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Grameen Foundation India GFI was founded in 2010 with one primary objective- “To enable the poor, especially women to end poverty and hunger”.

From Ideas to Action: Young Women Innovators Challenge 2026 🌱What happens when young women are given the resources, ment...
23/09/2026

From Ideas to Action: Young Women Innovators Challenge 2026 🌱

What happens when young women are given the resources, mentorship and space to turn their ideas into solutions?

The Young Women Innovators Challenge 2026, an initiative of RIVET Global and implemented by Grameen Foundation India, is supporting young women innovators aged 18–30 across Gujarat to develop and test solutions to real community challenges in Education, Sustainability, Health & Wellness, Inclusion and Poverty Reduction.

On 16 September 2026 in Ahmedabad, 36 selected participants came together for the programme’s Orientation Session, marking the beginning of a three-month Innovation Sprint designed to move ideas beyond the drawing board and into the real world.

From affordable education support and women’s livelihood opportunities to healthier food options, menstrual hygiene, herbal skincare and community-focused solutions, the cohort brings together diverse ideas with a shared ambition: create meaningful change, one experiment at a time.

Over the next three months, participants will follow an action-oriented journey:

Discover → Design → Build → Test → Measure → Market → Grow

This isn’t just about learning entrepreneurship. It’s about meeting real users, testing assumptions, learning from feedback, using seed funding thoughtfully, and refining ideas based on what works.

The Sprint is now underway. 🚀

50 young women. Diverse ideas. Three months of experimentation. One shared journey from ideas to action.

04/09/2026

Happy Janmashtami! 🦚✨

May Lord Krishna’s wisdom inspire us to build a world free from poverty and hunger, where every woman has the strength, opportunity, and freedom to shape a brighter tomorrow. 💙

Choose compassion, create opportunities, and nurture hope — today and every day.

Happy Independence Day! 🇮🇳Honouring Freedom, Inspiring the FutureThis Independence Day, let’s widen the meaning of freed...
15/08/2026

Happy Independence Day! 🇮🇳

Honouring Freedom, Inspiring the Future

This Independence Day, let’s widen the meaning of freedom.
Let’s decide to build a Viksit Bharat 2047 where women are not only able to earn, but also have the freedom to own, decide and invest.

Because true economic independence is not just about having access to money. It is about having a voice in how it is earned, used and invested.

Let’s build a future where every woman has the agency to shape her own financial future.

Read Rajni’s full story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/salary-day-rajni-invisible-face-financial-abuse-anita-yadav-d7fcc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

02/07/2026

When Wazirganj Gramren Utthan Producer Limited began operations in November 2023, its first audit cycle closed at a turnover of Rs 22 lakh. Two years on, that figure sits between Rs 2.5 and Rs 3 crore. 📈

Rajni Singh, a director of the FPO, set it up around a straightforward reading of her area. Farmers here have agriculture and little else to fall back on, and much of the actual labour on the ground is done by women who have no formal stake in the enterprise their households run on. The FPO was built to change both. A significant share of Wazirganj's shareholders today are women.

The FPO now runs on direct procurement. Farmers bring produce, mostly maize and paddy, get it weighed on the spot, and are paid on delivery. Alongside this, Wazirganj gives its shareholders access to farm equipment at 50 to 80 percent subsidy, tractors and implements that are otherwise out of reach for small farmers paying in cash. Deepak Sharma, one of the directors, used the same route to install a Spiller on his own farm.

Grameen Foundation India has supported Wazirganj's formation and growth through the UPDASP programme, under the Government of India's 10,000 FPO initiative. Rajni Singh, Shubham Kumar Singh, and Deepak Sharma walk through the journey in this video.

The ten-year target the directors have set for themselves: Rs 40 to 50 crore in turnover. 🎯

✨ Women hold nearly 40% of India's bank accounts. How many of them decide what happens inside those accounts?SamRiddhi 2...
25/06/2026

✨ Women hold nearly 40% of India's bank accounts. How many of them decide what happens inside those accounts?

SamRiddhi 2026: Equal Future Summit, convened by Grameen Foundation India and Grameen Foundation for Social Impact on 25 April in New Delhi, brought together over 100 leaders from banking, fintech, regulation, research, and civil society to explore a critical question: how do we move beyond financial inclusion to financial agency?

A few thought-provoking voices from the day:
🔹 Dr. Nicola Sharp Jeffs reflected on economic abuse and why naming the problem matters:

"My experience is that when we start talking about economic abuse, we are putting into words behaviours that many people will already have seen and recognised, but just didn't have the language for."

Curious about why language can be the first step towards change? Turn to Page 12.

🔹 Ridhi Kanoria Doongursee challenged a common assumption:
"Access for women and finance is solved, but agency is not. We start with safety, we don't build it as a feature late."

Want to understand why safety and agency must go hand in hand? Head to Page 30.

🔹 Bharati Joshi shared a powerful reminder on evidence and action:
"If the industry wants evidence, we create evidence. That's our role."

Read more about building evidence that drives change on Page 43.

These are just a few of the many insights that emerged from the summit.

Read the full Session Report to explore the conversations shaping a more equal financial future.

#सम्Riddhi2026

🌍 If you are building a climate enterprise for rural India and cannot get past the pilot stage, this is for you.Climate-...
24/06/2026

🌍 If you are building a climate enterprise for rural India and cannot get past the pilot stage, this is for you.

Climate-resilient enterprises in rural India face a double challenge. They have to prove the model works, and they have to prove investors should back it. The distance between a working pilot and a funded scale-up is where most promising ventures stall.

Grameen Neev's Climate Action and Green Livelihoods track is built for exactly this stage. Enterprise diagnostics. Business model refinement. Financial planning. Compliance readiness. Market linkages. Investor connect. Two residential bootcamps. Curated investor meetings. Demo Day.

This is not a grant. It is not a workshop series. It is a structured 12-month acceleration journey for early-revenue climate enterprises ready to do the work.

If your model is past pilot and you need help structuring for scale, get in touch.

[email protected] | grameenneev.in



📖 Bytes & Bylines – Issue 18 | April 2026April was a month of powerful conversations, collective action, and renewed com...
13/06/2026

📖 Bytes & Bylines – Issue 18 | April 2026

April was a month of powerful conversations, collective action, and renewed commitment toward building a more equitable future.

This edition is about सम्Riddhi – Equal Future Summit 2026, our annual international gender flagship event, held on International Financial Independence Awareness Day under the theme SAFE: Ensuring Women’s Safety for Prosperity in the Financial Ecosystem.

Bringing together 100+ stakeholders—including policymakers, financial institutions, fintech leaders, researchers, media professionals, SHG members, entrepreneurs, youth leaders, and development practitioners—the summit challenged a critical question:

When a woman opens a bank account, does she truly control it? When she earns an income, does she decide how it is spent? When she saves, does she have privacy and autonomy over those savings? For too many women across India and the world, the answer remains NO.

Through powerful discussions, lived experiences, documentary screenings, cultural performances, and solution-focused dialogues, the summit highlighted the urgent need to move beyond access and toward true financial autonomy, dignity, privacy, and enablement for women.

A key highlight of the summit was the Bharat Promise—a shared commitment to advancing women's financial safety and inclusion through collaboration, innovation, and action.

The summit was strengthened by the support of six valued partners who shared the vision of building safer and more inclusive financial ecosystems for women. PayNearby joined as the Title Partner, ROINET Solution Pvt. Ltd. as the Technology Partner, FWWB - India and Girl Effect as Gender Allies, impactDash as the Knowledge Ally, and The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCC&I) as the Chamber Partner.

The conversations at सम्Riddhi 2026 made one thing clear: financial inclusion alone is not enough. Women also need the knowledge, confidence, and tools to protect themselves from financial abuse and exercise control over their financial lives.

Donate Today!
🔓 The Unlocked Account: Training for Financial Safety and Prevention of Financial Abuse

Your contribution of ₹1,000 can help a woman gain the knowledge and confidence to recognize financial abuse, protect her financial rights, and make informed financial decisions. Together, we can build a future where every woman has the safety, agency, and dignity to control her own financial journey.

👉 Donate here: https://lnkd.in/g9iAudhH

Can digital advisory alone transform agriculture? Not quite.While Digital Advisory Services (DAS) are helping bridge cri...
11/06/2026

Can digital advisory alone transform agriculture? Not quite.

While Digital Advisory Services (DAS) are helping bridge critical information gaps for millions of smallholder farmers, technology is most effective when paired with human trust and support.

In India, where women make up a significant share of the agricultural workforce yet often remain excluded from traditional advisory systems, combining digital tools with community-based engagement can unlock greater adoption of sustainable practices, better decision-making, and improved farm outcomes.
In this insightful piece, Ms. Shatarupa Kashyap, Sr. Director – Institutional Relations & Business Development, explores why the future of agricultural advisory lies not in choosing between technology and people, but in bringing them together.

Swipe through to learn how trust, inclusion, and digital innovation can help create a more resilient and equitable agricultural ecosystem.

10/06/2026

🌱 Top Green India Producer started with 100 farmers. It now has 750, around 300 of them women.

The FPO traces its start to a newspaper report. Ajit Kumar Singh, its director, read that the government wanted to help farmers double their incomes, and decided to act on it locally. He coordinated with the district administration and brought farmers together to set up a collection point. The company was registered in November 2023 and began operating the following year.

Membership and capacity have built up side by side. The FPO receives regular online training through Grameen Foundation India, with outside experts walking farmers through newer techniques. The aim now is an annual turnover of Rs 10 crore, an ambitious target for an FPO this young, though the early growth gives it a credible base.

📈 Organising like this changes more than income. It changes a farmer's position in the market, from selling alone to negotiating as a group.
Grameen Foundation India works with Top Green through the UPDASP programme, under the Government of India's scheme to form and promote 10,000 FPOs.

🎥 Ajit Kumar Singh tells the story in this video.

📆 Schedule Your Organisation's POSH Training Before the Year Gets Ahead of YouAs enterprises in agriculture, livelihoods...
08/06/2026

📆 Schedule Your Organisation's POSH Training Before the Year Gets Ahead of You

As enterprises in agriculture, livelihoods, and rural development scale their operations, workplace safety is an area that often gets left behind - particularly for field teams, women staff, and community-facing workers.

Through our work with FPOs, SHGs, and grassroots enterprises, we've seen how formalisation without a safety culture creates blind spots.

Women leading micro-enterprises or managing field coordination deserve workplaces built on respect and accountability - not just compliance on paper.

That is why Grameen Foundation India (GFI) offers POSH training designed for the realities of enterprises and development organisations -going beyond legal requirements under the POSH Act, 2013 to address the practical complexities of field settings, virtual teams, and community-level operations.

2026 is well underway. Now is a good time to get your organisation's POSH training done before calendars fill up.

Our sessions cover:

✨ Workplace rights and responsibilities under the POSH Act

✨ Identifying and responding to inappropriate behaviour

✨ Extending safety protocols to field operations, remote work, and digital communication

✨ Clear, accessible steps for reporting and redressal

If your organisation is looking to build a safe and compliant workplace, we'd be happy to help.

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