SNS Foundation was established in 1976 by the Anand Group of Industries (the leading manufacturers of automotive parts in India). The Foundation is engaged in community development programs in all the locations in India where Anand Group has its manufacturing unit (see attached map showing manufacturing locations of Anand Group). The primary objective of SNS Foundation is to take rights-approach as integral to all programs addressed at children, women and their families and to reach the underprivileged. Field tested programs are adapted in all locations, focusing on health and education (academic and vocational) programs and progressing towards including sustainable livelihood and natural resource management and social justice through governance.

The Foundation has initiated its work of community development through these Community Development Centers (CDCs) located in 8 locations around the country, namely

SNS Foundation is advance a rights-centered approach to its work for children and women in communities residing in rural and urban India, in the sectors of "Education For All" and "Reproductive & Child Health", sustainable livelihood and natural resource management. Mobilising support of individuals, groups, corporate bodies and business houses, national, transnational and international agencies is a cross-cutting strategy for implementing all programmes..