The CSR Journal

Tetra Pak has joined forces with global resource management company Veolia in a game-changing partnership that will enable all components of used beverage cartons collected within the European Union to be recycled by 2025. The average beverage carton comprises around 75% paperboard, 20% plastic and 5% aluminum foil. But while the fibres recovered during recycling...

To demonstrate inclusion through sports on 3 December 2018, the International Day of Disability, Special Olympics Bharat brought together two Unified teams to play a friendly match at the Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi. A unified 7-a-side football match was played for a duration of 35 minutes. The match aimed at initiating an extraordinary...

K. Shanmugam, Group CEO, Sun Group alongwith SL Narayanan, Group CFO, SUN Group handed over a cheque for INR 2 crore to Honourable Chief Minister Shri Thiru Edappadi Palaniswami towards the relief efforts currently underway in the cyclone affected districts of Tamil Nadu. SL Narayanan, Group CFO, Sun Group said, “We at the Sun...

In a step towards promoting education for underprivileged girls, RBL Bank flagged off the fifth edition of ‘Umeed 1000’ - a 1000 km Cyclothon in Mumbai. The team will ride from Mumbai to Bengaluru to raise awareness and funds for the education of less privileged girl children. The Cyclothon was flagged off by Prof....

Samsung India has announced the MyDream project, a research study in collaboration with UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development) and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti to find out how to enhance learning outcomes for middle school students in India and how their stress levels can be reduced. In a separate partnership...

Staying true to its corporate philosophy of ‘Kyosei’ - living and working together for the common good, Canon India, marked the month of November dedicated to Children’s Day celebrations. With an aim to further strengthen its dedication towards the children of the nation, the imaging marvel organised various initiatives across their adopted villages through...

British actress Millie Bobby Brown, the teenage star of hit drama series Stranger Things, was named as the youngest-ever goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' children's agency UNICEF on Tuesday, planning to address bullying and poverty. The 14-year-old actress, who was the youngest person to make Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential...

Tata Football Academy (TFA) and the Tata Trusts today announced their collaboration with La Liga giants, Atlético de Madrid (ATM), to enhance and strengthen its existing programmes for promoting Indian football. The main objective of the collaboration is to encourage football as a sport at the youth and grassroots level as well as support...

As the official partner of Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup Bhubaneswar 2018, Tata Steel reiterated its commitment to promote a culture of sports as a unifying force both within and outside the country. Calling sports as a great global unifier, Sunil Bhaskaran, Vice President, Corporate Services, Tata Steel, said, "Tata Steel is the first private...

Diverse views on human rights, population, migration and urbanization, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, and sustainable development merged into a remarkable global consensus, as 179 governments agreed to put people and their rights at the heart of development at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. This resulted in...

ASCENT Foundation, a not-for-profit, peer-to-peer learning platform for entrepreneurs, hosted its 3rd edition of the ASCENT Conclave, on November 23 at St. Regis, Mumbai. The full-day event brought together some of India’s most inspiring and recognized leaders who shared their entrepreneurial journey over the years, failure and success stories. Themed Beyond the Conversation, the...

The city-state of Singapore balances building high-density housing whilst remaining a sustainable city. Following their independence, Singapore’s new government made housing and building a nation of home owners a priority. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) was formed in 1960 and sought to create better living conditions with new innovative solutions. In the latest edition...