Care that goes to people
For people who cannot afford care, or live too far from it. This is the work the foundation started with.
Come in. There’s room.
Potnis Foundation backs people already doing the work in healthcare and education, and builds free public goods anyone can use. One new one every year. Based in Mumbai and Dubai. Started by a doctor in Maharashtra.
Three rooms. We want more people in all of them.
A seat for people who missed one
For learners who fell behind or never got a place. Our first work supports people running catch-up and club sessions for girls.
Technology that serves the people who get left out
Most tools get built for the people who are easiest to reach. We build for the rooms that get skipped, and we give the tools away.
Everyone gets a fair shot at health and learning, no matter where they live.
That is the whole foundation. We work where access runs short, and we leave the tools behind.
We hold doors open. And we build new ones.
Back partners
Foundations, NGOs and institutions are already doing good work in health and learning. We back them so it reaches further. Sometimes the most useful thing is to hold the door.
Build open public goods
Tools and programmes anyone can use, adapt and share. Made once, printed anywhere, running in many rooms at the same time. Free, with no account and no permission needed.
More care, more learning, fewer people left outside the room.
This door has no lock.
We release one free public good every year, and it stays free.
Anyone can print it, use it, change it and pass it on. No login, no sign-up, no cost, ever.
01 · On the shelf nowGirls’ Open Learning Packs
02 · In progressEnglish Starter Shelf
NextNot written yet.This space is kept for the next one.
The shelf grows by one a year. Tell us what belongs on it.
Girls’ Open Learning Packs
Printable session packs for facilitators who run catch-up and club sessions.
- 1Download
The pack as a PDF.
- 2Print
As many copies as your group needs.
- 3Run your session
Change anything that does not fit, and credit Potnis Foundation.
It began with a doctor who went to them.
Dr Pramod Potnis spent decades bringing free medical care to villages across Maharashtra, starting with weekend camps in places like Chikli, Alibaug.
He believed care should reach people who could not afford it. We still do. The foundation carries that belief from Mumbai and Dubai to wherever it is needed.
In memory of Dr Pramod Potnis
Two names by the bell.
Potnis Foundation is a family foundation, stewarded by Nameet Potnis and Radhika Mehta. It is based in Mumbai and Dubai and works globally.
Write to either of us. You get one of us, not a form.
Nameet PotnisSteward
Radhika MehtaSteward
Mumbai and DubaiWorks globally
Pull up a chair.
We want to work with foundations, NGOs and institutions in health, education and technology for people, in the Gulf and beyond. If you fund, run or study programmes for people who get left out, there is a seat at this table.
- Co-fundingBack programmes together so they reach further.
- Programme partnershipsDesign and run work with us, in health or in learning.
- Open goods, new placesAdapt what we have made for your language, region or room.
Tell us what you are working on and who it serves. We will reply ourselves, and say plainly whether we are the right partner for it.
Write to [email protected]
We read every message ourselves.