The CSR Journal

At a time in which many nonprofits have struggled to stay afloat, GiveIndia’s annual fundraising challenge - starting tomorrow, February 1 - comes as a boon with Rs. 4 crore to give away as rewards to NGOs who participate. In the last seven years, Bengaluru-based GiveIndia has awarded more than Rs. 10 crore to participating...

Cooling contributes to climate change by increasing demand for electricity, much of which is still generated from fossil fuels, and through leakage of refrigerants, which have a much higher global warming potential than CO2 emission. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that if left unchecked, emissions from cooling are expected to double by...

More often than not, businesses, as well as government policymakers, consider sustainability to be a cost, but the opposite is often true. According to a report by the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, the implementation of the global Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations by the year 2030 would generate business opportunities worth...

Steel major ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) is promoting women empowerment in a big way by helping hundreds of women in villages surrounding its plant at Hazira, Surat, become self-sufficient. As a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, AM/NS India has established Lok Vikas Kendras or Skill Development Centres at Hazira, Rajgiri,...

According to a study, India lost roughly 259 billion hours of labour yearly between 2001 and 2020 as a result of rising heat and humidity caused by global warming. According to the report by Duke University, the loss of labour hours due to humid heat cost India Rs 46 lakh crore ($624 billion), or...

Since June 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down in India yet business has been restarting slowly. Recent studies show that women from low-income households in India were disproportionately impacted by the crisis. According to the UN, women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic pushed women...

Hazira-Surat, Gujarat: The partnership between Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF) and Asian Paints will enhance the livelihood of 4.2 lakh individuals in nine villages in Visakhapatnam through water and health initiatives. As part of Asian Paints CSR initiative, ACF acts as an implementing partner for this project to revive water bodies, install water filtration systems and...

Global energy prices surged in the third quarter of 2021, providing a glimpse of the speed with which market imbalances can feed through to consumers and prompt swift government reactions including subsidies to low-income households. A new report on the 'The net-zero transition' by McKinsey Global Institute in collaboration with McKinsey Sustainability and McKinsey’s...

YVO’s Future Leaders Programme (FLP) is inviting applications from students and educational institutions to join its new batch, beginning in March 2022. The programme introduces social entrepreneurship to young minds, combines leadership and social service and makes social service more accessible to youth aged 16-25 years. Future Leaders Programme (FLP) was launched in 2020 by...

Gurugram, Haryana: DLF Foundation, the philanthropic arm of DLF Ltd. has been recognized by the Haryana Government for its exemplary welfare initiatives. Going above and beyond their commitment to serve the nation, the DLF Foundation provided commendable humanitarian relief efforts in the wake of the pandemic. In the felicitation event held at Tau Devi...

It is so easy to believe ‘it wasn’t meant to happen’, if you do not get the desired results even after putting in a lot of honest hard work for the 4th or the 5th time. It is easy to feel that it was all for vain and feel disheartened over not being successful....

From 1970 to 2019, natural catastrophes accounted for 50% of all disasters, 45 per cent of all recorded deaths, and 74% of all reported economic losses, according to the agencies' Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate, and Water Extremes. Over 11,000 tragedies were documented worldwide as a result of these dangers, resulting...