Batra then felt the need to reframe the way venture philanthropy worked in Asia with AVPN, by working on methods to encourage investors and companies to give more strategically and in a more focused fashion, consistently synergising contributions across a multitude of areas like gender empowerment, healthcare support and improved employment opportunities.
Back in 2013, Naina Batra joined Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), as she believed that Asia did not fully understand the idea of venture philanthropy. As CEO of the organisation, Batra has made it her mission to educate the society and business community.
“Venture philanthropy used to be a very alien concept in Asia,” Batra says, “its [mechanism] almost seemed completely dichotomous [to many businesses]— like a ‘left-brain’ ‘right-brain’ relationship– where the ‘venture’ aspect was the way of making money, and the philanthropic area was the way we gave it away.”
