SmilingStart
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| Social Enterprise | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Digital Marketing |
| Founded 📆 | 2013 |
| Founder 👔 | Tejas Sangoi |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , India |
Area served 🗺️ | India |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | smilingstart |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Smiling Start is a social venture by Thalia Technologies Private Limited, headquartered in Mumbai, India. It encourages philanthropy through brand posters and member participation by channelizing the money spent on Online advertising towards charity. So every Indian citizen with just a computer and internet has a tool to do charity at no cost. Its aim is to empower people to do well by being the conduit between brands and their audience. At present, SmilingStart has tied up with three charities namely, The Akshaya Patra, Naandi Foundation - Project Nanhi Kali and Pratham. Internet users sign up with SmilingStart, choose a charity to support and make SmilingStart as their start page; every day supporters receive a beautifully designed brand poster and 75% of the advertisement fees that SmilingStart charges marketers get donated to the chosen charity.
Origin
It was founded by Tejas Sangoi in December 2012 after completing an MBA from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. The website went live on 1 April 2013.
Charity Impact
In India, where 24% of children are devoid of food every day, keeping SmilingStart as a homepage for a month helps in feeding 20 children[1] Furthermore, among 50% of the girl children in India are not enrolled in schools due to lack of money and those who enrol, leave school by the age of 12. [2][3] With SmilingStart at least 9 days of education can be sponsored for a girl child. Lastly, keeping SmilingStart's homepage for a month also provides 15 days of shelter each month to poor homeless children that make a living by doing jobs like rag-picking, hawking, etc., who would otherwise have to brave the harsh environmental and unhygienic conditions of the place where they reside.
Work Culture
Its work culture adheres to being informal. SmilingStart encourages open-minded, wise thinkers who are ready to take up a challenge to work towards bringing smiles to real people. They have a small, close-knit team of 5 members that is moving towards one vivid goal of stirring up a change.
Tie-Ups
References
- ↑ Save the Children study[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Save the Girl Child
- ↑ "Girl Child Compulsory Education". Archived from the original on 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
External links
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