Upaya 9/8/21 Upaya 9/8/21

Upaya Social Ventures And Yunus Social Business Join Forces For The 2022 Accelerator Program To Support Early-Stage Businesses In India

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) and Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSB) today announced the launch of their 2022 Accelerator Program to help small and growing businesses (SGBs) in India scale and create jobs to lift people out of extreme poverty

Upaya 7/28/21 Upaya 7/28/21

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.

Upaya 6/17/21 Upaya 6/17/21

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

Upaya 5/10/21 Upaya 5/10/21

Upaya Social Ventures Launches Second Pool Of Recoverable Grants

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) announced the launch of its second pool of recoverable grants, in partnership with University Impact (UI), an impact investment firm directing capital through the UI donor-advised fund to organizations and companies solving social and environmental problems

Upaya 5/6/21 Upaya 5/6/21

Upaya Social Ventures Announces AB Chakravarthy As India Country Director

Upaya Social Ventures is pleased to announce that AB Chakravarthy has joined the team as Upaya’s new India Country Director

Upaya 5/5/21 Upaya 5/5/21

Upaya A Finalist For Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards

The winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving economic equality, health and climate crises, or social justice

Upaya 1/27/21 Upaya 1/27/21

Upaya Social Ventures Announces Women-Led Startups Selected For Scale-Ups Accelerator Offered By Upaya And MIT D-Lab

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya), a nonprofit organization growing small businesses to create jobs for the extreme poor today announced the nine early-stage Indian companies selected to participate in a pilot accelerator offered by Upaya and MIT D-Lab, a program developing and advancing collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges

Upaya 1/20/21 Upaya 1/20/21

Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investments In Four Job-Creating Indian Companies

Upaya’s latest impact investments bring the organization’s total number of investments completed in 2020 to nine, doubling Upaya’s active portfolio in a year when many investors have held back.

Upaya 10/12/20 Upaya 10/12/20

Upaya Social Ventures And MIT D-Lab Announce Collaboration To Support Women-Led Startups In India

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya), a nonprofit growing small businesses to create jobs for the extreme poor, and MIT D-Lab, a program developing and advancing collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges, today announced a pilot integration of their accelerator programs to help women-led small and growing businesses in India access critical finance to scale their enterprises and create jobs to lift people out of extreme poverty

Upaya 9/30/20 Upaya 9/30/20

Brian Boland And Caroline Vance Join Upaya’s Board Of Directors

Upaya Social Ventures welcomed two new members to its board of directors: Brian Boland, Co-Founder of the Delta Fund and former Vice President at Facebook, and Caroline Vance, former Director, Sustainable Investments at DWS

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