Help India's small businesses survive this pandemic | Milaap

Help India's small businesses survive this pandemic

Our collective impact so far

14,263

Donors across the world

84

Businesses fundraising

248000

Funds facilitated

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to save a small business. All campaigns listed below are verified by Milaap.

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by starting a fundraiser for a small/local business severely affected by the covid outbreak.

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Spread the word in your circles - friends, family, colleagues, neighbors. Inspire others to unite and save a small business.

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Your contribution will help them restart their activities

Help Women Drivers Navigate the Crisis

18,361

Funded

137,931

Goal

103

Supporters

Help Women Drivers Navigate the Crisis

By: Azad Foundation

New Delhi, Delhi

This fund aims to support those women drivers who have fought against immen..
Help MITTI Cafe Support Salaries for their Staff with Disabilities

119,156

Funded

137,931

Goal

6214

Supporters

Help MITTI Cafe Support Salaries for their Staff with Disabilities

By: Swati

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Sustainable Livelihood and Economic Empowerment for Persons with Disabiliti..
Help The Struggling Owners Of Small Businesses Get Back On Their Feet

10,834

Funded

68,965

Goal

154

Supporters

Help The Struggling Owners Of Small Businesses Get Back On Their Feet

By: Milaap

India

“I rented a small place to set up my shop, and expand my business a little ..
Support the daily vendors from small town Karnataka

9,867

Funded

27,586

Goal

191

Supporters

Support the daily vendors from small town Karnataka

By: Prateek Maheshwari

Belagavi, Karnataka

Shanta grew up conditioned to most norms of the patriarchal society. For on..
Save The Great Bombay Circus From Shutting Down Forever

70,203

Funded

110,344

Goal

6973

Supporters

Save The Great Bombay Circus From Shutting Down Forever

By: Great Bombay Circus

Mumbai, Maharashtra

The Great Bombay Circus, India’s oldest circus, marks its centenary this ye..
Help GI Noida Cab Team Amidst Lockdown

4,250

Funded

6,896

Goal

105

Supporters

Help GI Noida Cab Team Amidst Lockdown

By: Mausam Garg

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

The objective of this fund is to support our transport team members (cab dr..

About the Small Business Relief Initiative

One of the biggest sectors of the Indian economy: small and micro businesses has been hit hard by the essential safety measures such as the lockdown in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak. This sector contributes over 30% towards the GDP and employs around 40% of India’s workforce. Social distancing and isolation have brought these businesses to a practical halt, all over the country.

Small and micro businesses play an important role in creating livelihoods in various parts of the country, solving problems of sustenance and dependence. Today, these very businesses are struggling to survive.

Over the last decade, Milaap has created a strong network to support small businesses with timely capital interventions, supporting over 1.5 lakh businesses in the process. While they wait for long-term relief, there is a crying need for some kind of immediate financial aid.

The Small Business Relief Initiative will leverage our existing infrastructure (as well as of partners) to provide relief to these businesses. Under this initiative, Milaap and its partner for the Small Business Relief Initiative - Intuit QuickBooks will provide a platform for qualifying businesses that have been impacted by the COVID-19 to raise micro-grants to meet essential business expenses.

We hope additional companies and generous individual donors will continue to contribute to this Fund in the coming weeks, in order to provide the much-needed aid to even more businesses across the country. If you are interested in becoming a partner, please get in touch with us at ajith@milaap.org

FAQs

How does the Small Business Relief Initiative work?

Small and micro businesses that have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak can start a fundraiser on Milaap to meet essential needs for their business. We believe that small businesses matter most in their local communities and have a great chance of finding support in this network. With an online fundraiser you can not only share the fundraiser with your loved ones, local community members are also able to search amongst fundraisers on Milaap to find the small businesses they would like to support.

There are no upper limits on the funds you can raise through crowdfunding, as long as your goal amount and breakup of fund utilization is clearly explained.

No, unfortunately we are able to verify and list only businesses and entrepreneurs registered and residing in India.

Apart from the healthcare crisis, the economic impact/damage due to COVID-19 pandemic is similar (if not more) to ones usually seen during natural disasters.
Over the last decade, Milaap has created a strong network to support small businesses with timely capital interventions, thus supporting over 1.5 Lakh micro and small-scale entrepreneurs across India in the process. While they wait for long-term relief, there is a crying need for some kind of immediate financial aid. With this in mind, we have come up with the initiative of the Small Business Relief Initiative, which will leverage our existing infrastructure in order to provide financial relief to these businesses
Many of our donors have reached out to us for verified, credible avenues to express their support, and we believe supporting small and micro businesses to get back on their feet is one such avenue.

The Small Business Relief Initiative has been started by Milaap to help small and micro businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. Many of the economic activities have come to a grinding halt and small business owners, with little or no cash reserves, have been hit the hardest.
Our goal is to help local small and micro business owners, especially in remote pockets, restart their businesses once the lockdown is slowly lifted. Funds raised from crowdfunding will go directly to these businesses’ for their immediate needs such as procuring raw material/goods, pay for utilities, offset employee cost/wages to name a few.
Not a small business owner, but want to help? Donate to individual small businesses fundraisers for those affected by coronavirus.

While Milaap encourages all of us to raise money for the causes we care about,  we’ll assess each and every campaign during our review process to check if it qualifies to be highlighted in this initiative. Some of the criteria includes:
  1. Must be a micro/small business owned and operated independently. It should not have an annual turnover of above 5 Crores INR.  
  2. Should be able to furnish the necessary KYC documents at the time of carrying out verification:
  3. Must not have any fraud reports made against it
  4. Should not be nationally dominant in its field of operations
Please note that for personal fundraising campaigns, funds raised will only be transferred directly to the business owners stated in the page after their KYC and bank account verification.

Matching grants are provided to certain fundraisers that meet the criteria based on sponsor’s criteria.  Once chosen for the same, For every Rupee you raise via crowdfunding, the sponsor will provide an additional % as a matching contribution.
If you are a company or individual interesting in being Milaap Impact partner towards providing matching grants, please reach out to us via ajith@milaap.org

If you are a marketplace and/or enabler for small businesses, esp those affected by downturn, we’ll assist you with your initiative based on the specific needs. Reach out to us via ajith@milaap.org
We'll rely on you to identify those who need the assistance. Funds raised can be paid out directly from Milaap to respective bank accounts of beneficiaries.
Alternatively, companies (and individuals) can also contribute towards matching grants for businesses of their choice, or ones that meet a certain criteria

INR donations made by Indian tax payers can avail tax benefit if you contribute to a campaign towards an NGO which has 80G certificate. Look out for the Tax Benefits tag on the campaign page. Reciepts are usually issued once the campaign ends.

If you are fundraising on Milaap, visit your campaign page and Log in to your Milaap account using the email id (or Facebook login)  used to create the campaign. 
  • Click on “Withdraw Funds” on top right corner
  • Submit the KYC document (Any Govt ID proof) and bank account details of the recipient. 
  • Post an update or provide any supporting documents available in the documents section. 
All transfer requests placed will be reviewed by the very next day (Mon - Sat). Requests set up on Saturday will be reviewed by Monday.

For INR transfers, it’s transferred on the same day (or next working day for amounts greater than 2 Lac rupees) from date of approval. For USD transfer to an individual/NGO's FCRA bank a/c, it takes 3-5 working days.

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