Examining the Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules (2011)
Summary The FCRA Wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs has recently made public the draft of Proposed Amendments to FCRR (2011). This article summarizes the proposed changes and attempts to evaluate their effect, More...
Cancellation of registrations of 1000+ NGOs in AP is a welcome move
The Foreign Contribution (Regulatory) Act (FCRA) provides a mechanism for Organizations to receive foreign funds for various activities which are broadly classified into Educational, Religious, Economic, Social More...
Ford Foundation-funded Indian organizations via FCRA: 2006-2012
Ford Foundation (FF) is a philanthropic organization headquartered in New York, which provides grants to organizations around the world who can assist it in its objectives. In India, their goal is “to address More...
Foreign funding details of Evangelical organizations in Kerala
In an earlier piece, we had learnt of the spread of Evangelical organizations receiving funding via FCRA (FCRA-NGOs for short. A few Government organizations too, receive foreign funding via FCRA but majority FCRA-NGOs More...
How foreign evangelical organizations set the agenda of FCRA-receiving Indian NGOs
One of the fundamental things we need to understand is the “ownership” of Indian NGOs who are registered under FCRA and receiving foreign funds. For a backgrounder, one may see IndiaFacts exposes on More...
Gospel for Asia and its Indian connections
Readers of IndiaFacts are not unaware of Gospel For Asia Inc (hereinafter referred to as GFAI). We had earlier covered one of its activities – that of manufacturing atrocity literature. The specific instance we More...