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About Us

The Cosmos Foundation is a non-profit and secular organization based in Pune, India, with over a decade of experience in driving meaningful change.

Its mission is to empower communities, transform lives, and inspire global change by addressing critical social and environmental challenges through sustainable and impactful solutions.

The Cosmos Foundation operates with core values such as integrity, collaboration, innovation, and empathy. It partners with governments, businesses, and individuals to amplify its impact and build a brighter, more inclusive future for all.

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What We Do

01.

— Promotion of Education and Intellectual Growth

Promote educational spirit and support facilities like schools, colleges, libraries, gyms, sports clubs, swimming pools, and mountaineering institutes to encourage intellectual and physical development.

03.

— Organizing Educational Activities

Conduct seminars, conferences, classes, and educational gatherings to cultivate intellectual culture and educational expertise.

05.

— Scholarships and Educational Aid

Provide scholarships and financial support (in cash or kind) for higher education, including sanctioning and disbursing necessary funds or securities.

02.

— Relief During Calamities

Offer relief during natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, famines, or any general distress, including support to other institutions engaged in similar relief work.

04.

— Promotion of Culture and Public Knowledge

Establish and aid educational, research, cultural, and public institutions such as museums, reading rooms, and art collections to spread knowledge and promote arts and sciences.

06.

— Support to Medical and Welfare Institutions

Establish and support hospitals, medical colleges, nursing homes, baby homes, vocational institutions, and similar bodies for providing aid to the poor and needy.

07.

— Student Lodging and Boarding

Set up and maintain hostels and boarding houses to provide accommodation for deserving students.

 

09.

— Provision of Professional Services

Offer professional services to individuals, institutions, banks, or establishments either voluntarily or for consideration.

11.

— Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Act as an arbitrator or assist in arbitration processes to resolve disputes under relevant legal frameworks.

08.

— Employment and Service Support

Guide unemployed individuals and provide employment or services to organizations or institutions through agreements or on a contractual basis.

10.

— Legal Trusteeship and Property Custodianship

Act as executor or administrator under wills or other legal documents and as custodian of properties entrusted to the Trust.

12.

— Property Acquisition and Management

Acquire, lease, utilize, or sell residential or commercial properties for the Trust’s activities or support its objectives.

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Our Trustees

From its inception, all the trustees of the trust have been highly qualified and professional persons who are enthusiastic about working for the trust without any expectations.

Adv. Shripad Dattatrey Panchpur (President)

Education:
B.A. Economics, LLB. Pune University Profession:
1. Practicing as an advocate in the High Court of Judicature of Mumbai
2. District Judge, Pune
3. Cooperative court and cooperative appellant Court, Pune
4. School Tribunal and University Tribunal
5. DRT, Pune & DRAT, Mumbai Appellant Court
6. Consumer forum (Court)
7. Charity commissioner and other revenue authorities, Government of Maharashtra

Practicing since 1975 onwards, i.e., last more than 50 years.

Other legal services: During my legal practice, I provided special legal services to Cosmos Cooperative Bank—services provided for more than 35 years. I also provided services to Vishweshwar Cooperative Bank for more than 25 years and Vidya Sahakari Bank Ltd. for more than 10 years.
State Bank of India for more than 10 years.
Nashik Merchant Cooperative Bank for more than 10 years, etc.

Social Legal Services provided to Various educational institutions and the staff members working in those institutes, working in Secondary School and junior college, and senior college. Provided the special services to hundreds of cooperative societies, Credit cooperative societies, Agriculture and Dairy societies.
Special services are provided to the charitable trust and its trustees and solve their problems.

Other activities: Interested in providing social services to the needy and financially weaker persons.
Also provided the special services to
1. Formation of trust
2. To participate in the management of trust, andis  presently working and participating in daily day-to-day work in management in the following trust:
1. Cosmos Foundation: A charitable trust, and my involvement is from the formation and establishment of the trust, and presently working as the President of the trust since no.of years.
2. Working as a founder and Trustee of Bhatewara Foundation, Charitable Trust
3. Kasba Ganpati Devsthan Chaturthri Trust: I have been working in this trust for more than 10 years as a Trustee.
4. Appasaheb Patwardhan Charitable Trust: since the day of its foundation.

Education:
M.A. B.Ed, PhD. (Geography)

Profession:
1) Principal at the modern college Shivaji Nagar, Pune. 2) Supervisor at hostel of Vidyarthi Sahayak Samiti Shivaji Nagar, Pune.
3) Selected as an employment officer in 1978 by the Maharashtra Public Service Commission

Notable work:
1) 52 lectures in 13 districts of Maharashtra under the program of Shikshan vyavsay water conducted by Delhi Sakal
2) For the first time in the state employment rally was organised in Pune and employed thousands of unemployed
3) Retired from Pune on June 2007 from the post of Deputy Director employment and self employment.

Social work:
1) Former President of Rotary Club of Kothrud Pune and currently the member of the same
2) Trustee & Secretary of Cosmos Foundation, Pune.
3) Founder and President of ‘Susangat Foundation’ Pune.

Award:
Received the ‘Punya shlok ahilyadevi Samaj Bhushan’ Award at Sangli in 2016.

Amarnath Chakradeo Engineer by profession works in renewable, clean green Energy and also works as a consultant on various projects. In the last 25 years of business worked on various projects and done extensive research granted about 15 patents on the name. Social work in the field of KHO KHO, Music, Ved पाठशाला.

Consultancy Project:
1. Working in renewable energy space since 2007 especially focused on rooftop solutions.
2. Awarded platinum rating to one of the first PCNTDA building projects in 2012 by the president of India.
3. Work as an Electrical consultant & renewable Energy consultant for various builders & architects in Pune.
4. Jointly working on product development with Fraunhofer IKTS Germany.
5. Founder member of Orange Country Foundation working on Educating & implementing green building technology in the real world.

Other Activity:
1. State-level KHO-KHO player is also a member of the KHO-KHO club in Pune.
2. Work as a visiting professor for renewable energy subjects @ ‘M’ARCH Environmental.
3. Resource person for various faculty development programs done by various Engineering colleges.

Dr. Ashok Joshi obtained an M.Com. (Costing), M.A. (Economics), MMS (Marketing), and Ph.D. (Cost Accounting) from the University of Pune and has teaching & research experience of more than 42 years. He led pioneering research projects in Socio-Economic Development sponsored by the Planning Commission, ICAR, ICFTU, and NCDC. He has also been a research guide for more than 35 Ph. D students. His books include the critically acclaimed Essays on Political Economy – “No Water in the Tap” and “Chachanchya Hataat Arthavyavastha” in Marathi (Economy in the Hands of Pirates) and has edited Monographs on Poverty Alleviation and Bottom of the Pyramid Models and Environmental Management System, edited book on ‘Developing South Asia as a Global Hub of Management Professionals’ of SAMF 2013. Dr.Joshi is also an advisor to several reputed business schools and is currently President, of the Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CSBE), Mumbai since 2015.

Dr. Joshi has been conferred with various awards and recognitions. Some prominent ones include: –
1. Ravi J Mathai National Fellow Award (2004) of the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS)
2. Dharni Sinha Memorial Award (2009) for excellence in management education.
3. Honorary Fellow Membership of CPM Sri Lanka by the Institute of the Certified Professional Managers of Sri Lanka (2009)
4. Achiever of Excellence Award by Bombay Management Association. (2011-12)
5. Pride of BMCC Award of Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC), Pune (2016)
6. Vocational Excellence Rotary Award by Rotary Club of Pune East (2016).
7. Prof. Y. K. Bhushan 100 Most Dedicated Teachers of India Award (2017).
8. PMA Honorary Fellowship – 2023 awarded by Project Management Associates, India for his contribution to Teaching and Research of more than four decades and pioneering Research Projects in Socio-Economic Development.

Education:
B.A. LL.B.

Profession:
Pensioner (Ret. District & Session Judge) Registered as a consultant and rendering consultancy mainly in legal matters.

Experience: 
Advocate for 4 years, Asst. Public Prosecutor for 33 for one year, Judicial Officer years and then was re appointed as Judicial member Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal, Mumbai for 4 years and thereafter notified by the Government of Maharashtra (Department of Co- operation) u/sec. 84 of Multistate Co- operative Societies Act 2002.

Any other social activity: Actively working for Senior Citizen Groups and /by rendering consultancy in all fields without charging any fees and also working for and with the institutions which are rendering spiritual discourses, for healing the mindstate of the people.

Education:
1) 2004 Completed Bachelors in Commerce from BMCC
2) 2007 Completed Bachelor in Law from ILS Law College.

Profession:
Since then practicing law, in district courts and civil courts at Pune, Ahmadnagar, Satara, Solapur, Khed, etc., and independently litigating property, family, Cooperative society, bank matters as well as revenue matters.
Also practicing before various tribunals and forums including Consumer Commission, Debt Recovery Tribunal, Co-operative Registrar’s as well as High Court Bombay
Since 2009

Associated with the Cosmos Co-op. Bank Ltd. and rendering professional services.

Presently empaneled as a legal consultant with:-
Bank of Maharashtra
HDFC Bank
The Vishweshwar Sahakari Bank Ltd.
Vidya Sahakari Bank Ltd.
Udyam Vikas Co-Op. Bank Ltd.
Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd.
As well as several paranthas.

Other Activity:
From 2008 to 2010 worked as a part-time lecturer at INDSEARCH Institute of Management Studies and Research.

Also associated with private companies and firms.

Education:
M.com, LL.B

Experience Highlights: Practicing Advocate for 32 years.

Banking and Finance Experience: Worked with South Indian Bank, Punjab National Bank, and Canara Bank (1992-1995) – Panel Advocate for Syndicate Bank (now Canara Bank), Bank of Maharashtra, and ICICI Bank – Legal Director, Pancia Securities Limited (Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange) – Legal Manager, Vidya Cooperative Bank Pune (worked for them 5 years).

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution: Assistant to Arbitration Council, Cosmos Bank Pune ( worked for them for 6 months).

Additional Experience: Handled civil matters independently in Labour Court, Cooperative Court, and Consumer Court – Appointed as Panel Advocate for NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India) for Maharashtra ( worked for them for 20 years).

Social Work and Philanthropy: Founder member & Managing Trustee of Nivedita Pratishthan (charitable organization) – Engaged in social work activities for 25 years. -Founder member & Chairperson of Shelter Legal Aid Centre.