Gururaj (Desh) and Jaishree Deshpande have encouraged the use of entrepreneurship and innovation as catalysts for sustainable change in the United States, India and Canada since 1996. This website and references to the “Deshpande Foundation” are an all-encompassing description of their global philanthropic pursuits.

The Foundation’s current projects include:

The MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation based at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts	The Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship located on the BV Bhoomaraddi College campus in Hubli, Karnataka, India that hosts the activities in the Hubli Sandbox	The Merrimack Valley Sandbox located on the University of Massachusetts campus in Lowell, Massachusetts
The Pond Deshpande Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton/St. John, New Brunswick, Canada	The Deshpande Innovation Network an international network of universities focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and creation of new enterprises