Vipul Jain

Co-founder

Co-founder of Catalysts for Social Action

Vipul Jain is the co-founder of Catalysts for Social Action [1], an Indian non-profit working on orphans & child care, women & children, education and livelihood from Mumbai.

Vipul Jain is an Indian technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and president of Catalysts for Social Action (CSA), a Pune-based non-profit organisation working with children in institutional care and promoting domestic adoption. He founded CSA in 2002 with his wife Shibani Jain and Bharati Dasgupta.

Early life and education

Jain holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and a postgraduate management degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Career

In 1986 Jain co-founded Kale Consultants, later Accelya Kale Solutions, a supplier of financial and business intelligence software to the airline industry, and led the company for 29 years. He is also co-founder and chairman of Kale Logistics, and co-founded Jabarkhet Nature Reserve, one of India's first privately run nature reserves.

Catalysts for Social Action was established in 2002 and works with child care institutions to improve the care of children who have been orphaned, abandoned or surrendered, and to promote adoption. The organisation states that its work covers around 3,500 children in about 60 child care institutions across four Indian states. Jain serves as president of the organisation.

Recognition

Jain is a recipient of the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award in the outstanding category for the India chapter.[2][3][4]

Catalysts for Social Action

Catalysts for Social Action (CSA) partners with government-recognised child care institutions across several Indian states to improve care standards, education, health and nutrition for children living in them. It also runs an aftercare programme supporting young adults who leave institutional care, and works on family-based alternative care and adoption advocacy. CSA publishes annual reports and financial statements going back to 2012-13.

Catalysts for Social Action reports the following, on its own site:

CSA reports 16,000+ children supported and 156 partner child care institutions impacted.
CSA reports 2,900+ young adults enrolled into its aftercare programme.
CSA reports 1,300+ young adults successfully placed in jobs through its aftercare programme.