Dakshana's founders and management have a few core aspects to their vision for Dakshana. These are:

• To be intensely and singularly focused on one or two causes.
• To focus on causes that do not have a natural funding constituency.
• To focus on causes that deliver the highest possible return on invested capital measured in terms of the improvement in quality of life.
• To be scalable.
• To be self-sustaining where the beneficiary of aid today is the donor of tomorrow.

There are likely many causes around the planet that fit this vision. We've decided to focus on Education of the gifted and impoverised in India. And within that broad tent, we're further focused on giving these gifted kids the same opportunity to join IIT that middle-class or upper class Indians have.