Purple Innovations
The name "Purple Innovations" embodies a powerful commitment to inclusion, accessibility, and empowerment. Purple symbolizes the inclusion of people with disabilities, representing their experiences and journeys and transforming it into a badge of identity and pride for disabled communities. Developing a “purple economy” has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial opportunities, as disability support systems become integral to mainstream activities.
The Purple Economy emphasizes making the needs of persons with disabilities visible to various societal actors—civil society, government, and markets. It encourages innovation and entrepreneurship to address unmet needs, tapping into significant economic potential. This initiative shifts the perception of disability from viewing individuals as dependent to recognizing them as active contributors. A core principle of the Purple Economy is empowering persons with disabilities to actively shape their own opportunities. Ultimately, the Purple Economy aims to integrate individuals with disabilities into the economic and social fabric of society, ensuring equal opportunities for contribution, growth, and influence in their environments.
Thematic Areas of application
Solutions for rural communities can include products or product-service systems, specifically hardware-based, addressing the needs of people with disabilities, various age groups, and vulnerable populations.
Challenge overview
The Purple Innovations is a challenge where EnAble India and SELCO Foundation jointly aim to foster inclusive entrepreneurship by building innovative, sustainable, and accessible solutions for and by person with disabilities (PWDs).
This initiative is part of a broader strategy to enable equitable access to self-owned livelihoods and address the multidimensional poverty that PWDs often face at scale. Our collective mission is to ensure an accessible, inclusive and equitable future for Persons with Disabilities now!
Livelihood Solutions
Accessibility Solutions
Learning Solutions
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Purple Innovations Application formKnow More About the Challenge
Write us on catalysetech@selcofoundation.org
What are we offering ?
The challenge offers award money for upto 10-12 applicants, with award monies upto INR. 20 Lakhs. Total award money of the challenge is INR. 2 Crore. However, SELCO shall have the right to determine the grant amount awarded to each participant.
Build Capacity with EnAble India + SELCO Foundation's
Access knowledge resource
Access to Problem statement + Learn from PWD peers and grassroot NGOs
Mentorship and guidance from experts
Promotion and visibility for their innovations
