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Lack of skills to secure a good job is one of the biggest barriers to economic opportunity. Every year thousands of fresh graduates look for employment in the financial sector but there is often a disconnect between educational achievements and practical requirements. It is, therefore, important to bridge the gap between employee skills and...

Aimed at bringing alive the nuances of the communications industry, the new chapter of Canon India's CSR initiative 'Learning Beyond Books’ will be focused on encouraging children to explore career opportunities in the media & communications industry. The first phase of the campaign commenced today as Canon partnered with RED FM and facilitated an engaging...

SBI Card, one of India’s largest credit card issuers, has collaborated with CanKids…KidsCan, a not for profit organisation, to support children fighting with cancer. The company’s support will enable the NGO to increase its ambit of ‘Change for Childhood Cancer in India’ initiative to reach out to more children for holistic cancer care support. The...

Save the Children, in partnership with NOKIA Solutions India Pvt. Ltd, has benefitted over 6 lakh people, including 2.5 lakh children through their ‘Building Resilience of Children and their Communities’ project. The 3-level integrated intervention of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) and Information Technology, across 350 villages, capacitated communities affected...

Since receiving its first patient a year ago, Balco Medical Centre (BMC), a subsidiary of Vedanta Medical Research Foundation, has travelled a long way in serving the people of Chhattisgarh by making world-class treatment of cancer an affordable and attainable proposition. As the first super-specialty hospital with the capability to treat cancer, Balco Medical...

Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation, emphasized on the adoption of a ‘Field Approach’ to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for India at Dasra Philanthropy Week 2019, which was held in Mumbai and Delhi earlier this month. Key thought leaders and sector experts such as Rohini Nilekani (Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies), Francine Pickup (UNDP), Rukmini Banerji (Pratham)...

Ten thousand smallholder farmers in Andhra Pradesh are set to benefit from the introduction of sustainable irrigation products and practices under a program offered by International Development Enterprises - India (IDEI) and supported with funding from the Walmart Foundation. Providing a grant of US $750,000, the Walmart Foundation will help IDEI take its Integrating Smallholder...

Bausch + Lomb India in association with the Optometry Council of India launched the Eye Screening Protocol for Government school children as a part of Bausch + Lomb’s CSR programme, Experience Vision. The launch held on March 23rd, coincided with World Optometry Day, which is celebrated globally to create awareness about optometry as a profession. With...

Samsung’s R&D centre in Bengaluru has switched to solar power for its campus in the IT capital of India. The campus which houses over 3,000 R&D employees will draw 88% of its power requirement from a solar farm in Kalburgi district in Karnataka, around 500 kilometres away from Bengaluru. How does it work from...

Swades Foundation signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Government of Maharashtra on January 26, 2019, to scale up operations for 1000 “Swades Dream Villages” in Raigad and other districts in Maharashtra, over the next 5 years. Together, the Swades Foundation and the Government of Maharashtra will work towards the empowering rural communities at...

PepsiCo announced that it has helped more than 22 million people in underserved communities around the world gain access to safe water since 2006. In the last year alone, PepsiCo and its partners expanded access for more than 6 million people, indicating the company is on track to exceed its goal to support a...

Applications are open for “Impact Journalism Grant Programme 2019” with an aim to advance innovative reporting on the topic of land and property inclusivity in India. The goal of the grant is to raise awareness among the general public about issues faced by the poor related to land, property and related areas. The grant invites...