People we work with

Some of the well known corporates in India have worked with iVolunteer on Employee Volunteering assignments. Here is an indicative list and a brief description of the work that we have done with them.

ICICI Bank

ICICI Bank views its financial skills as an obvious extension of the nature of work for most of its employees. At the same time, there are a number of organisations working towards the economic development and sustainability of India’s poor who need such skills to help upgrade their services and reach. iVolunteer has been working with ICICI Bank to help conceptualise and manage the program enabling organisations to utilise the financial expertise of its employees. iVolunteer’s role includes assisting in drafting the volunteering policies as well as the devising a program structure. It is responsible for reaching an understanding with each MFI as well as inviting, screening, placement and orientation of the volunteers within ICICI. It is advising the Bank on the overall policy, structure, program execution, management as well as feedback and reviews from all participants.

Accenture

In February, employees of Accenture, Bangalore organised a book collection drive at their office premises as part of the “Gift Knowledge – Donate a Book” campaign. The books were donated to needy beneficiaries. >>> Read more

Ambuja Cement

Ambuja Cement signed up with iVolunteer in December to put together an Employee Volunteering Program (EVP) in its Mumbai office. The corporate volunteers had their first brush with volunteering though the iVolunteer Factory Visit programme. The company kept open the doors of its cement packaging plant at Nerul, Navi Mumbai for the kids of Children Toy Foundation (Rajawadi Municipal School). Through sheer luck, the children were able to see one of the Ambuja ships which had just then docked in from Gujarat transporting with it cement. This was followed by the factory visit, during which the children were fascinated by the automatic cement packaging machine that directly loads cement bags into trucks.

Jones Lang LaSalle

Last October, employee volunteers from Jones Lang LaSalle, a property consulting group in Bangalore, spent a day with the children of Lovedale Foundation. >>> Read more

Computer Science Corporation (CSC)

Corporate mentors at CSC, Noida and the mentee children of Udayan Care conducted their first self analysis of their ongoing mentoring programme last September. The success and benefits of this project had been espoused by all 10 children who expressed their desire to continue the programme. >>> Read more

BEA Foundation

In September 2005, around 40 employee volunteers from BEA Foundation, Bangalore switched professions for a brief period of 4 hours to paint a school for the non-profit, Hope Foundation. These amateur painters brightened the school walls as also their own lives. >>> Read more

Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT)

In the beginning of 2004, Mr. Gautam Thapar reiterated BILT’s committment in encouraging volunteerism amongst its employees. BITL undertook to support and endorse employees efforts in this direction by expressing its willingness to even underwrite employee time spent for an NGO or community activity. iVolunteer was responsible for designing and implementing the program in Delhi and Mumbai offices of BILT following this call. The program is being run in three phases independently in the Delhi and Mumbai offices of BILT. During the first phase, the corporate policy on volunteering was developed followed by introducing the idea to the group of employees and assessing the profiles of the interested people. During the second phase, the projects suiting the volunteer profiles and adhering to the corporate policy on volunteering were chosen. Most of the volunteers have already been offered suitable placements and programs involving groups of volunteers have been conducted. The feedback of the volunteers and the review of the whole program will be conducted during the final phase.

ICICI Prudential

iVolunteer introduced the concept of Employee Volunteering to ICICI Prudential which chose to provide its employees with a simple one time and test the employees willingness to participate in such programs. Accordingly, iVolunteer conceptualised three alternatives that could be organised as small one time events. ICICI Prudential chose to organise a cloth collection drive and was consequently introduced to an NGO to facilitate the event. A collection booth was installed in the premises of ICICI Prudential and the employees were asked to contribute their old clothes. The clothes were then packed and delivered to the needy by the NGO.