Corporate Innovator Innovation in corporate practice for social change

Corporate Innovator is an innovative platform for CSR, Corporate Sustainability,

Affirmative Action and Corporate women empowerment programs for Social change.

We provide strategy development, On ground implementation, Documentation and

Auditing across value chain for the corporates to manage their CSR, Sustainability,

Affirmative Action and Women Empowerment.

Our innovative platform is compliant with Section-135 of Companies Act 2013 (India), GRI-

G4 Guidelines, UNGC, CDP and a host of other global reporting frameworks (like: SA8000,

ISO 26000, Integrated Reporting etc.)

The Companies Act, 2013 passed by the Indian Parliament in August,

2013 mandates companies of a particular size to invest 2% of their Net

Profit in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities.

As per this Act, more than 22,000 companies will spend ~USD 3 billion

annually on CSR activities, starting 1st April, 2014. This represents

almost a 10x jump in CSR expenditure of companies, and they are

struggling to effectively deploy this capital.

Corporate Innovators is the leading innovative manager of CSR capital

in India helping companies effectively deploy their CSR capital in Shared

Value projects that generate business value for companies along with

positive social and environmental impact.

Policy and Strategy Formation

Project Development & Approvals

Progress Monitoring and Reporting

Impact Assessments

Report Consolidation and Communication

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1. Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition; Promoting Preventive health care & sanitation and

making available safe drinking water.

2. Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocational skills

especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled and livelihood

enhancement projects.

3. Promoting gender equality and empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women

and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other facilities for senior

citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward

groups.

4. Ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal

welfare, Argo-forestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and

water.

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5. Protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of building and

sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion

and development of traditional arts and handicrafts.

6. Measures for the benefit of armed forces veterans, war widows and their

dependents.

7. Contribution to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund or any other fund set up

by the Central Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare

of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities

and women.

8. Contributions or funds provided to technology incubators located within academic

institutions which are approved by the Central Government.

9. Rural development projects

10. Slum area development

Triple bottom line growth is essential for all the companies today to become

sustainable.

We help our clients to drive higher profits by identifying risks and

opportunities and building sustainable strategies into their everyday business.

Corporate Innovators comprehensive sustainability services help our clients

manage and implement coherent initiatives throughout their value chain to

transform the business into a sustainable enterprise with reduced expenditure

and positive social, environmental and economic impact.

ESG Base Lining

Stakeholder Engagement

Materiality

Strategy

Reporting

Assurance

ESG Performance Management

Capacity Building

We recognise that gender equality, o e s rights, education for women and

girls worldwide, and o e s empowerment are critical to Creating Shared

Value for our business and for society.

We believe that different ways of thinking complement each other and lead to

better decisions. In other words, gender balance simply makes business sense.

It is therefore essential that we help to increase o e s participation in, and

contribution to, the value chain in a sustainable way.

We have developed several initiatives that promote training and professional

development for women, in line with the UN s Millennium Development

Goals.

POLICY & ADVOCACY

We works with industry to strengthen o e s role and initiated various policies

for Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, Internal Complaints Committee and

Orientation for Women Independent Directors to ensure participation. The focus

areas are: Legal Rights and Acts for Women, Women Workforce in Industry,

Gender Diversity, Corporate Gender Gap, etc.

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

We are giving Learning opportunities for Corporate, Women Entrepreneurs and

Educational Institutions in three different levels like Fresher, Middle Management

and Senior Management.

Fresher will learn about Business Communication, Learning to Invest and Career

Structuring. Middle management will learn about Work-life Balance, Building

Personal Brand, Managing a Team, General Management Themes. Senior

Management will learn about Mentoring on Leadership, Executive Coaching,

Women Independent Director.

Affirmative Action for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities is a

voluntary commitment by Indian companies to help and ensure equal opportunity to

members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities.

Lack of employability has also been identified as major source of lack of employment

amongst the Indian Youth and SC and ST population in particular.

The Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes have suffered educational deprivation for a very

large span of time. Even after the 50 years of independence and Indian central and state

go er e ts interventions, SCs and STs have not been able to bridge the divide existing

between them and the higher castes/ general category.

Affirmative Action promotes encouragement of budding entrepreneurs through

mentoring programmes to help him/her develop a sustainable system.

Employment helps to empower through the adoption of caste-sensitive employers for

increasing the number of SC and ST employee in the workforce.

We are helping corporate in a entire value chain of 4E of Affirmative Action.

Employability is not just about vocational and academic skills. Individuals need relevant

and usable labour market information to help them make informed decisions about the

labour market options available to them.

Initiatives such as scholarships, primary, secondary and higher education programmes

targeted for the disadvantaged, adult literacy and others through Affirmative Action by

the private sector can boost the current dismal scenario.

Entrepreneurship development for creating self-reliant individuals and families, through

identification and selection of persons with adequate skills and risk-taking capacity;

capability for business plan development and the ability to link financial institutions for

credit facilities.

Setting goal towards o discrimination. setting a policy of positi e discri i atio

whereby they are actively favouring SC/ST candidates for employment provided they are

equal on merit/competence to other candidates.