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V This is a list of notable nonprofit organisations, charitable organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in India or connected with Indian diaspora. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
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Like his father, Sir Dorabji believed that one must make use of the wealth one had acquired for constructive purposes. So, in less than a year after his wife Meherbai's death, he donated all his wealth to the trust, insisting that it must be used "without any distinction of place, nationality or creed", for the advancement of learning and research, the relief of distress and other charitable ...
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust United States: New York City: $8.3 billion 1999 [30] 27 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Trust United States: Battle Creek, Michigan: $8.2 billion 1930 [31] 28 Jacobs Foundation Switzerland: Zürich: $7.6 billion CHF7 billion 2001 [32] 29 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Germany: Bad Homburg: $7 billion
Some of the states in India have enacted the Public Charitable Trust Act, while most states in India do not have a trust Act. An NGO can be created only under a public trust Act. Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan have independent state-level public trust Acts. States like West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar do not have any Act to register a public trust.
Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust was founded on 2 September 1972, [8] with Sathya Sai Baba as the sole trustee, for carrying out activities in the areas of providing relief to the poor, medical relief, and education. On 16 July 1975, the Trust was registered [9] under Section 12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
The Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) is a registered non-profit institution which was established in 2002 by the Indian National Congress. Named after the 6th Prime Minister of India, the trust is headed by the former president of the Indian National Congress.