Eradicate Curable Blindness

Since inception in 1892, Tata Trusts, India’s oldest philanthropy, has played a pioneering role in bringing about an enduring difference in the lives of the communities it serves. Guided by the principles and the vision of proactive philanthropy of its Founder, Jamsetji Tata, the Trusts’ purpose is to catalyse development in the areas of healthcare and nutrition, water and sanitation, education, energy, rural upliftment, urban poverty alleviation, and arts, craft and culture. Tata Trusts’ programs, achieved through direct implementation, partnerships and grant making, are marked by innovations, relevant to the country.

Savitri works with some of the poorest rural communities, delivering high impact, innovative solutions with compassion. Project work is directed to three main areas; curable blindness, palliative care and environment and livelihoods. Savitri seeks out entrepreneurial approaches; partners who can maximise benefits, who know their local community and who can deliver impact in some of the hardest to reach rural areas in India and Nigeria. 100% of any donation goes directly to projects providing maximum benefit to those in need.

Charity Vision International has a focus on empowering local physicians in the developing world and creating sustainable solutions to the worldwide blindness epidemic. Through eye surgeries, glasses donations, and help with local eye clinics, Charity Vision is giving sight back to the blind on a daily basis. In 2016 alone, they performed 80,141 surgeries and donated 65,955 glasses. Charity Vision supports us with surgical consumables needed for eye operations and also funding one of our upcoming tertiary hospitals.

Orbis is a leading global non-profit organization that has been a pioneer in the prevention and treatment of blindness for over 30 years. Working in collaboration with Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital and other local partners, Orbis provides hands-on training, strengthens eye care infrastructure and advocates for the prioritization of eye health on public health agendas. In India, the focus is mainly on children, where Orbis has established the world's largest network of Children's Eye Centers: 33 centers across 18 states. Orbis has been one of the most critical partners in our blindness eradication efforts.

Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF),USA, founded in 1998 by Mr. K. Muralidharan, Mr. K. Sridharan, and Mr. Khushnood Ahmad, is striving hard to eradicate curable blindness in India. The goal for SEF, USA is to support the service providers in India and raise funds for eye surgeries and capital funds to build super specialty eye-care hospitals across India. For two decades, SEF has maintained low operational costs, financial transparency, and continued maintenance of high donor cultivation. Charity Navigator, the largest independent charity evaluator of non-profits has rewarded SEF, USA, with highest rating of 4-stars for many consecutive years. Since 1998, SEF, USA has organically grown to a sizable non-profit organization and has helped change lives of over 1.7 million marginalized rural blind in India. The force behind Sankara’s success is the strong dedicated volunteer base that works selflessly to bring light into the lives of needlessly blind in India.

CBM is a disability and development organization, committed to improving the quality of life of Persons with Disabilities. Based on its values and over 100 years of professional expertise worldwide, CBM addresses poverty as a cause and a consequence of disability and works in partnership to create an inclusive society for all. CBM has been a long-standing partner in supporting our blindness eradication program.

The British Asian Trust supports the development of a South Asia that is free from inequality and injustice. We back sustainable solutions that enable people to truly unlock their potential, and have touched the lives of more than three million people already. By enabling our supporters to turn their values into action, we transform lives. Together we will support a South Asia that is better for all.

Naraindas Morbai Budhrani Trust, a low profile developmental organisation committed to bring about positive change in the lives of economically marginalized through its health, educational and community development initiatives across India. Through meaningful creative grass root initiatives, creating right infrastructural facilities, the attention is paid to offer long term solutions and support to the people who are economically challenged and thus need the opportunity and support in shaping their lives.

Star India has defined the Indian media landscape for more than 25 years, and today is one of the country’s leading media conglomerates, reaching more than 790 million viewers a month across India and over 100 other countries. Star generates over 30,000 hours of content each year and broadcasts 60+ channels, reaching 9 out of 10 C&S TV homes in India.
Its portfolio includes channels offering general entertainment, films, sports, infotainment, kids and lifestyle content across 8 languages (Hindi, English, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, and Malayalam). Star Plus is India's No. 1 Hindi General Entertainment Channel. Star is also present in the Indian movie production and distribution space through Fox Star Studios.

Star India is making quantum leaps in transforming sports in the country. With 16 sports channels, Star is the country’s leading sports network and one that is helping India become a multi-sporting nation.
Star is also driving the agenda on digital consumption in India with its digital content platform Hotstar, which is amongst the fastest growing in the world and is increasingly becoming the first port of call for internet adopters in India.
Star India is a fully owned subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

The H T Parekh Foundation (Foundation) is a registered charitable institution set up by HDFC Limited, to commemorate the significant contribution of its founder Shri H. T. Parekh to the social & development sector in India. The Foundation aims to implement HDFC’s long term vision to be an active contributor to the societal and developmental needs of India. The Foundation strives to support organisations across India that are doing exemplary work in the social sector. The core objective is to work in areas of established need, addressing marginalised communities in both urban and rural areas.

BBFL is a Belgian women's football league. We want to highlight the fun and fairplay side of football. A league where we are ALL here to have fun! Yes, girls can play football too!

Bajaj Finserv Limited is the holding company for the businesses dealing with financial services of the Bajaj Group. Its insurance joint ventures with Allianz SE, Germany, namely Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited are engaged in life and general insurance business respectively. Its subsidiary Bajaj Finance Limited is a deposit-taking Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in consumer finance, SME finance and commercial lending and wealth management.

The HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organisation in the world, serving our customers worldwide from office in 65 countries and territories in our geographical regions: Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa. The HSBC group serves its customers through four global businesses: Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Private Banking. Our Global businesses serves over 40 million customers worldwide. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary within the HSBC Group and commenced operations in Hong Kong on 3 March 1865.

HSBC Bank India:
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in India offers a full range of banking and financial services through 26 branches across 14 cities.

HSBC is one of India's leading financial services groups, with around 38,000 employees in its banking, investment banking and capital markets, asset management, insurance, software development and global resourcing operations in the country. It is a leading custodian in India. The Bank is at the forefront in arranging deals for Indian companies investing overseas and foreign investments into the country.

HSBC and Sustainability:
HSBC's corporate sustainability strategy includes the development of sustainable business opportunities, management of its own environmental footprint, and its community investments. The bank has a long-term commitment to the communities in which it operates. Our inclusion initiatives support life skills training for disadvantaged youth and financial literacy and entrepreneurship capacity building for rural women in marginalised communities. HSBC’s environmental initiatives support water harvesting, habitat and biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods, water and climate change awareness.

At HSBC, employee volunteering is a core component of our commitment to supporting the communities and also provides our employees with the opportunity to experience and learn about the issues that matter in their community and to apply this knowledge and experience at work. For more information on HSBC’s sustainability initiatives in India, please visit www.hsbc.co.in

What is ‘BridgeAble’?

BridgeAble is a social impact initiative in Singapore bridging between those who wish to give and those in need. Its mission is to foster meaningful philanthropy and volunteerism by creating, curating and executing community service projects. BridgeAble acts as a catalyst by building ‘bridges’ between charitable organizations attending to beneficiaries and donors/volunteers.

The Women Behind BridgeAble

BridgeAble is founded and run by three women who have a passion for community service who are volunteers themselves. They work on BridgeAble’s community service initiatives on a pro bono basis alongside their professional and family commitments.

Causes

BridgeAble embraces all worthy causes. Is has built relationships with diverse charitable and government organizations in Singapore and in India which need funding, talent or strategic partnerships. BridgeAble focuses on ‘gaps’ in their programs coming in to help plug those gaps.

How BridgeAble Does It

Once the gaps in the programs of charitable organisations is clear, BridgeAble mobilises individuals, families, corporations etc. to connect with such charitable organizations and plug those gaps. The aim here is to build long-term relationships between the giver and the receiver so that a culture of service is fostered above and beyond the signing of a donation cheque.

To know more, visit www.bridgeable.com.sg

Tata Capital Limited, a holistic financial services provider, caters to the diverse needs of retail, corporate and institutional customers, directly or indirectly through its subsidiaries. Its range of offerings includes Consumer Finance, Advisory Services, Commercial Finance, Infrastructure Finance, Securities, Investment Banking, Private Equity Advisory, Credit Cards and Travel & Forex Services. For more information about Tata Capital, please visit www.tatacapital.com

At TATA Motors, our corporate social responsibility initiatives are focused on improving the quality of life of underprivileged communities neighbouring our business operations. Keeping up with the sustainability initiatives in Indian companies our interventions focus on health, education, employability and environment, touching lives in India. TATA Motors is committed to sustainable development, where business goes hand in hand with societal wellbeing and environmental consciousness. Our programmes are spread among the following categories Aarogya – Health, Vidyadhanam – Education, Kaushalya – Employability or Skilling, Vasundhara – Environment, Amrutdhara – Drinking water, Aadhaar – Affirmative Action & Seva – Volunteering.

Titan Company is an iconic Indian lifestyle company that produces watches, jewellery, eyewear and personal accessories.

Titan Company is the fifth largest integrated own brand watch manufacturer in the world. It is also a leading manufacturer and retailer of jewellery, sunglasses and prescription eyewear. Established in 1984 as a joint venture between the Tata group and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, Titan Company transformed the Indian watch market when it introduced its futuristic quartz technology watches, complemented by international styling. The company is responsible for introducing well known international brands like Tommy Hilfiger, FCUK, Timberland as well as the Swiss made watch – Xylys into the Indian market. In addition the company also retails personal accessories such as bags, belts and wallets.

Titan Company went global in 1991, with the launch of Titan watches in the UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. Its products are now marketed in other East Asian countries, South Asia and Africa and recently partnered with Amazon to foray in to the US market. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company has manufacturing and assembly operations at Hosur, Dehradun, Roorkee, Pantnagar and Chikkaballapur, and an electronics component manufacturing plant in Goa.

In 1996, Titan entered the largely fragmented gold ornaments market with its jewellery brand Tanishq, followed by Zoya and most recently, CaratLane. Today, it is the largest jewellery retailer in India.

With Titan’s recent expanse into the fragrance market in 2013, SKINN by Titan was launched, for the urban, well-travelled Indian men and women and have increased its portfolio with Taneira, the latest range of handloom sarees.

The company has also made its foray into eyewear, offering a variety of differentiated products to the end consumer consisting of frames, lenses, contact lenses and accessories. Titan has leveraged its manufacturing competencies and branched into precision engineering. This division caters to clients such as ISRO, Schneider, Ford, and Rolls Royce.

With a retail footprint of over 1800 stores and a total retail area of over 2.3 mn sq ft, Titan Company has India’s largest specialty retail network. Today, Titan Company Limited is TATA’s largest consumer company, and India’s leading producer and retailer of watches, jewellery, eyewear and accessories.

About Standard Chartered, India

Standard Chartered Bank is India’s largest international bank (in terms of branch network) with 100 branches in 43 cities, and we have been operating here since 1858. Key business segments include Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking, Private Banking as well as Retail Banking. For more information, visit www.sc.com

Standard Chartered

We are a leading international banking group, with a presence in 60 of the world’s most dynamic markets and serving clients in a further 85. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise, Here for good.

Standard Chartered PLC is listed on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, Japan that owns and operates 24 channels in the entertainment, kids, sports and factual entertainment genres, a digital entertainment VOD platform; and an independent production venture for original content and IPs for TV and digital media. The network has a subsidiary, MSM-Worldwide Factual Media Private Limited and an affiliate, Bangla Entertainment Private Limited, in India.

In its 25th year of operations in India, the network reaches out to over 700 million viewers in India and is available in 167 countries. ‘Ek India Happywala’ is the CSR theme under the aegis of which Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) runs its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme that focusses on creating a positive impact in the ecosystem. The programme is built around 3 pillars; empowerment, education and environment, based on the philosophy that as a responsible organization it will contribute to the greater common good of the society and help build a sustainable way of life for marginalized sections of society.

Tata Communication is a digital ecosystem enabler that powers today’s fast-growing digital economy.

The Company enables the digital transformation of enterprises globally, including 300 of the Fortune 500 – unlocking opportunities for businesses by enabling borderless growth, boosting product innovation and customer experience, improving productivity and efficiency, building agility and managing risk.

With its solutions orientated approach, proven managed service capabilities and cutting-edge infrastructure, Tata Communications drives the next level of intelligence powered by cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT),collaboration, security and network services.

Tata Communications carries around 30% of the world’s internet routes and connects businesses to 60% of the world’s cloud giants and 4 out of 5 mobile subscribers.

The Company’s capabilities are underpinned by its global network, the world’s largest wholly owned subsea fibre backbone and a Tier-1 IP network with connectivity to more than 200 countries and territories.

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

Giving Circle Foundation is a non-profit organization started in 2019 by a group of women in San Diego, USA. The objective is to fund and support NGO’s involved in the education of underprivileged children around the world and to make a difference in their lives and in their future.

GCF funds organizations that demonstrate commitment and deep involvement to empower young children. GCF supports all areas of education - school infrastructure, educational materials, teacher support, resources for children with learning disabilities and development of art and culture in schools to name a few. GCF’s vision and goal to make a difference in the lives of children around the world.