The Grants from the Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) support organizations and collectives that are invested in addressing needs, especially of variously marginalized communities, and using innovative methodologies to promote mental health and well-being worldwide.
Priority is given to:
- Organizations and collectives led by persons from marginalized communities;
- Programs related to mental health and climate change;
- Programs and research related to suicide prevention;
- Organizations and collectives without any existing institutional funder, foreign or domestic (an institutional funder is any philanthropy, foundation, funding agency, or CSR support);
- Organizations and collectives in marginalized/low-resource geographical regions within India (i.e. Northeast region, Bihar, Jharkhand, J&K, etc ). Preference is given to organizations outside of Maharashtra, West Bengal and Karnataka.
The funding provided is project-dependent.
Grant applications are temporarily closed, due to the high volume of submissions received.