COOPERATING THROUGH YOUR BUSINESS

Business enterprises play an important role in people's lives, not only as sources of work and wealth, but as agents of community development. Thus, businesses should not only have an economic function, but a social and environmental one as well. The thrust of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is the active and voluntary contribution of enterprises to social, economic and environmental improvement. This idea encompasses a series of practices, strategies and business management systems which pursue a new balance between economic, social and environmental aspects. +34 91 392 06 88 +91 (0)20-261 52 873

FUNDACIÓN ASHA-KIRAN has created a Business for Social Responsibility Fund with the aim of helping you put your social responsibility into practice. It also:

• Improves the corporate image of your business.
• Promotes the loyalty of your customers, workers and shareholders.
• Strengthens the cohesion and motivation of your employees.

All interested business enterprises have a place in the Asha-Kiran Business for Social Responsibility Fund. The only pre-requisite is to have a caring and responsible spirit that will be enhanced through the Fund. The main goal of the Fund is to back up a social cause which will be undertaken and disseminated by the enterprises that constitute it. Aid-to-development projects will be funded with the contributions we receive as well as activities that can help divulge the conditions of the region where our work is being done and the social evils being fought. In this manner, your business, together with the other members of the Fund and our Foundation, will aid in fostering health, social, and academic projects in India, and also in putting society in touch with the living conditions of the project's beneficiaries. In order to implement both objectives, business enterprises participate in the Fund with a yearly donation - as socially-committed participants, enterprises decide the kind of donation they wish to make - or through any of the alternatives listed below:

How can your business cooperate with Fundación Asha-Kiran?

It can do so by

• Sponsoring our Projects in India.
• Financing portions of Projects.
• Making one-time or regular contributions to support Asha-Kiran's work.
• Sponsoring the printing of flyers about activities with public visibility or distributing them.
• Binding the benefits of one or a spectrum of its products to the sponsorship of the project of your choice.
• Totally or partially funding the cost of some of the activities of Fundación Asha-Kiran - exhibits, campaigns, equipment, transportation, etc.
• Enclosing, free of charge, informative pamphlets about our Foundation in its parcels to customers and/or partners, thus contributing to the diffusion of our work and furthering our membership drive for sponsors or donors.
• Providing its services to us at a low cost - your business can back up the Foundation's work in its regular activities by providing services or products for free or at special prices.

How does Fundación Asha-Kiran collaborate with your business?

• We facilitate tax abatements by giving you an official donation certificate
• We add the name of your business to our website; this way, the image of your enterprise benefits.
• We keep you informed of our projects regularly

We facilitate tax abatements by giving you an official donation certificate so that you may deduct a percentage of your contribution in your tax declaration.

If your donation is made to Fundación Asha-Kiran through a bank deposit or bank transfer, kindly send your data (full name, address and ID card number) and a copy of your deposit slip (if available) to us at

FUNDACIÓN ASHA-KIRAN
Avda. de Córdoba 21, 2ª Planta, N5. 28026 Madrid
Phone.: 902 181 245 / (+34) 91 392 06 88
E-Mail: fundacion@asha-kiran.org.es

If your donation is made to Asha-Kiran Shelters Foundation (A-KSF) through cheque, Demand Draft (DD) or bank transfer, kindly send your data (full name, address and ID card number) and a copy of your deposit slip (if available) to us at

Asha-Kiran Shelters Foundation
Bungalow no 16/A, Ragvilas Society, Lane D
North Main Rd., Koregaon Park
Puna 411001 India
Phone: (+91) (0)20-261 52 873/(+91) 922 6104 518
E-Mail: foundation@asha-kiran.org.es

Donations made to Asha-Kiran Shelters Foundation are exempted under section 80G of the Income Tax Act of 1961. (Please note that donations to A-KSF can only be made from within India at the present time)

The following information pertains specifically to the Spanish fiscal system. Please check your country's regulations on tax abatements for donations to not-for-profit organizations.

Individuals:

The deduction to be made on the taxpayer's quota is 25% of the total donation amount, in accordance to the limit set by law in Article 56.1 of Act 40/1998 for taxpayers and in other Contribution Regulations (article 19 of the 40/2002 Act of December 23, "Fiscal Regime of not-for-profit organizations and of Fiscal Incentives to Sponsorship"), without detriment to the Tributary Regimes of Euskadi and Navarra, Spain.

Organizations:

The deduction to be made on the quota of Organizations Tax is 35% of the total donation amount, never exceeding 10% of the taxable amount. Amounts over this limit may be applied to fiscal years which end in the following successive 10 years (Article 20 of the 49/2002 Act of December 23, "Fiscal Regime of non-profit organizations and of Fiscal Incentives to Sponsorship"), without detriment to the Tributary Regimes of Euskadi and Navarra, Spain.