Global Stories

IBM is recognizing three teams from India in its annual Volunteer Excellence Awards for their innovative work in making education more accessible during the pandemic being innovative in their community volunteering during 2020. The CSR initiatives and people being recognized include a 10-person team providing remote mentoring for girl students, a 43-member team that recorded...

Epson has joined forces with National Geographic to promote the protection of the world's permafrost - the frozen ground beneath the polar regions of the earth - in its newly launched 'Turn Down the Heat' campaign. The campaign comes as scientists predict the world's permafrost will thaw entirely by 2100, drastically changing ecologies, raising global...

TransUnion has mobilized support for its more than 1,500 employees across the country and the broader population during the second wave. TransUnion and TransUnion CIBIL announced a $1 million donation to Direct Relief and United Way Mumbai for necessary medical supplies. The donation is a joint contribution between TransUnion LLC and TransUnion CIBIL, the company’s...

In light of the continuing pressures on healthcare, frontline workers, individuals and families, MetLife Foundation has donated $1.2 million, to support relief efforts and alleviate the strains on India’s healthcare system. The donation will be channelled through not-for-profit organizations that are working in close collaboration with central and local governments: Habitat for Humanity, American India...

Parent company of brands like Huggies, Kleenex, Scott and Kotex, Kimberly-Clark Corporation has contributed USD 2.5 Million (INR 18 crores) to help the ongoing national efforts to combat the current COVID-19 surge. These emergency relief funds, channelled through its partner UNICEF, will be immediately deployed for procurement of life-saving supplies and healthcare essentials especially...

Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC) announced it is supporting COVID relief efforts in collaboration with Air Canada and the Government of Ontario by providing urgent medical supplies to the Indian population which has been severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. 3000 ventilators and other medical supplies donated by the Ontario Government to the Indian Red...

Global business collective, The Valuable 500, announces it has reached its goal of 500 international organisations committing to put disability inclusion on their board agenda, making it the world’s biggest CEO collective for disability inclusion. Since The Valuable 500 was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos in 2019, some of the...

Beam Suntory and parent company Suntory Holdings, have pledged $600,000 (approx. Rs. 44,184,000) to support COVID-19 relief in India through CSR. The activities are focused on increasing access to medical care in the hardest-hit areas and supporting on-trade partners that have been impacted by the surging pandemic. “Giving back to society is one of Suntory...

Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation (GSF) has dispatched more than 500 oxygen concentrators to India for Covid-19 affected patients. This life-saving equipment is in addition to the first shipment of 200 oxygen cylinders sent on an urgent basis as part of a larger consignment onboard the Indian Navy warship Airavat to aid in transportation of medical...

Google is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the five Big Tech companies along with Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. Sustainability is one of our core values at Google. The company has been a leader on climate change since its founding over 20 years ago....

UBS Group AG, the world’s largest wealth manager, is donating $1.5 million to support a range of Covid relief programmes in India. The first tranche of the donation will target the immediate supply of oxygen, medical supplies and medicine to those most in need. In the initial phase, UBS will work with Swasti, a Bangalore-based NGO...

Policymakers from 50 Asian and Pacific countries called for a “whole-of-society” response to COVID-19 and encouraged coordinated action across the region to mitigate the economic and social devastation brought on by the pandemic. Endorsing a resolution on the final day of its annual session, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...