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Indo-American Chamber of Commerce organized their 3rd Annual Conference on Wednesday, 11th May, 2016. The conference discussed upon “issues, challenges and new paradigms” in the CSR domain today. With an agenda to create a platform to discuss challenges faced in Corporate Social Responsibility, IACC brought together eminent professionals. “CSR is not ad-hoc anymore. It is...

Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is organising their 3rd Annual Conference on 11th May, 2016 will discuss “Corporate Social Responsibility Today: Issues, Challenges and New Paradigms”. Conferences have been organized since the CSR Rules were introduced under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. Today, the concept of CSR appears to be firmly rooted...

Use unspent CSR funds towards child-centric drought relief measures: Kailash Satyarthi With 16.3 crore children being affected due to drought in ten states, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare drought a national emergency and make children a top priority in relief and rehabilitation work. He also asked to use...

For the sixth year running, Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard announce the launch of Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World. With over 2,100 ideas submitted from 109 countries around the world, Project Inspire is now a multi-award winning initiative and one of the most high profile CSR programs in the...

Using radio as a teaching tool for underprivileged children, Radio City partnered with cycle candy vendors to create pop-up English schools across Dharavi and other slum areas. The idea is to use children’s love for candy as an attraction and to make them learn English. The programme was launched on April 24 in the slums of...

The Gujarat government has announced that they will provide a packet of six sanitary napkins at the token rate of Rupee 1 to all girls in the age group of 10-19 under the ‘Taruni Suvidha Programme’. Around 40 lakh girls from Gujarat are likely to get benefit under the scheme. Declaring this, an official press release said that...

The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries, including India, signing on to it on opening day. But world leaders made clear more action is needed, and quickly, to fight a relentless rise in global temperatures. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels...

Only 10 private companies and two industry bodies contributed towards building toilets in schools under the famed Swacch Bharat Mission till March 1, 2016 from the private sector. The number of toilets these companies built don’t constitute for even one per cent of the total toilets built. Public Sector companies played a rather noticeable role...

From the middle of nowhere a few years ago, transgenders today are going places. In April 2014, India's Supreme Court recognised transgenders as people falling under a third gender, granting them legal rights to identify themselves as neither male nor female, and directing the central and state governments to provide quotas in jobs and...

It’s four and a half years since we started working with great Indian companies on their social responsibility. In that time we’ve been watching and learning as India Inc. has started to find its socially responsible feet and grappled with the world-first CSR legislation that came into effect in 2014. At the close of...

Education sector has been one of the highest recipients of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds last year. Further detailing the spending in the sector, a report states that only 1.3% of the total CSR spending went to career counselling. Craft Driven Market Research, a firm in research and consulting sector, studied 250 BSE listed...

Standard Chartered Bank announced the launch of five new eye care projects to bring in innovation and strengthen the delivery of eye-care to the underprivileged between 2016 and 2019, with a donation commitment totalling to $1.6 million. These projects will be delivered in partnership between the Bank, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)...