Contributions
Goal 1: No Poverty
"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.
Goal 3: Good Health And Wellbeing
"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.
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! includes women and girls to lead service areas
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!
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, And Infrastructure
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation."
✔️ PalUpNow! is a unique, innovative, and self-serve platform that's powered by bots🤖 like Ocean, Echo, Royal, Finley, Sawyer, and Remy.
✔️ PalUpNow! is designed to be socially, environmentally, and operationally sustainable.
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
"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.
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.
✔️ 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.
Goal 13: Climate Action
"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.
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 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.
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.
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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