PalUpNow! is designed to be socially, environmentally, and operationally sustainable.
Sustainability is the key to a better future. To be sustainable is to be conscious and responsible for your actions. Taking responsibility helps you be more mindful about your actions and its repercussions. Being sustainable is what gives hope for a better future for you and the future generations to come.
Here's how PalUpNow! is striving to achieve the UN SDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals).
"End poverty in all its forms everywhere."
🎗️ PalUpNow! shares donations with nonprofits in India and Kenya, whose vision to serve underprivileged communities aligns with ours.
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages."
✔️ PalUpNow! collaborates with wellness coaches, who invest time in your mental and physical health.
✔️ To combat long-running diseases, PalUpNow! has introduced specialized Ride Pals for Cancer, Hyperthyroidism, and Multiple Sclerosis.
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all."
✔️ Founder Juni Mukherjee explains PalUpNow!'s (arguably, unusual) design choices to prevent further marginalization of vulnerable members.
✔️ Dr. Shalini Bhakta educates PalUpNow! community on mental health (Parts 1 .. 4)
✔️ Dr. Purba Das from Ohio University, USA analyzes how PalUpNow! scores on all four dimensions of a community
"Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls."
✔️ PalUpNow! includes women and girls to lead service areas
"Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all."
PalUpNow! creates jobs for Pals that:
☄️ have flexible working hours and locations (including contactless options)
☄️ enable Pals to keep 💯% of the fee/gift offered by people seeking Pals
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation."
✔️ PalUpNow! is a unique self-serve platform that connects Pals with people who need assistance.
✔️ PalUpNow! is designed to be socially, environmentally, and operationally sustainable.
✔️ We leverage botonomies of global scale to reduce administrative overhead and increase efficiency. We're a rare trailblazing marketplace that enables Pals to keep 💯% of their earnings.
"Reduce inequality within and among countries."
✔️ PalUpNow! invests in Pals from different countries who serve their local areas.
✔️ When possible, PalUpNow! connects Pals with people across continents who can be served in contactless mode.
✔️ We've enabled automatic language translations of our web app to nurture a global community. We translate some of our English social media posts to reach a wider audience.
"Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns."
✔️ We anonymize your profiles (Flights and Rides). We don't share your personally identifiable information (PII) till you're matched.
✔️ To pause match alerts, deactivate your profile. Reactivate with no activation fee. Or, delete your profile and data forever.
✔️ PalUpNow! invests in women, children and underprivileged Pals who pay it forward by serving the elderly and the less fortunate.
"Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts."
✔️ PalUpNow! encourages community members to walk and take public transport to minimize carbon emissions, when possible.
✔️ We have no tangible physical product, paper footprint, plastic footprint, and/or other tangible advertising material.
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels."
✔️ PalUpNow! is a rare trailblazing marketplace that enables Flight Pals and Ride Pals to keep 💯% of their earnings.
✔️ Instead of users signing up with their gender, we ask for only their pronouns.
✔️ Instead of users signing up with their age, we ask for only a range to reduce discrimination against ageism.
"Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development."
✔️ PalUpNow! partners help us scale and grow across the globe.
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