Strong communities
need strong foundations

GROW+ is a climate-intelligent, community-first, capacity-strengthening initiative rooted in the realities of the Global South.

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In 2021, EdelGive Foundation launched GROW, a first-of-its-kind fund, to support 100 grassroots organizations across India struggling in the aftermath of COVID-19.

GROW provided flexible funding to strengthen their core systems like Financial Resilience, Human Resource Development and Technology Adoption.

What we saw confirmed what we’ve always believed.

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When nonprofits are supported at their foundation, they flourish. 

Now, we carry that vision forward with GROW+.

Building on GROW’s success, it addresses one of the defining challenges of our time, climate change.

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How GROW+ works

GROW+ is GROW, deepened and directed toward the defining challenge of our time: climate change.

Landscape Approach

Place-first, always.

India’s ecological diversity demands differentiated responses. That’s why GROW+ operates across defined landscapes (e.g., Desert, Plains, Plateau, Islands, Coastal, Himalayan), informed by environmental signals such as rainfall variability, groundwater stress, biodiversity loss, and air quality shifts. Climate challenges look different across India and the world.
That’s why GROW+ works through six distinct landscapes. Each landscape is organised as a pyramid, turning local action into shared learning.

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Northern Plains

Snow-covered mountain peak with dramatic cloud formations in a clear sky at dusk.

Himalayan mountains

Islands

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Indian Desert

Coastal Plains

Peninsular plateau

Smart Pyramids

Collaborations that scale.

Each landscape is anchored by an experienced organisation supporting 10+ grassroots NGOs in a non-hierarchical cluster. Knowledge flows up from communities while resources flow down from funders, turning capacity-building, learning, and evaluation into a shared system built for scale.

Capacity Framework

Strength from within.

GROW+ works through a smart, three-tier capacity grid. The foundational layer, GROW Classic, focuses on core organisational capacities. Stacked above this, GROW+ adds two layers, with the middle providing capacities for climate resilient institutional growth and the top serving as an anchor-specific layer for organisations leading each landscape. Together, they form a blueprint for long-term community-led climate resilience.

Additional CB support for Anchors

Core Capacities for Climate Action

Foundational Capacities

Designing your own capacity-building journey

Data and Knowledge Management

Financial resilience

Project management

Networks and evidence based engagement

Human resource development

Risk management

Learning and evaluation

Technology adoption