Strategy, ways to implement, choosing and checking partners, CSR-1, agreements, budgets, monitoring, foundations and collaborations.
10 guides · about 100 minutes of reading · For CSR heads, CSR teams and foundations
Guide · 10 min read
The law fixes how much a company spends on CSR and the kinds of activity that count. Everything else, from which problems to tackle to how long to stay, is strategy. Here is how to build one, with a one-page template.
Explainer · 11 min read
Rule 4 of the CSR Rules lets a company run projects itself, fund an eligible implementing agency or join other companies, and since May 2026 it can use the Social Stock Exchange too. Here is how each route works, and how to choose.
Guide · 11 min read
Before a company funds an NGO, it checks that the organisation is eligible under the CSR Rules, able to do the work and right for the project. Here is what to check, how deeply, where to confirm it and how to record the decision.
Guide · 10 min read
Since 1 April 2021, every organisation that implements CSR projects for companies must register with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on Form CSR-1. Here is who needs it, what you need first, what the revised form asks and how to file it.
Guide · 11 min read
The CSR Rules don’t prescribe a format, but several of them can only be met through a written agreement with your implementing agency. Here are the clauses to include, a tranche plan that works, the mistakes to avoid, and why a lawyer should review the final draft.
Guide · 10 min read
Rule 7(1) caps a company’s administrative overheads at 5% of its total CSR expenditure. Here is what the cap covers, how implementing agencies’ costs are treated, and how to build a budget and a tranche plan that hold up.
Guide · 9 min read
The CSR Rules make monitoring a board duty: the board must satisfy itself that money was used as approved, and the CFO must certify it. Here is how to build a monitoring plan that gives them, and your partners, what they need.
Guide · 11 min read
A company’s own foundation can implement its CSR without a three-year track record, once it has its registrations. Here is when one makes sense, which legal form to choose, how to set it up, and how money and decisions should flow.
Guide · 9 min read
Rule 4(4) lets companies work together on CSR projects, as long as each company can report its own share. Here is how co-funding, pooled funds and partnerships with government and foundations work, and how to keep them clean.
Guide · 8 min read
Companies must disclose their CSR in set places, and the rules limit how far CSR can be used for branding. Beyond that, honest communication is a choice. Here is how to tell your CSR story accurately, with dignity and without overclaiming.