Shortlisted from a
pool of 1,326 applications, these four organisations are early-stage, women-led non-profit startups that are boosting women entrepreneurship using digital skills and tools.
Tech4Good works to provide
open-source technology solutions to non-profits and has so far reached out to over 500 such enterprises across India, helping them serve more than one million of their beneficiaries better.
Shakti An Empathy Project (STEP) runs an incubator programme for women-led social enterprises by focussing on those based in Tier II and Tier III locations across India.
Renu Shah, founder of Shakti, an Empathy Project (STEP), shares the impact her project has created. STEP is one of the non-profits that has received grants from The Nudge Centre for Social Innovation under Facebook Pragati project.
Olafur Eliasson beside his art installation titled
Moss Wall at Tate Modern in London on July 9, 2019. Photo Judith Burrows/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art world can help enhance emotional intelligence, drawing insights and inspiration from creatives, thought leaders, and great works of art.
The Danish-Icelandic artist and climate activist Olafur Eliasson was pacing around his studio and had vanished from the camera’s field of vision. He excused himself politely.
Jessica Shaefer. Photo by Miguel Arzabe.
In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art world can help enhance emotional intelligence, drawing insights and inspiration from creatives, thought leaders, and great works of art.
Facebook’s art curator Jessica Shaefer, the daughter of a New York-based artist, was once reluctant to become a part of what she had long viewed as a challenging and veiled industry. But after following her own pursuits for many years, she was pulled back to art in her mid-20s when she began working for Vito Schnabel, the Manhattan art dealer who was at the time just beginning his art career. For a long time, Shaefer worked as a curator, art dealer, and “almost every other art world job you could possibly have,” taking time to get to know the ins and outs of the the industry and thinking she would