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Upaya Social Ventures And Yunus Social Business Announce The Launch Of The Dignified Jobs Accelerator Program 2023
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced the launch of the Dignified Jobs Accelerator 2023, a program constructed to help small and growing businesses in India scale and create jobs that lift people out of extreme poverty
Pasidi Panta: Helping Small Farmers Grow a “Golden Harvest”
Krishnaiah is the founder of Pasidi Panta, a company working with spice growers. Coming from an agricultural family, he has firsthand experience with the difficulties smallholder farmers face
Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investment In Coconut Processor Freshnet Farms
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced its investment in FreshNet Farms, an agribusiness based in Tamil Nadu whose founder, Senthil Kumar, has a vision to improve what he calls “the village economy” by creating efficiencies in the disorganized coconut value chain
How Our Accelerator Program Continues To Evolve To Best Serve Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
Upaya’s annual accelerator program is a key component of our mission to support early-stage social enterprises.
Giving Money Back To Donors
Upaya has done something novel in the past few weeks – novel for us, at least – we’ve written checks to our donors… and it feels great.
YellowBag: Building A Better Future, One Bag At A Time
YellowBag is a family run business that focuses on sustainability and livelihoods by working with women to make cloth bags as an alternative to plastic bags.
ReThela: Helping Street Vendors Get Organized
Sunil Kumar is the founder of reThela, a social venture that aims to build an organized retail market infrastructure for fragmented and unorganized street vendors.
FreshNet Farms: Investing In The Village Economy
Senthil Kumar spent 15 years in the corporate sector, but felt like he was wasting his time. So he pledged all of his assets to focus on self-fulfillment and his vision to improve what he calls “the village economy.”
This Mother’s Day We Wish For Dignified Jobs For All Mothers At Work
This Mother’s Day, as two working mothers at Upaya, we reflected on what it would take to create dignified jobs for mothers from extremely poor households. Despite their hardships, these women have the strength and ability to address the difficult battle of being a worker, a woman, and a mother, but they can’t do it alone
Gramshree Kisan: Empowering Farmers, Aggregating Technology, Creating Livelihood
When Aastha and a small team of four began building Gramshree Kisan they started with very little funding, but found an audience on YouTube