Pankhuri Shah

Founder

Founder of One Step Forward Foundation (Project DEEP)

Pankhuri Shah is the founder of One Step Forward Foundation (Project DEEP)[1], an Indian non-profit working on livelihood from Mumbai.

One Step Forward Foundation (Project DEEP)

One Step Forward Foundation, operating publicly as Project DEEP, is a Section 8 nonprofit registered in Maharashtra in 2023. It combines research and community programs to inform cash-based welfare policy, and says it has produced India's first landscape report analyzing over 70 unconditional cash-transfer schemes. The organization states its programs have directly supported over 3,500 people.

One Step Forward Foundation (Project DEEP) reports the following, on its own site:

Launched India's first landscape report analysing 70+ Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) schemes in the country
Transformed 3,500+ lives by enabling long-term asset creation and livelihood enhancement