Vera Welcomes 150th Client
This month, Vera celebrates welcoming our 150th client, The Horn of Africa Development Initiative (HODI). HODI is an NGO devoted to improving lives in Marsabit, a remote region of Northern Kenya. Their programs tackle the consequences of growing severity and frequency of conflicts, cyclic droughts, and human rights violations. HODI also focuses much of their […]
Vera Fellowship Program Selected as a Genesis Generation Challenge Winner
In April, Vera was named as a recipient of the Genesis Generation Challenge award, which supports organizations whose projects demonstrate innovation and creativity in addressing the world’s most pressing issues. Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Genesis Prize Foundation announced Vera as one of nine organizations selected to receive the award, along with two […]
Welcoming the 2015 Vera Fellowship Class
For the third year, we’re proud to welcome a vibrant and diverse group of young professionals into the Vera Fellowship Program. After a mid-June retreat and intensive week of workshops, the Fellows joined Vera teams in Boston and Mumbai last week. Rachel Forst and Samantha Vilaboa started work in Vera’s Boston hub, while David Cutler, […]
Pollinate: Powering Affordable Energy for The Last Mile
1.3 billion people globally lack access to modern energy services like electricity and clean cooking facilities. In India, the world’s third largest emitter of CO2, more than 300 million people depend on fossil fuels – like kerosene, which negatively impacts health and contributes to climate change – for light. Since 2012, Pollinate has been working […]
Celebrating Women: Women Win
The International Women’s Day celebration continues. We’re highlighting some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. Today, we’re profiling Women Win, a nonprofit organization using sport to address gender inequality and empower adolescent girls and young women. Women Win, an internationally recognized center […]
Celebrating Women: The BOMA Project
We’re wrapping up our weeklong celebration of International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of The BOMA Project, one of our partner organizations based in Kenya. The BOMA Project assists women working to achieve financial security. The BOMA Project’s high-impact savings and entrepreneurship training program serves ultra-poor women from Northern Kenya’s drought-threatened arid areas. […]
Celebrating Women: GHI
This week, Vera is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. Our third installment features Gardens for Health International, an organization working with Rwandan mothers to tackle childhood malnutrition. While Rwanda’s agricultural industry […]
Celebrating Women: FMCH
This week, Vera is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. The Foundation for Mother and Child Health provides preventative healthcare and balanced nutrition to mothers and young children in Mumbai’s economically underprivileged […]
Celebrating Women: I-Care
This week, Vera is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. Today, we’re profiling I-Care, an organization working to improve women and girls’ access to menstrual hygiene management in East Africa. In Kenya, […]
My Road to Vera: Vivaan
Vivaan Misra, a 2014 Fellow based in Mumbai, describes the experiences that led him to Vera. Vivaan grew up in New Delhi and graduated in 2012 from Carleton College, where he studied Economics and International Relations. Before joining Vera, he worked in public health in northern India and at a research firm in South Sudan. […]
