A number of national and international funding agencies provide financial aid to civil society
institutions in various specialized areas of activities like education, health, sanitation, welfare
of the differently abled, community development, women's empowerment, and a host of
development activities. Agencies, government and non-government, which work on these
activities have been included in this book.
Pulse Associates Pvt. Ltd. which is bringing this compilation in its fourth edition has been in
the field of capacity building for civil society organizations for the last 26 years. The
organization has vast experience and expertise in working with civil society organizations to
become an enabling institution for resource mobilization, programme management,
developing appropriate management information system, and developing suitable tools for
effective fund raising from various discerning funding agencies.

The aim and objective of this effort is to help civil society organizations to make use of these
funding opportunities to achieve their goals.
The Directory of Indian and Foreign funding agencies compiled by Pulse Associates is itself a
difficult effort taking considerable time and energy of all the team members of Pulse
Associates, to carefully go through each and every source of funding, reading the
organization literature, analyzing their funding patterns, their area of expertise etc.