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Dasra – Dasra Philanthropy Week 2015: taking governance from good to great
Dasra Philanthropy Week takes place in Mumbai from 19 to 21 March 2015. The opening day will focus on corporate social responsibility and girls’ empowerment, and the remaining days will concentrate on exploring the topic …
Why newborn survival should be on India’s CSR agenda
The 2 per cent CSR mandate in the Companies Act, 2013 requires companies of a certain size in India to allocate 2 per cent of their average net profits from the preceding three financial years …
Reflections from Sankalp 2014: we need to bring all stakeholders into the conversation
Since 2009, Sankalp Forum has been bringing the voice of the social entrepreneur into the impact investing conversation. This was evident again in Mumbai this year (9-11 April) as over 1,000 delegates and 103 speakers …
Dasra Philanthropy Week: spotlight on the new Indian Companies Act
Day one at Dasra Philanthropy Week kicked off with a topic that held everyone’s interest, be they believers or non-believers in the concept – mandatory CSR under Section 135 of the new Indian Companies Act …
Humble grant or strategic philanthropy? Let’s champion ambitious grantmaking
Last week’s panel discussion at the Alliance Breakfast initially positioned ‘strategic philanthropy’ as something different to ‘humble grantmaking’. I suppose the various prefixes like traditional, conventional, reactive, responsive … grantmaking etc didn’t help. But I …
Girls to the fore in this year’s expanded Dasra Philanthropy Week
The Dasra Philanthropy Week, now in its fifth year, is the largest strategic philanthropy conference in India. The conference has expanded over its five years; this year, it ran for three days, 5 to 7 …
Philanthropy in India today
India is now the world’s third largest economy. Despite the global financial crash in 2008, philanthropy in India has grown exponentially and improved in quality over recent years. This, believes Arpan Seth of Bain & …
Key recommendations for growing the social sector in India
‘Firms die, industries prosper’ – this was the conclusion of Jayant Sinha of Omidyar Network at the recent Impact Investor Forum in Bangalore, run by Dasra and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network. …
Sh*t matters
I’ve been talking a lot of sh*t the last few weeks – with various events conspiring to get me on the topic of toilets, sanitation and hygiene! Dasra decided back in February this year to …
A legacy beyond London: can the Games inspire India’s girls?
As London launches into its post mortem of the Olympics and Paralympics and the legacy question rears its head, I have been hearing stories from further afield that tell of the Games’ influence in remote …