Testimonials
Aneeha has been an invaluable asset to AAC, and I am confident she would be the same for any organisation she worked with. She helped us to finalise the set-up as a registered 501c3 in California and transition from a fiscal sponsor necessitating the set up of our own internal infrastructure for managing finances and payroll. Not only is she meticulous with all compliance with the numerous countries and laws we have to comply with for our international staff and to keep our 501c3 status, but she also proactively suggests changes and implements processes which make our whole organisation run more efficiently. She also is very efficient at independently researching the best vendors that are both cost-efficient and meet the organisation's needs.
Lauren Mee
CEO and Co-founder, Animal Advocacy Careers
Aneeha Patwardhan was a revelation to our organization. She streamlined many of Vegan Outreach's operations systems and saved us a significant amount of time and money in processing payroll, disbursing payments, HR tasks from onboarding to tax and regulatory compliance, applying beneficial technologies, and making for the best and smoothest work environment possible. Aneeha is brilliant and further is a true joy to work with. She is a force of nature, and driven to help organizations with her many talents. She has my highest recommendation. You will never regret hiring her expertise to improve your organization.
Victor Sjodin
Vice President, Vegan Outreach
Aneeha is wonderful to work with - thoughtful, communicative, and knowledgeable. We engaged her in conducting an operational audit and I'm so glad we did. The process was straightforward and didn't require a big lift on our side, and the audit report she produced exceeded my expectations. I'm confident that acting on her recommendations will improve the cost-effectiveness and overall efficiency of our organization.
Brooke Haggerty
Executive Director, Faunalytics
Our operational audit with Aneeha Patwardhan Consulting was so helpful and efficient. With very little relative effort from my team and me, we received a succinct, targeted audit report full of practical recommendations. Aneeha and her team fully understood our processes quickly and easily, and all of the recommendations are useful and on point. For busy operational professionals, especially those in lean teams such as ours, having this outside perspective to step back and offer quick wins and insights into how we can best improve is so helpful, as we are often too close to it and too busy delivering day to day functions to have that perspective and bandwidth. We now have a practical action plan and are in a much better position to prioritise our optimisations and improvements to support our mission. Hugely grateful for this opportunity and would highly recommend.
Alison McCants
Head of Operations, The Humane League UK
Aneeha is the operations expert your organization needs. I am so grateful for her leadership, guidance, and expertise. Aneeha has helped us with a wide range of tasks including nonprofit setup, reporting and compliance, bookkeeping, and navigating the many tools and software necessary for efficient nonprofit management. On top of this, she is kind, thoughtful, and takes the time to make sure we understand what the best options are. I don’t want to think about where we would be without her and her team!
Taylor Ford
President, CRFB
Working with Aneeha has been a transformative experience for our organisation. Aneeha is highly professional, methodical, and provides very timely delivery of results. Even though we are based in different countries, I find Aneeha highly competent in addressing our operational challenges, providing relevant solutions and recommendations. As we transition in our team's growth, Aneeha's expertise in compliance, work processes, and backend auditing has been instrumental in professionalising our operations. I highly recommend her for anyone seeking an effective operations consultant. Thanks to Aneeha, our organisation is on the path towards enhanced productivity and operational excellence.
Wanyi Zeng
Executive Director, Welfare Matters
Aneeha is a thorough professional who is skilled at what she does and is extremely knowledgeable. We engaged her in conducting an operational audit. The process was thorough and straightforward. The audit report she prepared was extremely detailed and left no stone unturned. We are confident that acting on her recommendations will improve the cost-effectiveness and overall efficiency of our organization in a big way. We highly recommend her services.
Dr. Mini Vasudevan
Managing Trustee, Humane Animal Society (HAS)
Aneeha is a powerhouse! I appreciate how attentive, detailed, friendly, and communicative she was through the entire audit process. It is clear that she is an expert at what she does - both through the questions she asks, and her final recommendations. I feel very reassured after working with Aneeha, and was also reminded of the importance of having a strong, organized operational system that will ultimately allow our organization to be more efficient and impactful with our work. We plan on implementing all of her recommendations and I am excited to do so, particularly automating many of my processes so I can spend more energy and time on other areas. I also love that she is mission aligned with our work at Plant Futures too, and would recommend her to anyone!
Samantha Derrick
Executive Director, Plant Futures Initiative
It has been such a pleasure working with Aneeha. She is organized and efficient, and has the ability to anticipate the organization's needs. She oversaw large projects for us that saved us time and energy. She was able to implement better organizational systems and processes, such as organizing our information drive. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Aneeha to anyone and everyone.
Cortney Busch
Chief Operations Officer, Material Innovation Initiative
As a new organization, one of our goals for this year is to solidify a strong operational foundation in order to scale sustainably. Aneeha Patwardhan Consulting played a crucial role in helping us meet this objective. Aneeha's audit of our current operations was comprehensive and reassured us that we are in good operational standing, and the list of recommendations have been immensely helpful. We plan to implement many of their recommendations, including ensuring greater security measures, developing better risk assessment procedures, enhancing our HR processes, and exploring new resources and technology to improve efficiency.
Ilana Braverman
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Greener by Default
Aneeha came to us highly recommended by an esteemed strategic planning leader, and has been a true gift. Not only is Aneeha exceptional in her role as an Operations Consultant, in which she handles all our payroll, accounting, and compliance needs with proficiency and professionalism, her personal values are completely aligned with ours. Though value alignment is not necessary in such a consulting role, for us it has made a huge difference. From helping me research planet and animal-friendly investment options for our nonprofit to guiding me on employment and staff management practices that are just and equitable, Aneeha also brings with her the skills of a professional coach. Aneeha's methodical, conscientious, responsive, and thoughtful approach combined with her kind and pleasant demeanour make her an absolute delight to work with. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Nandita Bajaj
Executive Director, Population Balance
Without Aneeha, I would have spent countless hours struggling through operations tasks that I have zero experience with: setting up payroll in Gusto, establishing a new bookkeeping system in Quickbooks, getting various legal and financial forms from the state government, and so on. Aneeha made all of this a breeze, letting me know what information was needed from me and taking care of everything else, which allowed me to focus my time and energy on furthering our mission at Connect For Animals. Whenever I had a question, she always took the time to explain things, and her deep expertise in operations work was obvious. She got things done quickly and thoroughly, handling absolutely everything except the few things I was needed for. In addition to all of this, it was a pleasure working with her. I plan on working with Aneeha again for many of our future operations needs.
Steven Rouk
Founder, Connect For Animals
At Animal Alliance Asia, we were impressed by Aneeha Patwardhan Consulting's meticulous audit service. The list of recommendations exceeded our expectations, offering valuable insights based on their expertise in NGO best practices. We are eager to implement their suggestions to enhance our internal processes for greater efficiency and equity!
Elly Nakajima
Co-Founder, Director, Animal Alliance Asia
As our Vice President of Operations, Aneeha has transformed many of our most onerous tasks such that they now take little staff time. She has moved our payroll and employee reimbursement systems to cost-effective platforms and created customized automations for many of our specialized systems. Aneeha has overseen the creation of a library of SOPs for all the processes of our entire organization. Aneeha is professional, takes feedback well, and is a pleasure to work with!
Jack Norris
Executive Director, Vegan Outreach
Aneeha supported Fortify Health with a hefty project that was long overdue: she led the transfer of our entire Google Drive to Google Workspace, and restructured our backend Drive and folder structure. Aneeha was brilliant at ensuring everyone in the team had the information they needed, communicating her expertise and recommendations during the design of the new structure, and running training sessions with the full Fortify Health team. Aneeha is very patient, organised, well-informed, a strong communicator, and a delight to work with!
Nikita Patel
Founder and CEO, Fortify Health
I have had the privilege of working with Aneeha since 2019 and have noticed her rare and very valuable combination of talents. She is a highly skilled operations manager and conducts herself on a professional, executive level. Aneeha consistently demonstrates her technical and operational expertise, analytical skills, and dedication in every project. She has a knack for handling complex problems and creating appropriate solutions - she is an excellent problem solver. Aneeha is hard-working, dependable, a great communicator, and an inspiration to her team members. I highly recommend Aneeha to any organization that has the opportunity to work with her.
Lena Ludwig
former VP and EVP at Mercy For Animals and Vegan Outreach
I appreciate Aneeha's efforts helping the organization set up a key operational process. As a newer organization with limited resources, there were some things that were unfamiliar and time-consuming. Aneeha was communicative, responsive, and timely. She was able to get a new operational process set up in very short order and saved the organization a great deal of time that would have been spent figuring things out. Instead, we were able to put that time towards doing legal work for animals. We're appreciative of Aneeha's assistance.
Will Lowrey
Legal Counsel, Animal Partisan
We engaged Aneeha to set up and run our US entity's payroll systems, and I'm very happy that we did! She's registered in 2 states, advised on benefits and other issues, and has generally been very helpful. I've been impressed with her knowledge and communication.
Amrit Sidhu-Brar
Operations Lead, Center on Long-Term Risk
I had the pleasure of working with Aneeha in 2022 when we collaborated on a streamlined toolkit to help start non profits and set up operating systems and processes. She conducted thorough and self directed research, received and implemented feedback well, and was overall pleasant and easy to work with. Aneeha was reliable and hard-working and I would recommend her work ethics and expertise in operations.
Anna Yelizarova
Project Director, Future of Life Institute
I am so glad we found Aneeha! She is efficient, hard-working, trustworthy, knowledgeable, and professional. Aneeha stepped into a complex interim role for several months and was able to keep our operations going smoothly. We are grateful.
