Corporate Philanthropy & Global Responsibility

For our clients, our global focus means that we have the resources to make cross-border M&A deals become reality. But our international reach also means that we are acutely aware of those people around the world who are less fortunate. That’s why BCMS Corporate launched the Poor and the Needy Benefit Trust.

In recent years we have focused our corporate philanthropy on helping the most vulnerable residents of Kakinada and Bangalore, India. Funds from our charitable trust in India have gone toward establishing a school and an orphanage as well as toward initiating sustainable farming efforts in Northern India.

Each year one of the directors from BCMS personally visits these projects to observe the impact on the ground and ensure that the projects’ funds are properly applied. Equally important, these trips allow our directors to see the real effects of our corporate philanthropy, by bringing them face-to-face with those people whose lives have changed as a result.

Orphanages in Kakinada and Bangalore

At its core, BCMS Corporate is still a family business. With our familial roots in mind, in 1999, we decided to build an orphanage in Kakinada, then another in Bangalore in 2004. Nearly seventy abandoned and orphaned children live in these facilities. Our continuing support includes funding full-time caregivers and providing for the children’s long-term educational, medical and nutritional needs.

St. Mark's Public School

Opened in 2004, St. Mark’s Public School in Kankinada educates over 300 children from needy families each year. In addition to sustaining their education, the BCMS charitable trust meets the children’s food, clothing and medical needs. Providing for these basic life necessities makes it possible for the children to stay in school and to focus on their studies.

Vocational Training in Northern India

When in 2006 Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which extends microcredit to the world’s poorest people, his award focused attention on a distinct type of aid in the developing world: small grants and vocational training that teach people to become self-employed entrepreneurs – and lift themselves out of poverty.

Inspired by the many successes that have stemmed from such endeavors, we recently launched a new training and development initiative in Northern India. This program is designed to train villagers to build their own farming businesses, so that they can rely on themselves to create a sustainable future for generations to come.