Our Work | Industree Foundation

We believe in the abundant and untapped strength of women as leaders for a brighter planet and better humanity.

We fuel this potential with women-owned and led enterprises that create high quality people and planet friendly material and products.

Our Approach

An Enabling Ecosystem

Our Approach

An Enabling Ecosystem

The ambitious objectives and targets to achieve SDGs by 2030 is a mandate to be carried on priority and Industree is spearheading the progress with intersectionality on Equity, Climate and Gender (ECG). Industree’s endeavors have shifted towards integrating ECG as it leads to value creation at the source, critical in connecting the produce with modern supply chains.

Commitment to SDGs

Equity

Social upliftment and improved educational, health, and nutritional outcomes
Access to rights and opportunities to earn decent incomes
Self-owned sustainable livelihoods amongst communities
Sense of agency and ownership
Co-creation and value addition

Building the Next Regenerative economy with nature-based solutions
Increasing biodiversity with forest/indigenous communities, creating economic opportunities with them
Reducing waste building circular economy products across nature-based value chains
Replacing carbon, with carbon-sequestering bamboo and other agroforestry plantations
Reducing vulnerabilities by taking work to the most vulnerable communities, close to their homes
Reducing the carbon footprint of economic activity by increased localisation

Climate

Gender

Women entrepreneurs
Gender equality at the workplace and home
Create a positive, safe, fair and equal working environment with voices heard at the workplace and home
Women community professional management and leaders to enable growth
Digital and financial literacy for women
Climbing the ladder of leadership, decision-making and self-reliance

Industree's Sphere of Influence

Our Focus

Many of the most vulnerable communities needing Climate Adaptation support can become solution providers. Using Climate Adaptation support, they can build economic resilience by actively sequestering carbon enhancing their sense of agency, going beyond being victims of climate change to being an active part of the solution.

Nature Based Solutions lead to Economic Resilience in Community Climate Adaptation

GreenKraft is collectively owned by women-led producer groups spread across rural communities based in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Odisha. Incubated by Industree Foundation, these groups specialize in creating high-quality, hand-woven products, created using natural materials such as Banana bark, Bamboo, and Sal leaves.

Forest Green is enabling an ecosystem to facilitate socio-economic opportunities and building sustainable livelihoods for rural, tribal and marginalized women in the forest fringe areas of Odisha. The forest-based enterprises give women a chance to maintain steady employment and respectable wages, strengthen their socio-economic cohesiveness.

Mission Creative Million is a movement designed to impact one million creative producers in the next 10 years through strategic interventions in the creative manufacturing sector.

Flourish is a unique, global, curated, maker-owned marketplace that offers unique eco-friendly artisanal products. It aims to impact producer livelihoods by bringing their stories and products to conscious consumers worldwide. Flourish is visualized as a producer owned platform, where producers and producer groups are curated not only by their climate-positive products but also by their intentions and ability to pay fair wages all along the value chain.

Regenearth is a practitioner-guided, cohort-based capacity-building endeavor for social enterprises, accelerators, NGOs, and educational institutions. Using the design thinking principles of co-creation, collaboration and the 6C framework, Regenearth is a movement to propel creative manufacturers towards sustainable livelihoods by sharing and adopting successful models and becoming reliable players in supply chains.

Creative Dignity has been energizing the handmade ecosystem by employing a holistic mix of locally relevant capacity building, market development and digital access, design mentorship, fostering relevant partnerships, experimenting with and finding innovative ways to communicate, and preparing the handmade sector for becoming globally sustainable and relevant.

CoLive (Community Livelihoods Coalition), is one of India’s largest inclusive collectives aimed at building resilience through sustainable livelihood generation and an accelerated community response to health emergencies. With a network of over 100 grassroots organizations, CoLive reaches more than 150 million people in rural India.

Platform for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (PIE), is a societal platform built to create economic opportunity for farm and off-farm entities and individuals. The platform is envisaged to create a digital space to connect users looking for opportunity, with an ecosystem that enables them to improve their livelihoods. It is envisaged as a blend of digital and physical solutions.

KIND Ethiopia is a brand of products created by artisan collectives that are aggregated into producer companies. The brand evokes the values of sustainability and empathy that this social enterprise project stands for.