AID - Bylaws

The name of this organization shall be "Association for India's Development, Inc.". In this document Association for India's Development is henceforth referred to by its acronym 'AID' or 'AID, Inc.'

AID, Inc. is a charitable organization. In addition it is a non-political, non-profit, secular organization. It is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Its main objectives are to raise awareness about poverty and related issues, raise funds, and to make charitable contributions for the development and welfare of the poor people and poor communities of India. This development and welfare is achieved through assisting, implementing, and supporting charitable projects focusing mainly on literacy, education, rural development, family planning, health care, social welfare, empowerment of people, and environmental responsibility. These projects are focused in villages, rural areas, slum areas or in other economically underprivileged regions. These charitable projects will be selected for funding based on the following criteria:

The project under consideration should conform with the objectives of this organization outlined above.
The project under consideration should have a detailed budget specifying how the stipulated amount would be used.
The project under consideration has a long term perspective.
The project under consideration concerns, involves and benefits people in the economically under-privileged sections of the Indian society.
To the extent possible, projects under consideration would concentrate on different regions within India.
Effort would be made to replicate successful ideas in previous projects, and to create channels of communication between people working in different projects.

The awareness, especially of the problems of the poor, is created through means such as informative newsletters, hand-outs, posters, videos, presentations, films, skits and seminars.

The functions of AID are chosen to realise the objectives specified in section 1.2. The role of AID is subdivided into the following tasks:

Collecting information on different developmental projects in India.
Collecting monetary contributions from the members and the general public in the U.S.A.
Seeking grants from organizations and foundations.
Increasing awareness in the public of AID activities through publicity, participation in social events, and news-letters.
Encouraging volunteerism in people.
Selecting projects consistent with the objectives of AID for funding.
Sending financial contributions to the chosen projects at regular intervals.
Proposing and implementing projects consistent with the objectives of AID.
Periodically evaluating projects being supported by AID.
Visiting project sites and maintaining communication with them.
Keeping members informed about the status of the projects being funded
Administering the multiple tasks of AID mentioned above.

The executive structure (see section 3) is responsible for implementing these tasks and has freedom to choose appropriate methods for the same.