HCLTech Grant
Funds Indian NGOs driving rural water, biodiversity, health and education projects.
HCLTech Grant is a Corporate Social Responsibility commitment that HCLFoundation has run as annual editions since 2015, and it frames the NGOs it backs as a Fifth Estate driving social change. A jury selects one winning NGO in each of four categories, and each winner receives a grant of five crore rupees for a four-year project; eight runners-up across the categories share fifty lakh rupees each f…
The HCLTech Grant backs Indian NGOs with a strong track record of transforming rural communities in water, biodiversity, health, or education. It targets organisations reaching marginalized, isolated and underserved rural areas, and judges them on their ability to turn ideas into real, lasting impact, not just on the idea itself.
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