Meera Gandhi
| Meera Teresa Gandhi | |
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Gandhi speaking at children's hope event
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| Born | Mumbai, India |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (Executive Education Program) Boston University (MBA) University of Delhi (Bachelor's in Economics) |
| Notable work | Giving Back (Documentary) (2010) |
| Children | Kanika Gandhi, Kiran Gandhi, Kabir Gandhi |
| Website |
thegivingbackfoundation |
Meera Teresa Gandhi is a humanitarian, and the founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation.
Gandhi was born in Mumbai, India to an Irish mother and an Indian father. At the age of 16, she met Mother Teresa and worked with her helping children.
She attended The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India, and the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Canada. Gandhi later received a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, and an M.B.A. from Boston University School of Management. In 2007, she completed the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.
Gandhi is the founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation, a foundation geared towards alleviating illness, poverty and suffering while also addressing education issues which affect women and children around the world.
One of the Foundation's main projects is the adoption of New Delhi's St. Michael's School in India. As a result of the program, the children of St. Michael's School are provided with meals on a daily basis and have had their entire school and its grounds refurbished. The program provided a new hostel, a playground, and a new school block filled with classrooms. This is a soup to nuts priority 10-year undertaking by the Giving Back Foundation.
The Giving Back Foundation supports many entities with scholarships and grants which have been very carefully selected, and most often with 5-year commitments. Through her Foundation, she devotes her life to charity and help for those in need, notably abused and hungry children, widows, the sick, the deaf and blind. She is particularly interested in education as the stepping stone to success. Gandhi has supported charities with strong female leadership programs and workshops, in part because of the role models in her life: Hillary Clinton, Cherie Blair, and Gandhi's own mother, an Irish woman living in India. These charities include the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in the United Kingdom and the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Center in the United States.
Gandhi's Giving Back Foundation is involved in a number of philanthropic programs which include: providing, on an annual basis, awards & honorariums to teenage students at the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Center; providing annual grants to South Asia college students for their studies at Baruch College in New York City; and a five-year commitment to the Woodstock Film Festival which includes providing annual honorariums and awards to people involved in filmmaking whose work serves to causes social change. In 2011, Gandhi presented the first annual Meera Gandhi Giving Back award to Mark Ruffalo. The award is given each year at the Woodstock Film Festival to the director, producer or actor who best delivers a message of social change and who has a strong compassion for philanthropy. Subsequent winners of the award were actor, director and screenwriter Tim Blake Nelson in 2012 and acclaimed filmmaker and activist Mira Nair in 2013.
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