Nasscom Foundation and IBM have partnered to equip 87,000 young people from underserved communities across India with digital, domain and employability skills. Through IBM SkillsBuild, the initiative focuses on connecting digital learning with real employment opportunities.
The battle over Tata Sons is about leadership, control and a possible listing. But behind it lies a larger question: could changing Tata’s unusual ownership structure eventually change one of India’s oldest sources of patient philanthropic capital? Ten years ago, Bombay House was at war with its chairman. Cyrus Mistry’s removal in October 2016 triggered…
Every year, before deciding where to focus its CSR water work, the Bajaj Foundation returns to two places: Wardha in Maharashtra and Sikar in Rajasthan. These are not chosen because they are convenient or strategically positioned. They are chosen because Wardha is where Jamnalal Bajaj, the Bajaj Group’s founding patriarch and a close associate of…
Every day, hundreds of millions of Indians sit down to a meal without a real way of knowing what is in it. That uncertainty is no longer a fringe worry; it is a documented, worsening public health emergency. Recent Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) data show that roughly one in five to…
CSR has a money problem. It is almost always described in rupees and crores, as if writing a cheque were the same thing as producing change. TCS has spent several years building an argument for a different unit of measurement: hours. In its 2025 fiscal year, TCS employees worldwide volunteered 8.9 million hours, representing a…
Sudha Murty famously travels to project sites herself, often unannounced. She has described spending roughly 20 days a month on the road in the years she actively ran Infosys’ field operations. She visited schools, hospitals, flood relief sites, and destitute homes to verify that the money the foundation disbursed actually produced the intended outcome. This…
India’s CSR sector is not short of large numbers. Thousands of crores move annually through compliance-driven corporate spending, much of it legitimate, some of it difficult to trace back to any measurable human outcome. HCL Foundation, the CSR arm of HCL Tech, chaired by Roshni Nadar Malhotra, has spent a decade building a counterargument to…
In 1978, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw began a business called Biocon out of her Bangalore garage with 10,000 in capital, and a product no one in India was making. It was for industrial applications derived from enzyme-based bio fermentation. She was rejected for a loan when a bank manager asked whether it would help her run a…
₹763 crore over 5 years. That is the number next to Rohini Nilekani’s name on the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2025. She is also known as India’s Most Generous Woman, a title earned by donating ₹204 crore in a single financial year. The number is large enough to stop a conversation. However, Nilekani has…
Numbers rarely tell a warm story, but sometimes they confirm one. In Chhattisgarh’s Baloda Bazar district, a Divyang Centre was a place people with disabilities avoided. Because there was little worth visiting. Physiotherapy was patchy. Speech therapy barely existed. Then Ambuja Foundation, the rural development arm of Ambuja Cements and Adani Cement, folded the centre’s…
