UN SDGs
Goal 1: No Poverty
"End poverty in all its forms everywhere."
✔️ Some Flight Pals, Ride Pals and coaches aren't appropriately compensated by vulnerable community members. PalUpNow! makes discretionary contributions to underprivileged community members according to our Terms of Service.
✔️ Some Pals donate or offer their services for free to help underprivileged members meet their basic needs.
Goal 3: Good Health And Wellbeing
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages."
🌸 To combat long-running diseases, PalUpNow! has introduced specialized Ride Pals for Cancer, Hyperthyroidism, and Multiple Sclerosis.
🌸 PalUpNow! collaborates with wellness coaches, who invest time in your mental and physical health.
Goal 4: Quality Education
"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
Goal 5: Gender Equality
"Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls."
✔️ PalUpNow! empowers women and girls to lead service areas.
✔️ Instead of members signing up with their gender, we ask for only their pronouns. Even then, pronouns are optional.
Goal 8: Decent Work And Economic Growth
"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 their earnings!
✔️ PalUpNow! makes discretionary contributions to underprivileged community members according to our Terms of Service.
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, And Infrastructure
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation."
✔️ PalUpNow! is a rare and trailblazing self-serve platform that enables Pals to keep 💯% of their earnings!
🤖 PalUpNow! builds resilient digital infrastructure that's powered by bots like Ocean, Echo, Royal, Finley, Sawyer, Monroe, Smilo, and Remy.
💚 PalUpNow! is designed to be socially, environmentally, and operationally sustainable.
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
"Reduce inequality within and among countries."
✔️ PalUpNow! connects Pals with people across continents who prefer to be served in contactless mode.
🌐 We invest in Pals from different countries who serve their local areas. Our multilingual web app and LinkedIn nurture a global community.
🌐 We extend consumer privacy rights like CCPA and GDPR to our global community.
🤖 Our team includes bots, who operate globally and reduce human bias.
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption And Production
"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.
🛡️ We strive to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
✔️ We invest in women, children and underprivileged Pals who pay it forward by serving the elderly and the less fortunate.
Goal 13: Climate Action
"Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts."
✔️ As a huge boost to the climate and the global economy, Ride Pals assist people across the globe using online methods in a contactless fashion.
✔️ 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.
Goal 16: Peace, Justice, And Strong Institutions
"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 members signing up with their age, we ask for only a range to reduce discrimination against ageism. Even then, age range is optional.
🛡️ We educate and encourage members to exercise their privacy rights.
Goal 17: Partnerships For The Goals
"Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development."
🤝 PalUpNow! partners help us scale and grow across the globe.
🎗️ PalUpNow! Charity, the philanthropic arm of PalUpNow!, shares donations with nonprofits that share our vision of serving underprivileged, vulnerable and marginalized communities. Through the liaisons, PalUpNow! is able to scale via vetted Pals on the ground, who’re equipped to handle local conditions. And when we're unable to seed certain communities with Pals, we make microloans to directly uplift underserved members.
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Goal 2: Zero Hunger
Goal 7: Affordable And Clean Energy
Goal 6: Clean Water And Sanitation
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Goal 6: Clean Water And Sanitation
Goal 7: Affordable And Clean Energy
Goal 6: Clean Water And Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Goal 7: Affordable And Clean Energy
Goal 7: Affordable And Clean Energy
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities And Communities
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities And Communities
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities And Communities
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities And Communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 14: Life Below Water
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities And Communities
Goal 14: Life Below Water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15: Life On Land
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities And Communities
Goal 14: Life Below Water
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss