COVER STORY
The Shahani Group collaborates with
other organizations in a big way. We
have Founders and CEO’s of top com-
panies coming as Guest Speakers to
our campuses. Apart from Indian
companies, we work collaboratively
with the UNAOC, Global Dialogue
Foundation, The Clinton Global
Initiative, Rock Your Life, Buy1Give1,
PATT Foundation amongst others.
These collaborations help us to
leverage on each other’s strengths
because we all have value to offer
each other. Networking definitely
helps businesses to grow. But net-
working is not measured by how
many visiting cards you collect. At the
Shahani Group we have a genuine
interest in people and companies.
We nurture relationships and are
always there for each other. We
are one of the most highly net-
worked insitutions working closely
with Governments, Corporates,
Educationists, Religious Groups,
NGO’s and even Bollywood ! You are
a trustee of the Thadomal Shahani
Trust. Can you tell us more about
the trust and its objectives?
Thadomal Shahani Trust was
founded in 1958 by my father- in-
law to promote quality education,
health care and housing for the
under resourced. As a young child he
was guided by his father Thadomal
Shahani who told him that the only
way to live life was to give back to
society and the best way to do that
was through education. The Shahani
Trust has been instrumental in the
formation & development of several
Schools and Colleges in and outside
Mumbai.
The most prestigious College to
come up with the active support of
the Trust is the Thadomal Shahani
Engineering College which is among
the top engineering institutes.
The Trustees of Shahani Trust are on
the HSNC Educational Board which
controls around 27 prime educa-
tional institutes in Mumbai, besides
which the Trust helps towards the
education of the under resourced
by providing financial support and
scholarships to deserving students.
Prestigious Hospitals like Jaslok,
Hinduja, and Tata Hospitals were
founded with the active support
of the Trust. A center for the early
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educationists and environmentalists
ensuring that all organisations work
in synergy to build a better tomor-
row. The Founder Trustee’s children
and grandchildren have pledged
them selves on the occasion of his
birth centenary to see that the good
work started by him will continue for
generations to come.
Shahani Trust has not accepted
donations from any other charity
Collaboration promotes self-analysis, makes you look
at the bigger picture, and results in problem solving.
detection of cancer and a diagnostic
center for the under resourced were
also built with financial support from
the Trust.
The Trust has constructed Housing
Colonies for the low income groups
as well as a health resort for fami-
lies who cannot afford a holiday. It
runs a home for the aged and sup-
ports mentally challenged children.
The Trust sends hundreds of cheques
every month to needy families for
educational aid & relief of poverty.
Currently the Shahani Group has
started an initiative called “The right
to MBA” where we will be granting
scholarships for a global MBA degree
to meritorious, needy students. If
the number of scholarships grows
in a cascading manner and we get
more and more companies to join
hands with us, “The right to MBA”
can become a global movement
which can showcase to the world
that money should not act as a con-
straint for getting quality education
for future transformational leaders.
Shahani Trust has joined hands with
people of the same vision to form a
networking base of all NGO’S, indus-
try, government bodies, spiritualists,
and has managed its philanthropic
activities strictly through family
funding. With the intention of wid-
ening its scope and vision, Shahani
Trust has recently started the SAGE
Foundation which accepts dona-
tions from India and abroad. The
Sage Foundation is an acronym
for Shahani Academic and Global
Empowerment Foundation. It gives
enlightened education to children
and wealth generating skills training
to their families. Sage Foundation has
adopted major slums in Mumbai, and
villages in the outskirts of Mumbai
and is part of the Clinton Global
Initiative. It works closely with Global
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