A Presentation On:

Presented By,Vivek Chandran

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Adi Godrej is Zoroastrian and Chairman of Godrej Group.

Adi Burjorji Godrej born on 3 April 1942.

Education : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management.

He is also the second richest person of Parsi descent in the world after Pallonji Mistry.

He was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year India Award in February 2013.

He was elected as the president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2012-13.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2013.

In April 2013 Godrej was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at The Asian Awards

Initiative's By Adi Godrej

• Pre-primary, primary and secondary, managed by Godrej, have been providing quality care and education since 1955.

• Gradually the school grew into a 3 medium (Gujarati, Marathi and English), 3000 students.

• Environment consciousness is kindled in every child – through various programmes marking World Wetlands Day, World Population Day, World Forestry Day etc. to name a few

• GMH was set up by Godrej Memorial Trust.

• The objective was to create a balance between the philanthropic hospital in the city and the private hospitals.

• It has treated 35,000 patients and performed 3,128 surgeries since inception.

"...one of the most

productive charities–

dollar for deed–

in the world."

Children with defects like Cleft Lip and Palate are treated at

Godrej Memorial Hospital (GMH) along with a US based NGO ‘Smile Train’

Over 300 surgeries have been successfully conducted at GMH till date.

Features :Primary consultation and screening is followed by expert plastic surgery.

Patients are offered follow up speech therapy and other support services.

Surgery and hospitalization to the patient and one attendant are provided completely free

of cost

Travel costs are reimbursed by the hospital for deserving cases

• The activity of hardware packet making for chairs has been outsourced to National Association for Disabled Enterprises (NADE) for the last several years.

• Objective :Continued occupation for the visually disabled.

• Today around 40,000 hardware packets of 200 kinds are made .

• 3 million hardware packets from NADE are provided.

Is targeted at addressing hunger and malnutrition in the developing world.

Godrej pledged to collect funds that would be utilized to provide school children mid-day meals.

With a sizeable fund that is geared to feeding close to 780 school children and providing for 1,56,000 meals annually.

1.Ensuring employabilityGoal: Training 1 million rural and urban youth in skilled employment.

2. Creating a greener IndiaGoal: Achieving zero waste, carbon neutrality, positive water balance and a 30% renewable energy source.

3. Innovating for good & green productsGoal: Having a third of our portfolio revenues comprising good and/or green products and services – defined as products that are environmentally superior or addresses a critical social issue (e.g., health, sanitation, disease prevention) for consumers at the bottom of the income pyramid.

• The philanthropic activities by the chairman Mr.ADI GODREJ and other family members even before the word CSR was known has made the Godrej group one of the most trusted business house in India.

“Professionalism is not anybody's exclusive privilege hence, it is important for everybody to ensure that success stories are read, digested and innovated”

- Adi Bajaj