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Advisors : Empowering Global Growth with AI and Solutions for Businesses in 7 Nations

Our advisors at Amplo Global are industry experts with extensive experience and a deep understanding of global markets. They provide invaluable strategic guidance, offering insights and solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs. With their expertise, we empower organizations to navigate complex challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve sustainable growth in today’s dynamic business landscape.

we empower organizations to navigate complex challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve sustainable growth in today’s dynamic business landscape.

Pooja Soni

Advisor

Pooja Soni is the head of Strategic Services and Solutions at Amplo Global Inc. She has two decades of hands-on experience developing solutions in a broad range of business areas, executing complex projects, and delivering engagements that impact the bottom-line. She is passionate about increasing value by driving change, improving operational efficiency, and delivering 4.0 solutions. Focused on the impact of predictive analytics, cognitive automation, and AI-fueled digital transformation, Pooja is an influential thought leader.

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Ashok Pamidi

Advisor

Ashok is a purpose-driven and visionary leader. He led NASSCOM Foundation by aligning, scaling, sustaining initiatives that propelled the industry in achieving its goals of social transformation and impact through technology. At NASSCOM, over 5 years, he has donned multiple hats at leadership level. As a 30-year IT industry veteran, Ashok has worked with IBM as a Geo Expansion Leader and HP/Compaq/Digital as a transformational leader.

Industry Specialization: He has expertise in IT, Software and Services.

Functional Expertise: Diversity and Inclusion and Social Development. Government relationships, partnerships, policy and advocacy are his forte.

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Bata Senapati

Advisor

Bata is an experienced Supply Chain Technology professional with a 30-year track record of effective leadership in Developing & Executing Technology strategy; digital supply chain transformation; setting up and driving modern technology innovation center of competency using IoT/AI/ML; delivering technology solutions including Portfolio and Program management, Application architecture, development, and production operation; management consulting, business relationship management, vendor relationship management, and people leadership.

Bata currently is the Vice President, Supply Chain Technology at HAVI, a leading logistics, distribution, and supply chain company where his focus has been targeted supply chain technology transformation in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Order Management, Warehouse & Transportation Management, Supply Chain Planning, and Customer Relationship Management. In the past, while working for KPMG and Tata Consultancy Services, Bata has led several business process and technology transformation initiatives at several global brands from a diverse group of industry domains.

Bata is Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) by Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) formerly known as APICS.

Industry Specialization:

Logistics and Distribution, Quick Serve Restaurants (QSR), Electronics and Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Energy, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Media & Entertainment, Airlines, Medical Service, and Retail Banking

Functional Expertise:

Supply Chain Management, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Plan to Make, WMS, TMS, and CRM, Data Management, Data Management, and data architecture, BI/KPI etc.

Cyra Richardson

Advisor

With rich experience of more than 20 years in the IT industry, Cyra Richardson has played multiple roles as a technical entrepreneurial leader (General Manager, Engineering Director etc.) in start ups and in large organizations. She has expertise in the consumer designing and executive coaching. 

She had helped Microsoft to achieve top level business improvement (worth 13.5 point NSAT) and also empowered some well known e-commerce organizations to generate $312 Million revenue growth. She is an effective leader and delivered impactful solutions to the market for the large organizations & for the start ups as well.

Industry Specialization: E-commerce, IT, AI, Robotics & SaaS

Functional Expertise: Industry 4.0 Technologies, IoT, ML, AI, Simulation, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, Cloud, HW, Edge, Program Management, Business Development and Technical Leadership

David Bradford

Advisor

David Bradford has 40 years of experience in the computer industry. He has previously served as CEO and Chairman of 2 remarkable companies – Fusion-io and HireVue. Fusion-io eventually achieved a $3.6 Billion valuation.

 At HireVue, he increased sales by over 200%, the Company raised over $ 47 Million in capital, and was twice recognized as the HR product of the Year. With 30,000 connections on LinkedIn and 5000 on Facebook, David is known as the “Human Internet”. 

In 2014, he authored the highly popular book- “Up Your Game- 6 Timeless Principles for Networking Your Way to the Top” and launched www.fundinguniverse.com, a highly successful Web-based company that matches Entrepreneurs with Angel Investors.

Mr. Bradford has significant experience in the Venture Capital markets. He is an advisor to several organizations and funds. He was on the original Advisory Board of Omniture (now part of Adobe) and as the Chairman on the board of the Audit Committee for Pervasive Software, (now part of Actian).

Mr. Bradford has a Law Degree from Brigham Young University, a Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University Today, David Bradford is the CEO of FluentWorlds which is revolutionizing Language training in 3D VirtualWorlds.

Industry Specialization: Computer Software, Venture Capitalism, Law, Government Relations, Business Development Security, Finance

Functional Expertise: Talent Acquisition, Venture Capital Funding, Private Equity, Digital Interviewing, Networking

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Greg Plum

Advisor

Greg has been recognized as an industry expert in the collaboration and unified communications space, having co-authored the book Getting Started with Skype for Business Online, and channel development having built partner programs from scratch for multiple SaaS providers. 

He has lobbied on Capitol Hill in support of the IT industry and is a 3x TEDx speaker. Greg also currently serves as the chair of CompTIA’s Emerging Technology Community, chair of Technology Forum of Delaware, and mentor for the University of Delaware’s Executive Mentor Program.

Industry Specialization: Technology, Software and Solutions

Functional Expertise: Strategizing GTM plans for SaaS founders and CROs. Partnerships, strategic alliances, and marketplaces.

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Paul Frangoulis

Advisor

Paul has spent over 30 years consulting to Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries and functions. In his latest role as a Partner with IBM Consulting, he dialed in on the Industrial sector, leading the creation of the Data and Analytics and AI practice. 

 Paul most recently has shifted his focus and expertise to the Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) space and has already delivered tangible solutions specifically in the Medical device sub-sector. Paul is a servant leader with a unique ability to connect with executives and delivery teams.

Industry Specialization: Consulting, IT, Software and Solutions

Functional Expertise: Sustainability Executive and Evangelist – Circularity, Supply Chain Resilience, ESG

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Pratip Raychaudhuri

Advisor

Pratip is an experienced professional with IBM’s Analytics/ Informatics and has strong experience in architecting and implementing enterprise-wide master data management Solutions in various industries bringing business management, technology, and leadership competencies together. 

Pratip specializes in defining and spearheading complex data management implementation/strategy initiatives that are critical to the business. He is a seasoned Solution Architect possessing many years of architecture strategy and IT strategy experience across a wide range of organizations.

An accomplished Consulting Executive, Pratip has delivered innovative business and technology solutions that have enabled leading organizations to exceed targeted financial and operational objectives. During his career, he has developed mission-critical data migration /master data management strategies by analyzing the distribution of data across systems. 

Pratip brings with him business management, technology, and leadership competencies that enable him to effectively manage complex project structures and deliver multicultural global projects. He has provided thought leadership to business owners,resulting in significantly reduced developmental cost and complexity of building applications.

Industry Specialization: Strategy Consulting, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Insurance

Functional Expertise: Complex Program Management, Lean Process Improvement, Organization transformation, Modernization of Technology Platforms, Master Data Management, Data Integration, Data Migration, Data Quality, DataOps

Shilpa Singh

Advisory – Design

Shilpa started her journey into UX Design & Strategy 15 + years ago. She has built & led User Experience competencies and worked with Organization to identify unmet user needs, build personas & customer journey maps, service design and help them inform there UX/Product/Customer /Innovation Strategies. 

She also drives usability studies to evaluate existing Product/Service thus helping business to transform & adopt to changing User needs. Shilpa has Master in Degree from IIT Bombay. She is also certified Design Thinker from MIT.

Som Chakraborti

Advisor

Som Chakraborti has joined Amplo Global as an Advisor to the Board. Som brings a range of commercial and operational leadership experiences in smart manufacturing, IoT, and industrial software, most recently from Schneider Electric, where he was the Senior Director for Industrial Automation and Software in the US.

Som’s experiences include Head of Digital Solutions for the Completion & Production Division at Halliburton. Vice President, Material Handling Group at Rexnord Industries, an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), where he re-structured the aftermarket services business with digital/Internet of Things (IoT). 

Prior to Rexnord, Som served as the President of Dover Corporation’s Energy Automation Group, where he launched the ‘Connected Well-site’ platform for the oilfield in North America. Before Dover, Som spent 18 years with Rockwell Automation and ABB in sales, service, and P&L roles, including General Manager of Rockwell Automation’s process control business and Director of Systems & Solutions for ABB North America.

Som has an MBA from The Ohio State University, an MS in electrical engineering from West Virginia University, and a BS in electrical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India.

Suranjan Pramanik

Advisor

Suranjan is an accomplished catalyst for change with demonstrated expertise in stimulating profitable growth. He creates value by advocating new business models, revitalizing strategic customer relationships, and deploying transformational technologies like AI, Cloud Computing, IoT for business growth and market differentiation. 

He has kickstarted successful new product organizations like RFID enabled supply chains and Value focused As a Service business model, transformed underperforming businesses, advised and partnered with customer executives to enable business objectives, and instituted customer-focused sales and operations organizations. 

Suranjan has delivered value for clients in various industries like Chemicals, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Mining and Metals, Software Products and Transportation Services across Digital Transformation, Engineering, Finance, HR, Procurement, IT & Infrastructure Services, Supply Chain, and Customer Experience Management.

Tim O’Donnell

Advisor

Tim has more than 25 years of professional services and technology enabled business transformation expertise working with some of the world’s leading consulting firms. Tim has led revenue generation teams from $150M to $900M. He spent several years as the head of cloud sales for Dell Technologies/Virtustream, NTT Data, and HCL/Axon. Prior he spent nearly 10 years at Capgemini.
In addition to driving sustainable organizational change, he led efforts to introduce technology innovation in public and private cloud, enterprise resource planning, big data/analytics, supply chain, human capital, financial management and outsourcing. Tom has a MBA (finance) from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.

Industry Specialization: Technology, Consumer Products, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Life Sciences

Functional Expertise: Business and Digital Transformation, Sales Leadership and Account Management

Tony Jackson

Advisor

Tony Jackson is a well experienced administrator and reputed leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Hospital & Healthcare industry. He has the unique ability & versatile skills in Business Development, Operational Management and Physician Relation Handling. He has been involved in Leadership Development and Healthcare Management also.

Industry Specialization: Healthcare & Hospital

Functional Expertise: Operational Management, Leadership Development, Healthcare Management, Business Development and Physician Relationship

Vinay Gidwani

Advisor

Vinay is an accomplished strategy and business development professional with experience in the communications and software industries. He is a strategic thinker with success in developing new monetization, business and operating models as well as experience with identifying new organic and inorganic growth opportunities. He has a strong ability to both formulate strategy and drive execution in large, global, matrixed organizations.

Industry Specialization: He has expertise in Enterprise Software, Cloud, SaaS, IoT, Analytics, and Data Science.

Functional Expertise: Mr Gidwani has a BS from the University of Bombay, a MS from Mississippi State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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William Haines

Advisor

Bill has spent 35 years designing, building, deploying, and managing technology for a variety of industries, including process manufacturing, office machine sales and distribution, retail, discrete manufacturing, and more. For the last 10 years, Bill was the Supply Chain CIO for a vertically integrated global retail brand. Bill has a particular passion for Industry 4.0 technologies and its benefits for global manufacturers.

Industry Specialization: Discrete Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution, Marketing

Functional Expertise: Industry 4.0 Technologies: Process Automation, Additive Manufacturing, Data & Analytics, IoT, IT/OT Integration; MRP, Integrated Planning, and Diamond Cutting & Polishing

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Equations

Equations is an organization based out of Bangalore which works on promoting equitable tourism and protection of the community and the environment. It envisions a just and equitable world, where all people have the freedom and the right to determine their lives and future. Equations is keen on developing an app/ AI-based solution to create a database of the assets of the families living in disaster-prone areas in the states the organization. The database will be prepared to supplement and guide the government data for compensation estimate of those families, post-disaster, to prevent subsequent spiraling poverty.


Since Amplo Global has its proficiency in providing AI-based solutions, it will be a perfect platform to reduce strategy development time and decision-making errors and increase capacity, enable sustainable operations. Amplo Global’s platform will be helping Equations to create a survey tool in the source area to understand the impact of climate change & migration on tourism. It will be a guided synthesis tool for tracking and maintaining these records.

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Our Offerings

ECOSYSTEM BUILDING- Amplo Global aims at connecting the donors, foundations and the beneficiaries. The funds are collected from the donors which in turn gets received by the foundations. Amplo Global joins hands with these foundations to help and provide support to the beneficiaries in order to have sustainability in their life.

HELPING STARTUPS- Our purpose is to mentor, provide guidance and give back-office support to the newly built companies. Amplo Global is happy to take the responsibility of tutoring, guiding, advising and also imparting all kinds of support from the back office to the emerging companies.

FIELD SERVICES- Amplo Global dedicatedly works on the implementation, monitoring and report writing of the projects. As a non-profit organization, Amplo Global CSR Team personally visits the field to write reports of the projects, dedicatedly working on the implementation of the projects and as well as monitoring the progress.

KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT- It is our responsibility to gather knowledge, to code and to curate data collected from the projects. After the implementation of the projects, Amplo Global takes the initiative to code, and curates the data that they gather from the projects and finally gives feedback to the foundations so that the beneficiaries have a blissful life and that the sustainable development goal is being achieved.

CONSULTANCY- Amplo Global plans to work as a consultant to other emerging corporate companies and guide them on how to utilize CSR funds. AG has an objective to mentor, support and help these new companies with the sustainable development goal in near future.

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Tinku Khanna 

Advisory

Having done her studies in Sociology and Women’s Studies, Tinku has worked to end sex trafficking among caste-communities trapped into inter-generational prostitution in Bihar, Delhi and Kolkata for last 20 years. She has played a key role in passage of landmark judgment in trafficking in Patna High Court. She has also played a very important part in upgrading 542 residential schools for under privileged girls to class 12 in Bihar. She has also been a part of the prestigious ILVP of US government. As a member of Amplo Global CSR team, Tinku holds the key advisory position. With her immense experience and knowledge, she is into the role of advising, mentoring and guiding the entire corporate sustainability program of Amplo Global.

 

 

Sudakshina Addy 

Executive Director

After completing her post-graduation in Political Science, Sudakshina has initially been associated with various reputed colleges and universities as a part-time lecturer. She has an experience of almost 12 years in the field of marketing and management of events, both social and corporate. As a member of the Amplo Global CSR team, she acts as the program manager cum coordinator and has been assigned the responsibility of planning, implementation, execution, monitoring and supervision of any program of Amplo Global CSR wing.

 

 

 

 

Srovonti Basu Bandyopadhyay

Business Development Director

Having worked in the fields of social work, journalism and performance arts, Srovonti decided to use all her professional experiences and resources in the Development Sector. She mainly intends to implement her creative ideas to spread awareness about women’s rights and mobilize them in every possible way.  With the intention of giving something back to the community, she has joined the Amplo Global CSR team. She has taken the responsibility of managing the entire branding and networking of AG CSR, along with maintaining the liaison with both the corporate and social sectors.

 

 

 

Advisors 

 

Partha Pratim Roy – Fulbright distinguished teaching fellow; experienced in development of discovery learning pedagogy and environment in secondary/post-secondary education industry; skilled in non-profit organizations, e-learning, Physics, Data Analysis and Science; strong community and social services professional with a M.Sc. in Physics and M.A. in Educational/Instructional Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saheli Pal – Saheli has spent twenty years in Information Technology, implementing end to end solutions as a business analyst. She left her job to join the ‘Teach for India’ fellowship program, opting for a third year. The experience triggered her the passion for education. She believes that community empowerment is the way to bridge the resource gap haunting our educational institutions and can be leveraged to make learning relatable, relevant and holistic.

 

 

 

Suchandra Goswami – Suchandra Goswami has 16 plus years of professional experience in Life Sciences, Insurance and Government agencies. With a strong engineering background as well as pivoting to complete her CPA in the middle of her career, she brings both strong analytical as well design experience to her professional career. She is very passionate about corporate sustainability. She joins Amplo Global advisory for Corporate Social Responsibility by supporting Samabedan for empowerment and alternate livelihood of vulnerable women in West Bengal region. She brings strong background in working with grassroot organizations as well as foundations to manage funds, and advising in product based micro-economics.

Samabedan

Samabedan Trust Founded in 2019 and registered in 2020 under Society Registration Act with the mission to fight against social inequities. The organization aims at improving the living standards of people living in slums and marginalized areas of Kolkata through entrepreneurship programs, vocational training, technical skills training and financial management support. They have started its journey through initiating an income generation program for the women and youth of few areas in Kolkata, West Bengal. The overall objective of this project is to create an enabling environment for the people living in the communities of Kolkata so that they can be self – dependent and self – reliant, thus making them self-employed in the long-run through inculcating entrepreneurial skill.


AGI has initiated partnership with Samabedan Trust to establish a mutually beneficial collaboration. AG’s role in this arrangement is to strengthen its organizational growth path with technical support and thus ensure holistic development of the marginalized community. This includes help them to work on vision-mission statement for strategic management and guide them with proper resource mobilization and implementation plan.

Journey so far

Our Story

Amplo Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing started its journey with the purpose of helping communities for transformation through a holistic approach. The focus is to create an eco-system leading to a self-sustainable value chain. Amplo Global’s social entrepreneurial mindshare along with various social impact start-ups are making a mark towards a better planet to live in.

Our first initiative has been shaking hands with Ahana, the first ray of the sun, a non-profit organization of Kolkata, West Bengal. We have been associating with Ahana from its inception, mentoring and guiding it, assisting to collaborate with various government and non-governmental organizations to conduct different programs related to empowerment and revival of traditional forms of art which are losing their relevance in this fast-growing world.

Amplo Global CSR & Ahana together took an initiative in Surulia village of Purulia district in West Bengal, to rejuvenate the traditional form of the art of making artefacts from molten zinc or brass or copper. We organized workshops where women artisans of Malohar community were given training for learning this art. Moreover, we also took necessary actions for official documentation of these till date unidentified group, so that they get the minimum government benefits allotted for them.

Knowledge development and enablement towards sustainability has been a key goal for AG CSR. To achieve this, AG CSR has planned to take up various projects. One such is conducting a workshop on ‘Gender equality gender justice: the rightful way towards sustainable social development’ with the students of Berhampore Girls’ College at Murshidabad. A one-day workshop has been organized with almost 300 students where a holistic vision on gender, sex and sexuality has been imparted to them. Along with that, they were given knowledge on relevant legal as well as social rights prevalent for them and also against cyber bullying and stalking. They were made aware of the rights available for them which will help them to develop social sustainability to deal in future.

Another knowledge building program has been taken up by AG CSR team in collaboration with a Kolkata-based non-government organization, Kolkata Sanved, working in the field with the survivors for almost twenty years, using Dance Movement therapy for psycho-social rehabilitation and social transformation. Kolkata Sanved wants to prepare a digital archive, consisting of the huge data of their functioning for last two decades, that will be a source of information and knowledge for any individual/organization who wants to work in this field in future. Amplo Global CSR team is supporting KS to curate and host digital archive representing Kolkata Sanved’s works and achievements since its inception.

Empowerment of women and children from the marginalized community and enabling them towards sustainability has always been the major goal of Amplo Global CSR wing. In order to achieve this, AG CSR team has been meandering its path through different projects. The collaboration with organizations like Dishari and Samabedan has been done with this target in mind. Though at the initial stage, AG CSR team is working with these two organizations to strengthen its structure with technical support. This includes helping them to finalize vision-mission statements for strategic management, developing proposals for mobilizing resources and guide them with proper implementation plan.

Along with empowerment of women, AG CSR also works towards the revival and preservation of traditional form of art. A very comprehensive program has been taken up by AG CSR team in association with Ahana and INTACH and with full-fledged support and cooperation of HSWS in the Kalimpong district of West Bengal. Workshops have been arranged in which women of the hills, having knowledge and skill of weaving in traditional handlooms. They were given training on new techniques and methods by professional designer cum trainer, whereby they were taught how to improve their skill and make more variety of products which have huge demand in the market. The aim is to showcase the right path in front of these women which will help them to reach the goal of sustainable livelihood in future.

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PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER JUSTICE AT BERHAMPORE GIRLS’ COLLEGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGI has joined hands with Berhampore Girls’ College to establish a mutually beneficial community collaboration. AG’s role in this arrangement is to train and build capacity of students of the college in the field of gender rights, awareness and legal information related to gender issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amplo Global CSR Team has taken a step forward to make 300 attendees in the workshop aware of the concepts of gender, sex and sexuality at Berhampore Girls’ College. An open conversation was made on local issues in the society by the CSR Team of Amplo Global INC. The students in BGC were given a relevant topic to debate. They were also encouraged to write a screenplay on the present-day problems of our society. The CSR Team has taken an initiative to tutor the students about cyber-bullying and stalking. In this way the Amplo Global CSR Team has chosen a rightful path towards sustainable social development so that our future generations can lead a safe and blissful life.

Kolkata Sanved

Kolkata Sanved, an organization that uses Dance Movement therapy for psycho-social rehabilitation and social transformation. Founded in 2004, Kolkata Sanved, a women-led organization works towards psycho-social rehabilitation of survivors of marginalization and gender-based violence, prevention of violence and poor mental health and promotion of mental wellbeing through the medium of DMT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amplo Global CSR team has already started their program with Kolkata Sanved of creating the digital archive for the latter. AG CSR team is helping the organization in envisioning the milestones of its journey in terms of creating a representative digital documentation, creating system of data collection, collation of the data through meta-data sheet, designing and curating user-friendly digital archive and to train the Kolkata Sanved team in maintaining and updating the archive for future.

Empowering the underprivileged of Sundarbans

PROVIDING THE SCOPE FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, EMPOWERMENT OF LOCAL TEACHERS AND GIVING POST-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO THE CHILDREN OF HINGALGANJ IN NORTH 24 PARGANAS

Amplo Global CSR Team, with the initiative, support and partnership of Dishari Welfare Society, came out in the open to help the villagers in North 24 parganas of West Bengal, with special focus on their education and employment opportunities in order to bring about a complete community development. Amplo Global has promised to give full support to Dishari foundation by conducting an in depth visioning exercise, conceptualizing a road map, developing proposals, designing implementation strategies and training the Dishari team for effective implementation of the plan. Dishari with the help of Amplo Global CSR Team are trying their level best to impart post school tuition support to the children, create a base and scope for experiential learning so that the students get ample opportunity for employment in future. Not only children but the CSR Team is also making endeavors for the education and empowerment of the teachers so that they become aware of the practical ways and methods of teaching these village kids. Efforts have been made to build a trust factor between the teachers and the parents so that both can influence the kids to become educated through experiential learning so that they can lead a sustainable life in near future.

Empowering the women of slums of Kolkata

STRIVING TO PROVIDE A BETTER LIVING FOR SLUM DWELLERS IN KOLKATA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The CSR Team of Amplo Global joined hands with Samabedan Trust of Kolkata to improve the living standards of slum dwellers in Kolkata through technical skill training, vocational training and financial management support. Amplo Global has promised to take care of these people by conducting an in-depth visioning exercise, executing a resource mobilization plan, conceptualizing a road map and designing an implementation strategy. All these efforts have been made in order to enable an environment of people living in the slum area to have a self-dependent, self-reliant and self-employed life to ensure sustainability in years to come.

Revival of traditional art

In a growing technology-run and industrialized world, people are increasingly forgetting the traditional crafts and moving towards new innovation. Due to this, artisans are moving to alternative income generation methods, for instance — daily wage labour and farming; and art is losing its grip. Preserving and protecting the skills and knowledge of traditional crafts is a growing challenge.

Amplo Global CSR team has taken this vow to take necessary initiatives to protect this cause of revival and conservation of traditional form of art and also the artisans, who are compelled to look for alternative livelihood options due to lack of the knowledge of marketability and demand of the products they create.

Kalimpong

TRAINING THE WOMEN OF HILLY REGION TO BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT

Earning a livelihood has always been difficult in the hilly regions. Women in the rural areas of the hilly regions in Kalimpong do not get proper opportunities and as a result find it hard to become financially independent. Amplo Global CSR in collaboration with Ahana Foundations and INTACH and with the initiative and support of Hill Social Welfare Society (HSWS) have taken up the program for intervention with marginalized and vulnerable women from the hill tribes of Darjeeling district in the northern part of West Bengal, with the purpose: –

 

 

 

  • To empower and collectivize the women living in the Lopchu and Peshok tea gardens of Rangli-Rangliot district of Darjeeling through SHGs
  • To train these women into weaving dresses, shawls, stoles using the dying local traditional weaving techniques using traditional motifs.
  • To help them with design inputs so that the products can find a larger market outside the local niche market.
  • To connect the local community of artisans to the online marketing platforms and various state emporiums like Biswa Bangla or artisan’s forum like Dastkaar etc.
  • To establish self- sustaining alternative livelihoods for poor women so that they are capable of coming out of rural poverty as well as the familial control and live a life with dignity.

 

 

 

They have already conducted workshops in two phases where professional trainer has been appointed to give training inputs and guidance to these women artisans to nurture and enhance their already existing weaving skill and develop expertise so that they can manufacture better quality products which have got high market demand.

At present, the AG CSR team is trying to organize for more such workshops so that increased number of women can be benefitted from the program.

 

 

 

         

Purulia

COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE IDENTITY TO THE WOMEN ARTISANS OF MALOHAR COMMUNITY IN PURULIA, WEST BENGAL

Malohar or Malakar is a caste-community that can be found in several blocks in Purulia, who are very less in number and scattered all across the district. Malohars has the long-cherished tradition of making artefacts for daily use as well as artistic production out of molten zinc or brass or copper. The artefacts they produce include ‘Sher-pai” (a measuring cup), Diyas or lamps, bells for the domestic animals etc. However, the practice currently is on wane as there is no demand except occasionally. The women, though know the art of making them, don’t practice as they are not aware of what to do with this skill.

 

The Malohars are extremely poor with little or no citizenship documents although they are residing in the villages where we found them (in Bonbohal in Purulia 1 block or Raghunathpur in Manbazar 2) since quite a long time. That is why they do not receive any benefits from government programs. 

 

Amplo CSR Team and Ahana have joined hands together to help in the empowerment of women artisans of Malohar community in Surulia village of Purulia district, West Bengal, who are struggling to get a dignified livelihood. In order to preserve the heritage of these lost artforms, our CSR team and Ahana are working diligently towards mentoring these families through the following actions:

 

  • Resource identification and analysis to conduct training workshops for the artisans.
  • Creating opportunities for group empowerment and personal leadership.
  • Providing financial literacy education for women with special emphasis on developing bank linkages.
  • Providing skill training that reflects job market realities. Link with the private sector for placement assistance. Partner with product development and marketing agencies to ensure sustainability of livelihood programs.
  • Encouraging women to work cooperatively in the development of sustainable micro enterprises that will be viable in the current market.

Initiatives have also been taken on their behalf to get their official identification done which will enable them access their documents and government benefits that come with it. It will also ensure their children to get educational and nutritional aids in schools.

Ahana

Ahana is an Indian, voluntary, not for profit organization. Ahana, literally meaning the first ray of the Sun, is dedicated towards uplift, welfare and empowerment of women and girls living in harmful and precarious situations. Women who have been subjected to either torture or discrimination can’t utilize the proper resources they have, for their own growth. Ahana is dedicated towards enabling those women and girls by creating a conducive ecosystem where they can realize their potential to the fullest. Ahana envisions a world free of discrimination and violence against women and girls where every woman and girl will get equal opportunity to thrive in society as an equal human being.


Amplo Global CSR team has initiated partnership with Ahana to establish a mutually beneficial community collaboration. AG’s role in this arrangement is to mentor, train and build capacity of Ahana in successful execution of welfare projects. Further, AG will also provide technical, financial and human resources towards development of Ahana’s programs.

 

AG CSR team has been associated with Ahana since its inception, helping it to grow at every step, guiding and mentoring it in planning, implementation and execution. AG CSR team has already started their journey with Ahana by helping in multiple projects, starting from revival of traditional form of art in Purulia and Kalimpong, to empowerment of women in Kalimpong, and so on.

INTACH

Headquartered in New Delhi, the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) was founded in 1984 with the vision to lead heritage awareness and conservation in India. Over last 31 years, INTACH is performing its task of preservation of traditional art and culture of India across the country through over 170 chapters. One of the important missions of INTACH is to provide expertise in the field of conservation, restoration and preservation of specific works of art, and encourage capacity-building by developing skills through training programs, initiate collaborations and generate sponsorships for conservation and educational projects.


Amplo Global CSR team got associated with INTACH as the missions of both are aligned with each other. AG CSR aims not only to preserve the traditional form of different arts, but also thrives to revive and develop it to make it sustainable in the long run. AG CSR has already collaborated with INTACH to conduct few projects to meet this target.

Kolkata Sanved

Founded in 2004, Kolkata Sanved, a women-led organization works towards psycho-social rehabilitation of survivors of marginalization and gender-based violence, prevention of violence and poor mental health and promotion of mental wellbeing through the medium of Dance Movement Therapy. The organization works across South Asia in partnership with community-based organizations, civil society networks, rights groups and government institutions. Kolkata Sanved conducts DMT sessions in shelter homes, hospitals, govt. institutions, schools, etc. The organization has implemented their program in collaboration with local organizations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Jordan and Thailand.


AGI has initiated partnership with Kolkata Sanved to establish a mutually beneficial community collaboration. AG’s role in this arrangement is to curate and host digital archive representing Kolkata Sanved’s works and achievements since its inception

Dishari

Dishari Welfare Society Founded in 2020 and registered in 2020-21 under Society Registration Act, works for and with the villagers with special focus on Education, Health and Income Generation by addressing school drop-out rates, increasing access to health facilities and creating employment opportunities, thus laying a ground for overall community development. The organization has implemented their program in collaboration with several local organizations in different districts of North 24 Parganas.


AGI has initiated partnership with Dishari Welfare Society to establish a mutually beneficial collaboration. AG’s role in this arrangement is to strengthen its structure with technical support. This includes helping them to finalize vision-mission statements for strategic management, developing proposals for mobilizing resources and guide them with proper implementation plan.

Our Aspirations

Our Vision – Amplo Global has made a commitment to amplify social impact using technological solutions.
Our Mission – The objective of the Amplo Global CSR Team is to build an ecosystem between the donors, foundations, beneficiaries and the corporate community.

Our Goal – Our purpose is to use our business as a force for good, and building a safer and sustainable world for all. Amplo Global puts an emphasis on the concepts of women empowerment, imparting education to lead a sustainable life and the revival of the long-lost traditions of local handicrafts.

Our value proposition is creating a sustainable development model at the very grassroot level through problem solutions that can be repeatable, customizable and scalable.

Green Sourcing

  • Develop framework and templates in AI/ML platform to meet green sourcing.
  • Assess the opportunities in green sourcing.
  • Devise Sustainability communication to build an ecosystem for green sourcing.
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Benchmarking

  • Defines capabilities with data-driven, AI -led Peer Benchmarking.
  • Transform business while managing financial risk and opportunities.
  • Develop persona-based KPIs and a roadmap to achieve ESG goals.
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Green Supply Chain and Manufacturing

  • Optimize container features to minimize GHG emission in logistics.
  • Achieve end-to-end visibility assessment to meet sustainability targets.
  • AI-led supply chain simulation.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • Achieve DEI goals of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across employee and supplier value chain.
  • Create a DEI strategy for employers to develop best practices and track their progress.
  • Monitor DEI sustainability.
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Green Infrastructure

  • Address ecological crisis to meet ESG goals of Green building.
  • Manage financial risk in transitioning to green infrastructure.
  • Strategize to adhere to LEED certification.
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Green IT and Data

  • Address Climate crisis to meet ESG goals of Green IT and Data.
  • Mitigate economic risk to be LEED certified.
  • Manage Data as the new asset for ESG.
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Decarbonization

  • Strategize pathways for Net Zero with our GHG protocol-led Scope 1, 2, 3 CO2e emission inventory tool.
  • Measure current carbon emission and simulate a low carbon roadmap.
  • Make smarter carbon investment decisions.
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Circularity

  • Develop roadmaps to transform material value chain, advance circular models and minimize waste.
  • Optimize resource utilization in automotive battery circularity.
  • Simulate social risk and strategize to achieve social sustainability in the battery supply chain.
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Materiality and Maturity Assessment

  • Layer your organization’s capability maturity to every material topic supported with algorithmic integrated scores, attributes, ranking and heatmap.
  • Choose from preloaded global frameworks.
  • Collaborate with a spectrum of stakeholders to iterate and finalize.
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