We are listening to you...

As part of an exercise to review our Listing criteria, we conducted a donor survey in April 2010.  One key result of the survey was that many of you said that you would like us to visit an NGO as part of our listing due diligence process.

We have therefore decided to make a visit mandatory for our listed as well as pipeline NGOs from this year onwards. To cover the increased cost of making visits we are now increasing the listing donation from Rs. 7,500 to Rs. 14,000. The additional cost of Rs. 6,500 is intended to cover the average cost of travel, stay and honorarium of the assessors.

We have incorporated two more changes in our Listing criteria as a result of the findings from our survey:

• Earlier no religious or political organization could list with us. However we observed many such organizations working for the benefit of poor without bias of religion/caste/race/tribe. Hence we have now decided that religious and political organizations can apply for listing as long as funds raised through GiveIndia are used by those NGOs for non-religious/non-political purposes.  
• Earlier organizations had to demonstrate that 50% of the beneficiaries in their programmes came from the poorest of poor segments of society. However this was found to be too restrictive and did not allow organizations with less than 50% poor beneficiaries to be listed with GiveIndia. So we have changed this criteria so that organizations applying for listing must ensure that 100% beneficiaries of donations received through GiveIndia are poor - irrespective of its total beneficiary pool