For the past 29 years, CRY has served as a voice for India's children, protecting and ensuring their rights, addressing root causes of inequality, encouraging holistic, self-sustaining community development programmes and most of all, trying to make child rights a people's movement, drawing in all sections of society.
 
CRY believes in : 

• The ability of children, individuals and communities to determine their own futures.
• The responsibility of the state to ensure access to quality social infrastructure and services.
• Constructive engagement with all stakeholders
• Multi-layered interventions that simultaneously address service delivery, community capacity building, networking and advocacy.
• Accountability and transparency
• Secularism
• Non-violence

Towards our effort, we have received steadfast support from a number of foundations and trusts like NORAD, the Ford Foundation and the Tata Trust. In partnership with organizations like these, we have been able to work towards ensuring child rights as well as invest in CRY, the institution, to achieve more efficient systems and performance.

• In 1993, CRY's Direct Mail Cell started operations in Delhi with support from NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation). It was our first step towards involving concerned individuals in our work. Today, individual donations account for over 80% of our resources.
• The Ford Foundation has partnered CRY in many ways starting with a grant in 1997, towards our Corpus, with the interest from the fund utilized to support our operating costs. Again in 2002, they supported CRY with a grant for Institution Building and developing our resource mobilisation capacity.
• The Sir Ratan Tata Trust contributed towards CRY's corpus in the year 1997, the interest used to cover the cost of planning, monitoring, evaluating programs by our Development Support team. In 2002-03, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust supported CRY's work by funding 11 child development initiatives in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

We are looking for more such partnerships, with trusts and foundations who would like to support us in our initiatives, with the shared belief, and aim of bringing about long-term, holistic change in the lives of India's underprivileged children and their communities.
 
To explore a partnership with CRY, please email us at trusts@crymail.org  (In case you are applying for grants/ funding from CRY, please go to our Selection & Review page or write to Webinfo@crymail.org)