The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 – A Primer
Introduction There has been a long tradition of non-profit organizations in India, known as Non-Government Organizations (henceforth referred to in this paper as NGOs) accepting financial contributions from entities More...
Compassion International: The Paws of Compassion-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”8k6G3SxQzpEZCyNc6M698XfgiNE6rAfM”] In the first part of the exposition on the activities of “Compassion International”, we learnt how the ‘charity’, which is headquartered More...
Funding Evangelism through ‘Compassion’- A report on Compassion International-I
Headquartered in Colorado, USA, Compassion International is an international NGO devoted to Child “Welfare” across the world. According to the magazine Christian Science Monitor (CSM), Compassion ranked thirtieth More...
Lobbying Funds for Gender Specific Laws via FCRA
What is this article about? A Washington DC based non-profit organization called International Foundation for Electoral Systems, gave rise to a FCRA-NGO called Women Power Connect in New Delhi, more than a decade More...
Church Planting in India via Foreign NGO Funding: A Report on Modus Operandi
Public domain documents submitted by non-profit organizations in USA and India to their respective Government agencies reveal Church Planting to be a major activity that is financially supported by such non-profits. Nomenclature US More...
Revisiting the panic around FCRA
In the light of recent events—of cancellations of FCRA-NGOs and tightening FCRA laws—we have revisited Sri Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s 2011 article: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/that-seventies-feeling/804154/0 More...
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...
Updates on the Government’s FCRA-NGO cancellations
The latest news on the Government’s action against foreign-funded, 524 errant NGOs comes from Kerala. In its continuing crackdown, the Government has cancelled the FCRA licenses of 540 errant NGOs in Kerala. The More...
Is there a Gloriavale Commune in Southern Tamil Nadu?
Gloriavale Christian Community (GCC) is a Christian commune in New Zealand which calls itself as a Church. Its members are supposed to live a life based on Biblical principles. Nearly 80 families live in a farm-like 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...