In this article we will see how it seems Sending charity from the USA to India serves as a powerful way to make a positive impact across borders. In a world interconnected by technology and global awareness, individuals and organizations in the USA can contribute to various causes in India, such as education.

Introduction:

As one of the eminent nonprofits in the USA supporting India, IDRF has been associated with many NGOs for several decades. The vision of IDRF is to give the best education and health to the people of rural areas. NGOs having the longest partnering with IDRF, the list is too big to describe here. We have mentioned some innovative projects in which IDRF has good partnering with NGOs.

Donating to India:

IDRF prefers to work with those NGOs who fulfil our compliance and legal requirements based on the government rules in India and the USA. IDRF keeps a transparent approach when it does Donate to India from USA. It exhibits all details about the funding and projects on its website whilst maintaining the privacy of its donors. Similarly, it expects a responsible and reliable approach from the NGOS that they provide detailed information about the projects. The first requirement to get funding from IDRF is the FCRA registration certificate. Regarding partnering with NGOs, it depends on the length or duration of the project and how soon can the project become sustainable. Normally, it will take a year or two years and sometimes longer. Thus, our partnering relies on the need of the NGOs for specific projects.

• The interesting projects run by Vivekanand Kendra, Kanyakumari (since 2000), which is a PAN India organization. IDRF has funded its project run by “Arun Jyoti '' which provides Mobile Medical Care for people in remote hilly and tribal villages of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. Starting with medical vans, IDRF has even funded an OPD path lab with modern equipment at Tinsukia, Assam to give better treatment and medication to people of marginalized communities. Many people benefit from the free medical camps organized as a part of health development programs. Thus, IDRF stays connected with NGOs that ethically and responsibly work for the health of the rural poor in India and Donation to India Poor in Need from US.
• Good governance and women empowerment are other focus areas of IDRF. In this regard, IDRF has been associated with Arpana Research and Charities Trust (since 2000), which offers charities and development programs in rural areas of Haryana. IDRF wanted to initiate a program for keeping fertility rates low. Hence, along with Arpana Trust, they started this program in selected 4-5 villages along with two teams of men, and the other of women. They explained to villagers about the benefits of having smaller families. The program turned out to be successful, and in four years, the birth rate drastically reduced from 33% to 23%. The program expanded from four villages to 40-50 and then from 100 villages to 1500 villages.
• With the financial support of IDRF and Arpana, women and disabled people’s Self Help Group members can easily get revolving micro-credits to initiate their small enterprises. It is considered a revolution in these small villages where the lives of the women/disabled persons are completely transformed. Now their program is successful and does not require more funding from IDRF. Thus, partnering with Arpana Trust becomes one of the most successful and satisfactory Story for IDRF.
• IDRF’s partnering with NGOs depends on the time duration of the project. Hence, partnership with NGOs ends amicably after successful project completion. IDRF, Charity in India from USA that plays a vital role in each project to accomplish its motto to give power and not just charity to help poor people in India.

Classification for Donations:

Unrestricted Donations - The donors have complete trust in IDRF when making their donations, thus, stating no choice or preference. These types of donations are called unrestricted donations. It becomes the responsibility of IDRF to utilize that money on projects or causes as per the needs arising, which are beneficial for the poor in India, such as educating poor girls, health for rural poor, women empowerment, etc.

Restricted Donations – When donors want to donate for a desired project, state, or cause, these are considered as Restricted Donations. Before accepting funding from donors, IDRF ensure all aspects of the NGO as well as the projects, including legal terms as well as the FCRA registration, as added by Dr. Prakash. Our operational and management team conducts a stringent study of the project before sending grants to the NGOs.

IDRF never provides funding for any religious purpose like fundings to temples, mosques, churches, or gurudwaras or others for promoting religious ideologies. But we provide them fundings only if they work to help underprivileged people irrespective of religion, caste or creed for development in areas like education, health, community/women empowerment, eco-friendly developments, good governance and innovations, and disaster relief. For instance, recently, they have provided medical vans in West Bengal state to use for tribal people irrespective of their religion, caste or creed and the project was managed by ISKCON. Thus, their efforts are to accept donations and utilize our funds for projects that are genuinely meant for charity or development purposes.

Conclusion

IDRF is very transparent and accountable in all its operations and has received accreditations and recognition from across the industry for this reason. The IDRF website exhibits operational reports and audited financial reports.

At IDRF, we believe in minimum overhead expenses, hence, all our work is paperless. We use digital media for regular communication with our donors and send them mail only once a year for annual fund requests. Moreover, we keep our donors updated about our work by sending them a quarterly newsletters and report of projects for which they have donated. We also send donation appeals with quarterly reports in emails. Thus, as a responsible US nonprofit supporting India, we make a small contribution in protecting the environment by adopting a paperless work system.