OUR CONTRIBUTORS
The Media Foundation has received grants from both organisations and individuals.
Ongoing grants/donations
The Media Foundation
The Foundation received a donation of Rs 1 lakh from the Raza Foundation for its annual event in March 2017.
The website:
For the financial year 2017-18 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 30 lakh for the running of The Hoot website from the Lal Family Foundation.
For the financial year 2017-18 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 1 lakh for the running of The Hoot website from Latika Padgaonkar.
For the financial year 2017-18 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 50,000 for the running of the Hoot from Nandita Ray.
For the financial year 2016-17 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 9 lakh from Google for research on speech and content issues relevant in the evolving digital world.
For the financial year 2016-17 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 10 lakh from Nilekani Philanthropies.
For the financial year 2016-17 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 30 lakh from the Lal Family Foundation.
In April 2015 The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 28 lakh from the Vikram Sarabhai Foundation as financial support for the year 2015-16. In January 2015 and October 2014 it received grants of Rs 4.5 lskh per quarter for running the Hoot. We have received two earlier grants of Rs 4.5 lakh each from the Vikram Sarabhai Foundation in April and July 2014.
The Media Foundation has received a donation of Rs 5 lakh to run the Hoot from the philanthropy initiative of Rohini Nilekani in October 2013.
We have received an individual donation of Rs 1.5 lakh from Nandita Ray.
From March 2013 the editorial contributions to The Hoot are only paid out of donations by Indians including high net worth individuals.
Research: The Media Foundation has received a grant of Rs 57,99,547.00 in December 2013 and Rs 59,02,028 in June 2012 from the Ford Foundation to conduct a two year, study across the country on how digitisation of the public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati will affect low income group viewers in five states in India. The study has several aspects including field research in 19 districts in 5 states, content analysis, content mapping, and financial analysis of Prasar Bharati kendras. The study period ends in May 31, 2014
Databases and workshops: The Hoot has received a grant of Rs 42 lakh in February 2012 from Google for its Free Speech Hub, to create databases on the site which will be useful to journalists, and to hold workshops for students and journalists.
Past grants
The Hoot received a grant Rs 12.21 lakh in May 2012 from Hivos for running the Hoot. It also received a grant of Euros 30,000 in October 2011 from Hivos strengthening the services offered by the site and for its redesign.
The site received a grant of $ 30,000 from the Ford Foundation in May 2010 to support its editorial costs. It has received a further grant of $50,000 from Ford in June 2011 to support the website.
The Hoot also received a grant of $ 22,000 in January 2010 from Google.org to set up the Free Speech Hub.
Other organisations which have supported the site so far are the National Foundation for India, Panos, and a British charity which prefers to remain unnamed.
Initial support for this portal came from UNESCO, and from individuals.
Crowd Sourcing
Crowd sourced funding to support the Hoot.org has come from individuals giving small amounts.
We began our crowd sourcing in October 2013, and the following have donated Rs 3.8 lakh so far:
Anush Shetty
Chetanya Malik
Vijay Ramachandran
Nandita Ray
A contributor
A contributor
Sanjay Bhandarkar
Simin Akhter
Sachin Punalekar
Rupa Jaiswal
Jyoti Swaroop Pandey
Harin Buch
Aruna Chandrasekhar
Anjan Mitra
Aunohita Mazumdar
Saurabh Bhattacharjee
Dr Pradosh Kumar Rath
Sumeet Nihalani
Y Markandeya
Vivek Ananth
V B Arora
Vivek Pandey
A contributor
A contributor
Aparna
Sundar Thomas
Anshul Tewari
Ravikrishnan R Sree
Geeta Seshu
Shravan Garg
Ravi Kiran Edara
A contributor
Anand vardhan
A journalist
Ranjan Reddy
Geeta Seshu
Ponnanna MN
Shahid Aman
Mohammed Iqbal
Anshul
A jounalist
Anjali Puri
An editor
B Ramakrishna
Anonymous
Rajkumar S
B Sateesh Kumar
Sharad Jain
Abid Azad
Jennifer Alexander
Maya Ranganathan
William Crawley
Kinnera Murthy
Sreekant Khandekar
Prateek Shah
Abdaal M Akhtar
D Venkata Raghavan
Chaitra Shreepad Hegde
Rajiv Gupta
Ramesh
U S Yadhunandan
M Madhava Prasad
Nikhil Tyagi
K Syam Prasad
Vinayak
Purushothaman
Rakesh Krishnamoorthy Iyer
Chellaram
Krishna Kumar S
Nachiket Udupa
Padmaja Shaw
Kaushal
Anil Kumar Ramchandran
Sarthak Verma
Arun Kumar N
Aniket Alam
Aruna Chandrasekhar
Vipul Vivek
Arun Pandey
Gurram Kartheek
Earlier individual contributions:
All those individuals who have contributed over the years to keep the Hoot going are listed below. The contributions have ranged from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 300. We are grateful to them all.
One lakh and above
V Ravichandar
Kiron Shah
Vikram and Anita Lal
The JK Singhania Group
Fali Nariman
Raju Narisetti
Nandita Ray
The S P Singh Trust
Om Prakash Vaish and Manju Vaish
Rs 50,000-1 lakh
In memory of N S Jagannathan
B G Verghese
Nitin Desai
Rs 25,000-50,000
LC Jain
Soli Sorabjee
Rs 10,000 to 25,000
Nupur Basu
Geeta Seshu
Vineeta Deepak
Ashok Haribhai Desai
Padmaja Shaw
R R Joshi
Rajiv Mehrotra
D N Patodia
Dilip Rangachari
Suhasini Haidar
Tarlochan Singh
A contributor
Rs 5000 to 10,000
Darryl D'Monte
Shravan Garg
Sajan Venniyoor
Ashok Chandran
A Davidson
Malayala Manorama Group
Mannika Chopra
Panos Institute
PP Rao
Pradip Thomas
Prasun Sonwalkar
Rahul Goswami and Vidya Heble
Sanskriti Foundation
Susan Dhavle
Shailaja Bajpai
Rs 300-5000
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Ashoke Chatterjee
Usha Rai
Shubha Singh
H K Dua
Pamela Philipose
Jai Chandiram
Abid Hussain
A journalist
Aditi Kapoor
Ajay Kumar and Gouri Salvi
Ajit Bhattacharya
Aakar Patel
Akshay Deshpande
Anjali Deshpande
Ammu Joseph
Ashok Dey
Ashwin Mahesh
Aunohita Mazumdar
Anshuman Rane,
B A Sridhara,
B G Verghese
Bharati Sadasivam
C G Manjula
Dasu Krishnamoorty
Dinesh C Sharma
E Sompalan
Frederick Noronha
Gouri Chatterjee
Hara Prasad Padhi
Jaya Uttamchandani
Jim Hodgetts
Jose Kochuparampil
K S Parthasarathy
K S Sudeep
Kalyan Raman
Kanchan Kaur
Kanchan K Malik
Khashif Khusro
Kishwar Ahluwalia
Kripa Sridharan
L C Jain
Lalitha Sridhar
Lata Jishnu
Latika Padgaonkar
Laxmi Murthy
Lea Terhune
Lorenzo Amberg
Manjula Lal
Manjeet Kripalani
Mukul Dube
Malavika Kaul
Meena Menon
Mohammad Shehzad
Mrinal Talukdar
N S Jagannathan
Namitha Deepak
Nupur Basu
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Pradosh Kumar Rath
Shantala Dharmaraj
Sujata Banerjee
Partho Ganguly
Pradyuman Maheshwari
Pran Chopra
Prasun Sonwalkar
Press Institute of India
Ramesh Ramchandran
Ranjona Banerji
Ratna Rajaiah
Rosella Stephen
S R Ramanujan
S Srinivasan
Sajan Venniyoor
Sanjaya Mishra
Shama Futehally and Javed Chaudhury
Shantala Dharmaraj
Shekhar Gupta
Subramaniam Vincent
Sudipto Mundle
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
TCA Srinivasa and Jayanti Raghavan
TSRK Sastry
Teresa Thomas
Uma Iyer
Usha Raman
Vasuki Belawadi
Vidya Subramaniam
Vijay Nambisan
Vijaylakshmi Hegde,
Y Bal Murali Krishna
VOICES
William Crawley
A journalist