The CSR Journal

India has pledged to spend $100 billion more on health care over the next seven years with an emphasis on reducing maternal mortality rates, the Guardian reports. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the commitment Wednesday at the 2018 Partners Forum, where organizations joined together to work on improving maternal and child health. India’s increased budget...

A total of 36 Chinese Internet businesses including Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu joined an initiative Wednesday to fulfill their corporate social responsibility. The initiative was launched at a forum on the corporate social responsibility of Chinese Internet businesses hosted by the Internet Society of China. The businesses are expected to make contributions to poverty alleviation, set...

Suman, 32 years of age, beams with joy when a Women on Wings team visits the workshop of Paper Wings in Bhondsi, Haryana. She works on creating a huge Christmas tree, made from old newspapers which are donated by corporate offices in nearby Gurgaon. Since four years Suman works at Paper Wings and saw...

Treeni Sustainability Solutions has joined hands with Mahindra Group to present the 8th edition of Sustainability for Breakfast (S4B) in Mumbai. The intent was to engage with industry leaders from across sectors and discuss the drivers and best practices for risk mitigation from climate change. Speaking about the session, Anirban Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra...

L&T is an engineering and construction conglomerate with a concern for the community. Even before the CSR section was introduced in the Companies Act 2013, L&T had been interacting with the community around L&T facilities and providing health, education and skills development services to those who needed it most. According to the company’s annual report...

Charity begins (and ends) at home for corporate India. Developed states which house India’s largest companies, tend to get more money from their corporate social responsibility (CSR) budgets shows an analysis of listed companies’ CSR spends from Prime Database compared to government figures on Gross State Domestic Product at Factor Cost (current prices). A state like...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) works should be part of the long term strategy of companies and should not be treated as ad hoc activities, Union minister P P Chaudhary said on Tuesday. The Minister of State for Corporate Affairs also emphasised the CSR activities help in bridging the gap between rural and urban areas. Under...

The Himalaya Drug Company, India’s leading Wellness company, launched a new campaign – “Ek Nayi Muskaan” as part of its social impact initiative, “Muskaan”. Through Muskaan, Himalaya Lip Care has been helping to raise awareness about cleft lip and palate and supporting free cleft treatment for underprivileged children, in partnership with international cleft charity,...

NASSCOM Foundation hosted India’s largest Tech for Good driven conference – The CSR Leadership Conference 2018 in Bangalore yesterday. The two-day conference brings over 400 delegates consisting of CEOs, CXOs, CSR Heads from the industry, policy makers, influencers, NGO Leads, Tech4Good champions, and social innovators under one roof to discuss innovative approaches to CSR and...

Nestle India Limited spent more than the prescribed 2% in corporate social responsibility programs in the financial year 2017-18. While the prescribed CSR expenditure as per Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 was 26.88 crore rupees, actual expenditure incurred during the year amounted to INR 26.91 crores. With its CSR Policy focus areas firmly...

Most business leaders you speak to would agree that corporate social responsibility is important. Some would rattle off a long list of things they believe their company does -- from saving energy with green buildings to empowering employees with donation matching, fundraisers and volunteer work that helps charities. But is this really enough anymore? In...

Companies that are holding back on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending and are re-routing the funds to the balance sheet could soon face the music as the government is mulling amendment to the Companies Act to make the errant firms fall in line. The new restrictions on the CSR funds will be part of...