OUR BLOG
Data Dashboards: Visualizing Impact Data For Improved Learning
We’re starting this year by launching Upaya’s revamped dashboards in line with its refreshed branding. Data visualization improves data comprehension, insights generation and helps in communicating complex patterns and concepts. Our aim is to advance the way we comprehend the impact data that is collected continuously from job holders and our enterprise partners to make it more helpful for usage in decision making and communicating our impact.
Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Eco Bamboo Product Manufacturer Amwoodo
Upaya announced its investment in Amwoodo, a company that manufactures cost-effective, eco-conscious self-care products out of bamboo and wood materials, working with grassroots artisans.
New Data Shows That Dignified Job Opportunities Have Significant Social Impact For Jobholders
Upaya’s Dignified Jobs Collaborative has released data collected from their first jobholder survey of 989 jobholders working for one of seven Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) in India.
Miller Center For Social Entrepreneurship Partners With Upaya Social Ventures To Support Social Entrepreneurs In India
The partnership aims to grow India’s ecosystem of entrepreneurs addressing poverty through mentorship and access to capital.
Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Food Processing Startup Raheja Solar To Improve Incomes For Farmers In India
Upaya Social Ventures, which provides investment and support to early-stage enterprises creating dignified jobs for people in extreme poverty, announced its investment in Raheja Solar, an agri-based company that has developed a DIY, affordable solar food dryer that improves farmer incomes by reducing food loss.
Upaya Announces The Launch Of The Dignified Jobs Accelerator 2024
The Dignified Jobs Accelerator 2024 is designed for job-creating, impact-driven, early-stage social entrepreneurs working across the Allied Sectors of Agriculture in India to create dignified jobs for people in extreme poverty.
A Dignified Job Is At The Heart Of Climate Justice
The impact of climate disasters and environmental degradation mainly affecting vulnerable communities infers that climate change and poverty are interlinked. It removes them from their home, forces them to migrate to cities, and even pick up low quality jobs to sustain themselves and their families.
Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Agritech Startup Agrify Fresh To Help Improve Farmer Livelihoods Across India
Upaya Social Ventures, which provides investment and support to early-stage enterprises creating dignified jobs for people in extreme poverty, announced its investment in Agrify Fresh, a Mumbai-based agritech startup with established market linkages to small and marginal farmers across four Indian states.
Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Waste Management Tech Platform WeVois
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced an investment in WeVois Labs Private Limited (WeVOIS), a solid waste management company with integrated technology to drive end-to-end, on-ground operations of waste collection services throughout India.
The Tribal Hermit: Taking Dhokra Craft To The World
Nirmaan Dutta founded The Tribal Hermit with his Uncle Suntu in 2021 as a rural development and livelihood project by the LEAD at Krea University to generate sustainable livelihood opportunities for the Self Help Groups (SHGs), artisans, and farmers in rural India
Karghewale: Transforming Weavers Into Entrepreneurs
In 2020, Nivedita Rai and Sourodip Ghosh founded Karghewale in Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh to provide comprehensive support to the weaver-entrepreneur community, with a focus on textiles, apparel, and handicrafts
Gangpur Ventures: Tackling The Fodder Deficit Of Eastern India
In 2021, Bimal Lakra founded Gangpur Ventures in Rourkela, Odisha to create livelihood opportunities for tribal communities by addressing the acute shortage of fodder in the dairy farming industry
MoneyBin: Adding Value To Waste
MoneyBin addresses the issue of improper waste segregation by collecting recyclable waste directly from households, employing unskilled women laborers to collect and segregate it into multiple categories, and selling it to recycling factories
Raheja Solar: A Solar-Powered Solution To Food Waste
In 2018, Varun Raheja founded Raheja Solar Food Processing Pvt. Ltd. in Indore, Madhya Pradesh with the aim of helping Indian farmers increase the shelf life of their produce, thereby allowing them to derive greater value from it
Farmology: Creating Farmers Of The Future
Farmology is an app-based platform which assists farmers by providing integrated crop advisory in real time