[Archives: 2018]

Social Welfare : US

    Children
  1. First Book, Washington DC 20004
    • Project location: NY and CA
    • Category: Children, education
    • Funding for making approximately 15,385 books and 5980 non-book items availabe to high poverty schools and programs in greater Los Angeles, and greater NYC (including Nassau county) schools (Details)
  2. Parent Resource Center, Port Washington, NY
    • Project location: Port Washington, NY
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for operating Outreach program for financially disadvantaged families (Details)
  3. St Nicks Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
    • Project location: Brooklyn, NY
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for operating the BK Book Voyager, a mobile library that serves schools in north Brooklyn (Details)
    Adults
  4. Literacy Nassau Inc, Freport, NY
    • Project location: Wantagh, NY
    • Category: Adults, Education
    • Funding for externships at Literacy Nassau to enable graduating students to acquire work skills (Details)
    Food pantries
  5. Reaching Out Community Services, Brooklyn, NY
    • Project location: Brooklyn, NY
    • Category: Adults, food
    • Funding for operating Homeless Feeding Program (van) and vegetarian food items for food pantry (Details)

    Social Welfare : India

    Children - education
  6. Anisha (Karnataka, India)/Susila Dharma USA
    • Project location: Karnataka, India
    • Category: Children, Food/education
    • Funding for educating rural students on development and maintenance of organic ktchen gardens (Details)
  7. Akshaya Patra USA
    • Project location: Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India
    • Category: Children, Food
    • Support for purchasing and outfitting 2 vans for food delivery from Akshaya Patra kitchen in Bubhaneswar to neighbouring schools (Details)
  8. Children International, Kansas City, MO 64131
    • Project location: Delhi, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for child in impoverished family in India (Details)
    • Support for 8 non-formal Learning Resource Centers for children in Delhi, India (Details)
  9. CRY America, Braintree, MA, 02185
    • Project location: Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for working with an indian organization (RDWS) in Tamil Nadu, to address rural child issues of child labor and education (Details)
  10. EDUCATR, Usilimpatti, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Usilampatti, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for library in school (Details)
  11. Ekal Vidyala Foundation of USA, Burlington, MA, 01803
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for non-formal tutoring, given in 100 "Ekal" schools in Assam and Maharashtra, India, and to provide 30 of these schools with computer tablets (Details)
  12. Food for Life Vrindavan (FFLV)
    • Project location: Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for improving the software infrastructure of an organization running 3 schools for girls in Vrindavan, India (Details)
  13. Hope Abides, Washington State, USA
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Children, Education/Food
    • Funding to assist 2 orphanages in India, Aum Pranava Ashram in Tamil Nadu and Saraswati Anath Shikshan Ashram in Pune (Details)
  14. Lotus Outreach International, San Diego, CA 92102
    • Project location: Vellore, Tamil Nadu and Mewat, Rajasthan, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for Blossom Bus to transport female children and university students safely to and from school/college, Mewat district, Haryana, and Rajasthan, India (Details)
    • Support for Buddha Smiles, non-formal tutoring for poor village children in Vellore district, India (Details)
  15. Sevalaya, Thiruninravur, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for uniforms for 2116 students (Details)
  16. Vallalar Educational Trust, Kanjanur, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Project location: Kanjanur, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for school (Details)
    Children - orphanages
  17. Adruta Children Home (RAWA Adacemy)
    • Project location: Bolangir, Odisha, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for constructing and maintaining an orphanage in Bolangir, Odisha (Details)
  18. Saraswati Anath Shikshan Ashram, Dapodi, Pune, India
    • Project location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding to complete construction of dining room on first floor of orphanage(Details)
  19. Seva Chakkara Samajam, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food
    • Funding to pay for food-related expenses of residents at orphanage in Chennai, India (Details)
  20. Sri Kanyakumari Gurukula Ashram
    • Project location: Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for maintenance of orphanage (Details)
    Disabled
  21. Hope Charitable Trust, Chennai
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Disability Assistance
    • Funding for buying bus for orphanage for disabled children in Chennai (Details)
    Adults
  22. Action for India, Delhi, India/Los Altos, CA
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Adults, Entrepreneur Empowerment
    • Funding for running Rural Entrepreneur Advisor Services (Details)
  23. Grass Roots India, Cuttack, Odisha, India
    • Project location: Cuttack, Odisha, India
    • Category: Adults, Livelihood Training
    • Funding for running home for destitute girls (a project of Womens Independent Self Help (WISH) Network) (Details)
  24. Rotary Club Madras East, Chennai, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adults, Health (Vision Care)
    • Funding for eyecare equipment for rural populations in Tamilnadu (Details)
  25. Womens Organization for Rural Development, Namakkal, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adults, Livelihood Training
    • Funding to setup tailoring centers to provide skill training to rural women, Tamil Nadu, India (Details)
    Old age homes/Food
  26. Sri Poorna Mahameru Trust, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adult Seniors, Food
    • Funding for old age home (Details)

Higher Education

    US
  1. Nalanda2, CA
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Higher Education
    • Funding to investigate the development of a university for advanced studies on lines of public-private partnership in India (Details)
  2. University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (UCLA)
    • Project location: Los Angeles, CA
    • Category: Higher Education
    • Funding for Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Department (Details) (Awardee: Saptadeep Pal )
    • Funding for Second Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Department (Details) (Awardee: Debarnab Mitra )
    • Funding for Third Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Department (Details) (Awardee: Parthe Pandit )
    • Funding for new System Scaling Laboratory in Engineering VI in Electrical Engineering Department (Details) ( Inauguration of Eng VI )
    • Funding for under graduate students in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (Details)
    • Partial funding for an under graduate student fellowship to honor Prof C. R. Viswanathan at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Spirituality, Arts & Culture

    US
  1. Sri Arunachala Ashram, Jamaica, NY 11432
    • Project location: Jamaica, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Contribution towards general expenses of Arunachala Ashram (Details)
  2. Hindu Temple Society of North America, Flushing, NY 11355
    • Project location: Flushing, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Infrastructure improvement (construction of staff quarters) (Details)
  3. Long Island Children's Museum, Garden City
    • Project location: Garden City, NY
    • Category: Cultural
    • Support for conducting Holi Festival in March 2019 (Details) (Project photos)
  4. Sacramento Mahaperiyavaa Mandali, USA
    • Project location: Sacramento, CA
    • Category: Cultural
    • Support for organization that conducts Hindu cultural/religious programs in Sacramento area, CA (Details)
  5. Sri Bhagavad Ramanuja Millenium Foundation, NY
    • Project location: Ossining, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for publication of English commentaries of Swamy Desikan's Taatparya Chandrikaa (commentary on Bhagavad Gita) and Sahasra Naamam of MahA Lakshmi created in the form of UpanyAsams of Sri Nadathur KarunNAkarachaAr Swamy (similar to the annotated commentary of Sri Vishnu Sahasra nAmam created by Sri Parasara Bhattar 900 years ago)
    • Support for scanning back issues of Narasimha Priya (English and Tamil) and making them available on www.sadagopan.org (Details)
  6. Samskrita Bharati, USA
    • Project location: Washington, DC
    • Category: Cultural
    • Support for conducting Samskrita Bharati's 9th Annual Program (Details)
  7. Sri Krishna Ashram, Marlboro, NJ 07746
    • Project location: Marlboro, NJ
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Contribution towards general expenses of Sri Krishna Ashram ( Details )
  8. Sri Ramanuja Mission of Srirangam Srimath Andavan Ashramam
    • Project location: Franklin Twshp, NJ
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for building Kalaharam and Ananda Nilaya Vimanam at Perumal temple in Franklin township, NJ (Details)
    India
  9. Srirangam Srimad Andavan Ashramam
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Partial support for 125 students at 6 Veda patasalas (Srirangam, Tiruchanoor, Vadoor, Uthiramerur, Srimushnam and TV Puram) (Details)
  10. Sri Pratyaksha Charitable Trust, Chennai, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for 20 students at Vedapatasalas at Mahendramangalam and Thandalam and partial support for 606 students at Patasala-cum-school at 11 locations (Vidya Niketan School, Bangalore, Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya School at Avadi, Chennai, Sampradaya Patashala at Tirupati and Hyderabad, Nadaswara Patasala for boys at Tiruttani, Nadaswara Patasala for girls at Karveti Nagar, Shaiva Agama Patasala at Mayavaram, Pancharatra Agama Patasala at Tirupati and Sangeeta Patasala at Chennai) (Details)
  11. Vilakkoli Perumal Thoopul Vedanta Desikan Charitable Trust, Kanchipuram, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for Veda Paaraayanam at Sri Varadaraja Temple, Kanchipuram, and support for Veda students and priests at Sri Vilakkoli Perumal Temple in Srithoopul and conducting of Veda Sadas and Vedaparayana at divya desams for Sri Desikan's 750 birth anniversary (Details)
    • Support for conducting daily pooja at Sri Pillan sannidhi in Kanchipuram (Details)