Charitable Foundation
Gupta has decided to give all his wealth to charity. He believed in 'Learn, Earn and Return' Gupta recognizes the value of education and how it has changed his life. As a result, he has made education a primary beneficiary for his charitable contributions. “Through his charitable foundation, Gupta has helped advance education across fields including: business, science, information technology, communications, intellectual property law and wildlife preservation.” Most recently he donated $1 million for a women’s polytechnic in his village of Rampur Manhyaran, a small town near Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh state. The Polytechnic was inaugurated by the former US President Bill Clinton.
In addition he gave his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, $2 million to create the Vinod Gupta School of Management. The institute now offers an MBA program to engineering graduates with 0 to 5 years of work experience. After Mr. Gupta’s contributions, the IIT received $2 million from other IIT alumni. He has also donated money for a new science block at his former village school and provided buses for the girls’ school. Moreover, the most recent of his contributions includes the setting up of a law school under the IIT umbrella with excellent infrastructure named under Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law which is creating waves across India with its unique program.
In America, Mr. Gupta has donated $2 million to establish a curriculum for small business management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He’s also donated an additional $500,000 to the university to set up a scholarship fund for minority students who want to enter its science or engineering schools.
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