For Companies
We create customized CSR strategies aligned with your company’s values, expertise, products, stakeholder expectations and long-term vision and drive effective implementation leading to long-lasting change within communities you work with and causes you espouse
For Donors
From philanthropists to foundations to individual donors, we propagate informed giving practices, facilitate conversations among sector players, build sector knowledge, help raise funds for causes, and design programs that improve lives at a systemic level
For NGOs
We work closely with our network of NGOs across India to bring you access to funding, partnerships with companies, new models, in-kind donations, enhanced communications capabilities and much more. Join our network today to make your work strategic, scalable and sustainable
Samhita GoodCSR
Samhita GoodCSR aims to revolutionize the way social sector projects are executed by connecting companies and NGOs on an efficient marketplace to help build meaningful partnerships. The platform is dsigned to make CSR, intelligent, efficient, and impactful. Visit www.goodcsr.in for more information.
About Samhita
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Decoding CSR Trend In India – Looking Back to Look Forward
It’s been five years since India became the first country in the world to mandate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spending for eligible companies, generating a lot of local discussions, national debates and global curiosity. Did the companies comply? How did they perform? How were the CSR funds spent and on what? Did the NGO sector […]
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Corporate Engagement in Women’s Economic Empowerment
Corporate Engagement in Women’s Economic Empowerment As one of the first countries of the world to formalise the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), India is creating pathways for corporates to actively participate in nation building. Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 includes Schedule VII that states ‘promoting gender equality and empowering women’ as […]
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Guest Post: Investing CSR in Incubators – A Unique Model of Partnership
Guest Post: Investing CSR in Incubators – A Unique Model of Partnership Authored by P.R. Ganapathy, President ( India), Villgro Innovations Foundation After, USA and China, India has the largest incubator and accelerator ecosystem in the world. But few companies have sufficient information on this ecosystem to be able to invest in it. Samhita, and Villgro, supported by […]
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New Frontiers in CSR
India has been at the forefront of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) paradigm, much before the introduction of Section 135 of Companies Act, 2013, which made CSR a regulatory requirement. As per data filed by companies on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs portal, around 20,000 companies had reported spending on CSR, with total spend amounting […]