Press Release

Global Citizen India announced that over 4 lakh young Indians have signed up and taken action as part of the Global Citizen movement, making it the largest youth movement in India today. The social action platform aims to amplify the voice of youth to push leaders to commit to positive change on Sanitation, Education and Gender...

GIZ (The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), an international development organisation owned by the German Government, has partnered with Samhita Social  Ventures and Villgro to facilitate corporate engagement in the incubation of startups and social enterprises. Through this partnership, GIZ, Samhita and Villgro will seek to address gaps in the Indian incubation ecosystem. Challenges...

Mahindra & Mahindra became the first Indian company to announce its internal Carbon Price of US $10 per ton of carbon emitted. Mahindra’s carbon price is aligned with its business commitment to reduce its Green House Gas emissions by 25% over the next three years. Carbon Pricing is an internationally recognised business tool that enables...

Discovery Communications announced partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to protect and increase the wild tiger population. ‘Project C.A.T- Conserving Acres For Tigers’ aims to help conserve nearly one million acres of protected habitat in India and Bhutan. In the last century alone, the wild tiger population has dropped an astonishing 96%, to less than...

Mercedes-Benz under its CSR initiative partnered with Laureus Sport for Good to fund two-Laureus supported programmes Oscar and YUWA in India. The collaboration will see the two sport for development programmes located in Mumbai and Jharkhand benefit. The support will help reach more children, empower and develop young women and girls, it will utilise sport to encourage...

Addressing the concern of food wastage, Ajuba Solutions, a healthcare revenue cycle management company launched ‘GramSeva’ initiative in Chennai. The programme aims to educate and create awareness about the issue of food wastage and its effects. GramSeva initiative was conceived as a result of understanding, that food wastage alone costs trillions of rupees in losses to...

Sampark Foundation in collaboration with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Government of Chhattisgarh flagged off implementation of Sampark Smart Class Program across all government primary schools in Chhattisgarh. The program is being implemented in over 33,000 primary government schools with 23 lakh children with an investment of Rs 60 crores from Sampark Foundation. The initiative aims to ensure...

Mitsubishi Electric Group companies in India undertook a joint initiative to support the Welfare Centre for Speech & Hearing Therapy at Gurgaon under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The companies pooled in their resources to set up a composting plant for recycling kitchen waste, installed cold drinking water facility and refurbished the hostel kitchen and mess infrastructure...

Mrs. Amruta Fadnavis at the inaugural of 'The Art Trisomy 21' To mark the completion of 25 years, OM Creations Trust organised an exhibition ‘The Art Trisomy 21’ to showcase work of art created by individuals suffering from Down syndrome. The event was inaugurated by Mrs. Amruta Fadnavis, Vice President Axis Bank. Om Creations Trust, a...

In its first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project in Maharashtra, Future Generali India Life Insurance adopted seven hamlets in Jalgaon block of Buldhana district to provide clean lighting. This project has been launched in partnership with The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) to provide clean lighting to un-electrified households through the Light a Billion Lives...

The WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation launched its implementation programme to bring about holistic development in the lives of upto 20,000 underprivileged children and youth in Mumbai and Delhi in collaboration with its implementation partners Magic Bus and HOPE foundation, at a school in Andheri, Mumbai. This CSR initiative aims to empower children and...

Isha Foundation in association with Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) will offer Upa Yoga programme for children across the city’s 390 MCGM schools. The initiative will touch about one lakh children who are below 14 years of age. About 800 teachers of MCGM schools are trained for Upa Yoga. These teachers will teach...