Vera Welcomes New Class of Fellows!
Vera takes pride in welcoming the eight members of the 2014-2015 Fellowship Program, the second cohort selected for this year-long, hands-on consulting experience. Nikhil Kalambur, Lexa Koenig, Aleksa Krolls, Caroline Liegey, Vivaan Misra, and Josh Wunderlich will be based in our growing Mumbai hub, while Katie McCloskey and Ayo Oti have joined our newly opened […]
Population Services International: Revolutionizing Rural Supply-Chain Management and Health Service Delivery in Mozambique
Population Services International (PSI) is a global health organization dedicated to improving the health of people in the developing world using Social Marketing. Central to PSI’s approach is the principle that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure, through accessibility and affordability, […]
Vera Welcomes Tilly Josephson as New India Country Director
Vera is pleased to welcome Alethea (Tilly) Josephson as our India Country Director and the newest member of the growing Vera team. Tilly joins Vera from the Salesforce.com Foundation, where she was the Regional Lead for the Asia Pacific region, responsible for bringing salesforce.com’s innovative 1/1/1 philanthropic model to life by leveraging its people, technology and […]
Vera Earns Second B Corp Certification
We’re proud to announce that Vera has earned its second B Corporation certification. Vera first earned the certification in 2012 from B Lab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a community of socially and environmentally conscious businesses. Certified B Corps are as concerned about generating impact as they are about the financial bottom line, often […]
Honey Care Africa: Powering Smallholder Honey Production in East Africa
More than seventy-five percent of Kenya’s population lives in rural areas, where many families rely on smallholder farming for both food and income. Honey Care Africa is a social enterprise working throughout East Africa to help smallholder households increase their incomes through commercial honey production. Working with both traditional beekeepers and smallholder farmers, Honey Care […]
Vera Awarded First Annual Social Impact Award at Harvard Social Enterprise Conference 2014
Vera was honored to receive the first annual Social Impact Award at the 15th Harvard Social Enterprise Conference this weekend, March 29-30, 2014. The award, presented by keynote speaker and Echoing Green President Cheryl Dorsey, highlights individuals and organizations who have especially strong track records of providing innovative and impactful change in the social enterprise […]
Milaap: Connecting India’s Working Poor to Capital
Despite India’s rapidly growing economy, characterized by burgeoning middle and upper classes, widespread poverty remains endemic across the country, and especially so in rural areas. Of the country’s 269.3 million people categorized as poor, nearly 216.5 million live in rural areas, often with limited access to vital resources, ranging from education and running water to […]
Vera’s Fellowship Program: Reflections on Technology, Social Impact, and Personal Growth
With applications open for the 2014-2015 Vera Fellowship program, we sat down with Jill Shah, a current Fellow in Vera’s Mumbai office, to provide potential applicants with insight into her Fellowship experience. Born in Mumbai and raised in northern New Jersey, Jill attended Northwestern University, where she discovered her deep passion for global health and […]
SHOFCO: Managing Community Development Programs in the Slums of Nairobi
Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, is home to an estimated 1 million people. Here, access to even the most basic necessities, like electricity and potable water, is a challenge. Services that so many of us take for granted such as trash collection, medical care, education, or even public spaces are almost completely unavailable to most of […]
Sanergy and Captricity: Appropriate Technology for Challenging Environments
About 2.3 million people, or 60 percent of Nairobi’s population, live in slums, and most have little to no access to formal sanitation services. Stagnant rivulets of human waste that trickle past homes and alongside narrow dirt roads in the tightly packed neighborhoods are as common as the diarrheal diseases they carry with them. Sanergy, […]
