Why We Invested: Karghewale
Working with weavers, most of whom are graduates of WomenWeave’s The Handloom School where they have completed an intensive curriculum in design, entrepreneurship and management, Karghewale helps these young creative entrepreneurs, leveraging their skills in textile design and production, to bring handwoven textiles of exceptional design and quality to new markets.
Why We Invested: Échale
R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund, an initiative of Realize Impact and Sprout Enterprise®, announced that the fund has joined Beneficial Returns, an impact investment manager, in an investment to improve the lives of rural Mexicans through a loan extended to Échale, a social enterprise delivering community development and financing services to communities in rural México.
Sprout Enterprise® 2022 Impact: Investing in Artisan Enterprises
Craft Is the Original Circular Economy.
The craft story today is in many ways what the story of craft has always been – of artisans making use of waste, left over or found materials, of design and innovation to perform the alchemy of material transformation into a product of function and beauty, of expressing and sharing cultural and community values, and of telling the stories of each generation.