The Deshpande Susandhi Fellowship (DSF) focuses on building rural youth with limited education but great aspirations into frontline employees of growing social enterprises. The DSF program caters to creating efficient support employees or field managers in any enterprise.

DSF plays an important role in empowering local youth from rural backgrounds with high end competitive skills in communication, management, and core sectoral knowledge, applicable in the growth of any enterprise. The primary focus of the program is to provide fellows with employable skills.