Outreach & Engagement
A core activity of AIF is to increase awareness of, and generate support for innovative solutions to India’s development challenges. While a majority of AIF’s outreach happens in the United States, there are a growing number of outreach activities in India as well. AIF is creating a large and diverse pool of cross-national supporters, who are volunteering their time, donating financial resources and offering their intellectual capital to catalyze change in India Chapters At the heart of AIF’s outreach around the United States are its chapters. Led by Leadership Councils consisting of community leaders, the chapters host awareness-building events and fundraising galas. In 2008-09, chapters in Seattle and Washington, DC hosted their first galas and those in the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York repeated their galas. The chapters honored the following leaders for their commitment to India: Bay Area: Mike Splinter, CEO, Applied Materials Boston: Shivan Subramaniam, CEO, FM Global Chicago: Jim McNerney, CEO, Boeing & Company Dallas: Peter Altabef, CEO, Perot Systems Los Angeles: Dean Scarborough, CEO, Avery Dennison and Amit Kapur, COO, MySpace
{ American India Foundation - 33 - Annual Report 2008 - 2009 }