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

Guest User 6/9/21 Guest User 6/9/21

Spudnik Farms: This Woman Entrepreneur's Farm-to-Table Business Mitigates Risks For Smallholder Farmers

Sumeet Kaur started her career as a lawyer with a tax-advising firm. Today, however, she is a farmer and the founder of Spudnik Farms, a subscription-based farm-to-table startup headquartered in Bangalore.

Guest User 5/18/21 Guest User 5/18/21

Orora Global: This Clean Energy Startup Generates Livelihood Opportunities For Women In Rural India

Savitha Sridharan was an electrical engineer working for a semiconductor company in the US before leaving her career behind to start her own business. Today, she leads an all-women clean-energy company, Orora Global that has created 250 jobs for women in rural India.

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 4/28/21 Upaya 4/28/21

Severe Second Wave Of Covid Cases In India

We at Upaya are devastated by the severe second wave of Covid cases sweeping across India, and remain steadfastly committed to supporting our team, our entrepreneurs, and their jobholders during these uncertain times

Guest User 4/21/21 Guest User 4/21/21

Bringing Life To The Soil And Jobs To The Community

Namrata Acharya never imagined she would become an entrepreneur. But, after learning about the struggles faced by farmers and rural villagers who rely on agriculture for their livelihood, Namrata knew she wanted to do something about it.

Shrishti Puri 3/21/21 Shrishti Puri 3/21/21

Uncovering Hidden Gender Wage Inequalities

With our objective of creating dignified jobs clearly defined, our Impact Management strategy thus leads us into understanding and measuring what, how, and how much impact the jobholders are experiencing with their jobs and the resultant income.

Rachna Chandrashekhar 3/7/21 Rachna Chandrashekhar 3/7/21

Making Space For Strong Women To Be Themselves

In January, Upaya selected and launched a cohort of nine women-led businesses for a special accelerator in collaboration with MIT D-Lab. The focus of this program is to take a holistic approach to build capacity for investment readiness

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.

Kate Cochran 11/2/20 Kate Cochran 11/2/20

Let's Not Waste This Crisis

We must take the lessons from the last 30 years of fighting poverty to build a dam against this slide back into poverty for too many. One of those lessons is that people experiencing extreme poverty are not helpless

Devashree Somani 10/30/20 Devashree Somani 10/30/20

Understanding The 2021 Scale-Ups Accelerator’s Selection Criteria

The 2021 Scale-Ups Accelerator is an opportunity for early-stage women entrepreneurs to make their start-ups investment-ready

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

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