Supporting Ummeed

Financial Support

Ummeed is a non-profit organization with an explicit goal of helping all children with developmental disabilities, irrespective of financial considerations. Over 40% of the patient sessions are with children from economically under privileged families and these families pay a much lower service fee to Ummeed, in fact, in most cases, just at token amount to ensure their commitment.

Ummeed also collaborates with NGOs like Akanksha, Premdan, Karuna Vihar, etc that work with children from economically underprivileged families.

In addition, Ummeed supports other organizations in building awareness, advocacy and training professionals. This support is not paid for and the cost is picked up by Ummeed. Ummeed also invests in training its professionals.

We do get some funding from some organizations (like a seed grant from the Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust) and individual contributions, and were recently selected by both United Way of Mumbai and GIVE Foundation. However, the current funding only covers about 20% of the operating loss.

Also, as we are planning to significantly expand our operations to serve a larger number of children, do more research, provide more support to other non-profit organizations, increase our our activities in the areas of awareness building, advocacy and training of professionals, and start an information platform and an early intervention center, we are going to need more funds.

We are actively looking for funding. We have tax exempt status in India, US and UK. If you would like to support us, you can contact us at ummeedcenter@gmail.com, or

For individuals in India please

Write a check in favor of "Ummeed Child development Center", and send it to:

For individuals in the U.S. please

Write a check in favour of "Ummeed Child Development Fund", and send the check to:

For individuals in the U.K, please

Write a check in favor of "Giving Impetus to Voluntary Effort" and send the check to :

Also, please send us your contact details so that we can send you a receipt for your contribution and Indian, UK or US Tax exemption certificates.

Training Support

One of our key activities is to help enhance the skills of the professionals at Ummeed. If you are a skilled professional in developmental disabilities and would like to enhance the skills of our staff, we would appreciate it if you could contact us at ummeedcenter@gmail.com