The MurthyNayak FOUNDATION (MNF) is an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organization established by Sheela Murthy and Vasant Nayak, to locate and help with a range of projects in India and the United States.

In order to make the most effective use of MNF’s resources, grant making is focused and structured as follows. In general, MNF seeks to help with children’s and women’s health and educational needs, to support programs that assist immigrants, educate and advocate for immigration, and support disaster relief efforts. In India, MNF intends to further adult education and literacy, to support orphanages and old-age homes, and to offer education scholarships.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Tagore

The Murthy Law Firm represents individuals and businesses exclusively in the area of U.S. immigration law. The Baltimore / Washington metropolitan area has provided the firm with a source for talented, intelligent, energetic employees who have helped us to build a business that has been able to grow and strengthen since 1994. We have benefited from the camaraderie of the business community here, while our clients are located around the globe.

The Murthy Law Firm is a business, but a business, like a living being, needs to metabolize all it takes in to achieve strength and health and balance. If it 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, offering support to the most vulnerable members of society, from Baltimore to Bangalore. It is through financial gifts from the Murthy Law Firm that the foundation is able to do its work.

We encourage Murthy Law Firm staff to give back to the community in their own ways and we follow the path, as well, as individuals and as an organization, donating our time, talent, and treasure when and where we can serve others.

Website: http://www.murthy.com/

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.

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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

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

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.