NEWS

We are thrilled with the enthusiasm we have received about our 3rd Annual India Giving Day! Stay tuned to this page as we add the latest news & updates from the India Giving Day community.

• April 1, 2025 | India West reports on the success of India Giving Day 2025 while acknowledging the contributions of the 400 volunteer fundraisers and community events throughout the country.
• March 28, 2025 | Alex Counts, Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance authored an article in The CSR Universe, The Deepening of U.S.-India Philanthropic Ties. 
• March 14, 2025 | Alex Counts, Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance published an article in India West Journal, Going Beyond Checkbook Philanthropy- Why Indian Americans Should Rethink Their Giving Strategies. 
• March 13, 2025 | News of India Giving Day was picked up by more than 530 news publications including yahoo! finance, Morningstar, India New England News, and New India Abroad. 
• March 13, 2025 | The Business of Giving podcast featured Alex Counts, Executive Director of IPA, in a feature called From Gandhi to Global Impact: Why India Giving Day Matters on March 14. Discover how IPA is fostering collaboration over competition and how India Giving Day can be a turning point for collective giving.
• March 12, 2025 | Alex Counts, Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance and India Giving Day, published an article in the March 2025 issue of Sathee Magazine, Why Investing in Skills-Based Learning is the Future of Sustainable Philanthropy. The coverage is on page 68 and continued on page 82.
• March 10, 2025 | Kriti Sarav, India Giving Day Ambassador and Founder of the Podcast WhyFI Matter$, conducted a three-part India Giving Day Podcast with her special guests Shannon Paz of Antara International, Mathangi Swaminathan of Parity Lab, and Preeti Nandanar of Aarti for Girls.
• March 10, 2025 | Arogya World and Ashoka join forces to maximize the potential of their two organizations through collaboration on India Giving Day. Read the full article here.
• March 9, 2025 | Manisha Bharti, India Giving Day Steering Committee Co-Chair and CEO, Pratham USA, was on Sree’s Sunday #NYTReadalong, talking about India Giving Day. 
• March 6, 2025 | The India Philanthropy Alliance hosted a webinar titled: Philanthropy 2025: Promising Trends and Emerging Best Practices with John Palfrey, the President of the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Ingrid Srinath, the Vice-Chair of Co-Impact, moderated by Kalpana Kanthan of American India Foundation. 
• March 6, 2025 | The members of the India Giving Day (IGD) Steering Committee authored an article for Indiaspora's Blog about India Giving Day and a call to action for Indian Americans to donate.
• March 6, 2025 | Dr. Susan Appe, researcher and professor at the University at Albany, joined the Nonprofit Science podcast to talk about diaspora philanthropy and its impact on the narrative about migrants, immigrant communities, and philanthropy itself. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 
• February 24, 2025 | Alex Counts, Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance and India Giving Day, addresses the 700 delegates at Indiaspora's Forum for Good in Abu Dhabi. Attendees were enthusiastic about the promise of India Giving Day. 
• February 21, 2025 | New India Abroad published an article on The Power of Collective Giving: How Indian Americans Can Drive Large-Scale Social Change, written by Alex Counts, Director of India Giving Day and Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance.  
• February 14, 2025 | India Giving Day Ambassador Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is featured in the Houstonia for having led an extraordinary literary life; winning prestigious book awards while advocating for the rights of domestic violence survivors.
• December 30, 2024 and January 3, 2025 | Alex Counts, Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance, writes a two-part series on 12 Common Myths about Major Gift Fundraising for Causes in India. The first article focuses on six myths related to the early stages of cultivating a major gift and the second article focuses on myths related to asking for a major gift.
• December 11, 2025 | The India Philanthropy Alliance posts a 5-step guide to facilitating a successful Peer-to-Peer fundraising campaign for nonprofit organizations based on past experience with India Giving Day.
• November 11, 2025 | The India Philanthropy Alliance posts a blog on Effective Philanthropy Practices, outlining seven principles to realize the potential of diaspora philanthropy to India. 
• October 10, 2024 | Indiaspora posts an important blog written by Alex Counts, Executive Director of India Philanthropy Alliance, and Yamini Mishra of the MacArthur Foundation titled India Giving Day 2025: The Next Chapter in Galvanizing More and Better American Giving to India.
• October 8, 2024 | The India Philanthropy Alliance posts a blog to their website on The Secrets to Attracting New Donors Through India Giving Day. This article draws on the success of past participants who succeeded in attracting hundreds of new donors through the India Giving Day campaign.
• October 2, 2024 | The India Philanthropy Alliance announces the launch of the 3rd annual India Giving Day in a press release to India focused news journals. The news is picked up by India New England News and India West Journal.