Team CB On Ground: Observations from DS Group’s CSR Work in Udaipur, Rajasthan
Over the years, having been part of assessment teams for social programmes, I have had the opportunity to closely observe a wide range of interventions across rural India. While many are well-intentioned, fewer are meaningfully aligned with local realities, and rarer still are
10 years of CSR (Act) in India – Part 1 of a short story (with the bigger picture)
To begin with If you have to handpick anecdotes, stories, people, developments, incidents… to tell a story summing up what happened in this particular domain in the past decade, a domain that you have been actively involved in and one where you are
Coffee for Cause, Edition 7. It’s not a report
Because this 7th edition unfolded in the stories shared in the room, across the 12 or 13 tables, by the 30-odd participants. We are talking real stories of course. Celebrating 10 years of CSR will mean nothing if not for the stories. Right
#TogetherWeCan: A meet-up. A community without borders. An idea whose time is now.
The #TogetherWeCan Coffee Meet-up at India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi, on 25 November 2022 served as a clarion call for individual action and partnerships, which also happens to be Goal No. 17 of the SDGs. A focal point of the said
Time we rejigged the mental healthcare delivery model in the rural
– LiveLoveLaugh may be doing just that
Sitting with a motley group of people ” motley because the group featured a celebrated film actor, media representatives with varying levels of understanding of the subject in focus, an ex-corporate honcho, a young and enthusiastic non-profit team from the city, an equally
Plastic is not going away anytime soon. Let’s talk about alternatives, options, and the almost-solutions
If necessity is the mother of invention, now is the time for lots of inventions. There is such a lot of plastic in most things we use that without those inventions and innovations, we may end up (barely) surviving on a planet that
Gender equality, inclusivity, sustainability: Lived experiences, firsthand insights, an honest conversation
Taking cue from the International Women’s Day (IWD) theme this year – ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’, Team CB set out to connect the dots that may at first glance seem to not connect directly, check with key players in the
How well do companies know their sustainability practices?
We take the back-packet route to, well, find out
There’s this little important detail on every product that we buy – the manufacturer’s contact coordinates (address, phone number, email ID), wherein we can send in feedback and/or complaints. Easy to miss, and we actually do. Unless maybe we are saddled with a
Talk Straight, Talk Sustainability
Brig. Rajiv Williams, Jindal Stainless Ltd
The growing number of consumers in India who are conscious about various environmental and social issues reflects a trend and a way of thinking that is picking up globally. These consumers prefer associating with – buying, consuming, propagating about, endorsing – products, brands
Planting trees? Yes! Are they doing fine? Maybe. Or maybe not. Actually no idea!
What do these diverse entities – PayPal, Capgemini, Cyient Foundation, Vanarai, NMDC, Amrita University – have in common? You guessed it. Yes, they have all issued press releases informing that they have planted s0-and-so number of saplings, and will keep doing so until