project Lead

Aishwarya

Human Capital

Project Associate

Jishnu K.P.

Talent Development

Project Associate

Sahil Melethil

Demand Generation

Project Associate

Tanya Kushwaha

Community Organising Institute

Project Associate

Mannat Anand

Leadership

Arjama Kalitha

Talent Dev + Human Capital

Project Lead

Keerthi Rajan

Community Organising Institute

Project Associate

Santosh Bisht

Finance

Function Lead

Gaurav Thawait

Technology

Project Associate

Chandrajeet Gupta

Partnerships

Function Lead

Parvathi Vinayan

Operations

Project Associate

Saquib Abbasi

Programs

Function Lead

Amit Sharma

Programs

Project Associate

Muskaan Mahendru

Community Organising Institute

Project Associate

Community Organisers

Ananya S.

Bengaluru

Aishwarya Sontakke

Nagpur

Mohammad Talha

Delhi

Rasha A. R.

Trivandrum

Saniya Mahajan

Ahmedabad

Vidhi Baria

Pune

Sree Krithigha

Chennai

Reshma Nair

Coimbatore

Yusra Basit

Delhi

Rakesh Rajasekaran

Chennai

Ipshita Das

Hyderabad

Habiba Abrar

Delhi

Ashish Sharma

Gwalior

Akanksha Gupta

Mumbai

Sakshi Saroj

Lucknow

Aarya Gopan

Cochin

Sohini Roy

Kolkata

Karlapalem H.

Guntur

We are looking for highly passionate + driven people to help us rapidly expand our work across cities.

our funding priorities

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