The AMM Foundation, an autonomous, charitable trust, is dedicated to community-friendly initiatives in the fields of education and healthcare. Founded in 1953, the trust embodies the family's concern for the underprivileged.

The AMM Foundation's philanthropy is unique; the giver's humility as well as concern for the beneficiary's dignity exemplifies its altruism.

The foundation manages a polytechnic college, four schools and four hospitals, each a benchmark in its area. All five educational institutions managed by AMM Foundation have introduced a new standard in the field of education through an affordable fee structure, IT-based curriculum, modern teaching methods, state-of-the-art infrastructure, personalised student attention, student counseling facility and a continuous progress review. The TI school in Ambattur, Chennai, is the first school to be awarded the ISO 9001 certification. The hospitals managed by the AMM Foundation have emerged as an inspiring combination of competence, commitment and service, offering the best technology at an affordable price.

The foundation's team of motivated members working from the four hospitals have served more than 6.5 lakh patients in 2006-07. Consistent with the founder's dream, the foundation recognises the contribution of institutions and individuals through awards and donations; it helps meritorious students take their careers ahead through grants and scholarships from primary school to postgraduate and doctoral levels at university.

Over the years, the foundation has reinforced the Murugappa Group's reputation of treating the underprivileged with respect and dignity. With its well-defined organisation structure, vibrant team and thoughtfully designed human resource development programmes that periodically evaluate effectiveness and efficiency, it has also established that non-profit activities and initiatives of the Group can be carried out with the same professionalism it maintains in its corporate culture and business enterprises.

The AMM Foundation, earlier known as the AMM Charities Trust, fulfils the Group's commitment to society. Apart from the Group's tradition of 'Mahemai', where a fixed percentage of profits are used for community work, the members of the Murugappa family donate money and are actively involved in the foundation's educational activities.

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