The India Giving report 2021 shines a light on the individual giving landscape in India.This year, India Giving explores Why and how people donate their time and money to social causes. Of the 2,053 people interviewed, 85% had taken a charitable action in reponse to Covid-19.
The CAF World Giving Index is based on data from Gallup’s World View World Poll, which is an ongoing research project. For this edition, data has been included for 114 countries, representing over 90% of the global adult population. The survey asks questions on many different aspects of life today including giving behaviour.
The India Giving report is the third edition of the unique collection of International series of country reports produced across the CAF Global Alliance, a world-leading network of organisations working at the forefront of philanthropy and civil society
Catalysing COVID-19 Free Communities – Perspectives from NGOS in India
As part of the COVID-19 outbreak response, CAF India has initiated several partnership
campaigns with corporates to fight against the virus spread in India. Donations received
towards this cause is utilized to provide over 70,000 N-95 masks to Health Departments of
Punjab, Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. With the support of our credible NGO
partners, we are also supporting poor migrant workers who have returned to their villages and
are in urgent need of food items, quarantine facilities and awareness generation activities in
states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. We also provided police personnel with hygiene
kits to keep them safe while they deliver their duties on ground in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Around 2033 kits (ration + preventive) were distributed to daily wage workers running out of
food in the states of Gujarat and Haryana. Since the slum population is suffering due to loss
of livelihoods, we are also planning to distribute dry ration in JJ colonies of Delhi and support
sanitation workers by providing preventive kits.
There has been strong focus on financial sustainability of the not-for-profits as evident from the number of requests on resource mobilization, CAF India received on a regular basis. We have been building capacities of not-for-profits and mobilising resources for the past two decades. It is our continuous endeavour to serve our not-for-profit partners and nurture the culture of giving in India.