Grants and Awards
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Provided support for the Do Good Institute’s 2020 Do Good Challenge. They award prizes to outstanding students in social entrepreneurship and impact by University of Maryland students. |
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Awarded a grant to Baltimore nonprofit V-Linc (now VME), to leverage engineering students and volunteers to develop specific assistive technology solutions for disabled young people. |
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Established The Neilom Prize at IIT Delhi’s Assistech Laboratory for the best engineering student developing transformative educational tools for young blind people. |
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A grant was made to the African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association (AWCAA) set up a successful pilot breast cancer screening and education clinic. |
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Students in the new Engineering for Social Change course grant Neilom Foundation funds for maximum social impact. |
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We supported Students Helping Honduras, an organization alleviating violence and extreme poverty in Honduras through education and youth empowerment. |
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The Foundation awarded a grant to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for a pilot solar rotation grazing system to enhance soil health and improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region. |
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Supported students and six local nonprofits in the pilot Social Entrepreneurship program at the College of Southern Maryland.
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Set up the donor-directed Sukhdarshan Lal Bhalla Neilom Prize for the best students at Durga Dutt Kapilashrami Smarak Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (DDKSSM), a school in Haldwani, India. |
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Provided funds to Bread and Water for Africa to build a new fresh water well in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa for a population of 2,500, a majority of which are schoolchildren. |
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Awarded a grant to DC-based nonprofit organization FRESHFARM to build a new healthy eating/teaching garden at the Ludlow-Taylor school in Washington DC. |