The CSR Journal
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Royal Enfield & Shikhar Dhawan Foundation ride together for Miles for Smiles
Royal Enfield's CSR and Sustainability arm, the Eicher Group Foundation, along with Shikhar Dhawan Foundation, organised an innovative ride to engage the Indian motorcycling community, including Shikhar Dhawan himself, to come together and ride for the cause of community upliftment on the back of the National Tourism Day. On 28th & 29th January 2023, more than 500 motorcycle...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Habitat for Humanity India to organise the 4th edition of Charity Golf Tournament in Mumbai to raise funds for building energy efficient homes
Habitat for Humanity India, a leading housing non-profit organisation, will host the 4th edition of its Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday 4th February, 2023, at the prestigious Willingdon Sports Club in Mumbai. The proceeds from the Charity Golf Tournament will be used to build energy-efficient homes in Maharashtra.
Corporate CEOs, prominent business personalities, and top government officials will be...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): SBICAPS joins hands with APD to provide free assistive devices to over 300 people with special needs in Bengaluru
SBI Capital Markets (SBICAPS) launched its latest CSR project with the Association of People with Disability (APD), which will see the distribution of key assistive devices in Bengaluru. The 3-month-long CSR partnership campaign, valued at approximately INR 50 lakhs, will empower children and youth with disability in areas of healthcare and education. Over 300...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Mott MacDonald launches Holistic Village Development Programme in Uttar Pradesh
Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh: Multinational Global Engineering, management and development consultancy firm, Mott Macdonald has adopted two villages in Bulandshahr district, Kalandargarhi and Madanpur in Khurja block as part of its Holistic Village Development Program. India’s leading not for profit grassroots expert – AROH Foundation is its implementation partner.
The official launch of the aspirational project was...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Sachin Tendulkar and Schneider Electric India’s nonprofit venture provides access to digital education to students in rural India
With an aim to empower young students, Spreading Happiness InDiya Foundation (SHIF), a non-profit collaboration between cricketing icon Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Schneider Electric India is on a mission to provide access to digital education in more than 150 Rural Indian schools by 2025 under the SMITA Program. Through this association, they also aim to introduce the concept of Digi Green...
Top 100 companies in India for CSR and Sustainability in 2022
India is the only country in the world with a legislature on mandatory CSR. The biggest corporations in the country are obligated to spend 2 per cent of their net profits under Corporate Social Responsibility, according to Company’s Act 2013.
As part of our series of CSR rankings, here is a glimpse of the CSR...
Budget Expectations 2023: Here’s what India’s Leaders Expect from the Upcoming Budget
The Union Budget 2023–24 will be unveiled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a time when the world economy is struggling due to recessionary pressures. It will be challenging for FM Sitharaman to support GDP growth, safeguard the Indian economy, and still adhere to the fiscal deficit objective in the India Budget 2023. The...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Vi Foundation and Ericsson Set up Robotic Lab to Empower Underserved Students with Digital Learning Skills
The fourth industrial revolution is upon us and it is crucial that we encourage today’s children to engage with digital skills so that our future workforce becomes ‘digital makers’ rather than just ‘digital users’. With the objective of building a future ready talent force from the school level onwards, Vi Foundation, the CSR arm of...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Axis Bank Foundation reaches out to 1000+ villages, Creating sustainable livelihoods opportunities
Axis Bank Foundation (ABF) and Navin Chandra Mafatlal Sadguru Water and Development Foundation (N M Sadguru Foundation) have successfully reached out to over 1000+ villages across Gujarat and Rajasthan to implement a sustainable livelihood project in the region. ABF and N M Sadguru Foundation focused on the promotion and sustenance of livelihood among the socio-economically...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Bayer launches Fellowship Programme, ‘Medha’ to Empower Economically Weaker Students
Bayer in collaboration with Bhubaneshwar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation (BCKIC), an initiative by the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India, has launched a unique fellowship programme ‘Medha’, exclusively for students from the economically weaker sections. Under this fellowship, Bayer will support 125 research scholars in the field of...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): The PepsiCo Foundation, in partnership with CARE, Expands Global ‘She Feeds the World’ Program to India in West Bengal
The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo and CARE, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowerment for marginalized women and girls, announced today the expansion of their ‘She Feeds the World’ program in India.
Aimed to address gender inequality in the agriculture sector, the program was launched in the presence of Shri Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Minister for...
Mr Himanshu Kapadia from Grasim, MPower talks about Importance of Addressing Mental Health Issues
With the objective of spreading awareness about mental health and destigmatise conversations around mental health, over 300 employees of Mpower, an initiative of Aditya Birla Education Trust, a mental health social enterprise, and the Aditya Birla Group hit the tracks on January 15th, 2023 at the Tata Marathon. The 300-strong squad comprised of counsellors, psychiatrists, mental health experts and employees...