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There’s a difference between wanting to be socially responsible and having to be socially responsible. The truth is told through CSR initiatives. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) entails voluntary actions taken by a company to improve living condition of local communities, whether through social, environmental or economic programs. The goal is to go beyond legal obligations, …

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Companies that traditionally undertook CSR will only need to streamline the spends they made It’s been a little over a year since the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) law came into effect on April 1, 2014. Within such a short period, the entire landscape of CSR in India has taken a radical flight. Companies eligible under …

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Even as the government — under a directive from the Prime Minister’s Office — is stepping up scrutiny of foreign-funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Indian companies with large foreign shareholdings are growing increasingly uncomfortable working in the grey area around their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contributions. To carry out CSR programmes, companies work with or pay …

How FCRA norms may hurt CSR contributions of Indian companies with large foreign shareholding Read More »

No longer is the term ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ a novel idea amongst businesses. A 2011 sustainability study by MIT showed that sustainability, in the US at least, now plays a permanent part in 70% of corporate agendas. Organisations such as Unilever haven’t simply been championing sustainable business as a form of corporate philanthropy. Since implementing …

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