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Representing Theme: Food Politics and Employment

National Foundation for India (NFI) was established in 1992, by a group of very eminent Indians including Bharat Ratna, Dr. C. Subramaniam, Prof. M S Swaminathan, Dr. Kamla Chowdhry, Ratan Tata, Dr.Vergese Kurien and Rahul Bajaj, amongst others, to further domestic philanthropy in India.  NFI has emerged over the last three decades as a pre-eminent organisation representing civil society with a very wide range of partnerships with over two hundred organisations spread across the country, working on governance and inclusion issues with some of the most marginalised communities.  NFI also continues with its core mandate of promoting social justice philanthropy.

NFI was established with the objective matches the key problem that we are seeking to address viz. to enable capacities of Civil Society organizations through financial and technical support, promoting leadership, facilitating platforms for dialogue and mobilising resources to promote social justice and drive social change at the grassroots. The primary stakeholders of NFI are the disadvantaged, marginalized and vulnerable sections of the society including dalits, adivasis, women and minorities (especially Muslims). The founding mandate of NFI was to work in the specific regions of the Northeast and the adivasi belt of Eastern and central India. NFI makes grants to the local partners (NGOs) to work on these issues. All NFIs grant making is towards benefiting the disadvantaged groups in the country.