Association With JAINA

JAINA is the Federation of Jain Associations in North America. It is an umbrella organization of 72 Jain Centers across the USA and Canada, representing 150,000 members. Founded in 1981 with the mission to preserve, practice and promote Jainism, its philosophy and the Jain way of living. JAINA is the largest Jain organization outside of India. 

Dr. Jasvant Modi joined JAINA back in 1980 as a life member, he is currently a Board Member and VP of Jain Center of Los Angeles for JAINA. He became the JAINA director for Jain Center of Los Angeles in April 2017 and for Jain Center of Southern California in April 2019.

He has been working tirelessly towards inspiring other Jain centers to become vegan, spreading the message of academic leadership, professorship chair at Universities and creating an Endowment Fund for JAINA.