Prof. Muhammed Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Founder, Grameen Bank graced the occasion as its keynote speaker
MUMBAI, India, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — SPJIMR hosted The Social Impact Awards 2022 (SIA) on November 1, 2022. Organised by the Department of Corporate Citizenship (DoCC), the awards acknowledge and have a good time the contribution of social sector organisations and enterprises to society.
With an analysis course of spanning over eight months, a complete of 250 organisations participated, from which 70 have been shortlisted, and 29 made it to the ultimate spherical. More than 45 specialists from academia, the social sector, and companies chosen the winners.
The Social Impact Awards 2022 winners throughout six classes are:
Women empowerment: Udayan Care, New Delhi
Health, diet and water (WASH): CORD, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
Sustainability: Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal, Nanded, Maharashtra
Education and talent growth: Lepra Society, Secunderabad
Disability: Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra
Agriculture and Livelihood: Sahaja Samrudha, Bangalore, Karnataka
Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Founder of Grameen Bank, Prof. Muhammad Yunus, was the keynote speaker on the award ceremony. Other class audio system included: Alpana Mallick, Teach for India; Akhil Paul, Founder Sense India International; Chetana Gala Sinha, Founder and CEO Mandesi Bank; Harish Hande, CEO, Selco Foundation; Neeraj Jain, Country Director and South Asia Director, PATH; and Siva Devireddy, Founder and Managing Director, Gocoop Solutions.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Yunus stated: “Poverty is not created by poor people. It is created by the system, so design institutions that help poverty disappear.” He urged the youth to attempt for a world of three zeros: Zero poverty, zero unemployment and nil internet carbon emissions.
Director of the Department of Corporate Citizenship (DoCC) at SPJIMR, Dr Chandrika Parmar shared the underlying perception that underpins the award and the organisational course of adopted. “SIA is anchored in the belief that management education needs to be sensitive to the social concerns that plague our society. That managers of today, to be wise leaders tomorrow, need to be both aware of societal issues and be ready to serve in locations where society most needs them. It is anchored in understanding wicked problems and looking at both existing and potential solutions for those problems,“ she stated.
About SPJIMR:
Since its inception in 1981, SPJIMR’s mission is unchanged: to ‘affect apply and promote value-based development’ of scholars, alumni, organisations and their leaders, and society at massive. SPJIMR goals to do that by Advancing Wise Innovation at scale via instructing, thought management, and trade in addition to group engagement. SPJIMR is recognised as certainly one of solely 4 administration colleges throughout 21 collaborating international locations for social impression by the Positive Impact Ratings (PIR) Association on the UN PRME Global Forum.
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