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DUBAI: The unique collaboration between the IKEA Foundation and the UNHCR has resulted in a new, innovative, safer and more durable shelter for refugee families around the world. UNHCR has placed an order of 10,000 units with the social enterprise Better Shelter. Better Shelter was started by the Housing for All Foundation, a non-profit foundation established...

Narayan Iyer, CEO, Indian Development Foundation chats with The CSR Journal and shares his views that come from 24 years of experience in the social sector. Explaining the burning issues, he expresses his thoughts on how CSR funds and employee involvement can make a huge and faster impact in the areas of need. But...

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...