CSR OPEN DISCOURSE SERIES

BCF organizes open discourses on CSR in partnership with IIC (India International Centre), New Delhi. Starting in 2009, the series began with CSR & in 2010 has focused on Poverty issues and topics such as Agrarian Crisis, Right to Food, urban poverty etc and has reached out to over 1000 persons from civil society, students, industry & NGOs. These sessions are free and open to all.

April 1st, 2011- A talk on “Business Responsibility and Public Good” by Prof Andrew Crane, York University, Canada and Manoj K. Arora, Former Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GOI. Organisers- BCF, GIZ and IIC.

November 29th, 2010- Round Table Discussion and CSR Debate "Is Corporate Social Responsibility a PR exercise or does it work?"
Organisers- BCF, IIC and Deakin University, Australia.

November 10th, 2010- A talk on “Screening of the Privacy laws” by Mr Mark Tully and Ms Kamini Jaiswal.
Organisers- BBG, BCF and IIC.

September 28th, 2010- A talk on "Urban Poverty and Homelessness" by Mr Indu Prakash Singh, Ms Shivani Chaudhary.
Organisers- BCF, IIC.

August 31st, 2010- A talk on "The Right to Food and the Role of Poverty Commissioners" by Dr NC Saxena and Mr. Harsh Mander
Organisers- BCF, IIC.

July 01st, 2010- A talk on "Agrarian crisis and farmer suicides" by Mr P. Sainath; Chairperson: Gopal Subramanium.
Organisers- BCF, IIC.

February 08th, 2010- A talk on “Voluntary Guidelines on CSR” by Mr S.Sen (CIJ), Dr Aqueel Khan (ASK), Mr Viraf Mehta (PIC), Mr Asheesh Shah (DBS), Ms Amita Joseph (BCF); Chairperson: Prof Sri Ram Khanna .
Organisers- BCF, IIC.

November 30th, 2009- A talk on “Mainstreaming CSR in Management Education” by Mr K.T. Chacko, Dr H Chaturvedi, Prof Ashok Kapoor; Chairperson: Prof Vasanthi Srinivasan.
Organisers- BCF, IIC.

September 19th, 2009- A talk on "The Relevance of Sustainability Reporting" by Dr Aditi Haldar, Prof Ritika Gugnani.
Organisers- BCF, IIC.

July 03rd, 2009- A talk on “CSR, Governance and Development” by Prof Ananya Mukherjee.
Organisers- BCF, IIC.