AVI USA News
AVI USA News brings you updates from Auroville, our Auroville partners and projects, and new developments from AVI USA. Check back in frequently for new articles.
Sustaining Inspiration and Aspiration
Bringing your project’s mission to life day to day is hard work. Service work requires consistency, discipline, and perseverance. And fundraising easily becomes another thing to add to an already
President’s Letter
Coming back from India to the United States is always a big shift. In India, reverence is part of the atmosphere, and devotion flows freely. God is everywhere: in little
Chennai Rotary Club Visits Auroville
At AVI USA, we cultivate institutional partnerships to support our project partners. Sometimes these partnerships involve sharing information and making connections, while other times they create opportunities for funding. One
Next Steps: Guiding Youth, One Step At A Time
Next Steps began in end of October as an official activity. Before that, the work had already started, as I was already meeting and advising Auroville high school students about their
Vegan Forest Festival at Sadhana Forest
The Vegan Forest Festival, organized by Sadhana Forest, began in 2023, It was inspired by other vegan events around the world that were bringing the community together. Luke suggested it
Inspired to Build the Future: Andreas at AIAT
During the AVI USA Auroville site visits in February and March 2025, our group had the opportunity to connect with Andreas, a recent volunteer at the Auroville Institute for Applied
Aurodeva Guerci
We are reprinting portions of an adapted article featured in Auroville Today’s February Issue. To Read the Full Article Please visit
Auroville Today . The article below contains excerpts. Aurodeva is
AVI USA New Partners in 2024
The AVI USA Project Partner collective is growing, giving us stronger connection to Auroville and the multiple facets of Integral Yoga.
In 2024 AVI USA welcomed 25 new Auroville Projects
Bhumilucis – A Collaborative work by Aurodeva
Bhumilucis is a collective work that premiered at Centre d’Art in Auroville on Friday, January 17th. We contacted Nicole and Aurodeva to find out more about the project.
Personal Facebook Fundraiser for Auroville & AVI USA
We have put together a step by step guide of how to successfully create a Facebook Fundraiser for AVI USA or an AVI USA Partner .
AVI USA 50 Years: The Lasting Legacy of June Maher
2024 marks Auroville International USA’s 50th anniversary as a nonprofit organization. The gathering of friends working and dreaming of an...
Eco Femme Secures a Rotary Club Grant
Knowing that we have been actively seeking funds to help sustain our menstrual health education programmes with adolescent girls, Binah...
The Pulaha Fellowship provides young individuals, who share this wish, the opportunity to regenerate forests, restore watersheds, and live in...
A Letter from Chandrah and Ribhu
We are writing to you from WasteLess. We are Chandrah and Ribhu, siblings who grew up together in the barren...
John Mandeen, came to Pondicherry from California, in October 1968 as a young man of 24 and was accepted by...
The 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium at SRI, Auroville
In February 2024, AVI USA supported Martin and the Sanskrit Research Institute, SRI, in hosting the 7th International Sanskrit Computational...
Auroville Today Headline Article, June 2024
Promoting Ayurveda: the knowledge of life | An Interview with Ayurvedic Dr. Be
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The Real Auroville Is In the Work
I recently visited Auroville primarily to connect with project leaders, learn what they are doing, help them think about how...