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  • Who we are

We work inside institutions.
Not around them

SRM Foundation is the social impact arm of the SRM Group. A Section 8 not-for-profit incorporated in 2021, built on the belief that India’s education and healthcare institutions don’t need to be replaced. They need to be strengthened from within, with the same rigour and commitment that built the SRM Group’s own institutions over four decades.
  • HOW WE THINK

India's institutions serve the majority of its people. They deserve the best of what we know how to build.

Healthcare systems, skill centres, and schools are not second-best institutions. They are the institutions that most of India depends on every day. Our work is to make them function better. Not by building parallel systems, but by working within the ones already there.
We have learned three things from doing this work. You have to work with institutions, not around them. Local leadership inside every institution understands their reality better than we ever will — they must be at the centre of every intervention. And you move forward with what is possible rather than waiting for what is perfect.

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

  • PART OF THE SRM GROUP

Backed by an institution that has spent four decades building institutions.

SRM Foundation is part of the SRM Group, one of India’s leading institution-building organisations across education, healthcare, and technology.
  • PART OF THE SRM GROUP

Backed by an institution that has spent four decades building institutions.

SRM Foundation is part of the SRM Group, one of India’s leading institution-building organisations across education, healthcare, and technology.
In education alone, the Group has invested four decades:
SRM Foundation is part of the SRM Group, one of India’s leading institution-building organisations across education, healthcare, and technology.
SRM Foundation brings that same commitment to institution-building into education and healthcare. We are operationally independent, co-designing with institutional partners, funded through CSR and philanthropic partnerships, and accountable to the communities we serve.
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Vision

To create sustainable and transformative social impact through research-driven and innovative initiatives in health, education, skill development, and environmental sustainability empowering communities for a brighter and more equitable future.
  • WHAT DRIVES US

Mission

SRM Foundation is dedicated to nurturing values in children, youth, and women while promoting service to humanity. Through continuous research, innovation, and evidence-based development, we empower underprivileged communities especially youth and women to become agents of positive and measurable change.
  • OUR LEADERSHIP

The people behind the work

Trustee

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Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation
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Mrs. Manimangai Sathyanarayanan

Managing Trustee - SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation

Leadership Team

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Rajeswari Dhar

CSR Head
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation

Advisors

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Advisors
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation
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Advisors
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation
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Advisors
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation

Partners

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Jane Doe

Advisors
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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation
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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation
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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

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Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
  • Community Health Camps, Tamil Nadu
  • Water Body Conservation — Puthiya Thalaimurai Foundation
  • HOW WE'RE STRUCTURED
SRM Foundation is incorporated as a Section 8 not-for-profit company under the Companies Act, registered on 13 October 2021 with the Registrar of Companies, Chennai.
CIN: U85300TN2021NPL147044.
We are 80G certified, CSR-1 registered, and 12A compliant — enabling fully tax-compliant CSR deployment for all corporate partners.
Every CSR partnership is supported by complete compliance documentation, quarterly impact reporting, and audit-ready financial records.

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Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan founded SRM Technologies in 1998 and has since built one of India’s most wide-ranging institutional ecosystems spanning higher education, healthcare, media, construction, and technology. As Vice-Chancellor of SRM University from 2003 to 2010, he led the institution to full university status, established an International Advisory Board with academics from Harvard, MIT, Kellogg, and Carnegie Mellon, and drove its first international accreditations.
In 2013, he established SRM University Sikkim to extend the Group’s educational reach to India’s northeast. He currently serves as Pro-Chancellor of SRM University AP (Amaravati) and President of the SRM Group. Dr. Sathyanarayanan holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Anna University Chennai, a Master of Science from Northeastern University USA, and a doctoral degree from Southern Cross University Sydney, Australia
He founded SRM Foundation on the conviction that the same rigour which built the SRM Group’s institutions belongs inside India’s public sector too.

Mrs. Manimangai Sathyanarayanan

Managing Trustee - SRM Foundation

Mrs. Manimangai Sathyanarayanan is a compassionate leader within the SRM Group, known for her strong commitment to philanthropy across healthcare, education, and community development. She focuses on building inclusive, accessible, and people-centered institutions that extend beyond traditional organisational roles.

As Managing Director of SRM Global Hospitals, she advocates for patient-first, ethical, and affordable healthcare, with an emphasis on preventive care and long-term wellness.

Her initiative, WOW (Wellness of Women), promotes early screening, awareness, and holistic support for women’s physical and emotional health.

Her work also spans education and social outreach, where she supports value-based learning, public health awareness, and community welfare programmes, particularly for women and underserved groups.

Guided by empathy and responsibility, her leadership underscores the importance of institutions contributing to social good and sustainable impact, reflecting a philosophy rooted in service, dignity, and inclusion.

Rajeswari Dhar

CSR Head
SRM Foundation

Rajeswari Dhar is a senior CSR and development professional with over 22 years of experience across nonprofits, social enterprises, and corporate CSR. She specialises in strategic fundraising, donor stewardship, and designing high-impact livelihood and skilling programmes. Over her career, she has mobilised more than ₹150 crore in multi-year funding and managed complex, multi-donor portfolios across India.

She has led large-scale interventions reaching over one million beneficiaries across 26 states and is known for building strong corporate and institutional partnerships, along with robust monitoring, evaluation, and reporting systems. Her leadership style focuses on creating high-performing, execution-driven teams that deliver measurable outcomes.

Currently serving as Head of CSR at SRM Foundation, part of the SRM Group, Rajeswari combines expertise in Design Thinking and Lean Six Sigma with deep field experience, bringing together strategic vision, operational rigour, and a strong focus on impact.