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        R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund

        Rubin Foundation Awards Grant to R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund

        January 12, 2022

        community development R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund

        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.”

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        Thank You for Your Support for Sprout Enterprise®!

        January 01, 2022

        R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund social enterprise

        Sprout Enterprise® Impact in 2021

        With your support this past year, we helped our NGO partners in India provide:

        • Food rations and survival kits to families in rural Rajasthan and Bihar.
        • Education for the students of the Kaliyachak Girls School and food rations for their families during lockdown.
        • More than 2,500 days of work for laborers to reconstruct pynes in rural Bihar enabling them to support their families and improve the water supply for local farmers.

        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.

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        Sprout Enterprise's R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund Named to Transformative 25

        March 01, 2021

        R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund social enterprise

        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.”

        Learn more >

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        • Trusting the Power of Community
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        • R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund Named One of the 2022 Transformative 25 Funds.
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        • Rubin Foundation Awards Grant to R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund
          January 12, 2022
        • Thank You for Your Support for Sprout Enterprise®!
          January 01, 2022
        • Mexico's "Pottery of the Night" Is Perfect for the Day of the Dead
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        • Sprout Enterprise's R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund Named to Transformative 25
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        • Reimagining the Potential of the Artisan Sector
          October 20, 2020
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          September 24, 2019
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          July 12, 2019

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