Smile Foundation was established in the year 2002. Smile Foundation is a non-activist development organization which works towards the implementation of welfare initiatives for the underprivileged community.

Smile Foundation reaches out to over one lakh children & youth through various education and healthcare projects across India with presence in the states of Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Goa, Kerala, Assam and Manipur.

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.

There are over 200,000 direct beneficiaries of Smile Foundation at present, and this is a modest count considering that our reach keeps growing by every passing day. Smile has 140 projects of various scales spread across 22 states in India.

 

Objectives

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

 

 

Programmes

• Mission Education
• Smile Twin e-Learning
• Smile on Wheels
• Swabhiman
• Action For Children
• Special Interventions
• Child for Child
• Individual Support Programme
• You can Make a Difference
• Smile Health Camps
• Disaster Managemen