For Companies the ways of involvement for both CSR funding and Employee Engagement, through India Cares is as follows:
Events: Events are a way to get the employees know and involved with your CSR Partners. Also, a time to know the community served through your CSR support.
450+ companies contributing over Rs 60 Cr and engaging over 10K employees in the past decade, some of whom are the top names in the country, have associated with a Cause they want to support through the platforms of TCS World 10k Bengaluru, Airtel Delhi Half Marathon and Tata Steel Kolkata 25K over the years, where were the Philanthropy Partners.
CSR Melas to help Companies connect to small and medium CSOs have been organized by us in association with the India Chamber of Commerce in Delhi and Jamshedpur, while also helping the CSOs/ NGOs prepare proposal synopsis for ready reference.
CSR Support - We support companies in identifying projects and implementation partners. We also enable monitoring and reporting of projects that the company funds. We have associated with Goodera, Friends Of Lakes and Biome Environmental Trust in this work
While we anchor large miltiple stakeholder projects, we have enabled CSR funds of over Rs 22 crore since 2017 in the areas of infrastructure improvement in Government Schools and in the area of Water Conservation.
Impact of CSR funds from over 20 companies:
Water Conservation: Since 2017, over 12 crore litre of rainwater is being pushed into the shallow aquifer, every year, through the CSR of DCB Bank, MillerKnoll, Garrett Motion Technologies, Rotary Club, Artma Foundation and others, while providing livelihood to over 50 families of the Well Diggers community.
This was done through making over 200 Rainwater Recharge Wells across Bangalore; setting up Rainwater Harvesting in 11 schools in Bangalore, Bidadi & Pune; Revival of 9 Traditional Wells; Lake Improvement work in 6 Lakes
Education: Focusing on Infrastructure Enhancement including WASH and Digital Learning in Government and NGO run Schools across India, through CSR funds and funds raised by Groups like Alumni’, RWAs, College Groups, etc,.
India Cares has worked with 30+ schools in Bangalore – Urban and Rural, Kolar, Bidadi, Pune, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR and Madurai with companies like Garrett Motion Technologies; O9 Solutions; MillerKnoll, WestBridge Capital, Epsilon India, TE Connectivity, ST Telemedia, etc.
Over 15,000 children have benefited across the 20+ Govt. Schools through our interventions through CSR and at least 8,000 children will benefit year on year for the next five years
Digital WishTree has been developed to help fulfil actual needs of CSOs and as an engagement tool.
