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9/23/2015 SME Magazines Small Business Entrepreneurs Magazine Online in India http://smeworld.asia/Focus.aspx?Focus=Focus91/fiinovationforgingpartnershipsbetweencorporationsandcsos#.VgIru8uqqkp 1/3 Tel: +911125822095 | Mail: [email protected] Home About Us The Team Subscribe Contact Us Search our site DIGITAL EDITIONAVAILABLE ON SME WORLD Bureau September, 2015 2 Fiinovation Forging Partnerships Between Corporations and CSOs The corporations including SMEs have today realized the necessity of developing the society in which it operates, besides generating profit. This has increased their involvement in lending funds for improvement of the community at large. However, their good deeds face bottlenecks due to lack of expertise in monitoring, implementation and evaluation of utilization of funds, which are crucial in assessing whether any real change is being brought on ground. Similarly, the CSOs or the organizations working for societal development on ground are unable to implement the projects, and thus, are forced to discontinue their operations. Channelise the CSR The developing Indian economy is experiencing a widening gap between human development index and industrial profits. This is where the idea of Fiinovation was established as a link between the requirement and the need. Our social development sector experience suggested that in order to create greater impact, there needs to be proper research and consultation towards creating a platform to channelise the CSR investments in the right direction. Many corporations are finding it difficult to align their business objectives with their CSR goals whereas many civil society organizations are languishing without funds. It is, thus, important to strategize a plan that addresses the challenges of all the stakeholders. Therefore, when we develop a CSR policy for a corporation, we try to align their business objectives with social imperatives. We also advise them to implement their CSR initiatives with the help of civil society organizations who are experts in their own domain like the corporations who are experts in their own field. Having a pool of over 4000 NGOs, Fiinovation has been working towards facilitating a connect between the right NGO with the corporation. Thus, we forge a partnership between corporations and civil society organisations. This partnership directly impacts the communities who are the ultimate beneficiaries of the CSR initiatives. Based on triple bottom line approach and tailor made projects, Fiinovation suggests corporations on ways of allocating funds in a particular project. From implementation, monitoring and evaluation to its assessment. Management Framework Fiinovation ensures funds are followed by onground impact. The initiatives are designed on the result based management framework with special emphasis on sustainability ensuring that positive impact is being created in social, economic and environmental areas. We have different practices such as initiative design and management, CSOCSR partnership, impact assessment and sustainability reporting that help ensure these CSR objectives of the corporations are met. We started our journey in 2008 with a fourmember team, and now we are 100 member team that is working to bring a change in the social sector, across four areas education, health, livelihood and environment. We are known for having Asia's first proposal research laboratory primarily focused on health, education, livelihood and environment. With the help of the team, Fiinovation aims to enhance quality through innovation and extensive work across organizational value chain. Over the years, Fiinovation has successfully created a niche for itself in the CSR domain. CSR and Sustainability Similar to all start ups, we had our own set of challenges. But what made our hurdles even more unique was we came from a very niche domain, wherein, we not only had to make people aware about our services but handhold them towards comprehending the importance of CSR. One can gauge the difficulty from the fact that a handful, of about 100 companies, was involved in CSR. It proved to be a task for us to make others take the social development sector seriously. We concentrated our focus on sectoral research in our inhouse proposal research laboratory bringing in professionals from the field in our team. To further spread the awareness, we shared our views at various national and international conferences while lending views on the importance of CSR and sustainability with industry leaders and CSR professionals. These interactions helped us in bringing out the best research and strategies. Service Industry Marketing Funds & Fundas Innovations Human Capital Manufacturing Industry in Focus Technology Development Cover Stories All Things Legal Global News Health is Wealth Mentoring Seminary

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9/23/2015 SME Magazines­ Small Business Entrepreneurs Magazine Online in India

http://smeworld.asia/Focus.aspx?Focus=Focus­91/fiinovation­forging­partnerships­between­­corporations­and­csos#.VgIru8uqqkp 1/3

Tel: +91­11­25822095 | Mail: [email protected] Home  About Us  The Team  Subscribe  Contact Us Search  our si te  

DIGITAL EDIT ION AVAILABLE ON

SME WORLD BureauSeptember, 2015

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Fiinovation Forging Partnerships Between Corporations and CSOs

The  corporations  including  SMEs  have  today   realized  the  necessity   ofdeveloping  the  society   in which  it  operates,  besides  generating  profit.  Thishas  increased  their  involvement  in  lending  funds  for  improvement  of  thecommunity  at large. However, their good deeds face bottlenecks due to lackof  expertise  in monitoring,  implementation  and  evaluation  of  utilization  offunds,  which  are  crucial  in  assessing  whether  any   real  change  is  beingbrought  on  ground.  Similarly ,  the  CSOs  or  the  organizations  working  forsocietal development on ground are unable  to  implement  the projects,  andthus, are forced to discontinue their operations.

Channelise the CSR

The  developing  Indian  economy  is  experiencing  a  widening  gap  betweenhuman  development  index  and  industrial  profits.  This  is  where  the  idea  of

Fiinovation was established ­ as a link between the requirement and the need. Our social development sector experience suggested that in order to creategreater impact, there needs to be proper research and consultation towards creating a platform to channelise the CSR investments in the right direction.Many  corporations are finding it difficult to align their business objectives with their CSR goals whereas many  civ il society  organizations are languishingwithout funds. It is, thus, important to strategize a plan that addresses the challenges of all the stakeholders.

Therefore,  when we  develop  a  CSR  policy   for  a  corporation,  we  try   to  align  their  business  objectives with  social  imperatives. We  also  advise  them  toimplement their CSR initiatives with the help of civ il society  organizations who are experts in their own domain like the corporations who are experts intheir own field. Having a pool of over 4000 NGOs, Fiinovation has been working towards facilitating a connect between the right NGO with the corporation.Thus, we forge a partnership between corporations and civ il society  organisations. This partnership directly  impacts the communities who are the ultimatebeneficiaries of the CSR initiatives. Based on triple bottom line approach and tailor made projects, Fiinovation suggests corporations on ways of allocatingfunds in a particular project. From implementation, monitoring and evaluation to its assessment.

Management Framework

Fiinovation ensures funds are followed by  on­ground impact. The initiatives are designed on the result based management framework with special emphasison sustainability  ensuring that positive impact is being created in social, economic and environmental areas. We have different practices such as initiativedesign and management, CSO­CSR partnership, impact assessment and sustainability  reporting that help ensure these CSR objectives of the corporationsare met.

We started our journey  in 2008 with a four­member team, and now we are 100 member team that is working to bring a change in the social sector, acrossfour areas ­ education, health, livelihood and environment. We are known for hav ing Asia's first proposal research laboratory  primarily  focused on health,education,  livelihood  and  environment. With  the help  of  the  team, Fiinovation  aims  to  enhance quality   through  innovation  and  extensive work  acrossorganizational value chain. Over the years, Fiinovation has successfully  created a niche for itself in the CSR domain.

CSR and Sustainability

Similar to all start ups, we had our own set of challenges. But what made our hurdles even more unique was we came from a very  niche domain, wherein, wenot only  had to make people aware about our serv ices but handhold them towards comprehending the importance of CSR. One can gauge the difficulty  fromthe  fact  that  a handful,  of  about  100  companies, was  involved  in CSR.  It proved  to be  a  task  for us  to make others  take  the  social development  sectorseriously . We concentrated our focus on sectoral research in our in­house proposal research laboratory  bringing in professionals from the field in our team.To further spread the awareness, we shared our v iews at various national and international conferences while lending v iews on the importance of CSR andsustainability  with industry  leaders and CSR professionals. These interactions helped us in bringing out the best research and strategies.

Service Industry Marketing Funds & Fundas Innovations Human Capital Manufacturing Industry in Focus Technology Development

Cover Stories All Things Legal Global News Health is Wealth Mentoring Seminary

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In order to better connect CSOs with corporations, the government of India introduced the new Companies Law in 2014. This has opened doors for a widespectrum of opportunities for the CSOs and corporations to work collectively  on a common platform and find implementable and simplified solutions tosocietal issues. As part of a niche industry  such as CSR, which has only  started to gain ground, it is understandable that it will take time for the change toreally  take effect, but the process has started.

Away  Forward

Fiinovation understands CSR is here to stay , especially  after the recent mandate by  the government. Even though it is still evolv ing and at a nascent stage,corporations will now actively  get involved on ground while CSOs have been presented with a huge opportunity  to get the support they  have been lookingfor. As a CSR consultancy , we also have to continuously  evolve with time with new innovative ideas and strategies that are implementable. We also need tomeet  the  expectations  of  both  the  corporations  as  well  as  the  civ il  society   organizations.  It  is  a  talked  about  sector  and  a  much  needed  one  for  thedegradation that  the society  at  large  is  facing,  the effects of which will be witnessed  in  times to come  if nothing  is done now. We believe CSR is  the wayforward.

Within a short span of  time, we have been acknowledged at  international and national platforms. Our efforts  led us  to win  'CSR Team of  the Y ear' at  theGlobal  CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards  2015  and  'Caring Company  Award'  at  the World CSR Congress  2015  in Mumbai.  Apart  from  this, we wereadjudged the  'Manager of  the Y ear' &  'Best Enterprise of  the Y ear  ­  in  the  field of Health, Education, Environment and Livelihood with a  focus on CSR &Sustainability ' Socrates Awards by  European Business Assembly  at Summit of Leaders 2014 at Oxford. We were also adjudged the 'Best Innovation: Productor Serv ice' for CSR & Sustainability  at the World CSR Congress 2014 held in Mumbai, India.

 

About Soumitro Chakraborty

Soumitro Chakraborty , created a niche in the CSR and Sustainability  industry  and established Fiinovation in 2008. He has strategized and implemented CSRand Sustainability  programmes across India in partnership with various corporations and NGOs working in the field of health, env ironment, education andlivelihood.  With  fiinovation,  he  put  together  'Asia's  First  Proposal  Design  and  Research  Laboratory '  on  CSR  and  Sustainability ,  which  works  towardsconverting challenges into opportunities by  conducting thorough research and prov iding simple and strategic solutions to organisation.

Backed  by   a  rich  experience  in  the  serv ices  and  social  sector,  Chakraborty   serves  on  the  board  of  several  organizations  as  an  advisor  for  sustainabledevelopment, corporate social responsibility  and environment management. He is also a v isiting faculty  to some institutions like the Institute of Directorsfor 'Sustainability  ­ Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility ' and has participated at various events as a panelist, speaker, jury  and moderatorand has also contributed his v iews on CSR & Sustainability   in numerous publications. Chakraborty  has been a part of  several  seminars and conferencesincluding  Institute  of  Directors  (IOD) National  Convention  on  Corporate Governance  and  Sustainability ,  CII  Conference  on  'Bridging  the Gap:  BuildingEcosystem for Inclusive Value Creation' 2014, IOD 14th Global London Convention 2014, 16th World Congress on Environment Management in 2014, andmany  more.

Under Chakraborty 's able leadership, fiinovation was conferred with the 'CSR Team of the Y ear' at the Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards 2015 and'Caring Company  Award' at the World CSR Congress, Mumbai. He was bestowed with the medal of 'Manager of the Y ear' and 'Best Enterprise of the Y ear' inthe  field of health, education, env ironment and  livelihood with a  focus on CSR & Sustainability  by   the European Business Assembly , and the  'Summit ofLeaders'  Socrates  Award  Ceremony   in  2014  at  Oxford,  UK.  He  is  also  the  recipient  of  the  'Best  Innovation:  Product  or  Serv ice'  award  at  the  SocialInnovation Awards, 2014' at the World CSR Day  and has also won accolades for his innovative ideas and his dynamic leadership at fiinovation.

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