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Mid Day Meal

Akshaya Patra

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Akshaya Patra – millions of poor children in India are deprived of an education by a simple fact of life: they need to eat, and in order to eat, they need to work, which – at the measly wages of an unskilled child laborer – means long hours that exclude any time for school. The Akshaya Patra Foundation is working to change this dynamic, providing hot, in-school meals to help poor children stay in school – their one chance to escape the cycle of poverty. Akshaya Patra makes balanced, nutritious meals at its modern central kitchens in Bangalore and other cities all over India, feeding 1.2 million children every day. The meals help reduce the dropout rate – giving poor students an incentive to continue their education – while also giving students the energy they need to focus on their studies and get the most out of each school day. Through Akshaya Patra, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation has funded daily meals for hundreds of needy children, to help them stay in school.

http://www.foodforeducation.org/index.php?content=31
http://www.akshayapatra.org/our-mission

School girls and science experiment

Agastya International Foundation

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One of the largest, hands-on science education programs in the world, Agastya is a movement led by entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, teachers, and children. Its goal is to revitalize and transform primary and secondary education in India and provide an affordable education model, replicable anywhere in the world. The MurthyNAYAK Foundation has provided a grant to rebuild the Agastya website, and worked with Site2Sight Productions on a documentary film, Spirit of Agastya, which vividly illustrates Agastya’s efforts to spark curiosity in India’s rural children. The film was a gift to Agastya from the MurthyNAYAK Foundation. Click here to view the film, http://agastya.org/albums/albums/spirit.html%20.

The MurthyNAYAK Foundation also has served as a facilitator to introduce Agastya’s leadership to scientists, nonprofit organizations, educators, and artists in Baltimore, Maryland to build partnership opportunities. Financial contributions have gone towards building five models for the Discovery Center in Kuppam, A.P., India. MNF’s in-kind contributions have provided state-of-the-art professional video equipment to the educators and scientists at Agastya’s main campus in Kuppam.

In the fall of 2010, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation made a substantial long-term funding commitment to Agastya, to extend the reach of their transformative programs and help more rural Indian children to unlock the vast potential of their imaginations.

In the past decade, Agastya has reached over 2.5 million children – half of whom are girls – and 80,000 teachers in several Indian states. In 2010, two of 24 winners of the prestigious Intel India Science Award were young women from Agastya, who competed successfully against a huge field of competitors, representing the cream of India’s private schools. This is bold, transformative work, and we are proud to play a part in Agastya’s success.

Learn more at www.agastya.org.

Association for India’s Development

Association for India’s Development

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AID – the Association for India’s Development is a volunteer movement that promotes sustainable, equitable, and just development in India. It has launched high-profile campaigns against corruption and worked to remedy other major impediments to India’s development. AID supports grass-roots organizations in India and seeks broad-based solutions to complex problems that may implicate several domains of concern, including education, employment, natural resources (land, water and energy), agriculture, health, women’s empowerment, and social justice. Through AID, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation has sponsored several village welfare programs in India.

http://aidindia.org/main/content/blogsection/3/67/

Girl Scouts Event

Who We Support

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The MurthyNAYAK Foundation is proud to support a wide range of organizations that share our goals and our commitment to public-spirited good works.  We choose our partner organizations carefully, targeting our social investments for maximum impact.  We look for organizations that have the capacity to make substantial improvements within our communities of interest.  We prefer to invest for the long term, in path-breaking programs and ideas that will make our world a better place.  The MurthyNAYAK Foundation does this by building relationships with committed social entrepreneurs — creative people whose work attacks systemic problems at their roots; we strongly favor programs that promote basic justice and human dignity, empowering the needy with a hand up, not a handout.  The organizations listed below have become regular recipients of our support.

Student at Black Board

Disaster Relief

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Donations were sent to the American Red Cross for rescue and recovery efforts and to support the survivors and families of those whose lives were lost in the attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC.

At the time of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and with the help of Murthy Immigration Services, Pvt Ltd in Chennai, India, the MurthyNayak FOUNDATION arranged for food, clothing, medicine, and household essentials to hundreds of people displaced by this tragedy.

Tsunami 3 Tsunami 1

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, during the final days of August 2005, the Murthy Nayak FOUNDATION again made a contribution to the American Red Cross to provide aid to families in that devastated area.

When disaster strikes, even the most prepared individuals are left unbalanced. The reality of such a situation is so overwhelming compared to drills and preparations. Those who already exist on the fringes of society are usually the ones left in the most desperate of circumstances. They have nothing and nowhere to turn. The MurthyNayak FOUNDATION supports organizations that are first responders in these situations where and when they hit.

International Disaster Relief Efforts

  • Asian Tsunami
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Attacks of 9/11

Tsunami 2

Sheela Murthy with Women's Group

Women and Children

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Women should have equal rights and protections under the law. Children should not be the victims of crime or suffer for their ethnicity or for the political views or wrongdoing of their parents. We do not live in a just or reasonable world, however. MNF supports organizations with the goal of protecting women who are the victims of domestic violence or who need help providing the basic needs of life to their families. We also provide assistance through organizations that feed and nurture the bodies and minds of children.

Baltimore / U.S.

  • Women’s Law Center MADOVI Project
  • Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, Beyond Bars Project
  • United Way of Central Maryland

Bangalore / India

  • Chennakeshava School
  • Agastya International Foundation
  • KHUSHII
  • Akshaya Patra

Two Girls

Murthy at Immigration Rally

Supporting Immigrants in the U.S.

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Sheela Murthy and Vasant Nayak are naturalized citizens of the United States, originally from India. Ms. Murthy is world renowned as an attorney in the field of U.S. immigration and nationality law. The couple understands the many difficulties faced by those who are new to the United States. The MurthyNayak FOUNDATION supports efforts to help refugees and asylees who escape unspeakable atrocities to reach the safety of U.S. shores with few or no belongings. It also seeks to support organizations that educate citizens and government officials on the realities of the immigration situation.

Sheela Murthy and Vasant Nayak are naturalized citizens of the United States, originally from India. Ms. Murthy is world renowned as an attorney in the field of U.S. immigration and nationality law. The couple understands the many difficulties faced by those who are new to the United States. The MurthyNayak FOUNDATION supports efforts to help refugees and asylees who escape unspeakable atrocities to reach the safety of U.S. shores with few or no belongings. It also seeks to support organizations that educate citizens and government officials on the realities of the immigration situation.

  • Women’s Law Center MODOVI Project
  • Harvard Law School
  • American Immigration Law Foundation
  • ERICA
  • ASHA for Women

U.S. ImmigrationStatue of Liberty

Children with Science Project

Our Projects

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If a business is all brain and no heart it can survive no better than if it is all heart and no brain. The MurthyNayak FOUNDATION is the heart of the Murthy Law Firm, following its heart and helping those who are vulnerable or in need. Business has been generous and provided a certain amount of financial security, so we might set out to extend opportunities and open doors for those less fortunate, who share our planet.

When we have been successful in business, we believe it is our duty to be generous to the community and give back. Community Service enhances our business life. It keeps us in touch with the real world and with people from all economic, social, ethnic, and religious groups. This provides balance and informs the decisions we make in business and as part of our local and global communities. We at the MurthyNayak FOUNDATION challenge other business leaders and entrepreneurs to engaged themselves in community service in a meaningful way. We believe they, too, will feel rewarded.

Woman in Literacy Class

Rural Mobile Lab

Our Programs and Focus

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In order to provide the communities where our work centers with donations that further our mission, the MurthyNayak FOUNDATION focuses primarily on improving the lives of society’s most vulnerable and disenfranchised members. We seek to support organizations that provide assistance to women for their health, safety, and livelihoods, to children for their nourishment, education, and well being, and to immigrants for the protection of their human rights and dignity

Teacher & Students in Class

Grants from MNF are bestowed based upon our mission and goals. Applicants should be able to show how their work can dovetail with MNF to improve the lives of women, children, and/or immigrants in need. Gifts are typically in the $2000 to $10,000 range. A small number of grants are given each year. Request application materials by eMailing info [at] murthynayak.org.

 

 

Murthy Reading to School Kids

Where We Work

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As a small, family foundation, we tend to focus our work on programs for women, children, and immigrants in our own communities. We support nonprofit organizations in the Baltimore-Washington area, and along the east coast of the United States.

We also work with NGOs in southern India, in Bangalore, Hubli, and Kuppam, A.P. Occasionally, we find organizations outside of these general areas that we feel are worthy of our attentions. In addition, we help with disaster relief when and where we are able.

Baltimore to Bangalore – Each life matters!

Bangalore, India Baltimore, USA