List of Funding Agencies

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List of Funding Agencies

International Organisations This list comprises funding agencies, which have supported specific
Foreign Governments & research and pilot projects and programmes in Auroville and the
Governmental Organisations neighbouring villages over the past decades, mainly in the field of:
Foreign Non-Governmental
Organisations ● environmental restoration
Indian Government and ● organic farming
Governmental Organisations ● rural development
Indian Non-Governmental ● education
Organisations & Businesses
● health
● renewable energy
● appropriate building technologies
● innovative urban planning
● arts and culture.

Over the past decades, Auroville has received support from a

considerable number of governmental and non-governmental
agencies, foundations, corporate donors and private well-wishers in
India and abroad.
However, the financial challenge of building a sustainable model town
for a projected population of 50,000 residents, which at the same
time cares for an expanding rural neighbourhood of -- at present --
40,000 people, is immense.
This selective list comprises funding agencies, which have supported
specific research and pilot projects and programmes in Auroville and
the neighbouring villages.

International Organisations

● European Commission (EC)

● ICEF (India - Canadian Environment Facility)
● OECD/Hunger Campaign
● United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS)
● United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
● UNESCO

Foreign Governments & Governmental Organisations

● BELGIUM : Algemene Belgische Ontwikkelingssamenwerking

(ABOS)

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List of Funding Agencies

● CANADA : Canadian High Commission in India

● DENMARK : Danish International Development Agency
(DANIDA)
● FRANCE : Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
● GERMANY : Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche
Zusammenarbeit
Deutsche Welthunger Hilfe (FAO)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Foerdergemeinschaft Rotary Ludwigshafen
German Agro-Action
German Appropriate Technology Exchange(GATE)
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KFW)
Ministerium für Bundes- und Europa-angelegenheiten des
Landes Schleswig-Holstein
● JAPAN : Japanese Embassy in India
● NETHERLANDS: Royal Netherlands Embassy in India
● NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand High Commission in India
● SPAIN : Government of Navarra
Municipality of Pamplona
● SWITZERLAND : SWISSAID
● U.K. : Overseas Development Administration (ODA now DFID)
● USA : V.I.T.A. (Volunteers in Technical Assistance)

Foreign Non-Governmental Organisations

● AUSTRALIA : Quaker Service Australia

● CANADA : Centre Créatif l'Elan
● FRANCE : Alliance Française
Association Vitalis
Communautés d'Emmaus
INERP
Secours Populaire Français
● GERMANY : BORDA
Caritas
Deutsch - Indisches Kinderhilfswerk (DIK)
Dritte Welt Kreis (DWK)
Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung
● ISRAEL : GIFRID
● ITALY : Association VIDYA
Himalaya Trust
● JAPAN : Human Performance Institute
● NETHERLANDS: Stichting de Zaaier
● SPAIN : Fundacion Centro Sri Aurobindo
● U.K. : Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (CHEC)
Findhorn Foundation
OXFAM
● U.S.A. : Earthstewards Network
Foundation for World Education
Infinity Foundation
Institute of Evolutionary Research
Matagiri Centre
Merriam Hill Centre
Sri Aurobindo's Action Centre

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List of Funding Agencies

Threshold Foundation
Trickle-up Program
Turtle Island Fund

Indian Government and Governmental Organisations

Government of India

● Building Material & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC)

● Ministry of Education
● Ministry of Environment
● Ministry of Human Resource Development
● Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources
● Ministry of Rural Development
● Ministry of Science and Technology
● Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO)
● Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)
● Indian Navy
● Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA)
● National Wasteland Development Board (NWDB)

Pondicherry Government

● District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)

Tamil Nadu Government

● Tamil Fund
● Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA)
● Tamil Nadu Family Welfare Board
● Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Board
● Tamil Nadu State Forest Department
● TRYSEM Programme

Indian Non-Governmental Organisations & Businesses

● All India Books

● Aurofood
● Auroshikha
● Bombay Natural History Society
● Credit Himatsingka
● Indian Oil Corporation
● Indian Tobacco Company
● INTACH
● Janagri

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List of Funding Agencies

● J.R.D.Tata Trust
● Modi Charitable Trust
● New Horizon Sugar Mills
● Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
● Sri Aurobindo's Action
● Sri Aurobindo Memorial Fund
● Sri. Dorabji Tata Trust
● Sri. Ratan Tata Trust
● Tata Energy Research Institute

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