Assessing the Sustainability of Impulse Social Enterprises (2015)

Undergraduate: Courtney Shepard

Faculty Advisor: Townsend Middleton
Department: Anthropology

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For my research, I examined whether or not Impulse Social Enterprises based in Shillong, India is running in a sustainable (including environmentally, socially, and financially) manner. Impulse Social Enterprises is an organization that aims to act as a bridge between women weavers across Northeast India and the greater global marketplace to provide a better livelihood for these women. I conducted this research over two months in the Summer of 2014 in the Northeastern Indian states of Meghalaya and Assam. I employed common Anthropological research methods of interviews and observation working with directors, interns, and weavers at Impulse Social Enterprises. My research was funded by a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the OUR at UNC-CH._x000D_