Since the pandemic, the number of India\u2019s philanthropic collaboratives has more than doubled. These collaboratives mobilise funding from foreign and domestic philanthropy, high-net-worth individuals, corporate social responsibility funders, bilateral and multilateral donors, private capital, and other sources.<\/p>\n
Samridh Healthcare Blended Finance Facility provides both grants and debt financing to enterprises and innovators that are expanding the availability of affordable and quality healthcare solutions to the bottom-of-the-pyramid populations. Samridh supported the training of 1,100 healthcare workers in more than 25 cities and built out oxygen delivery systems during the peak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Similarly, ACT Grants funded high-priority health needs such as tele-ICU treatment of high-risk patients in Karnataka, and delivery of 45,000 pieces of oxygen equipment to healthcare facilities during the pandemic. <\/p>\n
REVIVE developed an innovative social finance instrument called \u201creturnable grants\u201d to provide income support to small scale vendors\/ micropreneurs. <\/p>\n