The CSR Journal

In an initiative to make the Indian Startup Ecosystem more inclusive, Sardar Patel Technology Business Incubator (SPTBI) in collaboration with social platform LoveActually.Me and Adfactors PR, has launched India’s first incubator programme for differently abled people wanting to pursue entrepreneurship. The programme comes at the time of celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities...

Sightsavers India, a global development organisation working in India since 1966 to eliminate avoidable blindness, has launched a film highlighting the plight of people with disabilities during COVID and the intervention by the organisation to support them on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The film focusses on Sightsavers’ three core areas of work...

On the International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2020, the NatWest Group India (formerly RBS India) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India Business Disability Network have launched SAMBHAV – “Enabling Possibilities”. SAMBHAV is a social networking platform for people with disabilities and their caregivers. With a Purpose to champion the potential of the...

DCM Shriram Ltd has partnered with Population Foundation of India to train its health workers and govt ASHA workers covering 44 villages of Hardoi and Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh on family planning (FP) and related government schemes. This CSR initiative is part of its Khusali Sehat programme on health. Khushali Sehat health programme is run...

With a view to sensitize employers on the woes of domestic helpers and their struggle for even basic needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gala, a brand of Freudenberg and a leading manufacturer of cleaning tools like brushes, brooms, mops, etc has designed a campaign aptly titled ‘Help Ki Help Karo’ with the objective of evoking...

The pandemic has hit persons with disabilities (PwD) especially hard. Most have lost their source of income while others are grappling with being mobile in socially distanced times. However, some corporates are championing disability inclusion in their workplace, setting the tone for a more inclusive Fourth Industrial Revolution. As we observe the United Nations...

Committed towards the socio-economic development of communities, AkzoNobel has partnered with Faridabad Observation Home for young offenders to provide formal training in decorative painting to its 60 number of inmates. The objective of the project is to equip the youth with vocational skills making them job ready as painters once they make their way...

NASSCOM Foundation and Microsoft India in partnership with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Department of Science & Technology (DST), and ERNET today announced the winners of ‘Innovate for an Accessible India‘ (IAI). The announcement was made in the run up to World Disability Day tomorrow. IAI is a pan India initiative that...

Bloomberg today announced at the inaugural RADAR – Tracking Tomorrow dialogue series the launch of ‘Data for Good Exchange’ (D4GX) in Asia with philanthropy partner Dasra. D4GX, which will initially launch in India, forms part of a long Bloomberg tradition of advocacy for using data science and human capital to solve societal and civic...

A new team from Keele University will explore the use of environmental storytelling as a tool to reduce urban air pollution in India. Researchers Dr Pawas Bisht and Dr Eva Giraud, from Keele’s School of Humanities, and Dr Sabina Kidwai from Jamia Millia Islamia, a leading public university based in New Delhi, have been awarded...

In a bid to improve the compliance around wearing face masks in India, ACT Grants along with nonprofit Ek Desh announced that they are distributing 10 Lakh N95 Masks to frontline workers across the country. This is to commemorate the “recruitment” of 500,000 Corona soldiers who have pledged to drive Covid sensitive behaviour and...

Honeywell has partnered with the Society for Innovation and Development (SID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to support deep science startups with societal impact. Honeywell’s partnership with SID opens up opportunities to support startup ventures working on science and technology projects not related to the company’s core areas of work, but intended to...