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MOPP Foods: Uplifting Employees While Filling A Gap In India’s Street Food Scene
When Geetika Anand Gupta set out to introduce her son to the authentic Indian street foods, parathas and pakodas, little did she know it would turn into a much bigger mission.
reCharkha: Turning Plastic Waste Into Beautiful Textiles And Sustainable Livelihoods
reCharkha employs rural women to upcycle waste into beautiful textiles and crafts using the traditional chakra and handloom.
Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Resham Sutra To Create Dignified Jobs In India's Silk Supply Chain
Upaya Social Ventures is pleased to announce its latest investment in Resham Sutra, a New Delhi-based company that manufactures and distributes solar-powered silk spinning machines to rural women in Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and other Northeastern states.
What Does It Take To Keep Going?
Ten years ago this month, we were three founders of a fledgling non-profit organization, and this was our reality. Some would say we had no business doing what we were doing. None of us had ever started nor run a non-profit. None of us had formal fundraising experience, nor were we independently wealthy
Taxshe: Creating Safe Spaces For Women And Children By Empowering Women To Drive In India
Taxshe is an all-woman cab service aiming to create jobs for thousands of women from marginalized communities in India.
Measuring Impact Isn’t Easy, But We’ve Done It Since Day One: Meet Upaya’s IM Dream Team
Upaya’s mission is to fight extreme poverty from the ground up by building scalable businesses and dignified jobs.
10 Things We Have Learned In 10 Years
We're taking this opportunity to look back at the many lessons this decade has taught us. When our co-founders (Sachi, Steve, and Sriram) launched Upaya Social Ventures, the world of entrepreneurship and small and growing business support looked very different
Roots Reforms: A Woman-Run Startup Promoting Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion efforts are expanding at a rapid pace around the globe, particularly in rural parts of India
Mirandola Designs: Hand Embroidered Couture With A Vision To Provide Sustained Income
Sisters and business partners, Smita and Shuchi Singh, are very different from one another, but it’s their varied interests and skill sets that make them an ideal entrepreneurial team.
Adventure Finance: Impacting Investing For Philanthropists
Upaya CEO, Kate Cochran, hosted a webinar yesterday, Impact Investing for Philanthropists, with Aunnie Patton Power, author of Adventure Finance, Caroline Bressan of Open Road Alliance, and University Impact’s Joellen Nicholson