The Ninash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, formed in 1996 in memory of Nina J. Malhotra. Nina was a pre-kindergarten teacher, a social worker, and a counselor. She taught Hindi at the State University of New York at Oneonta and helped found and direct the SUNY Intersession and Semester in India Programs.
 

Nina's professional life at SUNY as well as her personal life in Oneonta was dedicated to cultural interchange between diverse groups, especially between India and the USA. She assisted people of India by bringing them to the USA, educating them in the ways of America, and finding proper employment for them.

Finding ways to educate the poor and forgotten children of India held a special place in Nina's heart. Since her own life was cut tragically short by cancer, her husband, Dr. Ashok Malhotra, created the Ninash Foundation to perpetuate Nina's goals and values, especially her passionate support for the performing arts and literacy throughout the world.