Ciosa Comes Alive

On Monday, 1st September 2003, Mr. R. Karthik Venkatesh took charge as the Executive Director and CIOSA started functioning formally from a small space at the corporate office of Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd., the company of Mr. Pandia Rajan in Chennai.

Official Inauguration

The official inauguration of CIOSA took place a month later, on Wednesday, 8th October 2003, at the Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan, Chennai, the official residence of the Governor of Tamil Nadu. It was a grand affair presided over by His Excellency, then Governor of Tamil Nadu, Shri. P.S. Ramamohan Rao and attended by captains of industry and the heads of the Rotary and Lions communities in Chennai, apart from NGOs, activists, individuals and people from other walks of life.

Funding

Almost all of the funding and support from CIOSA's inception till date has come from Mr. K. Pandia Rajan, Managing Director, Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd., and Founder Trustee, CIOSA.

We raise annual membership subscriptions from NGOs, individual members and companies and receive consultancy fees for services related to various projects supported by our corporate and individual members and any research projects that we undertake.

Currently, CIOSA is the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme of Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd.