Category : CSR

Child Rights and You (CRY) and BBH India, have joined hands to spread awareness about the importance of voting forchild rights in India as part of CRY’s nationwide campaign ‘Vote for Child Rights’. The campaign’s objective is to pursue political candidates to ensure that

Chief Minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda has launched Mukhya Mantri Shiksha Deeksha Yojana under the National Skills Qualification Framework(NSQF) project, in Gurgaon. The NSQF implementation in government schools of Haryana has received a positive response with 13,681 students enrolling for ‘applied learning’

Zomato, an online restaurant search service provider, under its corporate social responsibility, has introduced ‘Menus for Change’. In collaboration with Child Rights and You (CRY), this month-long campaign is aimed at raising funds by creating special menus through Zomato’s restaurant partners.   Partner restaurants

The initial few hours on the first day at CSR LiveWeek had a houseful of ’causes’ professionals as they all had assembled to hear about the ‘newness’ that the new Companies Act 2013 might have brought about in the CSR strategies of corporate

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

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),

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

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, 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

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