Built for Impact. Designed for Accountability.

Tanwi Chakraborty

Tanwi Chakraborty is a social development leader with over 11 years of experience designing, managing, and scaling community development programmes across health, nutrition, education, livelihoods, women’s empowerment, and youth development. Her professional journey spans grassroots implementation, government systems, research, programme leadership, CSR partnerships, donor engagement, and institutional fundraising, providing her with a rare ability to connect community realities with strategic decision-making.

Over the course of her career, she has led and supported programmes that have reached millions of individuals across urban, rural, peri-urban, and tribal communities in West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Assam. She has managed programme portfolios valued at up to ₹4.5 crore, mobilised CSR and philanthropic funding, built multi-stakeholder partnerships, and strengthened governance, compliance, monitoring, and impact measurement systems for development organisations.

Prior to founding HEIRR Foundation, Tanwi held leadership positions with reputed social sector organisations and worked extensively with government departments, local administrations, CSR partners, foundations, and community institutions. Her experience includes managing foreign-funded and CSR-supported programmes, leading district and state-level initiatives, strengthening donor accountability systems, and building sustainable models that continue delivering impact beyond project cycles.

A Gold Medallist in Anthropology, Tanwi brings a strong research and evidence-based approach to development practice. Her work is grounded in the belief that lasting social change requires more than service delivery—it requires community ownership, institutional strengthening, accountable partnerships, and measurable outcomes.

At HEIRR Foundation, she provides strategic leadership across programme design, partnerships, resource mobilisation, governance, and organisational development. Her vision is to build an institution that combines professional rigour with deep community engagement, ensuring that every partnership, every programme, and every rupee invested contributes to meaningful and sustainable change for underserved communities.

Under her leadership, HEIRR Foundation is committed to transparency, accountability, evidence-driven decision-making, and long-term impact—principles that guide every aspect of the organisation’s work and partnerships.