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
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),
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
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
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: 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
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
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
CSR: Series on ‘Conversation with Organizations’ starting next week
In an effort to create a common platform for conversations and talks around changing dynamics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the country, CauseBecause has started a ‘Conversation with Organizations’ series. The series will contain talks, interviews as well as stories of and
Environment news roundup (not much of good news in October)
While students are pledging to do their bit towards conserving the environment by giving up crackers on Diwali, the government has been busy justifying their move to sell conserved green land that acts as the national capital’s lungs. And yes, there was another