The CSR Journal

World’s largest communication and advertisement giant WPP Plc launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) arm in India. Martin Sorell, CEO, WPP announced the commencement of the ‘WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation’ while his visit to India. The foundation aims to ‘enable children and youth from vulnerable and marginalised communities to achieve their full potential...

Sudha Kheterpal is a British-Indian musician who has played with Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, Melanie Williams, Mark Morrison, Ian Brown, Talvin Singh & Dido to name a few and is best known as the percussionist in Faithless. The talented artist has found a way improve the lives of people living in remote locations in Kenya,...

Godrej Saloni, a wp initiative of Godrej partners with The Nudge Foundation, which will focus on imparting life-skills and beautician training at residential Gurukuls across India. The residential Gurukuls will have beneficiaries for a stay period of 4-5 months where life-skills, literacy as well as livelihoods to the poor will be worked on in...

By Sarat Pratapchandran in International Stories, Philanthropy Stories Founder of Lettersnatcher.com, Sarat Pratapchandran’s career spans philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and content management. A graduate from the Walter Cronkite School Read More How do you create a sustainable model of doing good? I recently met Christel DeHaan, the millionaire co-founder of Resort Condominiums International(RCI) and CEO of...

‘JUST pull up your socks and go’ is the advice Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Director General and CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, and chief architect of the mandatory wp provisions in the new Companies Act, gives to corporates in this interview with The wp Journal’s Raksha Shetty. Chatterjee says the new Government, while leaving...

Wockhardt Foundation CEO Dr. Huzaifa Khorakiwala tells The wp Journal why wp initiatives in India should not just be mandatory, they should be bold.

Economic crisis in the family had forced Jabir Khan, 43, a Mumbai resident to quit his education after he passed class fifth. Watching children of school-going age wandering around and adapting wrong habits in his area disturbed him deeply. He soon realised that absence of an affordable school in his vicinity was the reason...

The high Level Committee appointed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs recommends the government to go lenient on companies for three years on their Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) expenditure. The committee suggested that a review should be conducted after three years. Recommending going ahead with the current policy of “comply or explain”, the committee stated...

Piramal Sarvajal, started by Piramal Foundation received ‘Corporate Trailblazer’ award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The award was in recognition of the work being done by Piramal Sarvajal in the social entrepreneurship space providing pure drinking water to the underserved people in India. Nominated by PM Modi for Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, India Today Group organised...

Pragati 2015, a three day national conclave organized by Vibha, a social venture catalyst kicked off on Wednesday, October 1. The conclave held with the intention to share social development stories and strategies is organized in association with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Pune. The introduction of Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) in the Indian...

Following the “clean diesel” scandal, Volkswagen will be dropped from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), a leading sustainability index in the early October. Once a favourite of fuel efficient automakers, Volkswagen will be removed from the DJSI on October 6, a press release from index organizers RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices said. Volkswagen was...

The Maharashtra state government is keen on involving the corporate sector to share the responsibility of developing the state with their corporate social responsibility (wp) funds. The state government is planning to meet India’s top 100 private companies in October and urge them to invest more in wp activities. The meeting will be scheduled...