Eligibility Criteria for Grants

Applicant organizations must:

• Work in innovative ways to bring about change on a range of Dalit issues such as land reforms, manual scavenging etc.
• have an annual budget not exceeding Rupees 10 lakh [$25,000]
• are led by people – especially women – from the discriminated community
• focus on more than a single sub-caste
• are not associated with any political party
  and have not been convicted of any offence

Eligibility Criteria for Fellowships

Applicants must:

• Belong to the Dalit community
• not be paid employees or consultants with any organization
• are engaged in their individual capacity as activists or researchers, who have either
• adequate academic qualification or work experience
• not be office bearers of any political party
• not have been convicted of any offence that would adversely affect the credibility of the Foundation.