Organizations Active in Our Network
The India Philanthropy Alliance is composed of a growing number of US-based organizations working toward humanitarian and development goals in India.
Education
Agastya USA is a nonprofit organization that supports of work of Agastya International Foundation in India. We do this by raising awareness of Agastya's innovative approach to education and mobilizing financial resources to support their work.
The Akanksha Education Fund is a not-for-profit organization that raises support and awareness in the U.S. to fund educational opportunities for disadvantaged children in India, enabling some of the most marginalized children in the world to maximize their potential.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation began its operations in the year 2000 by serving 1,500 meals to a small group of local schools. With the vision to eliminate classroom hunger, the organization has since scaled to serve over 1.8 million meals to children in 19,000+ government schools across 12 states and 2 Union Territories in India daily. Our innovative program design combines technological innovation and government collaboration to create a highly effective, sustainable, scalable, and replicable school meal program.
The American India Foundation is dedicated to catalyzing social and economic change in India and building a lasting bridge between The United States and India.
Antara International is a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit. We tackle maternal and child mortality and malnutrition, through public health innovations at scale. We support on-ground activities of The Antara Foundation (TAF), a non-profit registered in India.
Arogya World is a global health non-profit organization working mainly in India to prevent NCDs, non-communicable diseases, through health education and lifestyle change. We engage with health leaders as well as individuals to help people around the world lead healthier lives. Our mission is reflected in our very name – Arogya in Sanskrit means to live a life without disease.
Avanti Fellows USA is a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the work of Avanti Fellows in India. Avanti Fellows' mission is to help students lift themselves & their families out of poverty in a single generation through access to quality careers in STEM. Avanti works with 6 large government school systems to create system-wide test-preparation programs for national entrance exams for engineering, medical and other technical education in STEM. Avanti’s programs serve over 30,000 high-school students (Grades 9-12), across 19 states and 6 union territories. More than 50% of Avanti’s students are girls. The majority of our students learn online - making our programs amongst the largest online at-home learning programs for high-school students globally.
Children's Hope India lifts children from poverty to prosperity by nurturing the whole child, providing education, nutrition, medical care and career building.
Community Pure Water safeguards India’s rural communities through access to purified water, contributing to better health and equitable opportunities and creating a ripple effect of enduring prosperity. Inadequate safe drinking water is a devastating problem in India with cascading impacts across hunger, health, gender equity, education, livelihoods, sustainability, and ecosystems. A staggering 700 million people lack access to safe drinking water in India. Most rural families are unaware that the water they consume is contaminated, leading to several water-borne illnesses. Community Pure Water (CPW) builds sustainable water purification centers (WPCs) that purify locally available water, eliminating 99% of chemical and biological contaminants. Purified water is made available 24x7 through water dispensers, each of which serves at least 500 families and as many as 2500 people.
CRY America is a 501c3 non-profit organization driven by its vision of a just world in which all children have equal opportunities to develop to their full potential and realize their dreams. We ensure that basic rights of education, healthcare and protection from child labor, child marriage, exploitation and abuse are restored to underprivileged children, including street children, girl children, children bonded in labor, children of commercial sex workers, physically and mentally challenged children and children in institutions.
The Foundation for Excellence (FFE) was founded with a mission to provide college scholarships to students who, although financially constrained, showed great promise in the technological, engineering and medical fields, three of the most expensive higher education programs in India. Every single donor contribution is directed to the scholarships. Apart from FFE’s alumni, who support future scholars like themselves, donations come from all around the world from individual donors, corporations and foundations.
Give aims to eradicate poverty in India by connecting donors with high-impact social initiatives. They have garnered a network of over 200 nonprofit partners in India across 23 states and raised over $95 million to impact more than 15 million lives. Trusted by over 150 corporate organizations, Give assures that every donation is effective, as they have undergone rigorous checks on the nonprofits in their network.
Indiaspora is a nonprofit organization established to transform the success of the Indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide. Founded in 2012 by M.R. Rangaswami and led by an esteemed Board and Founders Circle, our members are global leaders from diverse backgrounds and professions that work to build stronger communities at home and abroad, with a shared culture of strategic giving and inspiring social change.
By sharing insight, hosting events and connecting people, Indiaspora aims to unite the professionally, geographically and religiously diverse Indian diaspora community toward collective action worldwide.
Lotus Petal USA is a Non-Profit Corporation & a public charity, tax-exempt under IRC section 501 (c) (3), working towards holistic education, nutrition & livelihood for underprivileged children in the urban slums of Gurugram, Haryana, India, giving them a chance at equal opportunities and a life of dignity.
Through our programs, we serve over 1500 children studying at our school campuses from Kindergarten to Grade XII. These are age appropriate, end-to-end programs, tailored for students with learning delays, fractured learning or learning disabilities towards holistic learning and eventually jobs based on vocational skills or entry into higher education in the field of Engineering, Medical, Accountancy etc.
Pratham was founded on the belief that every child has the right to a quality education. In 1994, with support from UNICEF and the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Dr. Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay set out to end the vicious cycle of poverty by transforming the educational landscape in the slums of Mumbai. They began by creating self-sustaining Balwadis (preschools) and providing remedial education “bridge” classes for primary school students who lagged behind.
Project ECHO
Project ECHO® was created to meet the health needs of New Mexicans. Through widely available digital conferencing, Project ECHO is now a global network that provides the infrastructure for knowledge-sharing in rural and underserved communities around the world. Inspired by the way clinicians learn from medical rounds during residencies, the ECHO Model® has evolved into a learning framework that applies across disciplines for sustainable and profound change. Using the ECHO Model, people in communities around the world access critical and life-saving knowledge while receiving mentorship and ongoing support to make a difference in their community. Together, our global community is working to eliminate health and social disparities.
Every person deserves to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life. With that vision in mind, Sehgal Foundation’s mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve positive social, economic, and environmental change across rural India. With support from donors and partners, Sehgal Foundation designs and promotes rural development interventions that create opportunities, build resilience, and provide solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in India’s poorest communities.
The foundation team works together with rural communities to create sustainable programs for managing water resources, increasing agricultural productivity, and strengthening rural governance. Sehgal Foundation’s grassroots programs address three of rural India’s most pressing and interrelated issues: water security, food security, and social justice.
The team’s emphasis on gender equality and women’s empowerment is driven by the realization that human rights are central to developing every person’s potential.
Teach For India US empowers Teach For India with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in India. Teach For India believes that leadership for education is the solution and builds a movement of leaders to achieve educational equity in India.
Founded in 2001 with the goal of reaching and providing affordable, quality glasses to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who need them, we have come far in the years since. Eyeglasses are a powerful social and economic development tool. We provide affordable eyeglasses, vision screening and training so that non-profits, social entrepreneurs, government agencies, and corporate clients can bring the wonder of clear vision to their communities.
To improve the health of poor people in India and other developing countries by scaling up innovative approaches to healthcare.
All of these organizations have operating entities in India that have similar names.