The overall objectives of the CSR Impact Awards are to:
• Identify best CSR projects in key thematic areas and understand how organizations are delivering high impact CSR project
• Highlight the success of CSR projects and commitment of the organizations by recognizing them at the national level
• Motivate Companies, CSR Foundations, and implementing Partners to deliver high impact CSR projects through a collaborative approach
• Facilitate the exchange of best CSR practices and to understand how we can bring agility to the CSR project design and execution as we have witnessed a few innovations during the pandemic.

8th CSR Impact Awards 2022 shall be awarded in the following 16 categories:
Note: Award applications to be filled in for the projects implemented in the year FY 2021-22

1. Healthcare (non-COVID): This category covers projects in healthcare including public and preventive health, nutrition interventions, use of technology, or any other health interventions (other than COVID response) leading to better services or outcomes, Note: This category covers non-covid healthcare projects only. There is a separate COVID Response Category as well for all COVID specific healthcare projects.

2. Education: This category covers projects in education, special education, awareness building, education infrastructure, etc.

3. Skill Development: This category covers projects in vocational skills and employability enhancement among children and youth, etc.

4. Livelihoods: This category covers projects in areas of creating livelihoods opportunities, sustainable livelihoods, economic empowerment, market-linkages for community products, agriculture value-chain, SHGs capacity building and COVID response for migrants’ support and community livelihoods, etc.

5. Environment: This category covers projects in areas of energy, renewable energy, environmental sustainability, ecological balance sustainable transport, waste to energy, recycling, natural resource management, conservation, plantation, etc.

6. WASH: This category covers projects in line with water and sanitation, hygiene, Swachh Bharat Mission, behavioral change for use of sanitation and push for cleanliness in project/program mode, etc.

7. Women Empowerment: This category covers projects promoting gender equality, empowering women to participate fully in economic and social life across all sectors, setting up homes and hostels for women etc.

8. Rural Development and Infrastructure: This category covers rural development and infrastructure project for better public facilities, better living conditions, and improvement in terms of access, quality of life in a rural area. For example, construction of roads, bridges, community hall, etc.

9. Special Categories (Old Age/Specially-abled/Armed Forces, etc): This is a broad category covering areas of old age-related work, road-safety, armed forces related projects, specially-abled persons, orphan children, street children etc. (covers areas not covered in any of the above categories).

10. Employee Volunteering Initiative: As employee volunteering has been listed as one of the CSR project/intervention areas as per the Companies Act 2013, it would be good to understand how companies are engaging their employees for volunteering with communities or for a cause. (Please note that there is a specific form for this category).

Special Awards:
There are a few special categories of Awards that look at overall organization’s engagement in projects or programs to maximize the impact in relevant theme or overall impact. These special awards look at how organizations have walked an extra mile to achieve visible and long-lasting impact and how their efforts can become a model for replication.

11. CSR Project of the Year 2021-22 Award: For an outstanding project that combines innovation with high impact-delivery in any of the thematic areas. The applicant agency should be convinced that the project and its impact have certain merit to be recognized as ‘CSR Project of the Year 21-22’.

12. CSR Foundation of the Year 2021-22 (Only for CSR Foundations): The foundation set up by any company or consortium of companies either to manage CSR funds or to implement CSR projects can apply in this category. The broader evaluation parameters are based on how the foundation has successfully followed the CSR mandate of the company and tried to deliver best possible impact at the project or program level either through direct implementation or banking on the expertise of the other implementing partners.

13. Company with Best CSR Impacts in 2021-22 (Only for Companies): This category looks at the overall initiatives, and sustainability of impact through CSR. This is all about the overall intended efforts, and impact that an organization has created or creating through its various CSR projects and programs. These initiatives can be a stand-alone project or through partnerships or association of more than one organization’s collaborations.

14. PSU with Best CSR Impacts in 2021-22 (Only for Public Sector Undertakings/Enterprises): This is a newly introduced category applicable only for PSUs/PSEs. The PSUs which have implemented impactful CSR projects in the last financial year are eligible to apply. These initiatives can be a stand-alone project or through partnerships or association of more than one organization’s collaborations.

15. CSR Implementing Agency of the Year FY 2021-22: This category caters to identifying two of the best CSR implementing agencies in India. The award looks at CSR partnerships with companies/CSR foundations, CSR projects & programs, focused approach towards a solution to development challenges, CSR impacts and scalability of the operations in future.

16. COVID Response Category FY 2021-22 (total 6 awards in this category) (Projects specific to healthcare category)
This category covers COVID19 response projects for healthcare infrastructure, hospital and hospital wards related support, purchase of technology, Research and Development, or equipment, training of human resources, frontline workers, awareness or any other COVID specific healthcare or allied interventions.

Note: Any other covid response projects other than in healthcare category to be applied in respective categories as given above.

The number of awards in each thematic category is two in number.

• For categories 1 to 9 and 11, the 8th CSR Impact Awards have been demarcated into two broad sections:
• Small Projects: CSR project budget for FY 2021-22 up to INR 1.0 Cr.
• Large Projects: CSR project budget for FY 2021-22 above INR 1.0 Cr.

• In the case of category 10, the 8th CSR Impact Awards have been demarcated into two broad sections:
• Small Projects: With annual prescribed CSR budget of the company below or equal to INR 10 Cr.
• Large Projects: With annual prescribed CSR budget of the company above INR 10 Cr.

• For categories 12, 13 and 14, the two awards in each category are as:
• Small Projects: With annual prescribed CSR budget below or equal to INR 10 Cr.
• Large Projects: With annual prescribed CSR budget above INR 10 Cr.

• For category 15, there will be two awards for implementing agency of the year; one for the small grass-roots organization and the other for the relatively large organization, based on the Jury’s discretion.

• For Category 16, (a total of 6 awards)
• Small Projects (3 awards): CSR project budget for FY 2021-22 up to INR 1.0 Cr
• Large Projects (3 awards): CSR project budget for FY 2021-22 above INR 1.0 Cr.

Based on the CSR fund/budget of the financial year 2021-22. Description of each of the category is given after this section. As the awards aim to recognize project-specific outcomes and impact, both the funding and implementing agency will get the due credit for the award.

Note: In case there are less than three entries in a category, the applications will be automatically evaluated under the CSR Project of the Year 2021-22 category. The Jury has all the rights to evaluate applications in a category where the project fits best, even if the award application has been submitted in a different category. The small and large categorization as per the list above is applicable when we receive at least 3 applications in each segment (large/small).

In cases of applying for more than one category,
• If an organization wants to submit an award application in more than one category, the additional fee of INR 5000 plus GST (900) will be taken for each added category of the same project.
• If an organization is submitting two separate projects in two different categories, they have to submit the fee as per the category application fee as mentioned in the table above.

• For organizations willing to transfer fees through NEFT, please note down the following account information:
Account Holder: Renalysis Consultants Pvt. Ltd
Account Number: 50200008642388
Account Type: Current
Bank: HDFC Bank Ltd
Branch: Shikohpur (Haryana)
IFSC Code: HDFC0003526
Email: awards@csrbox.org

Point of Contact 1 : Ms. Hiral Badiyani (CSR Impact Awards Coordinator 1)
Email: hiral@csrbox.org
Mob. 9313579347

Point of Contact 2 : Ms. Shilpi Jain (CSR Impact Awards Coordinator 2)
Email: shilpi@csrbox.org
Mob. 9560352170

• Payment through credit/debit card
You can also submit the fee by credit card/debit card/net banking using the Payumoney link here:
https://pages.razorpay.com/CSRBOX-Awards-fee
(Select the option-CSR Impact Award fee)

• Request for the invoice
To process the payment, if you need an invoice, please send an email mentioning your billing name, address and GST no. (if applicable) at awards@csrbox.org to help us raise the invoice.

• One special invite will be sent to the CEO/Top Management of the Award-winning organization in each of the categories.
• Each application comes with one delegate pass for India CSR Summit 2022 for 15th -16th November 2022 (Hotel Pullman and Novotel, Aero city, New Delhi). Additional passes can be purchased from the online registration counter.

• Please send the filled-in form along with all the attachments, and application fee to: awards@csrbox.org
• We are accepting only softcopy of the applications along with attachments for the CSR Impact Awards. Please submit all the supporting documents in soft copy only. In case of size of supporting documents is high, you may share the same via WeTransfer or any other document transfer software/mechanism.
• The application processing fee needs to be paid in cheque/DD in favor of ‘Renalysis Consultants Pvt. Ltd.’ (Payable at Ahmedabad for DD). The cheque/DD should be sent along with the application form.

• For organizations willing to transfer fees through NEFT, please note down the following account information:
Account Holder: Renalysis Consultants Pvt. Ltd
Account Number: 50200008642388
Account Type: Current
Bank: HDFC Bank Ltd
Branch: Shikohpur (Haryana)
IFSC Code: HDFC0003526
Email: awards@csrbox.org

Point of Contact 1 : Ms. Hiral Badiyani (CSR Impact Awards Coordinator 1)
Email: hiral@csrbox.org
Mob. 9313579347

Point of Contact 2 : Ms. Shilpi Jain (Lead - Corporate Partnerships)
Email: shilpi@csrbox.org
Mob. 9560352170

• Payment through credit/debit card
You can also submit the fee by credit card/debit card/net banking using the Payumoney link here:
https://pages.razorpay.com/CSRBOX-Awards-fee
(Select the option-CSR Impact Award fee)

• Request for the invoice
To process the payment, if you need an invoice, please send an email mentioning your billing name, address and GST no. (if applicable) at awards@csrbox.org to help us raise the invoice.

The Awards' applications follow a two-stage evaluation to ensure that the best impact projects and organizations get recognized for their efforts.

• Stage I: Evaluation by the Partner Institutions

For the first stage of assessment of the award applications, we have an expert panel consisting of academia and research leaders who would be evaluating the applications based on their knowledge and expertise in line with pre-defined parameters. The list of our Stage I Evaluation Partner is available on India CSR Summit website.

Each partner institution will evaluate 2 to 3 categories of the awards based on their core expertise.
Evaluation partners: XISS Ranchi, DSW, IIFM Bhopal, Jagran lake city, TISS Mumbai

Note: Each applicant will have to present their Award application to the Stage 1 Jury Panel virtually. The applicants will be informed about their slots (date and time) at least 3-5 days in advance. The presentation will be in the virtual mode.


• Stage II: The Grand Jury

After careful evaluation of applications in Stage I by the institution partners, a Grand Jury round is organized as Stage II assessment where 3 shortlisted applications from each of the categories will be presented to the Grand Jury. The expert panel of the jury will select the best projects and declare the winner under each category.

Note: Each shortlisted applicant will have to present their Award application to the Stage 2 Jury Panel virtually. The applicants will be informed about their slots (date and time) at least 3-5 days in advance. These presentations will also be in the virtual mode.

The Grand Jury Members
• The grand jury will comprise of 15-25 domain experts from different thematic areas. In the last 5 years, we had members from The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID India, JICA, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dalberg, UNDP, UNICEF, World Health Organization, etc.
• The names of the Jury-members for 2022 will be announced on the event website by 30th September 2022

The Indian Institute of Forest Management is a sectoral management institute, which constantly endeavors to evolve knowledge useful for the managers in the area of Forest, Environment and Natural Resources Management and allied sectors. It disseminates such knowledge in ways that promote its application by individuals and organizations.
The students, the faculty, the courses, the field visits and the lush green campus all play a part to form the dynamic culture of IIFM. IIFM gives independence to students to run various committees and cells. The culture of IIFM builds in the students, an ability to view the business world from all perspectives – be it economic or environmental, be it profit or people. It drives the students in pursuit of knowledge and inculcates leadership and teamwork in them.
Know more about IIFMR visit : https://iifm.ac.in/

Jagran Lakecity University (JLU), located in Bhopal MP India, is one of the fastest growing and one of the most awarded universities of Central India having practice-based pedagogy at its core. The University offers 56-degree programs in Media, Design, Journalism, Law, Liberal Arts & Humanities, Management & Commerce and Applied Sciences & Technology, to more than 2500 students from 8 countries and 27 states of India.
Jagran Lakecity University became the first university in M.P. & Chhattisgarh states to be awarded the 'DIAMOND' rating by QS I-Gauge, an International Rating agency in June 2021. JLU was ranked 30th best private university in India by the Education World in 2021 and also got the E-Learning Excellence for Academic Digitisation (E-Lead) Certification 2020, by QS I –Gauge.
Know more about Jagran Lake City visit : https://jlu.edu.in/

Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), a centre of learning, critical thinking and excellence with difference!
In 1973, Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi was registered as a separate educational society under the Societies Registration Act, 1960. Since then, in history, it has been recognized as one of the most outstanding management schools in India. In all its years of existence, XISS has upheld the great task of imparting higher knowledge, critical thinking and academic rigour to prepare men and women, who serve and lead the society. Epitomizing wide, profound and solid learning, XISS has nurtured students to be fit in any arena of their life journey.
XISS focuses on Academics to bring in more academic rigour, enhance quality of curricula, explore new consultancies etc. along with the human values and social concerns for sustainable growth. It means the Institute believes in nurturing professionals with a difference who takes care of Profits, People and Planet.
XISS strongly believes in collaboration between academia and industry to enhance corporate relations. Corporate interface and International Connect is another aspect the institution believes in exploring for an all-round exposure of the students.
Know more about XISS visit https://www.xiss.ac.in/

Department of Social Work-University of Delhi was established in 1946 as Y.W.C.A School of Social Work and later renamed as Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW). The school was started under the directorship of Ms.Nora Ventura who was then the secretary of religious education committee of the Y.W.C.A, with two students-one from Sindh and the other from Bengal. D.S.S.W was taken over by University of Delhi in 1962 and became a post graduate institution maintained by the university. In 1979 Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) became the Department of Social Work, University of Delhi. The main aim of the department is to develop human resources for competent and effective professional social work practice, teaching and research with diverse range of individuals, groups and communities by using a framework of social justice and human rights as well as sustainable and participatory development.
Know more about XISS visit http://fss.du.ac.in/socialwork.html

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The year 1964 was an important landmark in the history of the Institute, when it was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956. Since its inception, the Vision of the TISS has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all.