The CSR Journal

With an aim to uplift the tribal community and instill the idea of entrepreneurship, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in association with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs has started their ‘Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Programme (TEDP), with a target to identify at least 350 tribal artists and help them expand...

Supplynote, a food and beverage supply chain automation platform, organized ‘Hunger 3.0’, a two-day campaign to share the idea of routing quality food to the lesser privileged. In the current times when COVID-19 has struck everyone and caused misery across the globe, the brand aims to motivate people to make maximum use of necessary resources...

De Beers has announced 12 ambitious sustainability goals for the coming decade, including achieving gender parity throughout its workforce, supporting 10,000 women entrepreneurs in its diamond producing partner countries and being carbon neutral within its own operations by 2030. The 12 goals are part of De Beers’ Building Forever framework – a sustainability approach embedded...

Rise Against Hunger India (RAHI) is a hunger relief organization that distributes food and life-changing aid to the most vulnerable. On International Volunteer Day, December 5, RAHI honoured over 45,000 volunteers aka Hunger Champions who have participated in meal packaging events for people in crisis. Rise Against Hunger India has a meal packaging programme which...

QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, announced today that it has associated with the Bengaluru City Police to provide personal hygiene kits to support more than 1,000 police personnel from across 12 police stations in the city.  The company provided the city police with sanitizers, thermometer guns, masks, rain jackets,...

Samsung will offer 150 fresh scholarships to Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students starting a full-term course in an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) or a National Institute of Technology (NIT) for academic year 2020-21, under the 5th edition of its Star Scholar programme. Each year Samsung offers scholarships to outstanding students from JNVs who pursue full...

Amway India launched Saksham, a new app for the visually impaired individuals in association with its NGO partner Saksham on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Saksham app will work as a one-stop solution for the visually impaired individuals as it provides them with all relevant information using talk back and voiceover...

Martin Luther King Jr. asked pertinently and powerfully: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” The citizen-led Buddy Volunteer group in Bengaluru has been a support system to help COVID-positive patients in home isolation. Buddy Volunteers have reached out to more than 30,000 Bengalureans and provided emotional support to...

Instagram is one of the most popular social networks worldwide. This visual medium is not just a photo gallery anymore – it has transformed into a platform for creative expression, engagement and even a source of income for many. Vivel in an inclusive step forward, enables the visually impaired to explore a visual social medium...

To support and enable our armed forces and their families, the country's largest bank has stepped forward to donate to the Armed Forces Flag Day Fund. State Bank of India in its continuous effort to fulfill banks philanthropic responsibilities has decided to donate Rs. 10 crore towards the welfare of dependent girl children of war...

Fitness application StepSetGo (SSG), Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge winner, have announced a special partnership with Habitat for Humanity India. Through this partnership, StepSetGo aims to reach its users to help assist the NGOs humanitarian efforts for families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The bootstrapped fitness startup aims to do so through customised paid Virtual...

In a bid to make online classes accessible to all students, Tata Power-DDL, a leading power utility supplying electricity to a populace of 7 million in North and North-West Delhi, distributed 1059 (e) Tablets to students today encouraging them to pursue their education without any hindrance during the ongoing pandemic. The tabs were distributed at an...