Women in Leadership Program

Manmeet Mehta

Active Term: 12/2024 - 12/2025

Areas of Expertise

• Work-Life Balance
  
• Mentoring and Building a Culture of Mentorship
  
• Empowering Communications
  
• Advocacy, Actions & Accountability
  
• Transformational Vs. Transactional Leadership
  
• Organizational Leadership & Cultural Diversity

Director, Strategy & Partnerships

Ashoka

Manmeet Mehta is the Director of Program Strategy  and Partnerships  for Ashoka U.S. She co-leads Ashoka’s US strategy, working closely with Ashoka Fellows in the US - and globally - alongside global partners like Bank of America, eBay, and foundations like Skoll Foundation.   She has nearly 20 years of experience identifying innovations around the world, and helping them scale.

​She founded GlobalGiving’s online crowdfunding program in 2007, launching the first globally accessible mechanism for social entrepreneurs and nonprofits to access funding from the $270 billion US philanthropic market. She has worked extensively with philanthropic, private, and social sector organizations to improve access to philanthropic capital, design systems impact strategies, and developing philanthropy and grantmaking strategies centering community-centered innovations for transformative impact.

She has worked with funders like USAID, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on developing a systems-driven strategy for finding and funding transformative solutions globally. She grew up living in many cities across India, holds an MBA, and a degree in Masters in International Relations and Public Policy from the Maxwell School in Syracuse, NY

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