A Message From Our Board of Trustees

May 2022

Greetings from The YP Foundation (TYPF)!

We wish to share an organisational update about a leadership transition at TYPF.

Our Executive Director, Manak Matiyani will close his 7 year tenure at The YP Foundation on the 30th of June 2022. He will join The YP Foundation’s board as an advisory member thereafter. Based on a detailed and intensive process, we invited Prabhleen Tuteja, who joined TYPF as the Director of Programmes in 2018, to take up the Executive Director position. We are happy to announce her acceptance of the offer and that she will be taking over as the Executive Director at The YP Foundation from the 1st of July 2022. Manak and Prabhleen will work together to ensure a smooth and effective transition over the next 1.5 months supported by the Board and team at TYPF.

We believe in shared leadership and power both in our vision for the world as well as in our own structures and work. Ensuring the growth and development of our team members and building a leadership pipeline is firmly rooted in our practice of feminist leadership. We are committed to ensuring that transitions enable reflection, growth and leadership. Transitions at YP have demonstrated that our vision of collaborative and shared leadership is not only possible, but makes the organisation flourish. We are proud to walk this journey with our current and incoming Executive Directors and share this news with joy.

Manak took over from TYPF’s Founding Director in March 2015. He has strengthened the outreach and visibility of the organisation. He led the organisation through a phase of sustained growth, expanding partnerships to diversify our interventions and increase the depth and the scale of our impact. He has also led institutional strengthening, bringing a culture of well being, care and collaborative leadership into systems and processes. Prabhleen has been a co-leader in this work since she joined TYPF in 2018. Her extensive experience of designing, developing and leading research as well as capacity building interventions on issues of youth participation, women’s rights, sexual health and rights and violence prevention further strengthened the organisation. She is recognised as a leader within feminist movements in India and has brought that learning and practice into her work at TYPF. We welcome Prabhleen into her new role as the Executive Director of The YP Foundation and look forward to supporting her leadership and vision.

As Board members, we are closely engaged with this process and are available to address any questions around the same. We wish, most of all, to be a learning organisation. Each process and change helps us reflect deeper, build stronger and aspire higher. Please feel free to reach out to any of us, or to Manak and Prabhleen with any thoughts about this process, or suggestions for the future.

With solidarity and love.
Board of Trustees
The YP Foundation