Doctor Leaves Secure Job to Help 100+ Nonprofits Thrive

Dr. Khushbu Taori Modi had a problem she couldn't shake. Everywhere she looked, she saw people desperate to help and charities desperate for support, but the two groups never seemed to find each other.

As a medical student, she once saved a child with cancer by rallying fellow students to donate blood and money after his family ran out of funds. The experience stuck with her: the help was there, but the family had nearly given up because they didn't know where to look.

Ten years later, working as a government medical officer in Thane, India, she saw the same frustrating pattern. Small nonprofits doing incredible work struggled to find volunteers and funding while people messaged her constantly asking how they could contribute to good causes.

In February 2024, she made a choice that shocked almost everyone who knew her. She resigned from her secure government position without another job lined up.

Her husband and a handful of close friends supported the leap. Most others thought she was making a serious mistake, walking away from stability and a respected role her children had grown up seeing her perform.

The Ripple Effect

Khushbu didn't want to start another nonprofit. Instead, she created SewaConnect, a free platform that verifies social organizations and connects them with everything they need: volunteers, professional expertise, donors, and corporate partners.

The results came faster than she expected. In less than two years, SewaConnect has supported more than 100 organizations and connected over 100 volunteers to meaningful work.

The platform has mobilized more than one crore rupees (about $130,000) in corporate social responsibility funding and facilitated over 50 partnerships between nonprofits that can now share resources and knowledge. Another 50 connections between corporations and community groups are opening new doors for sustained support.

During her government work, Khushbu had seen how corporate partnerships transformed tuberculosis diagnosis in her city by funding advanced equipment. Now she's replicating that model across dozens of causes and communities.

Her background spans everything from TB control to COVID-19 response, giving her unique insight into how systems can work better together. She spent years volunteering in rural areas like Gadchiroli, learning from pioneers who showed her that simple approaches could scale if the right people knew about them.

The platform verifies each organization before listing them, so donors and volunteers know their time and money will make a real difference. For small groups doing life-changing work in their communities, that verification opens doors that were previously locked.

Khushbu calls it contributing differently, and hundreds of organizations and volunteers are grateful she took the risk.