Tag: skill development
Empower Children To Be Change Ambassadors
About 10,000 school children, 50 schools through 100 workshops are now enabled to become ‘Health Champions’ for their peers and communities. ‘She’s Ambassador’ is...
How Did Maharashtra’s State Budget Affect CSR?
The Maharashtra Budget was recently held and tabled by the State Finance Minister, Sudhir Mungatiwar. It saw the allotment of Rs 525 cr for...
India’s Adolescent Girls Need Employability Empowerment: Report
A report titled ‘Best Foot Forward: Enhancing the Employability of India’s Adolescent Girls’ was unveiled at the Dasra Philanthropy Week in association with Bank...
Are You Ready For 50:50?
What does it mean to be a woman?
To be a woman means personifying the great feminine essence – being a creator of life.
Unfortunately, with...
Talent Is The Biggest Pain Point In The Development Sector: Ashish Dhawan, Central Square Foundation
Ashish Dhawan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Central Square Foundation. The organisation works to achieve transformational standards of excellence for the...
Maharashtra Government and Tata Trusts launch ‘Career Guidance and Counselling Centre project in Amravati
As part of the MoU signed between the Government of Maharashtra and Tata Trusts, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the ‘Career Guidance and Counselling...
On Path To Functional Literacy
The purpose of education is to help individuals gain skills and achieve their complete potential. Schools, universities and professional institutions are key in nurturing...
60,000 Carpenters Contribute Their Skills To Refurbish Furniture Free Of Cost
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...
Infosys Earmarks Rs 250 crore For wp
INFOSYS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has launched Spark-IT, a programme to enhance the skill levels of engineering graduates in the country. The initiative is part of Infosys Foundation’s plans to deploy Rs 249 crore towards wp and philanthropy initiatives in fiscal 2015
Giving Drive to Truck Drivers
India today has a cumulative trucking fleet capacity of over 3.3 million vehicles but over 20 percent of vehicles are lying idle because there aren’t enough skilled drivers to ensure their commercial utilisation. 10 companies came together & took up a wp initiative improve the situation
Teaching A Man To Fish: ICICI Foundation’s Push For Skill Development
From working at coffee shops to applying paint, how ICICI Foundation is making vocational development the cornerstone of its wp activities
से कैसे बनेगा ‘मेक इन इंडिया’ ?
‘मेक इन इंडिया’ ये प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी की सबसे महत्वाकांक्षी योजना है, जिसका बखान वो भारत से लेकर अमेरिका के मैडिसन स्क्वाअर तक कर...
