 "Sustainability,
social equality and the environment are now business
problems. And corporate leaders can't depend on governments
to solve them." - Peter Senge, founder of the Society
for Organisational Learning (SOL). Senge's principles
find an echo in the ideologies behind Smile Foundation
formed in 2002 by a group of corporate professionals
who, decided to finance, handhold and support genuine
grassroots' initiatives targeted at providing education
and health to underprivileged children. In the process,
becoming the first ever grantmaker and changing the
face of thousands of lives.
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 As
a catalyst to bring changes in the lives of millions
of children, youth and women, who are not privileged,
by addressing the real need at the grassroots level
and also enabling the civil society across the world
to engage proactively in the change process following
the philosophy of Civic Driven Change and adopting the
highest standard of governance and thereby emerging
as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative
and scalable international development organisation
from India.
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Smile
Foundation is to empower underprivileged children and
youth through relevant education, innovative healthcare
and market-focused livelihood programmes. Smile to deploy
best possible methodology and technology for achieving
ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice
and promote good governance. To link business competitiveness
of the corporate with social development initiatives,
also to sensitize privileged children, youth and citizens
in general to promote Civic Driven Change.
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1.
To pursue the most critical development indices like
child education, innovative healthcare, livelihood,
and women empowerment to achieve large
scale penetration and highest Social Return on Investment
(SROI)
2.
To engage SVP (Social Venture Philanthropy) model by
working hand in hand with grassroots organisations,
building their capacities, giving strategic
directions, sharing resources and knowledge, upgrading
technology with the aim to achieve scalability, accountability,
sustainability and leadership
3.
To promote and practice good governance in every sphere
of its activities and inculcate the same among the grassroots
partners; to build trust and
credibility with all stakeholders
4.
To source and implement suitable technology of relevance
across its operations for optimisation of management
and operation bandwidth
5.
To form alliances with the government, national and
international institutions, bilateral and multilateral
organisations to share resources and knowledge,
and to complement and supplement the efforts of these
institutions
6.
To engage the corporate sector in the welfare initiatives
by linking their business competitiveness and social
contributions, wherever befitting,
to make the engagement sustainable
7.
To link business necessity with critical development
indices in alignment with Smile Foundation agenda and
expand programme coverage in the
rural outreach to achieve integrated social development
8.
To sensitize the privileged citizens including opinion
makers, mass media and to encourage them to participate
in the civic driven change through
various forms of engagement
9.
To promote and imbibe social sensibility among youth
and privileged children to help them emerge as responsible
citizens and also participate
in Civic Driven Change
10.
To develop a management bandwidth which can not only
support the broad vision of the organisation but also
will strive for excellence, innovation
and institution building
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 Smile
Foundation is managed by a Board of Advisors which comprises
of individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise.
The body is formed for a period of one year and a few
independent members with eminence and reputation are
nominated each year. Members of this board meet once
every quarter.
Members
of the Board of Advisors are as follow:
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1. Mr. Santanu Mishra
2. Mr. Yogesh Jagia
3. Mr. Praveen Gupta
4. Dr. Ira Dash Rajguru
5. Mr. Nesar Ahmad
Mr. Santanu Mishra
an Associate Member of ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries
of India), is an Alumni of Indian Institute of Management
(IIM-A). Besides also holding a degree in law, Mr. Mishra
specializes in Enterprise Transformation, strategies
and Scaling up.
Mr. Yogesh Jagia,
a Lawyer by profession with specialization in economic
laws, practices in Delhi High Court & Supreme Court
of India.
Mr. Praveen Gupta is
a Masters in Business & Economics(MBE) from Delhi
University. He advices to the top corporate houses
in India on various strategic issues.
Dr. Ira Dash Rajguru,
a Doctorate in Social Sciences with specialization in
HR and Women Issues, has been working with HR dept of
Unicorp and subsequently worked as a HR consultant to
Ingramico, Icons & V5 Global. Interested in writing,
she has authored the book “Women and Education
in Rajasthan.”
Mr. Nesar Ahmad, is
an fellow member of ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries
of India). He specializes in Company Secretarial services,
Corporate Laws, Business Re-structuring, Merger &
Amalgamation, Merchant Banking and Legal Matters. At
present, Mr. Ahmed is the President of the ICSI.
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