Kate Cochran 9/30/21 Kate Cochran 9/30/21

Covid Reminded Us Not To Become Complacent In Our Mission Against Poverty

For most of Upaya’s existence, our momentum has mirrored a consistent trend of reducing extreme poverty in the world

Upaya 9/29/21 Upaya 9/29/21

Upaya Social Ventures And S3IDF Invest In India Waste Management Company, Green Worms

Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) and The Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF) are pleased to announce their latest investments in Green Worms Eco Solutions (Green Worms), a waste management startup based in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India.

Upaya 9/28/21 Upaya 9/28/21

Assessing The Damage Of India’s Second COVID Surge

There are slow and steady signs of life returning to normal in this country of 1.4 billion, but talk to any Indian, and the trauma from the second Covid surge is still fresh

Sachi Shenoy 9/21/21 Sachi Shenoy 9/21/21

A New Chapter At Upaya

After 10 soul-fulfilling years, I have decided to transition out of a full-time role at Upaya. My decision is a moment of triumph-

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

Guest User 8/20/21 Guest User 8/20/21

GramHeet: Empowering Farmers To Feed The World With Pride

The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra is infamous for the poor living and working conditions of its farmers.

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.

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