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November 21, 2008, 01:45 PM ET
Indian Philanthropy Flourishes in Boston
A large number of nonprofit groups with connections to India or Indian-related causes have sprung up in the Boston metropolitan area, as Indian professionals seek a way to do good with wealth they have earned, reports The Boston Globe.
Among the organizations are the American India Foundation, which recently held a dinner and silent auction to help rickshaw drivers in India; the Next Generation Foundation, which combats illiteracy and poverty among Indian children; and the Akshaya Patra Foundation, a charity that feeds lunch to schoolchildren in India and which recently opened a U.S. office near Boston.
Other such organizations have given to art museums to increase gallery space for Indian art, the Globe reports.
“Organizations like these are coming up because there is a whole new level of passion for philanthropy among South Asian people who are here,” Geetha Ramamurthy, a senior vice president at Venus Capital Management, tells the newspaper. “That awareness is rising. They’re responding to the call and the need.”
For more about giving trends among immigrants, see the article Giving Back to Their Homelands from The Chronicle’s archive.
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