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Building the business capacity and entrepreneurial skills of artisan enterprises in rural communities.
Series 6 of The Social Impact Pulse Podcast launches today with weekly episodes presenting interviews with entrepreneurs leading artisan enterprises from India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Mexico and Guatemala. All of the enterprises have been part of the Sprout Enterprise® network and impact investment opportunities which are part of the R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund portfolio.
The R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund is proud to have been selected as one of the Transformative 25 Funds transforming finance for people and planet for the second year.
“The 2022 list includes visionary changemaking fund managers who envision a new economy. These diverse trend-setters are designing solutions to create a just, inclusive economy for people and the planet…
The fund must meet at least three of the following four criteria:
Employ integrated capital
Use creative finance
Focus on social, relational, and ecological returns
Engage with ownership and governance for equity.”
Jennifer Astone
The Marvin and Sylvia Rubin Family Foundation announced that it has awarded a grant to R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund to fund a textile project led by Maddalena Forcella and Ana Paula Fuentes, social designers based in Oaxaca in southern México.
The designers will be working with 26 indigenous weavers in San Bartolo Yautepec, a Zapotec village in the highlands of Oaxaca. Using back-strap looms that predate the arrival of Spanish colonialists, the Zapotec weavers produce fabric with intricate brocade motifs. The fabric is then used to create huipiles, traditional Mexican garments. “For us, these are some of the most beautiful huipiles in México,” Fuentes said. “But unfortunately the weaving tradition has been disappearing little by little, mainly because of the lack of markets. Many women have stopped weaving.”
Sprout Enterprise® Impact in 2021
With your support this past year, we helped our NGO partners in India provide:
As part of our ecommerce operations, we provided advance payments to our partners so they could continue to pay the artisans working with them even though workshops and stores were closed during lockdowns.
In the Oaxacan village of San Bartolo Coyotepec, Silvia García Mateos is one of the members of Colectivo 1050°, an artisan cooperative steering the 2,500-year-old tradition of black pottery back to its sustainable roots.
Photograph by Mariceu Erthal García, National Geographic
Rachna Sachasinh describes with care the pottery craft in Oaxaca and the work of the Colectivo 1050°, giving it the visibility it deserves. She spoke with Amando Pedro, other artisans of the cooperative, and with Kythzia Barrera and Diego Mier y Terán about their experiences in the world of pottery in Oaxaca.
Sprout Enterprise's R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund has been selected by Jen Astone of Integrated Capital Investing as one of the Transformative 25. We are honored and proud to be in such great company! Congratulations to everyone who is using integrated capital to transform business and finance to work for all.
In the words and work of RSF Social Finance, “integrated capital is the coordinated use of different forms of financial capital and non-financial resources to support strategies and enterprises working to solve complex social and environmental problems.”