The CSR Journal

The Hinduja Foundation, responsible for the extensive philanthropic activities of the Hinduja Group has announced a new four-way partnership with the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) in Chennai, the KEM Hospital and Research Centre in Pune and the P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Mumbai. This new ground-breaking partnership - the first of...

Finolex Industries has launched a digital campaign on Water Conservation. Aimed at impacting a change in the way people use water, the film shows the grim reality we are headed towards if we do not take necessary steps to conserve water.  The digital campaign by Finolex Industries is a step in line with the...

Under the aegis of Pahal – its CSR wing, digital company TO THE NEW is set to conduct a tree plantation drive on 27th April 2019 in association with Tender Heart, a non-governmental organization working on the provisions of social & educational opportunities for underprivileged. TO THE NEW will be planting around 100 trees...

India Inc looking to lend a helping hand to the startup ecosystem will soon be able to use its corporate social responsibility corpus for the same. The government panel on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is likely to suggest tweaks to the CSR framework to allow funding to all incubators to be counted towards CSR spend, a government official privy to the...

Fire Service Week is observed across the country in the memory of 66 fire fighters who laid down their lives while fighting fire at the Bombay Dockyard. It took one week April 14 to 20, 1944 to extinguish the fire which broke out on a ship. Seawoods Grand Central Mall in Navi Mumbai has launched...

With the primary objective of providing quality healthcare to the underprivileged children, Amway India, the country’s largest FMCG Direct Selling Company, organized free health check-up camps in 14 locations across the country. Commemorating the World Health Day, this initiative also included an interactive and educational session with the aim to improve the nutritional knowledge and...

Kohl's announced it is deepening its long-standing commitment to families and communities through an expanded Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform, shifting the company’s focus from children’s health to holistic family health and wellness. Kohl’s is launching new partnerships with two national organizations, Alliance for a Healthier Generation and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, to...

In India, a farmer commits suicide once every 32 minutes. Since 1995, over 3,00,000 farmers have committed suicide leaving behind distraught wives and children, many having no roof over their head. To help such farmers’ widows to get back on their feet, Habitat for Humanity India has been helping the widows to build a...

Spark Minda Foundation (SMF) in collaboration with Rotary club, Panchshila Park, Delhi has set a milestone in societal development by installing the most unique waste recycling machine in Delhi High Court. The installation is the part of Spark Minda Foundation’s CSR initiative to curb plastic pollution in the city and promote sustainable development. A...

CSR Advisors and Wockhardt Foundation along with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – India Research Center, conducted a roundtable to discuss issues concerned with Menstrual Health and the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility. The discussion aimed at highlighting the challenges faced by women in managing menstrual health and identifying plausible solutions to...

By Haoyu Huang One of the regions people don’t usually think of related to extremism is Southeast Asia. Yet, extremism is prevalent there, and like many other types of extremism, it is rooted in religious and ethnic challenges. When people talk about Thailand, they often think about peaceful beaches, Buddhism, and even rice fields. Although these...

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is celebrating the achievement of its 2020 goal of delivering 15 billion litres of clean drinking water through its non-profit Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program. The organisation is now accelerating its efforts to help provide clean drinking water to even more people by delivering 25 billion litres – more...