[Archives: 2019]

Social Welfare : US

    Children
  1. First Book, Washington DC 20004
    • Project location: NY and CA
    • Category: Children, education
    • Funding for making approximately 23,000 books and 4800 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)
  4. Youth Leadership Development Program, New Jersey
    • Project location: Princeton, NJ
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for running classes for children providing training in public speaking, emotional intelligence and mindfulness (Details)
    Adults
  5. 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)
  6. Port Washington Library Foundation, NY
    • Project location: Port Washington, NY
    • Category: Adult, Education
    • Funding for operating Books for Dessert program for adults with disabilities (Details)
    Food pantries
  7. Project Hospitality, Staten Island, NY
    • Project location: Staten Island, NY
    • Category: Adults, Food
    • Funding for moving food pantry/soup kitchen to new location in Staten Island (Details)
  8. 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)
  9. South Asian Council for Social Services, Flushing, NY
    • Project location: Flushing, NY
    • Category: Adults, Food
    • Funding for food pantry serving poor south asian immigrant population (Details)

    Social Welfare : India

    Children - education
  10. AIM for Seva USA, Saylorsburg, PA/Chennai, India
    • Project location: Cumbum, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for building 2nd floor of hostel for rural children in Cumbum (near Madurai), Tamilnadu (Details)
  11. 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) ( Project video )
  12. Akshaya Patra USA
    • Project location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
    • Category: Children, Food
    • Support for building an Akshaya Patra kitchen in Pune (Details)
  13. 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 and one early development center for children in Delhi, India (Details)
  14. 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)
  15. EDUCATR, Usilimpatti, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Usilampatti, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for library in school (Details)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. Sevalaya, Thiruninravur, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for uniforms for around 2200 students (Details)
    Children - orphanages
  19. Adruta Children Home (RAWA Adacemy)
    • Project location: Bolangir, Odisha, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for orphanage in Bolangir, Odisha (Details)
  20. AUM Pranava Ashram, Ilanji, Tamil Nadu
    • Project location: Ilanji, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for maintenance of orphanage (Details)
  21. Saraswati Anath Shikshan Ashram, Dapodi, Pune, India
    • Project location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for solar water heater and food items (Details)
  22. Seva Chakra 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)
  23. Sri Kanyakumari Gurukula Ashram
    • Project location: Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for maintenance of orphanage (Details)
  24. Sphoorti Foundation
    • Project location: Hyderabad, Telengana, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for orphanage in Hyderabad, India (Details)
    Disabled
  25. Hope Charitable Trust, Chennai
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Disability Assistance
    • Funding for operating early intervention centre for disabled children at orphanage in Chennai (Details)
    Adults
  26. Action for India, Delhi, India/Los Altos, CA
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Adults, Entrepreneur Empowerment
    • Funding for running Rural Entrepreneur Advisor Services (Details)
  27. 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)
  28. Rotary Club Madras East, Chennai, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adults, Health
    • Funding for installing ventilators (to treat patients with COVID 19) at Government Hospital in Chennai, Tamilnadu (Details)
  29. 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
  30. Sri Poorna Mahameru Trust, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adult Seniors, Food
    • Funding for old age home (food expenses and rebuilding old building) (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. Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, 11733
    • Project location: Stony Brook, NY
    • Category: Higher Education
    • Funding for Student Fellowship in Renaissance School of Medicine (Details)
  3. 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: Pradyumna Venkatesh Chari )
    • Funding for Second Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Department (Details) (Awardee: Chinmay Talegoankar )
    • Funding for Third Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Department (Details) (Awardee: Pranshu Garg )
    • Funding for new System Scaling Laboratory in Engineering VI in Electrical Engineering Department (Details)
    • Funding for under graduate students in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (Details) (Awardee: Nikhil Pawar, Mech Eng, 2020)
    India
  4. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    • Project location: Kharagpur, India
    • Category: Higher Education
    • Funding for SandHI initiative (focusing on Indian classical arts and music) at IIT KGP (Details)
    • Funding for international student internships for students of IIT KGP and for students visiting IIT KGP (Details)
      • Rajat Kumar Jenamani; Computer Science - internship at Carnegie-Mellon
      • Shashawat Jain; ECE - internship at NYU
      • Pankhuri Saxena; HSS (Humanities) - internship at University of Toronto
      • Debdut Mandal; ECE - internship at Harvard
      • Anand Jhunjhunwala, ECE - internship at NYU
      • Shilpa Sajeev, AE - internship at Cambridge)
      Unfortunately, due to the COVID19 situation, these internship awards could not be used for the 2020 calendar year.

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. Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
    • Project location: Flushing, NY
    • Category: Cultural
    • Support for conducting Diwali Festival in Nov 2019 (Details)
  3. Hindu Temple Society of North America, Flushing, NY 11355
    • Project location: Flushing, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Infrastructure improvement (acquiring neighbouring properties) (Details)
  4. Long Island Children's Museum, Garden City
    • Project location: Garden City, NY
    • Category: Cultural
    • Support for conducting Holi Festival in April 2020 (Details)
  5. Sri Bhagavad Ramanuja Millenium Foundation, NY
    • Project location: Ossining, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for publication of English commentaries of Dasopanishads and various other sanskrit texts (Details)
  6. Sri Ramanuja Mission of Srirangam Srimath Andavan Ashramam
    • Project location: Franklin Twshp, NJ
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for building Pushkarini with Sri Mahalakshmi Mandapam and Sesha and Hanumantha Vahanam at Perumal temple in Franklin township, NJ (Details)
  7. Sri Ranganatha Temple, Pomona, NY 10970
    • Project location: Pomona, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Contribution towards full-day expenses (VPUP) on Sri Krishna Jayanthi, Sri Nammalwar Tirunakshatram and Gold Satari for Sri Garuda (Details)
    India
  8. Srirangam Srimad Andavan Ashramam
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for 110 students at 4 Veda patasalas (Srirangam:40, Tiruchanoor:40, Vadoor:20, Tiruvendhipuram:10) and Goshala in Srirangam (Details)
  9. Sri Pratyaksha Charitable Trust, Chennai, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Partial annual support for 828 students at 15 patasalas (Details)
  10. Sri VPTV Trust, Kanchipuram, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for Veda Paaraayanam and Veda students at Sri Varadaraja Temple, Kanchipuram, and annadanam and honorarium for priests at Perumal Temple in Srithoopul and conducting daily pooja at Sri Pillan sannidhi in Kanchipuram (Details)