These
links are to corporates which
are financially helping social,
health & climate issues. Many
of them are listed on the stock
exchanges of their country and
they have responsibility that
the money they spend on CSR is
Money they Invest in CSR. Shareholders
want IMPACT of their work on communities,
country & climate.
While
doing research on CSR, Sustainability,
ESG, we found one company different.
That is Apple. Different because
Apple has link to Supplier responsibility.
Apple, Inc and Supplier
Responsibility
Apple
mobiles are costly. So while founder's
son and wife have Apple mobile,
founder is a common person and
uses a different not costly brand
which does things which he needs.
Despite of all this, founder values
Apple and one of its cofounder,
Steve Jobs, who was spiritual.
Infact, hardly people know that
he left this world on 5th October
2011 and Apple and Microsoft both
flew their flags at half-staff
throughout their respective headquarters
and campuses. That is respect
for competition.
And California Governor Jerry
Brown declared Sunday, October
16, 2011, to be "Steve Jobs
Day and on
October 16, 2011, an invitation-only
memorial was held and each attendee
was given a small brown box as
a "farewell gift" from
Jobs, containing a copy of the
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
by Paramahansa Yogananda.
This
means a lot because after an almost
fatal accident on 28.08.2013,
founder changed his thinking of
CSR. He thought C is Conscience,
S is Sustainability & R is
Reputation. Which simply means
that not just Corporates but every
human being on earth and every
organisation must follow CSR.
C
may stand for competition but
learning good things from competitors
is always good.
C stands for country, which all
citizens must take care.
C stands for Climate which is
not individual or country driven
but a Universal phenomenon and
humans have always neglected it
or say "see others are doing
it, why blame me'. This Human
Attitute needs to be changed if
we together have to take care
of climate.
After all C stands for caring.
If
a corporate supports children,
child health, mental health, water
then the CSR link go to the related
issues and within that issue,
we share corporates, NGOs, Funding
Agencies, Celebrities, Philanthropists,
Government, UN, Thane and of course
the challenges the issue has.
The
idea is clear. When it comes to
social issues, togetherness happens.
And
we say, we plan by 28.08.2024
but we can not commit this, so
we commit this by 31.12.2024 if
nothing physical wrong happens
to our team.
These
corporates can have partnership
with NGOs or Government (local,
state, national) or UN or can
direct help.
Corporates
are brands.
We want to brand each social,
health & climate issue.
If
you want to do heart surgery then
you go to cardiac surgeon, not
the best dentist in the world.
And if you want to remove teeth,
you go to Dentist and not the
best cardiac surgeon in your country.
Like heart first or teeth first,
we think issue first and then
country.
We
share CSR links issuewise and
within the issue, we share corporates
countrywise. We share India in
the first column not because India
is the largest country in the
world in terms of population but
because we started with IndianNGOs.com
in 1999 and founder Sanjay Kumud
Moreshwar Bapat got fellowship
from Ashoka Washington in 2005
as social enterpreneur. There
are about 4000 Ashoka Fellows
from over 95 countries in 2023.
And must be far less in 2005.
If
a corporate wants to know how
other corporates do CSR from different
countries or NGOs which are brands
supported by corporates, funding
agencies, philanthropists, celebrities,
then they can go to the issue
and within the issue, coverage
of corporates helping the issue.
But we know
that each country government,
NGO, Funding Agencies, Philanthropists,
celebrity look at corporates in
their country. And each
country may have different rules
for corporates. So we share countries
within the issue.
While
each social issue sponsorship
is charged differently as fees
for our sustainability & global
promotion, the above banner is
a donation to Developed Nation
Network Trust, an NGO which has
80G as well as FCRA.
