[Archives: 2020]

Social Welfare : US

    Children
  1. Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
    • Project location: Flushing, NY
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for conducting Global Arts for Global Kids program, serving children in public schools in Queens, NY (Details)
  2. Long Island Children's Museum, Garden City
    • Project location: Garden City and Westbury, NY
    • Category: Education
    • Support for STEM collaboration with Westbury Schools (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. Staten Island Giving Circle, Staten Island, NY
    • Project location: Staten Island, NY
    • Category: Children, Food
    • Funding for Weekend Food Backpack program at PS51 and PS57 that provides food to children and families from impoverished backgrounds (Details)
  5. 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
  6. Literacy Nassau Inc, Wantagh, NY
    • Project location: Wantagh, NY
    • Category: Adults, Education
    • Funding for outdoor pods to provide social distanced tutoring, new computers, and language related help to immigrants (Details)
    Food Pantries
  7. Reaching Out Community Services, Brooklyn, NY
    • Project location: Brooklyn, NY
    • Category: Adults, Food
    • Funding for operating Homeless/Homebound Feeding Program (van) and vegetarian food items for food pantry (Details)
  8. 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
  9. America India Foundation
    • Project location: Shimogga, Karnataka, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for two non-formal Learning Resource Centers for children of migrating laborers (Details)
  10. Akshaya Patra USA
    • Project location: Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India
    • Category: Children, Food
    • Support for providing nutrition boxes to 7500 children in Warangal (Details)
  11. Bapuji Rural Enlightenment and Development Society, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
    • Project location: Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding to provide scholarships to 10 marginalised children in Srikakulam, Vishakapatnam and Vizyanagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India (Details)
  12. Children International, Kansas City, MO
    • Project location: Delhi, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for 8 non-formal Learning Resource Centers and one early development center for children in Delhi, India (Details)
  13. Child Rights and You, America
    • Project location: Thirupullani, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food
    • Preventing child labour and exploitation and increasing access to education (Details)
  14. Commit 2 Change, New York, NY
    • Project location: Gujarat, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for running a Tech2Lab program in Muni Seva Ashram (Gujarat) for 100 tribal girls (Details)
  15. Disha Seema Centre School, IIT Kharagpur
    • Project location: Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for operation of Disha residential school in IIT Kharagpur campus (Details)
  16. EDUCATR, Usilimpatti, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Usilampatti, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for equipping a digital classroom in school and providing COVID-19 related cleaning and support for families of 184 children (Details)
  17. Ekal Vidyala Foundation of USA, Burlington, MA, 01803
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for Integrated Village Development Program in 30 villages in Telengana (program will run Ekal Vidyalayas, provide digital literacy training, health training and skills training) (Details)
  18. 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)
  19. Sevalaya, Thiruninravur, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for uniforms for around 2100 students (Details)
  20. S M Sehgal Foundation, Gurugram, Haryana, India
    • Project location: Telengana, India
    • Category: Children, Education/Health
    • Funding for providing COVID-19 safety packages (non-touch hand washing stations, oximeters, non-touch thermometers, cloth masks and sanitizer bottles) for 12 rural schools in Telengana (Details)
  21. Sri Ramakrishna Math Vivekananda Centenary Girls Higher Secondary School, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for providing food (breakfast, lunch, evening meal) to poor students (Details)
  22. Sri Ramakrishna Mission Students Home, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for teacher salaries at residential school for poor students (Details)
  23. Yoga Gives Back
    • Project location: Mysore, Karnataka, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Support for girls residential home (Details)
    Children - orphanages
  24. Adruta Children Home (RAWA Academy)
    • Project location: Bolangir, Odisha, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for maintaining an orphanage in Bolangir, Odisha (Details)
  25. AUM Pranava Ashram, Ilanji, Tamil Nadu
    • Project location: Ilanji, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for maintenance of orphanage (Details)
  26. Saraswati Anath Shikshan Ashram, Dapodi, Pune, India
    • Project location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for setting up an e-learning classroom at orphanage (Details)
  27. 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)
  28. Sphoorti Foundation
    • Project location: Hyderabad, Telengana, India
    • Category: Children, Education
    • Funding for maintenance of orphanage in Hyderabad, India (Details)
  29. Sri Kanyakumari Gurukula Ashram
    • Project location: Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Food/Education
    • Funding for maintenance of orphanage (Details)
    Disabled
  30. Hope Charitable Trust, Chennai
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Disability Assistance
    • Funding for paying salaries of staff at school/early intervention centre for disabled children in Chennai (Details)
  31. Institute for Helping the Disabled, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
    • Project location: Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India
    • Category: Children, Disability Assistance
    • Funding to pay for some staff in Outreach program serving disabled children and adults, Odisha, India (Details)
  32. Madras Dyslexia Association, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Children, Disability Assistance
    • Funding for developing an early intervention program for dyslexic children (Details)
    Adults
  33. Action for India, Delhi, India/Los Altos, CA
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Adults, Entrepreneur Empowerment
    • Funding for running Rural Entrepreneur Advisor Services (Details)
  34. Desai Foundation, Bedford, MA
    • Project location: Gujarat, India
    • Category: Adults, Livelihood Training
    • Funding for running livelihood training program for rural women teaching them to produce facemasks for COVID-19 (Details)
  35. Grass Roots India, Cuttack, Odisha, India
    • Project location: Cuttack, Odisha, India
    • Category: Adults, Livelihood Training
    • Funding for running home for destitute girls (Details)
  36. INK Global Foundation, Delhi, India/Los Altos, CA
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Adults, Enrepreneur Empowerment
    • Funding for Fellowships for 2 INK Fellows (Details)
  37. Lords Education and Health Society/WISH Program, Delhi, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Adults, Health (COVID19)
    • Funding for provide Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kits to WISH healthcare providers dealing with COVID-19 patients (Details)
  38. Rotary Club Madras East, Chennai, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adults, Livelihood training
    • Funding for running a vocational training centre in Chennai, Tamilnadu (Details)
  39. Womens Organization for Rural Development, Namakkal, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adults, Livelihood Training
    • Funding to run two tailoring centers to provide skill training to rural women, Tamil Nadu, India (Details)
    Old age homes/Food
  40. Sri Poorna Mahameru Trust, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Project location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
    • Category: Adult Seniors, Food
    • Funding for maintenance of old age home (Details)

Higher Education

    US
  1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    • Project location: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    • Category: Higher Education
    • Funding for Graduate Student Fellowship at CSHL (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)
    • Funding for Systems Scaling Laboratory in Engineering School
    India
  3. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    • Project location: Kharagpur, India
    • Category: Higher Education
    • Funding for Research and Teaching Fellows at SandHI initiative (focusing on Indian classical arts and music) at IIT KGP (Details)

Spirituality, Arts & Culture

    US
  1. Hindu Temple Society of North America, Flushing, NY 11355
    • Project location: Flushing, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Maintenance of temple (Details)
  2. Religion News Foundation, Colombia, MO
    • Project location: Columbia, MO
    • Category: Culture
    • Support for hiring a columnist to cover Hinduism for News organization (Details)
  3. Sri Bhagavad Ramanuja Millenium Foundation, NY
    • Project location: Ossining, NY
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for publication of English commentaries of various sanskrit and Manipravalam texts (Details)
  4. Sri Ramanuja Mission of Srirangam Srimath Andavan Ashramam
    • Project location: Franklin Twshp, NJ
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for constructing vigrahams of Sri Venugopalan sameta Rukmini Satyabama for sancharam at Perumal temple in Franklin township, NJ (Details)
    India
  5. 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)
  6. Sri Pratyaksha Charitable Trust, Chennai, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality/Culture
    • Partial annual support for 998 students at 16 patasalas (Details)
  7. Sri VPTV Trust, Kanchipuram, India
    • Project location: India
    • Category: Spirituality
    • Support for Veda Paaraayanam and honorarium for priests and Adhyayana Utsavam at several temples (Sri Varadaraja Temple, Kanchipuram, Sri Vilakkoli Perumal Temple, Srithoopul, Sri Kodandaramaswamy Temple, Madurantakam, Sri Chakrapani Temple, Kumbakonam, Sri Sarangapani Temple, Kumbakonam, Sri Tirunarayana Temple, Melkote, Sri Devanathan Temple, Thiruvayindirapuram) (Details)