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At GiveIndia we help corporates and High Net worth Individuals (HNIs) by responding to their philanthropic needs with unique solutions.
Since inception in 2002, we have worked with over 15 companies in a variety of sectors.
Mission
"To promote efficient and effective giving among corporates and High Net worth Individuals (HNIs)".
We believe that there is great social and business benefit from being strategic about Corporate Philanthropy. We assist in developing strategic frameworks that result in innovative avenues of 'giving'.
Services
Client Work
Corporate Philanthropy Solutions
Corporate Philanthropy Solutions- comprising Strategy Consulting and Social Initiatives Management. We promote philanthropy that is strategic, focused, and outcome-oriented. Our consulting service is targeted at helping companies decide focus areas for their "giving", followed by support in creating fruitful and accountable partnerships with credible non-profits and overall social initiatives management.
Over the years, our approach has been refined into a proactive, advisory role:
Strategy Development -
Determining where clients should focus their giving
| Step |
Key Goals |
| Establish work flow |
Agree on deliverables, timing.
Assemble steering team comprising a group of company decision makers and GiveIndia advisors. |
| Gather historical data |
Gather information on current and previous community activities.
Summarize lessons learned from the past. |
| Establish business objectives and challenges |
Long-term business objectives of the company.
Company goals for philanthropy.
Current competitive challenges from a business point of view. |
| Define target audience and assess their needs |
Define "community" in this case.
Assess community needs. |
| Present strategy to steering committee |
Secure agreement from client on geographic areas, focus areas and budget. |
Strategy Implementation -
Determining how clients should focus their giving
| Step |
Key Goals |
| Getting a "buy in" from the employees |
Share the strategy with the employees, get their thoughts on it and implement key suggestions where possible. |
| Identify candidate implementing organizations |
Identify 3-4 implementing organizations whose programmes match the approved strategy. |
| Select partnering implementing organization(s) |
Develop suite of criteria for assessing potential partners (i.e. ability to leverage funds, partnership with government). Conduct due diligence. |
| Formalize & launch programme |
Execute MOU(s) between implementing organization(s) and client.
Oversee development of programme design, budget and timeline.
Provide assistance to client in development of volunteering model, internal & external communications. |
| Monitor & track results |
Ensure process is in place to monitor and track results.
Proactive monthly follow-up. |
| Capture lessons learned |
Document lessons learned so that they can be incorporated into future CCS projects. |
| Hand off to CSI Coordinator OR evaluate 12 months later |
Implement outsourcing model or evaluate level of strategic philanthropy 12 months from now. |
Customized Corporate Philanthropy Projects
A unique service for corporates that has well defined focus areas and pre-determined budgets. The service enables corporates to fund high-impact projects of credible non-profits identified and screened by GiveIndia.
We provide the following services to the corporates:
- Present a range of projects and credible NGOs to choose from.
- Assist corporates in finalizing project/s and NGO/s.
- Develop concept note giving details on the chosen project/s.
- Provide full project management support which includes fund disbursement schedule, fund utilization and project feedback.
Engaging High Net worth Individuals (HNIs)
To understand HNI preferences and respond to their philanthropic needs, thereby offering them a detailed relationship management and increasing their involvement.
Client List
 Philips India
Practicing Rural Health in Villages
- Through strategic process, identified health and adolescent development as the main philanthropy focus area.
- Identified two components to Philips community programme:
- National programme driven at corporate level
- Local initiatives driven proposed and managed by employees.
- Developed 2-year fellowship programme for young Doctors to practice rural health care and create sustainable health model in Indian villages.
- Partnered with 2 NGOs- Trust for Reaching the Unreached (TRU) and Child In Need Institute (CINI) in Vadodara and Kolkata to implement rural health project and manage the fellowship programme.
- Identified 40000-village population to conduct health activities and thus improve health conditions of village people.
- Created process for selection of 2 fellow doctors to work under the fellowship programme.
- Philips selected a fellow doctor to manage the Kolkata project. The fellow doctor is working very closely with CINI in providing training to health workers. He is also managing the CINI clinic, which is held every Thursday at CINI HQs for mothers and children.
- In Baroda, Philips with the support from TRU has selected a part time doctor to run the clinic and train health workers.
- Philips has also developed a documentary film on its community initiatives to showcase to its domestic and global clients.
 ING Vysya
School Adoption
- Conducted senior management interviews, employee workshops and electronic survey across all business units of ING Vysya (Bank/Mutual Fund/Insurance) to identify primary education as the main philanthropy focus area.
- Developed structure and governance for the formation of ING Vysya Foundation.
- Developed philanthropy objectives and budgets for the ING Vysya Foundation Identified School Adoption as the 1st philanthropy project for the ING Vysya Foundation.
- Partnered with Association for Rural Development and Action (ARDAR), an NGO in Hyderabad to implement School Adoption project for 2 years in 6 most needy primary and upper primary government schools in Hyderabad and work with 1096 children.
- ARDAR conducted research and study in 30 schools in Hyderabad to identify needs and resources that exist in government schools.
- Activities such as hiring additional teachers and additional classrooms, learning and teaching materials, workshops, sports materials, repairs of toilets, provision of safe drinking water are conducted in the schools.
- ARDAR and ING Vysya Foundation launched the School Adoption project in January 2005 with a kick off event where the school children participated in the Sports Event conducted.
 Firstsource Solutions Limited-
Education for Sustainable Livelihood
Firstsource initiated a strategic philanthropy program in September 2004 in order to make their community contributions more impactful, measurable and sustainable. GiveIndia was appointed to determine where the organization wanted to focus their contributions. This was done through meetings with senior management as well as a company-wide online survey on employee preferences.
The survey elicited a strong response from employees and resulted in the selection of a key focus area for the community involvement model- Education for a Sustainable Livelihood. This model aimed at instilling various skills (such as vocational skills, literacy, personality development, English speaking and enterprise management) in underprivileged youth enabling them to become economically independent.
Keeping this in mind, we decided to partner with the Dr. Reddy's Foundation for Human and Social Development (DRFHSD) to implement Livelihood Advancement Business School (LABS) program in Bangalore. The LABS program (launched in October 2005) will train 1400 underprivileged youth in vocations such as BPO skills, Housekeeping, Retail, Advanced Computing and support 7 batches of training over a period of 28 months. Firstsource plans to work in close conjunction with the LABS team to identify the potential livelihood options available for the youth and train them according to the market requirements, thus achieving the goals of poverty alleviation and self-employment.
Placing a Corporate Social Initiatives Manager at Firstsource
The Corporate philanthropy program involves many challenges, such as demonstrating continuous success on the project, setting certain standards in terms of the NGO's work (programming and monitoring of the project), focused management and appraisal of all corporate social initiatives (future NGO partners, projects), etc. To overcome these challenges, a corporate needs to invest in a full time dedicated person to handle its philanthropy activities.
We have hired an individual to manage the social initiatives program of Firstsource. This person takes care of all NGO partnerships, promotes employee volunteering, advices international clients - all this while keeping the philanthropy strategic and focused.
Client Feedback
"The Taj Group has been involved in major Community Initiatives for several years. However there was no strategic framework within which the Key Community was defined or no thematic approach as to how we can maximize our impact in our key communities. GiveIndia helped us do precisely that."
Bernard Martyris
Sr. Vice President
Human Resources - The TAJ Group of Hotels
"GiveIndia turned out to be a great find for us. We had been grappling with vague good sentiments, but not knowing exactly what to do or where to start. They helped us clarify and articulate our intentions, resulting in a practical plan for effective and meaningful community involvement. They have demonstrated a rare combination of sensitivity to business considerations and expertise in effective philanthropy. Any company wanting to convert good intentions into a workable yet idealistic community initiative will definitely benefit from GiveIndia's services."
Jerry Rao
Chairman & Managing Director
MphasiS BFL Ltd.
"Our experience with GiveIndia CCS has been very good. Particularly since ING Vysya is new to this and since focus on charity has not been given a top priority, it was helpful to have CCS provide some structure to our work. They also helped identify (through various surveys, interviews, etc.) our primary charitable objectives. The CCS team has been great to work with, providing guidance and advice, but also offering us sufficient flexibility to allow us to do what was best for ING Vysya."
Eapen Chandy
Vice President
ING Vysya Bank
"GiveIndia has been our partner in the Corporate Social Initiatives program. They helped us identify the issue most employees identified with and helped us get started in that area. We continue to work with them to keep increasing our contribution to the society that we live in. The people at GiveIndia are knowledgeable, responsive and have exhibited a keen understanding of 'where we come from' in this context."
Aashu Calapa
EVP-HR
Firstsource Solutions Limited
For further information, please contact:
Kala Balan
Client Services
Email: kala@giveindia.org
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