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
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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

Our mission is to build a future where local organizations lead the way in creating climate solutions.

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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

Funding Partners

Rashesh and Vidya Shah Family Foundation
Jagdish Chander Mehta and Family
Principal Capacity Building Partner
Social Lens
Outreach Partner
(ICC)
Knowledge Partner
Antara Advisory

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GROW+ is a flagship initiative of EdelGive Foundation, a leading philanthropic asset manager and advisor in India.

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Let’s build
resilience together

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