CSRP- Corporate Social Responsibility Partnerships
Corporates are giving back to the society through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Further, the investment potential under Corporate Social Responsibility in India is expanding with the revision in the Companies Act, 2013. Under social responsibility of business, a large number of corporates are focusing on employability based skilling initiatives.
Pavunammal Foundation, the CSR arm of Pavunammal Foundation Learning, is a Trust registered under the Trust Registration Act, 1882 and holds an 80G certificate. The Trust conducts programs impacting national issues in the field of skill development, women welfare and empowerment, vocational training and health awareness. The present governing body comprises of veterans from Education and Vocational training.
Pavunammal Foundation belief in 'smart partnering' as one of the ways to create value for both businesses and society is reflected in its collaborations with corporate India. It has experience of implementing employability linked training in sectors like IT/ITeS, Telecom, Beauty & Wellness, Apparel, Construction, Retail, Hospitality, BFSI, and Healthcare among others.
Employment linked skill training initiatives.
Women Empowerment through self/wage employment initiatives.
Managing and establishing Centers of Excellence with extensive coverage in rural and urban India.
The initiatives implemented by Pavunammal Foundation are aimed at impacting lives, creating livelihood opportunities all along. Some of the initiatives are as under:
Microsoft
The proposed program under Microsoft grant is an intervention created to build-on to the existing knowledge of technology the students in XIth and XIIth standard (trained under the ‘Vocationalization of school education scheme’) in the IT/ITeS sector and encouraging the students towards making a career in the technology space.
Through this program, we would not only make them understand the upcoming technologies like AI, Machine Learning, etc. helping them navigate more advanced career paths that they would otherwise not be exposed to. The program would also work on the students’ overall development by working on their cognitive and affective skills thereby improving attitudes, emotions, and feelings making them ready for the workspace of the 21st century.
