• Peabody Essex Museum
• Sri Yoganand Saraswati Education & Medical Relief Trust

The Desai Family Foundation leverages its resources by building partnerships with organizations with specific geographical and subject matter expertise and resources. Our current partners include:

Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, Massachusetts www.pem.org

In conjunction with the Peabody Essex Museum, the Desai Family Foundation is working to establish programs that celebrate the rich heritage of India’s art, culture, and history. These programs may comprise of any combination of activities: performance,exhibitions,lectures, and/or symposiums. In the recent past, the Desai Family Foundation has worked with Peabody Essex Museum on the following programs: PEM hosted famous filmmaker Mira Nair in November 2005. A dinner and lecture attended by more than 200 people. The opening of Epic India: Paintings by M.F. Husain, in 2006, attended by 350 guests including the Indian Counsel General from New York City.

• India Atrium Alive, March 10th and 11th, 2007; A weekend of activities including dance performances, lecture-demonstrations, gallery visits, art-activities and films. Also featuring a lecture by Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations.
• Bombay Film Festival in October 2007.
• Gateway Bombay, an ongoing exhibit celebrating life in Bombay/Mumbai, ending in December 7, 2008.

Sri Yoganand Saraswati Education & Medical Relief Trust, Talangpur, India Click here

The Sri Yoganand Saraswati Education & Medical Relief Trust (the Trust), established in 1996, extends educational and medical relief to people of Talangpur, Gujarat, India and surrounding areas.

Working in conjunction with the Trust, the Desai Family Foundation embarked on an ambitious plan to extend its services to other areas and established the Hansa Community Development Center (the Center) in 2005. The Center will provide a rural community's residents access to quality education and tools to improve their general knowledge, develop life enhancement skills, maintain an understanding of critical health issues and ultimately improve the economic viability and sustainability for the region. The Center will become a hub of activities and extended services in the areas of health and hygiene awareness, education and economic development. The objective is to bring the region into the 21st century for social and economic sustainability through enhanced education, training and knowledge enrichment. To fulfill these activities the plan envisions four operational service centers listed below in addition to a library.