HCLTech Grant by HCLFoundation

HCLTech Grant awards the winning NGOs in each of the categories of Environment, Health and Education, a grant of ₹ 5 Crore (~US$0.60 million) for a 4-year project. It rewards the other 2 finalists in each category as well with a grant of ₹ 25 lakhs (~US$0.03 million) for a year-long project. Thus, the total committed fund for HCLTech Grant is ₹16.5 Crores (~US$1.99 million). Since its inception in 2015, HCLTech Grant has given wings to brilliant and committed NGOs - to create a revolutionary kind of transformation. Past years of the Grant have seen an emergence of a cadre of remarkable community-based, participatory NGOs that have dug-in their heels and proceeded to strengthen grassroots development, deepen impact, and scale it. So far, the HCLTech Grant has already committed ₹130.45 Crore (~US$15.8 million) towards high impact projects. Through this commitment, the HCL Grant supported projects aim to cover 27,54,336 people in 27,394 villages in 134 districts across 22 states and 2 Union Territories of India, through 40 HCL Grant NGO Partners. 18,20,752 lives in most remote rural areas have already been impacted and 65,000 hectares of common land & forest land brought under sustainable community governance. Besides this, each year, work of up to 30 shortlisted NGOs, 10 per category, has been photo documented and published in The Fifth Estate – The HCLTech Grant Compendium. This is possibly the first ever, sector wide, comprehensive compendium of highly credible NGOs, highlighting their proposals submitted for HCL Grant, striving towards the empowerment of rural India.