Charity is an attempt wherein I try to expand and bring into the ambit of my life, all others around me and grow to consider the other man’s needs and requirements as important as my own personal needs. To live seeking an identity thus, with at least those who are immediately around me, is to live away from the suffocating selfishness and the throttling grip of my body-consciousness.
—Swami Chinmayananda
CORD USA believes that the dormant spirit of true potential needs to be awakened within each one of us. In keeping with this belief, CORD and CORD USA’s mission is to facilitate participatory, integrated, and sustainable development for the less fortunate. The objectives are to comprehensively address, through community-based activities, issues related to the areas of poverty, health, disability, education, social injustice, environment, and local self-governance.
All issues within the above are resolved by linking the relevant program components to the community-based organizations of women, men, youth, and children, and by providing specific training required to implement them. The mediums for community interventions for CORD USA are the community-based organizations that it nurtures and empowers. Self-unfoldment and self-discovery to realize one’s inner wealth are an integral part of our programs.
Relief Programs
Service Visits
Local Projects
Refugee Empowerment
Community based Organizations
Thematic Programs