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Leading the Way for Change

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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 6th Akshaya Patra online gala of 2020— Leadership for Change, hosted by our chapters in Atlanta, Chicago, and Springfield.

I am truly humbled and grateful for the collective support and massive efforts of our 125 fundraisers and 500 volunteers, who successfully reached 22,000 people to collect over $9 million so far in 2020. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to Akshaya Patra’s beneficiaries and their families.

2020 has been a year of change. We have connected and engaged with globally recognized leaders during our online galas around topics of technology, philanthropy, family, and now leadership. Leadership is an essential value Akshaya Patra embodies. It is fundamental to paving the way for change in our beneficiaries’ lives and investing in their future.

Tonight we have an incredible line-up of speakers, including the legendary John Chambers, the dynamic Nikesh Arora, the successful Saket Modi, and our very own Siva Sivaram, Chairman of the Akshaya Patra Board. We will hear their insights and reflective views on change and how leadership influences change globally.

Even the smallest changes bring significant results to positively change the outcome for millions. This is what Akshaya Patra does--providing a meal in schools that impacts the lives of children and their families for generations.

I urge you to make a difference and take action, whether a pledge or donation, to invest in our children’s lives; providing the nourishment and education they deserve to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Thank you,

Yours in service, Vandana

www.FoodForEducation.org EVENT TIMELINE

5:00 PM PDT PROGRAM BEGINS

5:10 PM PDT WELCOME REMARKS: VANDANA TILAK, CEO, TAPF USA

5:14 PM PDT HOST CHAPTERS VIDEO

5:20 PM PDT AKSHAYA PATRA VIDEO

5:25 PM PDT PLEDGE DRIVE OPENS

5:30 PM PDT LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE WITH JOHN CHAMBERS, NIKESH ARORA, SAKET MODI, AND SIVA SIVARAM

5:50 PM PDT LIVE Q/A SESSION WITH JOHN CHAMBERS, NIKESH ARORA, SAKET MODI, AND SIVA SIVARAM

6:05 PM PDT YOUTH AMBASSADOR VIDEO

6:08 PM PDT SHANKAR’S STORY

6:10 PM PDT MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY ROOPKUMAR, SUNALI AND REEWA RATHOD

www.FoodForEducation.org SPEAKERS

JOHN CHAMBERS

John Chambers is founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and focuses on helping disruptive startups from around the world build and scale. He invests in companies that are leading market transitions, such as Aspire Food Group, Balbix, Bloom Energy, Dedrone, IoTium, Lucideus, OpenGov, Pindrop, Privoro, Rubrik, SparkCognition, Sprinklr, and Uniphore. He serves on the Board of Directors for Bloom Energy, OpenGov, Pindrop, and Sprinklr. Chambers is the author of Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World, where he shares new rules for disruption and lasting success in the Digital Age. He is also the Chairman of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and was appointed Global Ambassador of the French Tech by President Emmanuel Macron of France in January of 2018. Prior to founding JC2 Ventures, Chambers spent 25+ years with Cisco, serving as CEO, Chairman and Executive Chairman. He currently holds the title of Chairman Emeritus with the organization.

NIKESH ARORA

Nikesh Arora joined as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served as president and chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Google, Inc. during a 10-year span, including senior vice president and chief business officer, president of global sales operations and business development, and president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Google, Nikesh held the role of chief marketing officer for the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was chief executive officer and founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002. Nikesh serves on the board of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., a public Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company, and Tipping Point, a non-profit organization that fights poverty in the Bay Area. Previously, he served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp., Sprint Corp., Colgate- Palmolive Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, among others. He holds an M.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in finance from Boston College and a B. Tech. in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.

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SAKET MODI

Saket Modi is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, an enterprise Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) platform company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Lucideus in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated from IIT Bombay, headquartered in Palo Alto and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Lucideus today protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies around the world with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40under40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35under35, Forbes Magazine’s 30under30 lists among others. The Government of India awarded him with the title of “Champion of Change’’ in 2017. Under his leadership, Lucideus has received multiple awards including ‘Emerging Vendor of the Year’ by Frost & Sullivan, ‘Leading Pure-Play VAPT Vendor’ by Gartner’s Market Guide in 2019, and “Morgan Stanley CTO Innovation Award 2019” amongst others.

SIVA SIVARAM

Dr. Siva Sivaram serves as President of Western Digital and is responsible for ongoing development of the company’s industry-leading NAND flash memory, as well as development of next-generation technologies. He has held executive positions at Intel and Matrix Semiconductor, and at SanDisk after its acquisition of Matrix. Dr. Sivaram has served as board member of several start-ups, was entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosslink Capital and XSeed Capital, a research scholar at Matsushita Electric, and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University. He earned his Doctorate and Master’s degrees in Materials Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has been elected to its Board of Trustees. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, India, where he earned his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. He serves as the Chairman of the Board for Akshaya Patra Foundation USA.

www.FoodForEducation.org PERFORMERS

ROOPKUMAR & SUNALI RATHOD

Roopkumar Rathod is an Indian playback singer and music director. Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary – an exponent of the rare and arguably the oldest style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He is famous throughout Bollywood as an excellent playback singer and music director. The song “Sandese Aate Hai”, from the movie Border, became one of the major breakthroughs of Roopkumar’s career. It soared to an unprecedented level of popularity, becoming an anthem of sorts for the nation. Riding on this wave of popularity and tirelessly pursuing his passion for music, Roop Kumar lent his voice to a number of songs in Gujrati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali and Bhojpuri films. Apart from playback singing for films, Roopkumar also performs at live concerts. With his equally gifted wife, Sunali Rathod, they travel all over the world and perform at a number of concerts. Together, they have captivated audiences across the world such as the U.S., U.K., Dubai, East Africa, and Singapore with their soulful renditions of various genres of music spanning ghazal, sufi, light classical and film songs.

REEWA

A multi-talented artist who has mastered Western Carnatic and Hindustani vocals, alongside Classical Piano, Reewa is an award-winning songwriter and collaborator. She has done 8 grades of Piano with distinction from the Royal School of Music in London. At the age of 26, she has already won the Pepsi Music Award for Best Independent Song of the Year - ‘One Above’. More recently three of her compositions have been chosen by DJ Ravin to feature on the world-renowned lounge music album ‘Buddha Bar’ in Paris. One of her tracks ‘Love and Desire’ got selected to be included in the 16 Greatest Hits of Buddha Bar. Reewa’s compositions and vocal talents also feature in the Spanish film ‘Rastres de Sandal’ which won both the Gaudi Award for Best Catalan Film and the audience award at the Montreal Film Festival. 2020 has already started amazingly well for Reewa with the launch of her debut album ‘Saya Tere Ishq Ka’ which has raced to 5 million YouTube views within a week of its release on January 21.

www.FoodForEducation.org HOST CHAPTERS

Leadership for Change would not have been possible without the support and dedication of our Chapter Chairs and Teams in Atlanta, Chicago and Springfield. Our Chapters focus on bringing awareness and raising funds at the local level in their communities. They are community leaders who trust our organization and are committed to our mission of providing unlimited food for education. Thank you immensely for all your hard work!

CHICAGO Dipak Kapadia Saroj Patel SPRINGFIELD, MA Neena Grover ATLANTA Nagesh Doddaka Satya Tiwari Sridhar Penumetcha

www.FoodForEducation.org YOUTH AMBASSADORS

Our Youth Ambassadors from Atlanta, Chicago and Springfield are a group of dynamic and determined individuals motivated to make a difference in the world. These young people are stepping up as leaders in their local communities by planning campaigns or fundraising to help the millions of children in India every day. Thank you so much, Youth Ambassadors!

CHICAGO Aaron Garg SPRINGFIELD Co Presidents Trijal Thakkar, Arushi Meharwal Team Leaders Arjun Patel (photography) Arjun Shroff (activities) Roshan Taneja (art) Diya Patel Shivani Parmar Shreeya Patel Tulshi Desai Special Projects Rohan Sarikoda Hasini Pundla Nikhil Lebaka Nandita Meharwal ATLANTA Ria Penumetcha Risha Kasala

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DIAMOND COPPER Chicago Chicago Sanjay & Vandana Garodia Prabhudas & Munjula Patel Ramesh & Sarita Tulshan Vipin & Saroj Patel GOLD Springfield Chicago Pallavi & Manoj Parikh Dipak & Pritee Kapadia Dr. & Mrs. Chittaranjan Patel BRONZE Springfield Atlanta Bala Behl - Sierra Circuits Ankit Malik Bolt Today SILVER Moby Abraham Chicago Chicago Chirag Shah Ketu & Komal Amin Dipak & Ginni Doshi Dipak & Kishori Dattani COPPER Dr. Ishwar & Lila Patel Dr. Keyur & Jigna Shah Atlanta Hemali Shah Eshwar Bandlamudi Hiren & Lina Shah Jagdish & Jayshree Patel Chicago Mafat Patel Patel Brothers Dr. Ashok & Mrs. Patel Manish & Shailja Gandhi Jai Kant Singh Nitin and Meena Shah Jashbhai & Shobhna Patel Prashant & Minal Vakil Kirti & Raxa Shah Pravin & Jyotsna Shah - Anderson & Mayank & Anuradha Tripathi Shah Roofing, Inc. - Joliet, IL.

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BRONZE STEEL Chicago Chicago Pravin Shah Anil Loomba Rajeev & Neeru Nagpal Atul & Vaishali Patel Rasikbhai & Pushpaben Patel Balakrishna Sundar Rupin & Pragna Javeri Bawa & Bubbly Duggal Sameer & Shirley Patel Bhupen & Meena Patel Swetal Patel Chetan & Mayusha Shah Vikram Trivedi Deven & Devika Joshi Vinod & Sarla Shah Dhruva Tilwalli Virendra Patel Dinesh & Nayna Shah Vishal Patel Dr. Amit & Khushali Shah Springfield Dr. Ashok & Megha Doshi Catherine Hillary & Krishna Murty Dr. Piyush & Janvi Buch Dr. Pradip & Darshana Shah Dr. Rajendra & Pratibha Shah Giri Cherukuri STEEL Gurang Patel Atlanta Hemant & Vibha Pattani Dilip Patel Hiten & Miwa Gardi Imtyaz Isani Honasagere Gangadhariah Parimala Raman Jayant & Jyoti Sheth Piyush Pandya K.C. & Jyoti Patel Prakash Desai Kalpesh Joshi Ravi Kannan Kashyap Trivedi Vijay Vazirani Mahendra & Kusum Shah Mahendra & Rekha Sandesara Chicago Mickey & Baby Singh Amarnath & Bharati Agrawal Narendra & Bela Khandwala Anil & Nicky Shah Narendra & Neena Garg

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STEEL SUPPORTERS Chicago Chicago Nav & Sudha Gupta Srikanth Janapala Navneet & Smriti Garodia Aditya Menon Nitin & Smita Bhatt Akhil Wagh Pankaj & Prerana Parikh Akshay & Sheila Gupta Pradeep & Seema Thapar Amit & Trupti Vyas Purshotam & Amishi Sawhney Amit Desai Rajan & Mintu Sharma Anil R. Shah Rita Kakodkar Anjali Desai Sandeep & Bindia Sawhney Ankit & Dr. Utsahi Dr. Sanjay & Rita Amin (Bubbles Pediatrics ) Sanjay & Rashmi Chowdhary Anonymous Smita Shah Arun & Shashi Ohri Sudha & Ashutosh Gupta Arvind & Kalpana Shah Sunish & Dimpi Mittal Ashok & Malvika Sawlani Susee Kanuri Ashvin Dave Twisha Handa Axay & Bhavana Prajapati Umang Patel Beena Chhablani Zena & Amar Bhakta Bharat & Pami Sheth Springfield Bharat Patel Bharat Vitha East Longmeadow/ Longmeadow Rotary Club Bhaskar & Nita Patel Bhaskar Modur SUPPORTERS Bhavna Kalaria Bhupen & Dipti Shah Atlanta Bhupendra & Niru Soni Jagan Valluri Bipin & Kailas Shah Kajal Bhatt Bipin and Rekha Parikh Prem Shanker

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SUPPORTERS SUPPORTERS Chicago Chicago Chandrakant & Devyani Shah Krishnan Mahadevan Dr. Bharat & Pallavi Jailwala Kumar & Shalini Krishnamurthy Dr. Devendra and Bindu Shah Kumud & Dhiraj Sharma Dr. Dilip & Dr. Tara Shah Madhukar & Sona Murarka Dr. Vikram & Dr. Nayan Gandhi Mahasukh & Smita Shah Drs. Jagdish & Shobha Shah Mahir & Jayshree Drs. Shirish and Anshuya Shah Manisha Patel Dushyant & Parul Khandwala Manjit & Babbo Rehal Hasmukh & Kalpana Shah Manohar Sharma Hasmukh Shah Manojkumar Patel Hemant Gandhi Mansur Kamruddin Hemant Patel Manvinder Singh Jagat & Rita Shah Meera Murali Jatin & Anokhi Patel Minaxi Shah Jayanti & Veena Shah Mithil & Shibani Shah Jeshanker & Veena Jayswal Mukesh & Nita Desai JM Patel Mukund & Madhu Saujani Kamal Dutt Naran & Aarti Karamchandani Kamal Vibhakar Nidhi Chopra Kanti & Renuka Thakkar Nilesh & Bina Shah Kernal & Chetan Parikh Nimesh & Sejal Shah Kinna Shah Niral Desai Kirit & (Late Rekha) Shah Niru & Bimal Desai Kirit & Lopa Shah Pallavi & Rohit Patel Kirti & Virendra Desai Pallavi Mehta Kishor & Trupti Kuvadia Pinal & Piyush Patel Kishore Purohit Ponnuraj Krishnakumar

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SUPPORTERS SUPPORTERS Chicago Chicago Pradip & Jyoti Shah Smruti Shah Prakash Amin Sonali Parikh Prakash Upadhyay Sonia Doshi & Chris Doerr Prashant Kothari Sri Lakshmi Chalasani Rajnikant & Chandan Shah Sudhir & Jyoti Gokhale Ram Achar Tushar Chotalia Ramesh & Daxa Patel Vijay & Chaaya Patel Ramesh & Prafulla Raval Viju Patel Rekha Desai Vivek & Sonal Gupta Rohit Vasa Springfield Sameer & Ruchi Gaur Arun Trikha Trust Samir & Aruna Shah Dr. Narayna Lebaka Sameer & Punita Vakil Johari Trust Sanj & Sapna Rathi Karnik’s Tutoring Selva & Shakila Patham Rajesh Nimbalkar Shoba & Ratnakar Rajanahally

A warm THANK YOU to our anonymous donors and sponsors.

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A sincere thank you to our sponsors! Your support is truly valuable and we appreciate your interest and contributions to The Akshaya Patra Foundation.

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With Very Best Wishes

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Thank You

Pravin and Jyotsna Shah Anderson & Shah Roofing, Inc. - Joliet, IL ABOUT AKSHAYA PATRA

Akshaya Patra means the unlimited bowl of abundance and sustenance. Beginning in 2000 serving 1,500 meals to a small group of local schools, with frugal innovation and a focus on efficiency and scalability, the organization has built world-class, highly efficient kitchens that can cook anywhere between 10,000 to 250,000 meals within 6 hours.

Over 20 years, Akshaya Patra has scaled to currently serving 1.8 million meals in over 19,000 government schools in 14 States in India daily. We source local produce, operate 55 centralized kitchens and transport hot, nutritious meals in custom-designed vans up to a distance of 40 kms. Often being the only meal in the day for the child, it serves as a critical intervention addressing both, hunger and education. $20.00 feeds a child for an entire school year.

Due to the challenges set forth by COVID-19, schools in India are closed. In an effort to make sure our students are getting the nutrition they need, Akshaya Patra has started the distribution of the “Happiness Kits” to provide 30 days worth of food and essentials for the children we normally serve through our mid-day meal program.

90 Million* meals served and counting

Total Meal Count Akshaya Patra 70,238,450

Associate Foundations 19,772,594

Grand Total 90,011,044

*As on October 6, 2020

www.FoodForEducation.org HAPPINESS KITS

Happiness Kits are essential to keep our children nourished despite the current crisis. The kit contains food, hygiene kit, and educational supplies for the mid-day meal beneficiaries. We are providing these kits in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh.

Though various Public Distribution System (PDS) and ration distribution through Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), beneficiaries and their family members get 5 kg of rice/wheat and 1 kg of Dal each. The grains, although essential, do not provide all the necessary nutrients a child needs, hence increasing vitamin and iron deficiency. During the current pandemic, the child must have a strong immune system. Therefore, the Happiness Kit supplements the child’s meals at home with additional nutrition and immunity-based food content with protein, glucose, iron, iodine & other supplements. These nutritious components match with our mid-day meal program.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation conducted a study in Karnataka to understand the impact of COVID-19 on our beneficiaries. During the study, we observed that due to a lack of steady income and savings, families could not afford hygiene items. Hence, we’ve included sanitary pads, soap, and dental hygiene kits in the Happiness Kit.

In order to bridge the learning gap, we have introduced activity-based workbooks to educate children on subjects such as mathematics, English, and a local language (Hindi, Kannada, Telugu). Students have to complete these workbooks and submit them when their parents come to collect the next ‘Happiness Kit’.

The Kit has ingredients that can suffice for 30 days for a child. The parents are instructed to open the kit after 24 hours to avoid any contamination and ensure the child completes the activity workbook for submission to school for issuance of next month’s Happiness Kit. The cost of providing one Happiness Kit for a child for a month is $8.50. The per meal cost is 18¢ as there is no subsidy provided by the government.

www.FoodForEducation.org ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Deepak Chopra Sumir Chadha Sanjeev Kapoor

Founder, Chopra Co-founder & Managing Celebrity Chef Foundation Director, WestBridge Capital Partners

Ramamurthy Narayana Murthy Dr. Nitin Nohria Sivakumar (Siva) Founder and Chairman Dean, Harvard Founder, Pragya Emeritus, Infosys Limited Business School Ventures

Vandana Tilak Satya Tiwari Fareed Zakaria

Director, Almex USA, Inc. President, Surya, Inc. Author, Journalist, Host CNN’s “GPS”

www.FoodForEducation.org BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Siva Sivaram Srivatsan Rajan Madhu Pandit Dasa

Chairman of the Board, Vice Chairman, TAPF, Chairman, TAPF India TAPF USA, President Partner, Bain & Co. Western Digital Corp

Chanchalapathi Dasa Gururaj “Desh” B.V. Jagadeesh Deshpande Vice Chairman, Managing Partner, TAPF India Chairman Emeritus KAAJ Ventures

Prabhakar “PK” Dr. Rachana Vandana Tilak Kalavacherla Kulkarni, MD Director, Almex USA, Inc. Partner, KPMG USA Cardiologist

www.FoodForEducation.org OUR TEAM

Alexia Burton Proshonjit Das Geeta Kulkarni Matt Luckey Digital Marketing IT Manager Development Director Communications Manager West Coast & Marketing Director

Anshuma Mehta Ankita Narula Shivani Patel

Finance Director Senior Development Creative Director Director

Chandani Punia Geeta Rai Swati Sharma Vandana Tilak Development Director Development Director Development Director CEO, APUSA East Coast West Coast East Coast

www.FoodForEducation.org Saturday November 21, 2020

6:45pm EST | 5:45pm CST | 3:45pm PST

Host Chapters: New York, New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut For More Information Contact: [email protected]

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Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest NGO run mid-day meal program serving 1.8 million children daily, and providing COVID relief to migrant workers, families, and Happiness Kits containing 30 days’ worth of food, hygiene, and educational supplies to their mid-day beneficiaries. www.FoodForEducation.org Ways You Can Help By taking action, you enable us to successfully provide hungry children across the country access to quality nutrition and education. You give them a chance for a brighter future. From spreading awareness in your town to donating your time or money, there are many ways to take action.

CONTRIBUTE and SPONSOR upcoming sponsor meals for kitchens and kitchen or children. 1 2 delivery equipment. VISIT a kitchen and school (when they reopen for visitors). AMAZON SMILE 3 Add Akshaya Patra as your preferred 4 charity. VOLUNTEER in the US for event planning, marketing and 5 sales expertise, speaker engagement, etc.

SOCIAL MEDIA Like our social media EMPLOYEE MATCHING pages and share updates and newsletters. Include Akshaya Patra in your company’s employee matching program. 7

6 YOUTH AMBASSADOR Invite your children to join the Youth Ambassador program and 8 encourage them to give back. ONLINE CAMPAIGNS REFER US to Start a targeted your friends, campaign and the family and money you raise will community help support Akshaya 10 networks. 9Patra. WAYS TO HELP

1. Send a check: Check donations should be made payable and mailed to: Akshaya Patra USA 6800 Owensmouth Avenue, Suite 230 Canoga Park, CA 91303

2. Pay online www.FoodForEducation.org/donate/

3. Sponsor an event

4. Wire funds

5. Donate equity or shares

6. Automobile donations

THANK YOU. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT OUR NEXT EVENT!