This past week, torrential rains in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh caused flooding, rendering hundreds of people homeless and thousands of others unable to travel or find food. The local governments approached Akshaya Patra and asked the organization to provide meals to ...

By Kathleen Cosgrove The Congressional Hunger Center (CHC), a nonprofit anti-hunger training organization located in Washington, D.C., launched an exhibit last week featuring photographs of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, as well as other midday meal programs in Mali and Chile.  ...

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal program, recently partnered with OneCause, an online community aimed at socially conscious shoppers. This is how it works: OneCause ties up with various popular merchants on one hand and with non profits on the other. When you sign up at OneCause, ...

It costs Akshaya Patra $28 to feed a child daily for the entire school year. Donors to the campaign contribute $28 to Akshaya Patra for each Mother they wish to honor. In areas where the Indian government provides a subsidy, $28 can actually feed two children. Once someone has ...

Akshaya Patra reached its goal of feeding one million underprivileged children daily by 2010 on April 1, 2009. The organization increased the number of children served in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh and now feeds 1,008,518 children through 17 kitchens in seven states.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal program currently feeding close to one million underprivileged children daily in over 5,700 schools in seven states in India. Akshaya Patra is a public-private partnership that combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunch ...

World of Good is a small organization with a big mission – to create awareness and change our attitudes towards fellow human beings who are being exploited many miles away. It attempts to shake us out of our apathetic world view not by being preachy, but by providing high-quality products ...

Bay Area non-profit Narika has been active in supporting victims of domestic violence in the Bay Area for several years (see our previous coverage here). To extend the Narika brand beyond domestic violence advocacy issues and start a dialogue about a holistic approach to women's care, Narika is putting together ...

Jeena is a non-profit organization in the Bay Area dedicated to helping children with developmental disorders and their families. Right from the start, one of Jeena’s missions has been to bring children with special needs out of their shell and help them socialize and show off their talents. Jeena Yahaan( ...

RangDe.Org is an online micro-lending platform where you can connect with a borrower of micro-credit by lending small sums of money small sums of money to an individual of a low income household. The money that you lend serves as the working capital for a micro-enterprise in a village or ...