Reap Benefit
Pooja Pawar currently serves as Senior Director at Reap Benefit, focusing on mission and organizational development by fostering collaboration with youth, teams, partners, and sector collaborators. Previously, Pooja was Head of People & Learning at Teach For India, where responsibilities included conceptualizing a five-year strategic plan for improving educational outcomes in Mumbai and designing support ecosystems for program Fellows and Alumni. Pooja also held positions such as Manager of Alumni Impact & Advocacy and City Alumni Impact Associate at Sole Proprietor. Pooja's earlier experience includes project management at UV-Rich Corporation, covering project design and marketing. Pooja holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
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Reap Benefit
At Reap Benefit, we strive to tackle and solve local environmental and civic problems concerning waste, water, energy, and sanitation, through low cost solutions, which are user friendly and require low maintenance. Our engagements are focused primarily with young school students, as we believe that armed with the right skill set, today's youth will be tomorrow's problem solvers. Since inception, Reap Benefit has so far indulged in 500,000 hours of public problem solving, collected 375,000 data points, created over 23,647 Ninjas with citizen problem-solving skills, and through its innovative solutions saved 44 million litres of water, diverted 560 tonnes of waste, saved 1.7 million units of energy, developed 200 prototypes and helped 300 schools with improved sanitation systems. Reap Benefit was one of the top-5 start-ups at Stand-up Start-up India 2016, and co-founder Kuldeep Dantewadia has been an Unreasonable Institute Fellow (2015), Ashoka Fellow (2013) and an MIT GSW Programme Fellow (2013). We have also been listed under Forbes 30 under 30 (2014).