The CSR Journal
Finolex Pipes launches its digital campaign on Water Conservation
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...
World Earth Day: TO THE NEW pledges to plant over 100 trees in Noida
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...
Funding tech incubators can qualify as CSR spend
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...
Seawoods Grand Central Mall launches fire safety awareness drive in Navi Mumbai
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...
Amway India organises free health check-up camps for the underprivileged children
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...
USA: Kohl’s Commits $10 Million to Family Health and Wellness
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...
50 women business leaders & entrepreneurs raise funds for farm widows of Maharashtra
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 with Rotary Club installs Reverse Vending Machine in Delhi High Court
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...
Menstrual Health and role of CSR
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...
Thailand: An Overview of Southeast Asian Extremism
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...
P&G Aims to Deliver 25 Billion Liters of Clean Drinking Water to Families in Need
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...
Legal readiness for climate finance
Only about 10% of banks and finance institutions in the world view climate change as an issue that can have either a positive or negative impact on their balance sheets.
In January 2019, the Bank of England, with the assistance of the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, set up a joint climate risk...