The Tamil Endowment Fund (TEF) was founded in 2021.
Our mission is to grow our endowment to provide sustainable and impact orientated support for our partner organisations.
The Tamil Endowment Fund is mandated, in perpetuity, to support the Tamil community. There are significant benefits in building for the long term. These include:
Providing stability to partnering organisations and broader stakeholders
Ensuring skills and knowledge within the organisation are not lost
Access the greater opportunities that come from a longer track record
TEF seeks to tap into the considerable financial and commercial expertise within the Tamil community and utilise these skillsets to improve institutional capacity within diaspora organisations.
Through investing we can:
Protect the purchasing power of our donations
Grow the donations through compounding
Reduce the dependency of the fund to fundraising
Broaden our impact through sustainable investments
Engage new parts of the Tamil Community