Nominations for TheCSRUniverse Social Impact Awards 2024 are open now!
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As COVID presented huge challenges for Corporates and NGOs/implementation agencies, the Corporate Social Responsibility has emerged much stronger out of this crisis by contributing big time to changing social needs. The spirit with which India’s CSR community reached out to affected people is exemplary! This was the time when the quick relief measures and extraordinary efforts exhibited by corporates went beyond CSR policy expectations.
The innovative ways of project execution by NGOs and other implementation agencies have not only strengthened the belief in effectiveness of CSR in India, the wide-ranging impact of such short-term projects also cemented the widening scope of CSR in the country.
During this period, TheCSRUniverse Team continued speaking to CSR leaders who shared thoughts and insights on their approach to take the COVID challenges head-on with their CSR policies.
The CSR Universe closely watched the COVID-induced new CSR concepts, innovative ways of CSR implementation, and tweaking of existing CSR projects to suit the emerging needs of people and community.
This initiative of TheCSRUniverse is aimed at finding, recognising and disseminating the best CSR projects conceptualised and executed during COVID pandemic in the financial year 2020-21. The best COVID-induced CSR projects under different themes will be recognised and published on this platform.
In brief, this Award will do the following:
TheCSRUniverse will have a multi-stage process to pick the best CSR Impact in COVID Times.
Level 1: Scrutiny of entries by editorial team
Level 2: Eligible entries to be shortlisted by internal expert panel
Level 3: Shortlisted entries will be judged by a jury panel comprising CSR veterans, Top NGO/CSR leaders, academicians, and CSR Policy enablers.
*Note: The entries will be judged on the following criteria:
COVID Response CSR Impact Awards 2021 will recognise the best
CSR projects/initiative in different categories
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Education x
Over the last one year, stakeholders in the social sector have devised several programmes to help students who had no option to continue their education. Many corporates came up with innovative programmes to support and counsel such students virtually. Nominate your initiative if you think your education-related programme has contributed to bring change and made real impact on the ground.
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Health x
In response to COVID crisis, companies and social sector institutions came forward in big ways to support immediate health needs like hospital beds, oxygen supply, medicines, PPE kits, sanitiser etc. Many institutions aided government efforts in scaling makeshift arrangements to cope with the sudden surge in healthcare needs. Nominate your initiative if it really helped emerging health needs Amid the COVID situation
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Skill Development x
COVID crisis has also resulted in millions of job losses across India. Many sectors like construction, aviation, hotel, tourism etc have been severely affected. GDP has fallen at record levels due to the slowing economic activities. Many traditional jobs disappeared from the job market. Amid all this, many social sector initiatives have tried to address this problem by skilling and re-skilling the workforce so that they develop new abilities and get ready for the new jobs as per their capabilities. Nominate your initiative if it has made an impact in skill development.
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Women and Child Care x
With claiming more than 4 lakh lives, COVID has pushed many families into extreme poverty. Many families who have lost their earning family member are left with an uncertain future. However, many corporates and other institutions have come forward to support these families in multiple ways. Such social sector initiatives focussed on women and child care can be nominated in this category.
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Food and Nutrition x
The COVID crisis severely affected daily wage and migrant labourers who were stuck in cities without a job for months. Making their situation worst, the multiple and varied lockdown lingered their miseries. Addressing the immediate needs of such people, many organisations came forward with food distribution programmes and ration kits for the poor and needy people. This saved millions of families from hunger. Nominate your initiative, if it severed the poor and needy in their most critical times.
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Research & Development x
After the COVID outbreak, government realised the need of participation from private players. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs also allowed CSR fund to be utilised for R&D activities. This prompted many companies and social sector institutions for supporting Research and Development activities in certain ways. Nominate projects if it was directed to boosting R&D activities.
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Microfinance x
As employment numbers across the country took a major hit, many social sector initiatives focussed on microfinancing to support people to start their own venture or business. The government also pushed for Mudra loans to support small business activities. Nominate in this category, if your initiative has helped people start their own business and earn livelihood.
COVID Response - CSR Impact Awards in Spreading Awareness x
Awareness about COVID precautions and protocols are the key factors towards breaking the chain of infection. Recently, government of India allowed companies to spend their CSR on creating awareness campaigns around COVID. We witnessed many wonderful communication campaigns related to CVOID recently. If you think your campaign had a large impact in a particular community, location or age-group, you can nominate your initiative in this category.
The award entries will be judged by our esteemed jury
Director
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
Vice-Chancellor, Director
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Director
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore
Director
Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)
Ex-President & Chief Operating Officer
SBI Foundation
Managing Director,
M-CRIL
Dr Rishikesha T. Krishnan is the Director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. He is known as a thought leader on the management of innovation. Prior to his current role, Dr Krishnan was a Professor in the Corporate Strategy & Policy Area, & Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at the IIM-B. Earlier, Dr Krishnan has served as the Director of IIM Indore.
An IIT Kanpur alumni, Dr Krishnan completed his doctorate from IIM Ahmedabad. His main areas of interest are strategy and innovation. He has also taught as Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2008), and at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad (2011-12). He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10.
Professor Krishnan writes extensively, and has more than 140 publications spanning outlets that include refereed journals, the popular press, case studies, book chapters, and books.
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Mr Nixon Joseph is Ex-President & Chief Operating Officer of SBI Foundation, the CSR arm of India’s top Public Sector Bank of State Bank of India (SBI). In his leadership role at SBI Foundation, Mr Joseph supported strong impact projects to help the underprivileged and needy.
As a career Banker, he has extensive experience in various facets of Banking like Corporate Credit, Retail Operations, International Banking etc., and worked all across India and also as Manager (Operations), SBI Bahrain and CEO, SBI Tokyo branch (2008-2012).
As Coordinator of SBI Youth for India fellowship program, he was instrumental in inspiring and mentoring 100 youths every year, and has taken the fellowship to a higher level. He has been mentoring many social entrepreneur units started by SBI Youth for India fellows.
He is the recipient of Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam award 2018 for excellence in public service and Dr Kalam Memorial Ignited Minds award.
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Mr Sanjay Sinha is Managing Director, M-CRIL. He is one of India's leading analysts of the financial inclusion models and specialises in livelihoods sector activities, microenterprise promotion and agriculture and livestock production as well as forestry, in addition to microfinance.
He holds an M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University, London and has over 35 years of economic and development research experience. He has with extensive experience of working in different countries of South-East Asia as well as South Asia through his M-CRIL's rating work and the periodic M-CRIL Review.
He was also a UN Advisor on Inclusive Financial Sectors during the Advisor Group's tenure, 2006-2008.
Dr. Himanshu Rai is the Director of IIM Indore. Prior to this, he was a Professor at IIM Lucknow where he taught from 2006 to 2014 and then again joined back on 1 September 2016. Before this, he was the Dean of MISB Bocconi and Professor at SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy from 2014 to 2016. Earlier, he had a stint of a little over a year at XLRI Jamshedpur.
Dr Rai obtained his doctorate from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, making seminal contribution in the area of Conflict Resolution & Negotiation.
Before joining his academic career, he worked with Tata Steel for over 8 years, where he played a pivotal role in developing Quality Systems for his Departments & Communication Policy for the Company.
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Prof Shalini Bharat is Director/Vice Chancellor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Prof Bharat is widely known for her work on social determinants of health with special reference to reproductive and sexual health; young people’s and women’s health and wellbeing; social aspects of HIV and TB including stigma and discrimination, prevention and care; and demographic transition.
She has served as member of the Mission Steering Group of National Rural Health Mission and the National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health & Family welfare, GoI; and is the current Program Director of The Global Fund supported Saksham Counselling project for drug resistant TB patients in 4 Indian states, and the Jan Urja project supported by Tata Power. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of PHFI and Alliance India.
Shalini Bharat has a doctorate in Psychology from Allahabad University, India. She has 4 books and over 70 journal articles to her credit in national and international journals.
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Dr. Umakant Dash is the Director of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). Prior to joining IRMA, he was Professor & Head of the Department of H&SS, IIT Madras and Adjunct Professor, IIM Tiruchirappalli.
He holds a DHS in Health System Management from Tulane University, USA, and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the IIT Kanpur. He has nearly two decades of experience in academia and research with institutes of national and international repute like IIT Madras, Utara University of Malaysia, and BITS, Pilani in areas such as Macro Economics, Financial Economics, Health Economics, Financial Management, etc. He pursues questions of equity, efficiency, and risk protection in the Indian Health System through his research projects, funded by organizations like DFID, Rockefeller Foundation, WHO, and Access Health International.
He is an active public policy expert and has been a member of various committees and expert groups of the Government of India.
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TheCSRUniverse ‘COVID Response’ CSR Impact Awards 2021 nomination
comprises the three simple steps below:
| Entry for single nominations: | INR 12,000 |
| Entry for two or more nominations: |
INR 10,000 |
*GST is inclusive in the cost mentioned above
Please Click Here to find more details on ‘Eligibility Criteria’ and ‘Rules and Regulations’ for this Award
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