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 GENESIS

"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 two investment bankers who, along with 8-10 like-minded corporate professionals and technocrats, 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.
 VISION & MISSION

 

As a Social Venture Philanthropist, Smile Foundation promotes and catalyses universal education among underprivileged children, create the process to embrace these children into mainstream in a sustained manner, facilitate them to emerge as productive assets, and set the foundation for nation building.

 
 PEOPLE BEHIND SMILE

 

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.

The Board of Advisors advises the Trustees of Smile Foundation, taking inputs from the Executive Committee

Members of the Board of Advisors are as follow:
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1. Dr. S. V. Gore

2. Mr. Yogesh Jagia

3. Dr. Ira Dash Rajguru

4. Mr. Praveen Gupta

5. Mr. Santanu Mishra

Dr Shrinivas Vasant Gore, a Medical Doctor and General Surgeon by profession, Managing Trustee of Sevadham Trust, Pune, is a well known personality in field of Social Work. Dr Gore is on Country Committee for Coordinating Mechanism of Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - set up by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; also on Working Group on Health Education (IEC) set up for the formulation for the Tenth Five Year Plan by the Planning Commission.

Mr. Yogesh Jagia, a Lawyer by profession with specialization in economic laws, practices in Delhi High Court & Supreme Court of India.

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. Praveen Gupta is a Post Graduate in Business & Economics from Delhi University. He advices to more than 50 corporate houses on various strategic issues.

Mr. Santanu Mishra is an Associate Member of ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries of India) and is an Alumni of Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A). Besides also holding a degree in law, Mr. Mishra specializes in Business & Enterprise Transformation & Project Management.

Executive Committee
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The Executive Committee manages the Foundation’s operation directly and it reports to the Board of Advisors. Members of this committee are professionals working with Smile Foundation and usually it includes a member from the Board of Advisors.

1. Mr. K. K. Varma

2. Ms. Anupama Puri

3. Ms. Indrani Roy

4. Mr. Naresh Chaudhary

5. Mr. Santanu Mishra

Mr. K. K. Varma is an Alumni of IIT, Kharagpur (Master in Regional Planning) with an M. Sc Degree in Statistics and training in Health and Family Welfare from Management Science for Health (MSH), Boston (USA). Mr. Varma has extensive experience of about 30 years in NGO sectors on programme management and social research [Education & Empowerment, Reproductive & Sexual Health, Family Planning etc.]. He has worked with Govt. of India, leading development agencies and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as its State Representative before joining Smile family.

Ms. Anupama Puri, an MBA with specialization in Marketing & Finance, is with Smile Foundation since its inception. She has been working on development sector for almost 10 yrs. She has extensive experience in Project Management & Implementation; Social Marketing; reproductive & sexual health; adolescent issues, and empowerment.

Ms. Indrani Roy, a Post Graduate from Jadavpur University (Kolkata), worked with Help Age India as Deputy Director (Resource Mobilization–North) for 22 years. She was working with Global Cancer Concern India (GCCI) as Director, South-East [Resource Development] before joining Smile Team in Bangalore as National Director. Indrani has also launched Resource Generation Programmes in Northern Region, Southern Region and Eastern Region for GCCI.

Mr. Naresh Chaudhary holds an engineering degree in Electronic and Tele Communications with an extensive experience, predominantly in the fields of resource mobilization and brand building with a consistent exposure of project management, communications and administration.

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 Business & Enterprise Transformation & Project Management.