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Day long interaction between Corporates, NGOs and other Stakeholders

ARMMAN has been awarded $115,000 (approximately Rs. 74 lakhs) to scale-up their customised free mobile voice call service, mMitra. The service provides tailored preventive healthcare information to pregnant women and mothers of children under five years of age. mMitra has enrolled over one million women across seven states in India since their pilot programme was...

Treeni Sustainability Solutions, a software product company established by sustainability practitioners and technology experts, hosted its third edition of the ‘Sustainability for Breakfast’ event recently. The theme for this edition was “Role of technology in CSR enablement.” The discussion panel included Meera Rajeevan, Program Director, Sarojini Damodaran Foundation, Shoma Bakre, Founder and Managing Trustee, Let’s...

SBI Foundation partnered with Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities (AYJNISHD), Mumbai for providing cochlear implants to 50 children born with profound hearing loss. The cost of cochlear implants and post-operative rehabilitation will be borne under their CSR Project. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, SBI yesterday presented an amount of Rs. 2.65 crore to Dr....

NABARD Financial Services Limited (NABFINS), a subsidiary of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) would be initiating its direct lending operations in Raigad in partnership with Swades Foundation. Swades Foundation is working on developing the local entrepreneurial ecosystem in Raigad focused on animal husbandry, food and agro-processing units, self-help groups based small...

Tata Trusts, the philanthropic arm of the Tata group in partnership with People For Animals, announced their collaboration to build a state-of-the-art, multi-specialty veterinary hospital and emergency clinic that will serve the needs of all domestic and farm animals at accessible and affordable rates. Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development and Founder,...

The Gurgaon state government’s efforts to move towards a ‘TB free India’ got a shot in the arm with the installation of Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CB-NAAT) machine, ahead of World TB Day at Wazirabad Primary Health Centre today. DLF Foundation has collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The...

While education, health, skilling and environment have been among the popular areas attracting CSR funds, affordable housing has been missing the sight of funders. To draw corporate attention on the affordable housing sector, Habitat For Humanity on Thursday appealed corporate India to consider shelter for the underprivileged as an equally important CSR initiative. Habitat For...

Mumbai/Delhi – January 28, 2017 – The CSR Journal announces its exclusive partnership with News World India national news channel. The CSR Journal will be engaged in complete Editorial and Operational responsibility for the state of Maharashtra. In a much-anticipated launch of The CSR Journal TV, The CSR Journal made its foundation step towards making its content available...

There are over 15,000 guards on the Line of Control (LoC) to protect forests and wildlife conservation. To manage human conditions, with the involvement of large numbers is a huge challenge. Especially in far flung areas with little or no connectivity. ICICI Prudential Life and WWF-India have come together to aid the protectors of India’s...

Over 60,000 carpenters across India came forward to contribute their services for repairing and refurbishing of old furniture. Woodworkers and contractors came together on a common platform in an initiative organised by Fevicol Champions Club (FCC). The initiative was carried out over 291 cities, which saw around 750 NGOs and 46 institutes benefitting through the...

GreenSole Foundation and Axis Bank came together and organised a mega footwear donation drive, “Udaan”. This initiative will see over 13,000 footwear being distributed, in 89 schools in Lucknow. As per findings of a 2013 report by World Health Organisation (WHO), around 1.5 billion people globally do not have access to footwear. Greensole foundation works...