ARISE
Technology for financial literacy, across four countries.
The organization
ARISE is a nonprofit teaching financial literacy to women and youth across India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. I own its technology strategy end to end — a part-time role I hold alongside school, and the first place I’ve had to build for users who are volunteers and a bottom line measured in impact.
What I run
I built and maintain the organization’s website, the volunteer onboarding pipeline, and the impact-tracking layer — the forms and live dashboards that tell the team what’s actually working. I also manage the technology and social media teams, recruit volunteers, and contribute to Orion, ARISE’s gamified learning app.
Nonprofit infrastructure has a constraint startups don’t: whatever I build has to survive me being in class. So the tooling leans on automation and AI-assisted workflows — I’ve integrated Claude Code and MCP tooling into how the organization operates, so a small volunteer team can run like a bigger one.
What it’s produced
The programs this stack supports have reached 300+ people, with a 63% average improvement in financial-literacy scores between entry and exit. In 2026, ARISE won a $2,500 grant from the IB Global Youth Action Fund, selected from more than 1,100 applicants across 40+ countries — the application leaned directly on the impact data our dashboards could prove.