The CSR Journal

More than 178 million children are enjoying a better start in life, thanks to IKEA Foundation-funded programmes. The majority of the children are in India, where the Foundation has been working for 15 years. The announcement came on the International Day of Happiness (March 20), as the Foundation published its 2014 annual review, 178 million...

Grameen Foundation and MetLife Foundation are partnering to advance financial inclusion in India. This new initiative is designed to leverage the combined strengths of commercial banks and local, trusted field-based organizations to create sustainable and viable banking services for the poor. The programme will be executed over the next two years by Grameen Foundation...

Founder of Lettersnatcher.com, Sarat Pratapchandran’s career spans philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and content management. A graduate from the Walter Cronkite School Laura Roberts wants to change the world and do no harm. The co-founder and CEO of Pantheon Chemicals, a green manufacturer of industrial chemicals is an avid proponent of Conscious Capitalism, a movement characterized...

Alstom’s philanthropic arm Alstom Foundation recently adopted Moldanga village in association with Swami Vivekananda Vani Prachar Samiti. An extension of Alstom’s CSR activities the initiative is in line with the company’s focus on sustainable development for transforming villages intEcovillageses. Moldanga has a population of around 47 families, which belong to the Santhal tribe and is located close to...

NEW DELHI – A new report from The Climate Group, produced in partnership with Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets, was launched at RE INVEST 2015, showing both how businesses can invest and support the renewable energy sector in India, and the added environmental and social benefits that this can bring. The report, The Business...

  Bipasha Majumder shifted to the social sector after working in advertising and media for a decade. She loves traveling to the grassroot, talking to the communities, understanding. It was one of those impromptu conversations you end up having with random strangers, something I so love about Mumbai city. We were in a café in Bandra deeply...

New Delhi – Citizen volunteers are playing a vital role across the Asia-Pacific region in making their governments more accountable and responsive to their people, but their contribution is seriously under-valued, recently released report from the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme said. The State of the World’s Volunteerism Report 2015 is the first global review of the...

Within days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to corporates to contribute to building toilets, The wp Journal learns that TCS, Bharti Foundation, and Oriental Bank of Commerce will soon followed by several other companies.

PITTSBURGH: Global technology leader and Infosys co-founder Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan has donated $1.8 million (Rs. 225 crore) to Carnegie Mellon University to establish a research partnership between CMU and the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. The partnership will strategically leverage the research strengths of both institutions while enhancing...