List of Funding Agencies

This list comprises funding agencies, which have supported specific research and pilot projects and programmes in Auroville and the neighbouring villages over the past decades, mainly in the field of:

• environmental restoration

• organic farming

• rural development

• education

• health

• renewable energy

• appropriate building technologies

• innovative urban planning

• arts and culture.

Over the past decades, Auroville has received support from a considerable number of governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, corporate donors and private well-wishers in India and abroad.
However, the financial challenge of building a sustainable model town for a projected population of 50,000 residents, which at the same time cares for an expanding rural neighbourhood of -- at present -- 40,000 people, is immense.
This selective list comprises funding agencies, which have supported specific research and pilot projects and programmes in Auroville and the neighbouring villages.

International Organisations

Foreign Governments & Governmental Organisations

Foreign Non-Governmental Organisations

• AUSTRALIA : Quaker Service Australia

• CANADA : Centre Créatif l'Elan

• FRANCE : Alliance Française
  Association Vitalis
  Communautés d'Emmaus
  INERP
  Secours Populaire Français

• GERMANY : BORDA
  Caritas
  Deutsch - Indisches Kinderhilfswerk (DIK)
  Dritte Welt Kreis (DWK)
  Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung

• ISRAEL : GIFRID

• ITALY : Association VIDYA
  Himalaya Trust

• JAPAN : Human Performance Institute

• NETHERLANDS: Stichting de Zaaier

• SPAIN : Fundacion Centro Sri Aurobindo

• U.K. : Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (CHEC)
  Findhorn Foundation
  OXFAM

• U.S.A. : Earthstewards Network
  Foundation for World Education
  Infinity Foundation
  Institute of Evolutionary Research
  Matagiri Centre
  Merriam Hill Centre
  Sri Aurobindo's Action Centre
  Threshold Foundation
  Trickle-up Program
  Turtle Island Fund

Indian Government and Governmental Organisations

Government of India

• Building Material & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC)

• Ministry of Education

• Ministry of Environment

• Ministry of Human Resource Development

• Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources

• Ministry of Rural Development

• Ministry of Science and Technology

• Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO)

• Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)

• Indian Navy

• Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA)

• National Wasteland Development Board (NWDB)

Pondicherry Government

• District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)

Tamil Nadu Government

• Tamil Fund

• Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA)

• Tamil Nadu Family Welfare Board

• Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Board

• Tamil Nadu State Forest Department

• TRYSEM Programme

Indian Non-Governmental Organisations & Businesses