"A CULTURE OF INNOVATION DEMANDS INNOVATIONS IN CULTURE."  ~Sridhar Ramamoorti

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2021-2022 Program Highlight: MUSICALITY IN PARKS

CARTHA Educational Workshops and Symposium Series in partnership with Humanities Iowa

Seeking Intergenerational Healing and Grief-Relief Solutions during COVID times: Singing Nooks in our Public Parks

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Founded in 2006, CARTHA is a US 501c3 educational nonprofit with the mission of Cultivating Collaborative Doers for Humanity focused on Social Innovation, Fusion Philanthropy, and Healthfulness. Meaning doer in Sanskrit, CARTHA is an acronym coined by our founder:

Collaborative Arts in Research Translation for Human Advancement

Utilizing the question "What are your aspirations for humanity?," we uniquely bring together all-volunteer intergenerational teams of academics and practitioners (scientists, physicians, artists, writers, students, and public citizens) to design program incubation partnerships and philanthropic approaches that bridge high-aspiration innovators across disciplines, sectors, regions, and ages. 

Utilizing our C2G2 training model (described in our founder's 2009 paper), we develop and deliver our Fellows and Glocalizer programs by partnering with professional societies, campuses, conference organizers, and social service clubs.

Our selected CARTHA Fellows receive non-traditional mentoring, financial support, and access to broader networks that keep them inspired in their aspirational pursuits. While we have sponsored in the past several cross-border gatherings (e.g., in Brazil, Mexico, etc.) and the award-winning Winterim India Study Abroad, our recent Glocalizer dialogues have been organized around a wide range of topics such as using multilingual music and poetry to address unresolved grief and cultivate new and caring friendships (Iowa Corridor Sangeet); coping skills required to deal with loneliness, including during end-of-life phases; integrating mental health counseling into entrepreneurship training programs, etc. Because of COVID-related travel/gathering restrictions, we have pivoted in 2021 to safe programming (such as Musicality in Parks) that can continue, uninterrupted. 

In these pages, you can read about us to learn how and why CARTHA was founded in 2006.  You can also read about our past programs and our founder's outreach presentations and speaking engagements.  We have also made our Annual Tax Returns fully accessible to the public. 

To support and participate in our work or to partner with our 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity, please contact our founder Usha R. Balakrishnan.