Strong communities
need strong foundations
GROW+ is a collaborative fund that helps nonprofits move from merely surviving to shaping the future.
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.
In 2025 we carry that vision forward with GROW+.
Building on GROW’s success, it addresses one of the defining challenges of our time, climate change.
Watch the story of GROW+
How GROW+ works
Grounded in India’s diverse landscapes, GROW+ turns
community insight into collective strength.
Landscape Approach
Place-first, always.
Climate challenges look different across India and the world. That’s why GROW+ works through six distinct landscapes.
Each landscape connects multiple Smart Pyramids across countries, turning local action into shared, global learning.
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.
Our mission is to build a future where local organizations lead the way in creating climate solutions.
Strengthen community resilience
by directing financial and technical support where it’s needed most.
Build adaptive capacities
that help organisations innovate and respond effectively to a changing climate.
Encourage funders
to adopt long-term, trust-based approaches that enable lasting climate action.
Stronger Together
GRAVIS, PHIA
Antara Advisory
(ICC)
Funding Partners
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The foundation behind GROW+
GROW+ is a flagship initiative of EdelGive Foundation, India’s leading philanthropic asset manager and advisor. EdelGive works at the intersection of capital and community, supporting funders with clarity, and NGOs with long-term resilience.
GROW+ is shaped by this approach.
