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Aligarh Alumni Association of Dallas Fort Worth (AAADFW) was incorporated in the state of Texas on April 29, 2016, with the primary objective being to improve the, educational and socio-economic conditions of the underprivileged and minority people living in US and India. In order to facilitate the foregoing objective, the Aligarh Alumni Association of Dallas Fort Worth ("Organization") was formed in Texas on April 24, 2016, as a secular, nonpolitical, all volunteer, nonprofit organization to serve the underserved and underprivileged. The organization will have no paid staff members, is completely volunteer driven and funding for the organization will be provided by its members, friends along with contributions from the general public and corporations.

Primary Purposes

The primary purposes for which the Organization is organized are as follows

  1. to mobilize resources in order to improve the education, literary, economic and social conditions of the underserved and underprivileged minority people in USA and India;
  2. to educate and create awareness among the Indian community living in North America and the American community about the economic, educational and social conditions of the underserved and underprivileged minority people in USA and India;
  3. to establish and promote better communications and form networks of Non-governmental agencies to serve everyone who are educationally underserved Minority people in USA and India;
  4. to promote communication and participation with organizations with similar objectives as the Organization, and form partnerships and alliances of like-minded organizations;
  5. to raise the educational level and promote excellence in education through Awareness, Access and Assistance in form of scholarships, grants, motivational tools, discussion and forums for the deserving and needed underserved and underprivileged minority people in USA and India
  6. to work with The Federation of Aligarh Alumni Association (FAAA) a US based 501(C)(3) non-profit to further their goals
  7. to promote the literacy of Urdu language that helps eliminate prejudice and discrimination and foster peace and harmony defending human and civil rights by offering scholarships at US Universities in Texas and helping the underserved and .underprivileged.
  8. to raise and manage funds and resources in order to achieve the foregoing charitable objectives.

Members of the organization will work collectively to advance the purpose of the organization.
It is our duty to educate the underprivileged by providing them help through grants scholarships.
The funds received through the entirety of the corporation’s activities will be used exclusively for the charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and will not be used for personal gains of any sort.  The organization and its members will adhere to the arm’s length standard and avoid all conflict of interest. We will provide disaster relief to schools that have been devastated by natural or manmade calamities especially to the underprivileged.

The Aligarh Motto in its logo summarizes it succinctly:

 

“عَلَّمَ الاِنْسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَم ‎‎“
“allam al-insān-a mā lam yaʻlam” 96:5

Taught the human being what they did not know.