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OUR DONORS
The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 59,02,028 from the Ford Foundation in June 2012 to conduct a five state study of how digitisation of Prasar Bharati will affect the poor in five states in India. It has received a grant Rs 12.21 lakh in May from Hivos for running the Hoot. The Hoot has received a grant of Rs 42 lakh in February 2012 from Google for its Free Speech Hub, and to create databases on the site which will be useful to journalists. It has also received a grant of Euros 30,000 in October 2011 from Hivos strengthening the services offered by the site and for its redesign.The site received a grant of $ 30,000 from the Ford Foundation in May 2010 to support its editorial costs. It has received a further grant of $50,000 from Ford in June 2011 to support the website. The Hoot also received a grant of $ 22,000 in January 2010 from Google.org to set up the Free Speech Hub.
Other organisations which have supported the site so far are the National Foundation for India, Panos, and a British charity which prefers to remain unnamed. Initial support for this portal came from UNESCO, and from individuals.
Individual contributors so far
All those individuals who have contributed over the years to keep the Hoot going are listed below. The contributions have ranged from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 300. We are grateful to them all.
One lakh and above
V Ravichandar
Kiron Shah
Vikram and Anita Lal
The JK Singhania Group
Fali Nariman
Raju Narisetti
Nandita Ray
The S P Singh Trust
Om Prakash Vaish and Manju Vaish
Rs 50,000-1 lakh
In memory of N S Jagannathan
B G Verghese
Nitin Desai
Rs 25,000-50,000
LC Jain
Soli Sorabjee
Rs 10,000 to 25,000
Nupur Basu
Geeta Seshu
Vineeta Deepak
Ashok Haribhai Desai
Padmaja Shaw
R R Joshi
Rajiv Mehrotra
D N Patodia
Dilip Rangachari
Suhasini Haidar
Tarlochan Singh
A contributor
Rs 5000 to 10,000
Shravan Garg
Sajan Venniyoor
Ashok Chandran
A Davidson
Malayala Manorama Group
Mannika Chopra
Panos Institute
PP Rao
Pradip Thomas
Prasun Sonwalkar
Rahul Goswami and Vidya Heble
Sanskriti Foundation
Susan Dhavle
Shailaja Bajpai
Rs 300-5000
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Ashoke Chatterjee
Usha Rai
Shubha Singh
H K Dua
Pamela Philipose
Jai Chandiram
Abid Hussain
A journalist
Aditi Kapoor
Ajay Kumar and Gouri Salvi
Ajit Bhattacharya
Aakar Patel
Akshay Deshpande
Anjali Deshpande
Ammu Joseph
Ashok Dey
Ashwin Mahesh
Aunohita Mazumdar
Anshuman Rane,
B A Sridhara,
B G Verghese
Bharati Sadasivam
C G Manjula
Darryl D~Monte
Dasu Krishnamoorty
Dinesh C Sharma
E Sompalan
Frederick Noronha
Gouri Chatterjee
Hara Prasad Padhi
Jaya Uttamchandani
Jim Hodgetts
Jose Kochuparampil
K S Parthasarathy
K S Sudeep
Kalyan Raman
Kanchan Kaur
Kanchan K Malik
Khashif Khusro
Kishwar Ahluwalia
Kripa Sridharan
L C Jain
Lalitha Sridhar
Lata Jishnu
Latika Padgaonkar
Laxmi Murthy
Lea Terhune
Lorenzo Amberg
Manjula Lal
Manjeet Kripalani
Mukul Dube
Malavika Kaul
Meena Menon
Mohammad Shehzad
Mrinal Talukdar
N S Jagannathan
Namitha Deepak
Nupur Basu
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Pradosh Kumar Rath
Shantala Dharmaraj
Sujata Banerjee
Partho Ganguly
Pradyuman Maheshwari
Pran Chopra
Prasun Sonwalkar
Press Institute of India
Ramesh Ramchandran
Ranjona Banerji
Ratna Rajaiah
Rosella Stephen
S R Ramanujan
S Srinivasan
Sajan Venniyoor
Sanjaya Mishra
Shama Futehally and Javed Chaudhury
Shantala Dharmaraj
Shekhar Gupta
Subramaniam Vincent
Sudipto Mundle
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
TCA Srinivasa and Jayanti Raghavan
TSRK Sastry
Teresa Thomas
Uma Iyer
Usha Raman
Vasuki Belawadi
Vidya Subramaniam
Vijay Nambisan
Vijaylakshmi Hegde,
Y Bal Murali Krishna
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