Following Peter Senge’s philosophy that social equality and environment are business problems in today’s world, Smile Foundation was formed by a group of friends, established corporate professionals themselves, who wanted to make serious social contributions. And with their in-depth corporate insight, these friends decided to make Smile function like a catalyst stirring change at the grassroots while also enabling the civil society to engage proactively in the change process following the idea of Civic Driven Change and adopting the highest standard of governance.

Since 2002 Smile has been working on the subjects of education for children, livelihood for the youth, healthcare in rural villages and urban slums, women empowerment and sensitization of the privileged masses.

As it completes 10 years of catalysing development, Smile has successfully reached out to over 2 million beneficiaries across 22 states in the country.

A synergy of achieving highest SROI (social return on investment) by deploying best possible methodologies and technology, practicing and promoting Good Governance, linking business necessities with critical development indices and promoting Civic Driven Change is the approach that Smile Foundation works with.