Due-diligence & NGO Validation
Working with a network of over 1.5 lac+ NGOs, CSRBOX approaches due diligence in a stringent, robust and transparent way. With an impartial and in-depth assessment, each NGO enlisted is analyzed based on their track record, capacity and compliance, with an intention to bring the best of the sector to the platform. This helps us in enabling credible and lasting partnerships between donors and nonprofits, and ensuring maximum impact on the focused cause.
CSRBOX undertakes close assessment of NGO’s legal, fiscal and regulatory compliances through a desk review, along with extensive research of the NGO’s organizational and programmatic profile. Having been validated and accredited by CSRBOX, the NGO is enlisted on the CSRBOX platform. This helps them get better visibility and outreach support among relevant stakeholders and donors, and also helps them identify areas of improvement. CSRBOX also undertakes due diligence and ethical check of nonprofits for Corporate funding, to help them assess compliance and eligibility of nonprofits to receive grants.
Featured Projects
Bajaj Group
Bajaj Group, in its quest for nation building, has undertaken various philanthropic activities and social work through its corporate and non-corporate entities besides providing financial support, in the past few decades. Continuing their endeavor, Bajaj group, under its CSR activities, proposed to expand its support to the development sector by providing generous grants in the thematic areas of Environment and Natural resources, Health, Children and Education in preferred geographies of Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan. Supporting this endeavor, CSRBOX has been undertaking due diligence of nonprofits, since 2019, based on the eligibility criteria and credibility, capability and quality of proposal of the organization. CSRBOX has screened over 500 proposals based on fiscal, regulatory and quality parameters. CSRBOX has also carried out various promotional activities like workshops, social media promotions, mailers, newsletters, FB live sessions etc. resulting in doubling of proposals received.
Genpact
Genpact Social Impact Fellowship is a unique year-long social transformation program launched in 2016. It is a flagship strategic CSR programme of Genpact. Since 2018, CSRBOX has been working alongside Genpact for the success of the Fellowship. Leveraging its wide and diverse network of Nonprofits, CSRBOX reaches out to nonprofits through media, newsletters, Facebook LIVE sessions, etc. For the 2020 chapter, CSRBOX collected and analyzed around 170 applications. Screening involves a multi-level process, starting with due diligence, ethical check, one-on-one connect and alignment to Genpact’s eligibility and pre-requisites. The final level involves micro assessment of the programmatic implications of proposed projects, wherein the organizations are handpicked based on their on-ground impact and commitment to the project. Once the host organizations are selected and onboarded, CSRBOX conducts outreach campaigns for inviting applications from Fellows, who would eventually be deployed in the selected nonprofits to carry out transformational social development projects.
HCL Foundation
HCL Foundation through its HCL Grants, worth 16.5 crore, commits to strengthen and empower NGOs, engage with them, as well as recognize them for their path breaking work in the three thematic categories, namely, Environment, Health and Education. CSRBOX is the curating partner for the HCL Grant Pan-India Symposium which is an effort by HCL Foundation to bring together NGOs, Government, corporates, and policy makers on one platform, across India, such that they can interact, develop regional as well as sectoral understanding about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and deliberate upon how it can contribute towards Nation Building.
CSRBOX has been involved in identification, outreach and registration of credible non-profits across India to attend the symposiums and register for the online grant process. Besides, as the co-host, we identify and collaborate with prestigious academic institutions who are the local hosts for each of the symposiums across the country, such as IIM Ahmedabad, KISS Bhubaneshwar. We organize capacity building session for non-profits, informative panel session on the thematic categories by experts from the government, corporate as well as an interactive session with previous grant winners and sub-jury members of the HCL grant process.
The Habitats Trust
The Habitats Trust launches its annual series of grants in 4 distinct categories, focused on conservation of natural habitats and indigenous species. For their 2020 grants, The Habitats Trust associated with CSRBOX as a strategic partner to maximize outreach and promote the grants. For this, CSRBOX conducted pan India symposiums in 9 locations, for organizations and individuals working towards conservation of habitats and wildlife. CSRBOX has been responsible for the management of all the symposiums starting from identification of academic host institutes, inviting field experts for discussion and knowledge sharing, identifying and inviting relevant organizations and individuals and screening the participant list for those eligible for the grants. This was done to maximize engagement and keep it relevant at the same time, as well as encourage registrations for the online grants application process.
Facebook India
In collaboration with Facebook, CSRBOX conducted a workshop for nonprofits, named ‘NGO day’ to promote the most effective methods of engaging with your supporters and building community through campaigns on the Facebook platform. The event featured Facebook representatives who shared best practices and useful tips that enable NGOs to maximize the benefits of the Facebook platform to reach a large audience and engage them in their cause. The event, hosted in New Delhi, saw participations from over 350 delegates representing NGOs working in diverse thematic areas.
CSRBOX and Google hosted a Google Ad Grants workshop for NGOs at the Google office in Gurgaon on 26th February 2015. Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google’s online advertising tool. It empowers nonprofit organizations, through $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords, to promote their missions and initiatives on Google search result pages. The event created a learning platform for NGOs to explore opportunities in online advertising that they can capitalize upon, and improve visibility of their organizations and explore newer ways of funding.
