Guest User 8/11/21 Guest User 8/11/21

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.

Guest User 8/2/21 Guest User 8/2/21

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 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.

Sachi Shenoy 7/21/21 Sachi Shenoy 7/21/21

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

Guest User 7/14/21 Guest User 7/14/21

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.

Guest User 7/10/21 Guest User 7/10/21

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.

Kate Cochran 7/1/21 Kate Cochran 7/1/21

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

Guest User 7/1/21 Guest User 7/1/21

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

Guest User 6/24/21 Guest User 6/24/21

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.

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

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