The challenges our communities face are complex and have persisted for generations. Early on in our work, we recognized that they are too great for a single person or organization to solve on their own. Finding and implementing long term solutions to these complex social issues requires a collective effort and UWM at its core, plays the role of galvanizing all key stakeholders in a structured way. We drive social change. And we bind together the different stakeholders needed to create it. By working collaboratively with stakeholders that include, corporate partners, NGO partners, government institutions and individuals we are able to mobilize meaningful action, and advocate for lasting social change. This is our collective impact model. It requires everyone, including you with your set of expertise and resources to contribute to its success. Our corporate partners play a crucial role in the work that we do, allowing us to create large scale, sustainable impact in our communities. As Philanthropy Partner, United Way Mumbai works closely with companies on designing their CSR strategy, identifying high impact projects and co-creating new initiatives to create shared value.
As a philanthropy partner we work with your teams to design and execute CSR strategies that fulfill the needs of our communities while leveraging the resources and expertise at your company. We make sure that the philanthropy strategy that we create with you, aligns with your areas of focus and creates sustainable impact in our communities. Our 22+ years of experience, spent researching, designing and implementing various community development projects has given us insights into new and successful models being implemented across the country. In addition, we are able to leverage learnings from best practices around the world through the United Way global network All of this enables us to ensure that we are able to make the best use of the resources available to us, creating deep impact in our communities.
We work in urban and rural communities across the country to identify and drive solutions to the most challenging community problems. With the support of our corporate partners, we design and implement programmes along 5 key thematic areas through our own in-house teams –Education, Health, Income, Environment, Public Safety.The projects have evidence based strategies, are executed in collaboration with government and civic bodies and monitored rigorously.
In addition to our self-implemented projects, we work with a network of 500+ NGO partners. We enable support for this network of partners driving change on ground through corporate grants.United Way Mumbai assists corporate partners in managing grants for a number of NGOs and projects. Our grant portfolio is led by a team of development sector experts who have oversight of best practices in the sector, as well as on-ground experience in implementation. We work with our NGO partners to create detailed implementation plans, develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks, build capacities of staff and adapt project strategies when required. And we collaborate with corporate partners to ensure thorough due diligence of NGOs, undertake regular monitoring, facilitate timely disbursements, undertake financial reviews and provide regular reporting.
United Way is the global pioneer in workplace campaigns - including employee giving and volunteering. Globally, we work on 126,000+ workplace campaigns and partner with 70,000+companies including more than 280 Fortune 500 companies. Both payroll giving and employee volunteers are ways for citizens to give back and support those in need. We collaborate with companies for volunteering opportunities, structured year-long payroll giving programmes, as well as campaign-based giving for disaster response or other needs. Through payroll giving programmes, individual employees are able to contribute to causes of their choice through highly customized campaigns. Their contributions, when pooled together, act as a catalyst for significant change in our communities. The employees, in turn, receive tax benefits for their contributions and are assured of the credibility of projects selected. We also extend volunteering opportunities to corporate employees, creating customized volunteering calendars keeping in mind community needs, areas of interest and skills of volunteers.
We are committed to the cause of community development while abiding by the strictest codes of accountability and transparency. Our partners are assured of the highest standards of governance and compliance with all CSR regulations.
We are registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. Donations to United Way Mumbai are eligible for tax exemption under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act. We are authorized to receive foreign donations under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act.
United Way Mumbai is also registered with the Government of India's NITI Aayog (MH/2017/0155813) and has been recognized as a Credible Implementing Agency by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IA Hub Code: A000338). We are registered as a CSR Implementing Agency (CSR00000762) with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and are amongst the first NGOs to be registered on the BSE Social Stock Exchange.
To know more about how your company can make a lasting social impact, write to sanaa@unitedwaymumbai.org
