Remembering Anaya
Monica Kachru and Rajeev Tipnis started the Anaya Tipnis Foundation in 2018, in honor of their daughter Anaya, who they tragically lost, weeks before she was going to start as a freshman at MIT.
It was Anaya’s vision to help students that did not have the access to opportunities she had, get the education they deserved.
It all started with an independent project Anaya pursued during her senior year of high school, to solve the inequity in education for students from underserved communities, which sparked an epiphany about her own purpose. She wanted to "level the playing field”, so that economically disadvantaged students could be, just as equipped to navigate and graduate college, as their privileged peers.
It is with Anaya’s ethos, and her insatiable desire to make the world a better and a more equitable place, that the Anaya Tipnis Foundation was created.
Our Mission
Our mission is to close the graduation gap for low-income and first-generation college students.
We envision a world where the college campuses are inclusive of low-income and first-generation students, and committed to helping them graduate and pursue their most ambitious dreams.
We strive to achieve this mission, by providing the scholars a comprehensive support they need to persevere through the financial, emotional, and academic challenges of the journey through the college years.
Our Mission
Our mission is to close the graduation gap for low-income and first-generation college students.
We strive to achieve this mission, by providing the scholars a comprehensive support they need to persevere through the financial, emotional, and academic challenges of the journey through the college years.
We envision a world where the college campuses are inclusive of low-income and first-generation students, and committed to helping them graduate and pursue their most ambitious dreams.
Our Mission
Our mission is to close the graduation gap for low-income and first-generation college students.
We strive to achieve this mission, by providing the scholars a comprehensive support they need to persevere through the financial, emotional, and academic challenges of the journey through the college years.
We envision a world where the college campuses are inclusive of low-income and first-generation students, and committed to helping them graduate and pursue their most ambitious dreams.
Our Team
Leadership Team fully dedicated to the mission of the Foundation
Our Volunteers
We are grateful to a growing community of passionate individuals who give their time, effort and skills to mentor the scholars, help raise funds, or assist in various activities and tasks of the Foundation
Volunteers and Mentors
Peer Mentor Volunteers
Our Core Values
Student Centered
We listen to our students, and evolve based on their needs
Scale Responsibly
As we grow, our emphasis in on retaining our small organization feel, our compassion and connection to our mission
Community-minded
We are a community of students, volunteers, donors, mentors. We lean on each other, we ask for what we need, we show up for each other
Vulnerability is Power
We celebrate wins, but we also share our challenges, struggles and moments of doubt. By doing so, we allow others in to support us