Our ‘social contract’ inspires more than 130,000 employees to contribute to community welfare, environment sustainability and digital literacy.
In 2010-11, Infosys organized several programs, enabling employees to give back to the society:
Volunteering
A sabbatical policy for community service encourages Infoscions to work for designated Indian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Employees are paid an allowance by Infosys for up to one year.
Infoscions support Akshaya Patra Foundation’s mid-day meal campaign, the world’s largest NGO school meal program. It blends nutrition with education to reduce the school dropout rate across rural India. The Foundation has set a goal of serving one billion meals to school children.
Emergency aid
Our employees donated US$ 259,695 towards rehabilitating victims of the earthquake in Tohoku, Japan.
The Infosys USA Foundation donated US$ 50,000 to the Leggett & Platt Benevolence Fund to support victims of the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri.
Digital empowerment
Infosys initiates children into Information Technology through the SPARK program. Since 2008, it has touched the lives of more than 350,000 students across India by undertaking IT training and mentoring teachers of government-aided schools in rural areas.
Shaping policies
Members of the board of directors of Infosys serve on global councils and contribute to policy making in corporate governance, education, healthcare, diversity, and the environment.
Infosys was a delegate of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) at the UN COP-16 climate change conference in 2010. We are involved in the ‘People Matter’ project where CEOs share their experiences of talent and sustainability.
Infosys partners with state utilities in India to introduce ‘voluntary green tariff’ so that consumers can offset the cost of renewable energy.
Promoting education and research
The Infosys USA Foundation supports the New York City (NYC) Science Education Initiative to spread science and math literacy among students of underserved communities. The Foundation provided a grant of US$ 380,000 to the New York Academy of Sciences for implementing the program in New York schools and Citizen Schools of New Jersey.
Project Genesis bridges the skills gap among undergraduate students across tier 2 and 3 towns in seven states of India. In 2010-11, the project mentored over 2,500 teachers who imparted training to more than 85,000 students.
The Campus Connect program enhances the curriculum and enriches the talent pool of more than 400 engineering and management colleges. A web portal enables collaboration between industry and academia worldwide.
The Infosys Science Foundation 
honors outstanding contributions of Indian researchers to pure and applied sciences with the annual Infosys Prize. The laureates receive a 24-carat gold medallion, a citation and a cash prize of 
50 lakh, the highest prize money for researchers in India.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences recognizes the contributions of young scientists to a contemporary innovation. The annual award carries a prize of US$ 150,000 from the Infosys Foundation.