MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
MyBB Internal: One or more warnings occurred. Please contact your administrator for assistance.
List Of Anti-Indian Charities

  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
List Of Anti-Indian Charities
#21
What about Swadhyay group?
  Reply
#22
AFAIK they dont indulge in charity work or collecting donations etc.
  Reply
#23
Swadhyay has been infiltrated by xtian groups
They call Jesus the 11th avatar and Mohamed the 12th avatar
  Reply
#24
Yo! I need some info on VIBHA pls. Surprised to see them missing from "Promise of India"


Also, how about changing the thread name to "Anti-INDIAN Charities"?


Face it - Shalini Gera is one of the "Bored" of POI. Co-author of FOIL lies against IDRF. Stanford Marxist. That tells me all I want to know about nature of POI. See comments from the late PM Narasimha Rao about "come back when u actually have some real stuff" "Further Comments Pending Revision". <!--emo&:tv--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tv_feliz.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tv_feliz.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Its MOST DEFINITELY an anti-INDIAN scam - just take a look at the defaced Indian flag on their website. Where's the government's rules against insulting the Tiranga?

Someone should complain to the GOI Babus and ask that this site be shut down. "Save India Campaign of Atlanta" - isn't that the commie outfit that put a Swastika across the Indian flag?

Rabita Terrorist Trust; all those Marxist outfits; the ISI-funded "NRI-SAHI" and "Vaishna CEnter for Enlightenment and Money Laundering from ISI to FOIL/FOSA"

Amazed to find Comrade Akhila Raman missing from the list.
  Reply
#25
<!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+Mar 8 2005, 05:42 PM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Mar 8 2005, 05:42 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Swadhyay has been infiltrated by xtian groups
They call Jesus the 11th avatar and Mohamed the 12th avatar <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was not aware of this. I know a couple of folks who go to local kendras. I will ask them. My experience with them has been quite opposite. They are pretty intolerant towards anybody but Yogeshwar, any guru but Sri Athavle or any other scriptures but BhagvadGita so I am really surprised to hear this.. <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  Reply
#26
Mostly it is moron-swaminess
all religions are same blah blah
I have a lot of such quotes
I also know they refused to reconvert muslims who wanted to come back
  Reply
#27
Narayan
A charity can be not anti-India and yet anti-Hindu example being conversionists

Regarding Vibha it was one of the recommended charities on an AID website
Anything recommended by commies must be anti-hindu
  Reply
#28
Regarding swadhya,

They were involved in reconverting fisherman community in coastal gujarath, planting trees, Giving bhagavad geeta etc.

After templeton foundation gave Shri Athavale some award, it seems they have back tracked totally. (seems this is the standard technique of missionaries).

I've not heard anything that says they are anti-hindu.
  Reply
#29
<!--QuoteBegin-bharathpremi+Mar 9 2005, 06:54 AM-->QUOTE(bharathpremi @ Mar 9 2005, 06:54 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Regarding swadhya,

They were involved in reconverting fisherman community in coastal gujarath, planting trees,  Giving bhagavad geeta etc.

After templeton foundation gave  Shri Athavale some award, it seems they have back tracked totally. (seems this is the standard technique of missionaries).

I've not heard anything that says they are anti-hindu. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Magsaysay award... <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Asian way to reward "Nobel" Anti-Indians/Hindus... Jaya got awards too after Acharya's episode... Yes it is a standard technique to reward the dogs with some bones after the kill....
  Reply
#30
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->being conversionists - not anti-India<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Like Robert Clive?

The conversionists are in it for the money. 200 years ago they would have been teaching chained children on the slave ships how to sing

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Amazing Grace...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:guitar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guitar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='guitar.gif' /><!--endemo-->

There's got to be something more on VIBHA. I know about their being "endorsed" by the rats - that's what got me in a fight with them.

I asked them to disassociate themselves from the FOIL. The sniveling ****s gave me the usual convoluted garbage about how their not speaking did not constitute... etc. etc.

I told them to take me off their email list or I get them banned from spamming anyone at my place of infestation. Jerks like those HAVE to have some sneaky background.
  Reply
#31
Agreed there is an over 90% overlap between being anti-India and anti-Hindu

There is still a non-overlap zone and I wanted to focus on purely anti-hindu charities
  Reply
#32
Some excerpts from Vibha website

*Expense to Revenue Ratio. Vibha's current Expense to Revenue Ratio is about 17-18%.


*The Board of Trustees


Ron Victor, President and Secretary, Vibha
Ron Victor is the Founder of Homeland Networks Corporation, a company that enables human interaction across the internet with rich media applications and technologies. Ron has also been involved in other non-profit organizations such as American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and Missionaries of Charity.


The rest of the board has hindu names
A missionary-commie alliance ??

Vibha funds

http://www.vibha.org/Pages/Projmpi_MPI.html
Makkal Palli Iyakkam
Organization Name:
TamilNadu Science Forum and AID-India

TNSF is a commie front

10000 children being brainwashed into communism

Annual budget = $7k

The rest of the projects sound harmless, but are probably commie brainwashing centers
  Reply
#33
Add American India Foundation to the list

They are a sponsor of Promise of India, a noted anti-hindu group

http://www.aifoundation.org/site/News/ne...0312351485

From same website

A MESSAGE FROM PETER BHEDDAH
September 14, 2004
As many of you may know, the American India Foundation (AIF) came into existence following the devastating earthquake in Gujarat state in 2001.
Despite it being a new organization, AIF mobilized $4.4 million in the United States exclusively toward helping Gujarat in its time of need. Today, I
am proud to say that the entire amount has been committed to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) executing projects in Gujarat.

Xtians are less than 1% of Gujurat and yet AIF manages to fund them

---

More from same website

They fund Pratham - also funded by AID

Pratham, Nationwide

$375,000

Pratham aims to ensure that every child is in school by working in collaboration with local governments and the private sector to increase access to schools and improve the quality of education. The AIF grant builds on a previous $300,000 grant to Pratham to run balwadis or preschool centers, create bridge courses for out-of-school children, and strengthen the support structure in government schools. This grant will go towards centers in UP, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Gujarat

---

NGO Partners

The following is a list of NGOs that AIF has partnered with in the past and have hosted Service Corps Fellows. Each year some previous partners are selected to host Fellows again and some new partners are chosen to host Fellows.

Action Aid India, Chattisgarh, (www.actionaidindia.org)

Action Aid India works to improve the status of poor and marginalized people.

----

People's Watch, Tamil Nadu (www.pwtn.org)

People's Watch Tamil Nadu is a human rights monitoring organization.

--
A notorious commie-xtian 'human rights group'
-----

Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF), Chennai, Tamil Nadu (www.aidindia.org/tnsf)

TNSF works in education, literacy, health, women's empowerment, rural development and science communication. TNSF believes that science can play a progressive role in society, which it is today not playing. We want to make it more democratic and accessible to all.

----
  Reply
#34
USINPAC gives mostly to commie and evangelist charities
Not a single hindu charity on this list


http://www.usinpac.com/tsunami-relief-how-to-help.asp

TSUNAMI RELIEF: HOW TO HELP

US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) expresses sympathy for the tragic death and loss of hundreds of thousands of people in South and Southeast Asia caused by the tsunami on September 26, 2004.

India was hit especially hard by this disaster. Triggered by the strongest earthquake in 40 years that shook the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the tidal surge struck the coastal regions of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India in the early hours of the morning on December 26, 2004 catching people unaware.

USINPAC urges its members and all Indian Americans to support the Tsunami relief efforts in South and Southeast Asia. Below is a list of organizations that are accepting contributions, and information on how to contribute.

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
www.actionagainsthunger.org

---
Xtian
---

ADRA International
Asia Tsunami Crisis Fund
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
800-424-ADRA (2372)
www.adra.org

-----
Evangelical
----



American India Foundation (AIF): www.aifoundation.org

-----
Per my post above - commie + evangelical
-------


American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.
JDC-South Asia Tsunami Relief
P.O. Box 321
847A Second Avenue
New York, New York 10017
212-885-0832
www.jdc.org

---
Jewish
----

American Jewish World Service
45 W. 36th St., 10th Fl.
New York, NY 10018
212-736-2597
www.ajws.org

--
Jewish
---


American Red Cross
International Response Fund
2025 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20006
800-HELP-NOW
www.redcross.org
----
Xtian
----


Association for India’s Development (AID): http://www.aidindia.org/CMS/

---
commie
-----


Baptist World Aid
Asia Tidal Waves
405 North Washington Street
Falls Church, VA 22046
703 790 8980
www.bwanet.org/bwaid

---
evangelical
------

B'nai B'rith International
B'nai B'rith Disaster Relief Fund
2020 K Street NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
212-490-3290
www.bnaibrith.org

---

jewish

-----

CARE
151 Ellis Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
800-521-CARE
www.care.org

---
xtian
-----

Catholic Relief Services
209 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
877-HELP-CRS
www.catholicrelief.org

---
xtian
----



Christian Children's Fund
Child Alert Fund
PO Box 26484
Richmond, Virginia - 23261-6484
800-776-6767
www.ChristianChildrensFund.org

----
xtian
----

The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington: Please make checks out to "JFGW-Southeast Asia Disaster Relief Fund," reference #SDG05DRT, c/o The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, 6101 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852.


---
xtian
----

National Federation of Indian-American Associations (NFIA) - www.nfia.net

----
Secular Indian, lots of muslims and xtians on the board

However this has condemned denial of visa to Modi

----


Oxfam America
Asian Earthquake Fund
PO Box 1211
Albert Lea, MN 56007-1211
800-77-OXFAM
www.oxfamamerica.org

----
Xtian
---

Prime Minister of India’s National Relief Fund (Embassy of India) http://www.indianembassy.org/Tsunami/PMCont1.htm : In the US, contributions can be sent to Head of Chancery, Embassy of India, 2107 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20008. The check should be made out to "The Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund” and the envelope should be marked "PM's National Relief Fund”

----
Secular Indian
-------


SAWSO (Salvation Army World Service Office)

South Asia Relief Fund
615 Slaters Lane
Alexandria, VA, 22313
800-SALV-ARMY

----
xtian
-----


US Fund for UNICEF
General Emergency Fund
333 E. 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-4-UNICEF
www.unicefusa.org

---
UN
___

World Relief
SE Asia Earthquake/Tsunamis
7 E Baltimore St
Baltimore MD 21202
800-535-5433
www.worldrelief.org

----
Xtian
-----
  Reply
#35
The following are some of the missionary org's operating in India, some of them like World Vision mix charity with evangelism, so no Hindu should donate anything to the following orgs:

The Blacklist

Major Conversion Programs operating in India

The American Leprosy Missions
BCM International, Inc.
Baptist Bible Fellowship International
Baptist International Missions
Baptist Mid-Missions
Baptist Student Center
Baptist World Mission
Bethany Fellowship Missions
Conservative Baptists International
Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc.
Childcare International
Christian Broadcasting Network
Christian Church of North America Missions
Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, c/o Mission Services Association
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Church World Service and Witness Unit of the NCCUSA
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite General Mission
Church of the Nazarene, World Mission Division Info
Compassion International, Inc.
Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross Generalate
Elim Fellowship World Missions Department
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Evangelical Free Church of America, Board of Overseas Missions
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission
Foursquare Missions International
Free Methodist World Missions
General Conference Mennonite Church Overseas Mission
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Global Outreach Mission
Globe Missionary Evangelism
Gospel for Asia, Inc.
Grace Ministries International, Inc.
Holt International Children's Services, Inc.
Holy Cross Mission Center for Cross-Cultural Ministries
International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention
International Missions, Inc.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church World Missions Ministries
La Salette Missionaries, Province of Mary, Queen of Peace
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Board for Mission Services
Lutheran World Relief
MAP International, Inc.
Men for Missions International
Mennonite Central Committee
New Tribes Mission
OMS International, Inc.
Oblates of Mary Immaculate, U.S. Consulate
Operation Mobilization
Partners International
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Worldwide Ministries Division
Reformed Church in America, General Synod Council, Mission Services
SIM (Society for International Ministries) USA
Salesian Missions
Salvation Army, U.S.A.
Society of Mary, Province of New York, Marianist Provincial House
Society of the Divine Word, Chicago Province
Society of the Divine Word, Southern Province of St. Augustine
Southern Baptist Convention
Teen Missions International, Inc.
The Bible League
The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, U.S. Province
Trans World Radio
United Methodist Church General Board of Global Ministries
United Methodist Committee on Relief
United World Mission, Inc.
WEC International
Wesleyan World Missions
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Bd for World Missions
World Mission Prayer League
World Partners of the Missionary Church
World Vision

http://christianaggression.org/action_blacklist.php
  Reply
#36
What NGO Charity Hides
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The popular model of NGOs, non-governmental organisations, in the country evolved in the Christian west. In India, fiercely so with states like Kerala, this sector is almost totally controlled by the Christian church, international Christian donors and their allies. Some of them have budgets mounting to several crores with their beneficiary list across India reading like a 'who is who' of Indian society. This list ofcourse also include hard-core church agencies involved in conversion. They make inroads to respectable NGO movements mostly through surreptitious means. Money has its lure and many succumb and do their bidding later. <b>There is an army of people involved in this most subtle divisive activity in today's India.</b>

Many 'secular NGOs' are actually secretly aided by these people. Some of them quite famous. Those trying to eek out a separate identity in the NGO sector will find it difficult. Despite setting up of agencies like CAPART (Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology) by the ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India, the promotion of secular NGOs in development sector has been minimal. While the Hindu groups have tried to organise these, lack of professionalism and exposure to the resources become a handicap. Thus these very same agencies succeed in getting the government funds as well. Over and above the international church aid they have. To the ordinary people the 'generosity' come from the local Christian priests and that in concrete terms and they follow them.

The Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana(SGSY) of the BJP government, launched in 1999 for rural uplift, did not foresee this background and resulted in the Hindutwa government's undoing. SGSY, which followed the old Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) of the Congress government, aimed at promoting village organisations and since the NGOs meeting the various criteria were almost all from the Christian segment they began getting government funds. They also got a new stamp of acceptability and became the government itself to the villagers. With their professional and team approaches they accessed the government funds set aside for the purpose, developed good rapport with 'result' driven beurocracy and made an empire of sorts. Huge numbers of rural poor became captive to their whims and fancies. More important they became victims of Christian propaganda.

That is what matters in elections, as subtle messages against a political party shall be immediately absorbed by the innocent rural folks who consider these saviors with eyes of worship. In Tamilnadu where SGSY was implemented with great success some of these NGOs caused traffic blocks in cities like Madurai. The Self Help Groups of women they formed in villages run to thousands and when they come for a meeting the entire city gets jam-packed. These are the core areas of Indian psyche and the Christian NGOs managed to enter there. That with state sponsorship. Yes, BJP's SGSY programme with its nationalist fervor must have improved the quality of life in villages is certain. But it also indirectly became its undoing.

Many of these NGOs are already quite powerful and wield might in rural interiors. They have liberal funds and the staff hiring terms is as attractive as any corporate giant. It is the antithesis of the Hindu concepts of 'Sewa' and 'Tyaga'. Though some of these activists generously supported by these sources wear, often worn out, Indian dress (what the development circuit calls the 'NGO uniform'). They travel luxury class and stay only in star hotels though. Since they have got used to the 'comfortable' life they do anything for a price. Many of the secular intellectuals of India are these paid workers. Since the operations are discrete it is near impossible to trace their links. A famous river valley protection movement later was penetrated and they are now allegedly supported by the same sources. Some Christian  priests in the game from Kerala, who now decide things, have dropped their priestly dress and the `father' prefix in name when in the north of the country.

In time these NGOs can be dangerous as they are building up a parallel system of governance rooted in the villages and people's movements. Which can eventually weaken the centralised government mechanism of today. With their indebtedness to the external donors they are extremely vulnerable to pressure tactics. How one often finds some individuals with Hindu names seen attacking the Hindu movements. <b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>They also support academics in various research programmes and international tours and they also fall in line, are also at their beck and call</b></span>. Since the battery of donor agencies is spread over various countries, mainly Europe and USA, also elsewhere, it is too  difficult to trace them down. They also belong to a mosaic of Christian faiths some of them enemies of each other in their own regions. With liberalisation their roads are smooth as NGOs can now access funds without much government monitoring. Not many know about these gray areas of Indian polity.  

P R J Pradeep
(From `udayor' newsletter from www.nairs.org)
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  Reply
#37
NGOs - Charities etc

From, congress run web portal

http://www.meraswades.com/meraswades/wcms/en/home/

Good list of all the anti-national NGOs & charities.. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  Reply
#38
Is there a list of pro-Paki outfits in the US and UK? I would throw in pro-Muslim outfits for good measure.
  Reply
#39
Are these people clean - not pro anything except children's education?

http://www.roomtoread.org/

They advertised on economist.com so I am thinking that they have no hidden agenda.
  Reply
#40
<b>They use the word karmic return
and they dont seem to have any obvious church-commie links
I guess it is OK</b>


http://www.roomtoread.org/karmic_return.html

In Search of 'Karmic Returns'
By Lara Wozniak
Issue cover-dated November 06, 2003

LIFE AS A FULL-TIME volunteer isn't easy, especially if you're running your charity like a corporation. Unless, that is, you have a plan. And former Microsoft marketing director John Wood has ambitious plans.

As founder of Room to Read, a charity dedicated to improving education in South and Southeast Asia, his goal is to found 25,000 free libraries in the region, as he puts it, "before I die."

It's no small task, but he says that is part of the allure. If he establishes 25,000 libraries in places where roughly 400-500 children have access to each of them, he can help provide educational tools to about 10 million children.

Those nice, fat, round numbers are a good sales pitch to multinationals, which are headed by people who like to think big themselves. Since starting up in 2000, Room to Read has so far given more than 300,000 books to the over 700 libraries that it has established. It has also set up 63 schools and 20 computer and language labs in Vietnam, Nepal, India and Cambodia.

Thinking of starting your own philanthropy? The first step, as Wood puts it, is getting "big money fast." You have to hit upon an idea that corporate chiefs can relate to--and education is one such idea. It's a bond that connects even corporate rivals. One of Wood's "top-tier contributors" donating both money and time (as a member of the charity's advisory board) is Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.

You wouldn't think a Netscape boss would be a good friend of an ex-Microsoft employee. "But we both grew up in small towns with public libraries," says Wood, acknowledging that the access to books was vital to their intellectual growth. "And we have talked about how libraries don't exist in large parts of developing countries." As he puts it, "It's hard to be against this issue."

Once you pick a big idea, and you decide to go for big money fast, you need to have more than just big-numbered goals, such as educating thousands of people, as your sales pitch. You need to provide multiple options for investment. "We don't have a one-stop solution," says Wood. "We have multiple solutions because different communities need different things."

To keep costs down and navigate what can be complex local political and social issues, Wood suggests working with communities. Room to Read partners with local people to build schools, or simply adds to established libraries, language labs and centres. And it tries to tailor its efforts to suit the existing infrastructure. For example, a computer lab would make little sense in a rural community in the Himalayas with sporadic or no electricity.

To sell the idea, he says, establish "very transparent price points" that very clearly demonstrate what people are getting for their money. (Wood's corporate-speak includes referring to donors as investors who earn a "karmic return"). Another key is keeping your costs down. Wood says that less than 10% of all donations has gone towards overhead costs. Even though he's the chief executive, he's an unpaid volunteer living off his savings.

Wood was in Hong Kong in early October to woo new investors at a fund-raiser at the ritzy China Club, as well as to make a presentation to a multinational investment bank. His pitch: US$10,000 will build 10 libraries in India. At US$1,000 per library, that money buys 400-500 books, covers set-up costs and librarian training and also leaves a bit of money for follow-up checks to make sure all is running smoothly. Investors can put plaques on the school walls and expect to see photographs of their investments. As he puts it to the executives, "It's cheaper than endowing a building at, say, Stanford."

Copyright © 2005 Room To Read. All Rights Reserved. Please send feedback or questions to info@roomtoread.org.
  Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)