Akshaya Patra USA, the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal program, is a remarkable social enterprise. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, President and CEO Madhu Sridhar discusses how the organization functions to feed more than 1 million children each day in 7,000 schools through 19 kitchens in 8 states in India. Learn how this public-private partnership combines good management, innovative technology, and smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. Sridhar was a 2009 Tech Awards winner.
Madhu Sridhar is the president and CEO of Akshaya Patra USA. Sridhar brings with her more than 20 years of experience with nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining Akshaya Patra, she served for four years as the president of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts with 60 chapters spread throughout the state. In January 2008, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts appointed Sridhar to the Commonwealth Corps, an 11 member commission he initiated (the first of its kind in the nation) that engages Massachusetts residents of all ages and backgrounds to rebuild communities. She is a former commissioner for the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, which aims to provide a permanent, effective voice for women across Massachusetts. She has worked as the director of the actuarial department for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts and as a consultant for Peat Marwick & Mitchell and New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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