CSO Partners will support designing programmes that are aligned with your business objectives and the need and interests of community. As part of the process, we will facilitate consultations with different stakeholders. This process is carried out by mapping of business needs with social needs through:

• Community Needs Assessment (Using methodologies such as surveys, interviews, group discussions, asset mapping, secondary data analysis, etc in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the socio-economic status and/or political influences of targeted communities)
• Understanding and articulating the need at the business level by facilitating discussions and interviews of the senior management

We require support for CSR Strategy and Programme Design

This would involve the following: 

• Formulation of the implementation strategy and planning
• Grant Management
• Employee engagement, payroll giving, etc.
• Identification and due diligence of the implementation organization
• Partnership development (Strategy, identification, partnership development, partnership evaluation, etc)
• Hand holding support for programme management

We require support for managing CSR programmes

CSO Partners can

• Assist in social impact assessment by setting up a mechanism to monitor and track the progress of the initiative in the identified and agreed upon set of parameters. Establishing the intended impact of the initiative and monitoring them would also help in making course correction should it be warranted.
• Document and regularly report on the feedback generated from the field.
• Implement the designed monitoring and evaluation mechanism.

We require support for monitoring and evaluation

In business, risks lurk at every turn: safety of the product that threatens the viability of your products or services, community unrest that disrupt the plant production, adverse trends in political scenarios, etc. Accepting and managing these challenges/risks is what causes companies to grow, to outsmart their competitors, to bring a new product to market, and, most importantly, to produce profit. Risk assessment and management is an important component of a progressive company’s strategic plan.

CSO Partners provides Social and Environmental Risk Management services comprising of the following process:

• Threat assessment
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Risk assessment
• Identify solutions and evaluation
• Risk treatment
• Residual risk analysis
• Monitoring & Review

We require support for Social and Environmental Risk Management

An appropriately designed volunteering programme can help businesses engage with social initiatives in a meaningful manner, thereby improving staff motivation and organizational branding. CSO Partners supports corporations through the process of employee volunteering in the following ways:

•  Developing a volunteering policy
•  Facilitating the design of an employee engagement/volunteering programme according to the need, capacity, interest, location, time availability, etc.
•  Orienting volunteers
•  Facilitating partnering and placement with NGOs
•  Setting up a volunteering management system

We require support for employee volunteering

Payroll giving is a great way to show commitment to causes your employees care about. It can help build better employee relations and attract the right people to come and work for you. By giving a small amount from their salary every month to a cause of their choice, your employees can contribute to the social sector in a significant way. CSO Partners can set up a payroll giving facility whereby your employees would be able to: 

• Donate to a cause of their choice
• Contribute to any of over 200 credible NGOs
• Receive a note on the impact of their donation

We require support for payroll giving

Appraising funding opportunities is a specialized task requiring considerable exposure to NGOs, their needs, systems and processes, and the communities they serve. CSO Partners can help your organization identify and support suitable NGOs/projects by: 

• Conducting pre-funding appraisal/ financial reviews of NGOs
• Financial monitoring and evaluation of projects
• Designing effective and efficient financial systems for the project/organization you would like to support

We require support for conducting a funding appraisal

CSO Partners has collaborated with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and AidMatrix to develop the Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN). CDRN is a web-based supply chain management system that enables relief agencies, first responders and local governments to highlight their immediate resource needs and access response offers from potential product suppliers, donors and volunteers in real-time. Through this platform your organization could respond swiftly during disasters in the following ways:

• Provide gifts or financial donations
• Provide your products/service at discounted pricing
• Build cross sector partnerships
• Track donations with transparency
• Encourage employee giving and volunteering 

We require support for responding to disasters

CSO Partners can support you in procuring products in a manner that is beneficial for you as well as the under-served sections of the nation. We can facilitate the following activities: 

• Sourcing products and skills from the communities through local NGOs, self help groups and other producer groups
• Connecting potential buyers with suppliers of specific products

We require support in responsible product sourcing services.

Due to limited vocational training options and lack of unbiased information, rural youth are often unable to choose the best available courses that can assure them entry into the private sector. CSO Partners seeks to facilitate access to information and resources to both the youth and corporates looking to source employees, through a "source-train-deploy" model. Compared to the conventional "hire and train" model, it would yield cost savings for employers while empowering youth to benefit from training, counseling and job placement services. CSO Partners can facilitate development of customized training modules and delivery mechanisms so that selected youth are fully equipped to handle their roles and responsibilities from the first day of employment.

We require support in responsible skill sourcing.

CSO Partners facilitates CSOs’ access to top notch senior professionals - all experts in their specialized areas – through NGO Advisory Panels. These professionals hail from diverse professional backgrounds, and through sustained interaction and engagement with CSOs, bolster their effectiveness. The advisory panel proposes solutions, strategies and operational guidelines for effective functioning and institution building of NGOs.

CSO Partners provides the following services to senior professionals who engage with the NGO Advisory Panel:

• Opportunity to move beyond charity and engage in a positive social development process
• Channelize core competency to strengthen and add value to the work of an NGO
• Sensitization of expert individuals on social development
• Nation – wide linkage of citizens’ groups in order to facilitate a wider impact

We are interested in being part of the NGO Advisory Panel