Dasra Girl Power Awards to empower adolescent girls
Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation, has announced Dasra Girl Power Awards worth Rs 30 lakh. The awards will recognize and support high-impact organizations that work towards empowering adolescent girls in India. Despite their numbers, the 113 million adolescent girls in India are
Kanchan Naikawadi bags SDCRF Women Initiative of the Year award
Sustainable Development and Collective Responsibility Forum (SDCRF) honoured Kanchan Naikawadi, director, Indus Health Plus, with the Women Initiative of the Year award in the healthcare sector. SDCRF’s objective is to recognize and honour individuals behind commendableinitiatives and projects in corporate social responsibility (CSR),
CSR: Axis Bank’s Splash initiative to spread environment awareness
With an aim to spread awareness about environment protection and cultural heritage, Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank, has rolled out Season II of Splash, a pan-India painting competition on ‘my dream world’, ‘festivals of India’ and ‘go green’ themes. The
Schwab Foundation adjudges Chetna Vijay Sinha as Social Entrepreneur of the Year
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, in partnership with Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, announced Chetna Vijay Sinha as winner of the 2013 Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY)-India award. Sinha was awarded for managing three institutions
Gudville announces rewards worth Rs 60 lakh for NGOs
Gudville, an online network for individuals to discover opportunities for making social impact, has announced Ripple Rewards worth Rs 60 lakh for non-profit organizations (NGOs). The NGOs could win grants worth five lakh rupees every month through the next 12 months. Gudville’s idea
CSR: Where is that two per cent coming from, and where will it go?
With India becoming (apparently) the first country to have created legislation around corporate social responsibility (CSR) and certainly the first one to have ‘mandated’ spends toward CSR, the debate about the wrongs and the rights around the new law is starting to gain
Conversations around CSR: The whole ecosystem has to be in sync
As part of the ‘Conversations around CSR’ series, we have here Indira Varadarajan, executive director, SNSF Foundation. Keeping in view the areas mandated as part of CSR, how does it impact your organisation’s focus and investment? One great thing about our funding corporate
CSR: Poverty alleviation might become an environment threat
A strange food for thought has been presented by Mark Lindley, a member of Humanist Association of Boston, USA, as he sees the growing Indian middle class as an environmental threat. If his remarks are to be analyzed logically, then poverty alleviation efforts
Traditional communities can drive change: Safeena Hussain
The dynamics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the country are changing – the unfocused charities are becoming ‘seed funds’ for practical social programmes, social organisations are conceptualising scalable development programmes, and then there is this new law. With the objective of gaining
Over 50,000 CSR jobs. Really?
A couple or more days ago, based on a few unjustifiable statements and unwise calculations, a couple of leading dailies published news claiming 50,000 jobs would be created by the new mandate on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The news claimed that the new