Google’s Philanthropic Arm Google.Org Grants $3 Million To Support Education In India

Newskart. May 03, 2018

The philanthropic arm of Google, Google.org, has extended its support for education and learning efforts in India. On Thursday, Google.org announced additional grants of $3 million to two non-profit organisations – Central Square Foundation and The Teacher App.

Google.org to provide a $2 million grant and technical assistance from the YouTube Learning team to Central Square Foundation – a policy think tank focused on improving the quality of school education in India which will support a minimum of 20 content creators to produce at least 200 hours of quality science, technology, engineering and Math content in Hindi and vernacular languages.

Whereas the remaining $1 million grant will be given to The Teacher App to empower teachers with the right training and resources on concepts of Math, science, language and pedagogy. The funds will be used to scale the platform to reach 500,000 teachers in two years.

On this move, Nick Cain, Education Lead, Google.org said, “We strongly believe that technology can play a powerful part in solving the learning gap in India, and we are expanding our investments in India to ensure that all teachers and students are able to benefit from it.”

“These new funds will help contribute in building more locally relevant solutions and content for students and teachers,” Cain added.

Google has already funded four NGOs, Learning Equality, Million Sparks Foundation, Pratham Books StoryWeaver, and Pratham Education Foundation last year who received total grants of $8.4 million to add scale to their existing efforts and help provide access to quality education and learning for all.

So far Google.org has funded in total $11.4 million to various NGOs given above to support learning and education efforts in India.

“Globally, learning and educational content drives over a billion views a day and we believe there is a huge opportunity for creators in India to enhance education and learning through YouTube,” said Satya Raghavan, Head of Entertainment for India at YouTube.

India was among the first country to receive grants from Google.org’s global $50 million commitment to support nonprofits (NGOs) who are building tech-based learning solutions.

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