Responsible Corporate Citizenship

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FAQs On The CSR Law Amendments 2021

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs recently updated the Companies CSR rules with significant changes to the national CSR policy.

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CSR Trends & Opportunities in India: 2021

Samhita, in collaboration with JICA, maps the CSR landscape in India, as experienced by Japanese, Indian and MNC companies, as well as our implementation partners.

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Creating a Truly "Social" Stock Exchange

This report reviews 7 SSEs from Brazil, Portugal, South Africa, Jamaica, UK, Singapore, & Canada to provide the most comprehensive analysis so far and offer suggestions for India's Social Stock Exchange

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Indian Giving Benchmarking Report

An in-depth survey of Samhita GoodCSR’s network of 2,800 nonprofit organizations about their funding sources, resource development methods, donor engagement strategies, and efforts to build a base of life-long donors.

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Corporate Engagement in Women’s Economic Empowerment

This report examines the nature of support for women’s economic empowerment CSR activities of companies listed on India’s BSE 100 index

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Transforming India: The CSR Opportunity (2016)

This study was conducted to ascertain the current state of play of CSR, key challenges and opportunities and the ‘calls-to- action’ that can make the vision of the act a reality.

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Featured Article
Impact Assessments are top priority – What do the new CSR rules say

This FAQ is a result of collaboration between Samhita & Centre For Advancement of Philanthropy. It has been written with the guidance of Noshir Dadrawala.

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Reports
Update to Indian NGO Bright Spots Report reveals important lessons learned for fundraising during the pandemic

We have updated our 2020 report with new information about how to go about diversifying your funding and building your base of donors in a post-pandemic (or COVID-19 endemic) world. We’ve even added a new Guiding Principle that you can use to leverage the latest technology to acquire new givers. Please take a look at the update, and feel free to share any information that you think would be helpful as well. There is much to learn from each other!

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Blog
FAQ on CSR Rules, Amendment 2022

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs recently updated the Companies CSR rules with significant changes to the national CSR policy.

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Featured Initiative
Samhita–CGF partners with AMHSSC to aid 50,000 women to create thriving livelihood pathways

Through this partnership, Samhita – CGF will enable livelihood linkages of 50,000 women to manufacturing units of large corporate houses, and support AMHSSC in offering customised and relevant services across 4 key areas critical to thrive in the workforce…

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Featured Initiative
A coalition to create a Better Normal for India’s Working Women and Entrepreneurs

[email protected] is a coalition — of businesses, philanthropies, social organisations and other stakeholders — to drive economic recovery and resilience of low-income women workers and micro entrepreneurs.

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Story of Change
Samhita’s Collection of Stories of Change

Change is often hard to measure through statistics and numbers. Here, stories of change bring light to the real lives impacted. This is a collection of stories of change representative of the year of the pandemic.

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Reports
CSR Trends & Opportunities in India: 2021

Samhita has collaborated with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to study CSR approaches, opportunities, and challenges in India. This report includes recommendations for creating a more enabling CSR ecosystem.

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Coverage Feature
5 post-COVID trends from Indian entrepreneurs

India’s MSME sector contributes to nearly one-third of its GDP. However, the sector is particularly vulnerable to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic because they typically have fewer resources than large businesses. The World Economic Forum conducted a study with 107 Indian entrepreneurs to understand how they have navigated the pandemic and found five prominent trends in their businesses. Among […]

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Coverage Feature
Bringing humanity to the boardroom

In this article, ADP Rethink traces the evolution of CSR in India as it goes from being a regulation to redefining corporate citizenship.

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Reports
Indian NGO Fundraising “Bright Spots” Report: Lifting Up What Works in Raising Money from Individuals in India

This report is Part II of a research project by UC Berkeley Director of Philanthropy and Fulbright Scholar Morry Rao Hermón, in collaboration with Samhita Social Ventures and the Collective Good Foundation, to help fill a gap in the knowledge base about what nonprofits are doing, and what is working, in the individual donor fundraising space in India.

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Reports
Creating a Truly “Social” Stock Exchange

This report reviews 7 SSEs from Brazil, Portugal, South Africa, Jamaica, UK, Singapore, & Canada to provide the most comprehensive analysis so far and offer suggestions for India’s Social Stock Exchange

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CSR Cafe

The Five Ways CSR Heads Can Create Lasting Change

Participants shared their insights and experiences on managing multiple mandates as a CSR Leader, the struggle with engaging stakeholders, the need for more sectoral research and the potential for collaboration among themselves and with the government.

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CSR Cafe

Making Skills and Livelihoods Training Count

A collaborative approach, where companies focus on what they do the best and strike partnerships to add value and plug gaps, is the way forward.

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CSR Cafe

Beyond the Boardroom

At this edition of the CSR Cafe, CSR leaders communicated challenges faced in boardroom engagement, and through discussions, the Café sourced solutions and advice in response to the challenges.

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CSR Cafe

Creating Impact through Corp.-Govt. Partnerships

Corporate-Government partnerships retain an air of mystery with few frameworks available for those interested in initiating such partnerships or navigating existing ones.

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