Press Coverage

More press on our purpose! Kaitlyn R. Copinger recently interviewed our founder, Sid Pailla, about his experience immigrating to America as a child, how that shaped his outlook on the problems facing the American workforce, and using that as guidance for how Sunny Day Fund™ would work.

You can read the article in its entirety at the link below.

Startup Sunny Day Fund helps you save for life’s unexpected ‘rainy days’

“There’s a massive gap, where life does happen, where we have kids, where we buy houses, where we buy cars, where we have emergencies,” Sunny Day Fund CEO Sid Pailia said. “All of that stuff happens, but there’s no vehicle for that. That’s where we’re trying to come in and fill that gap.”

The Global Good Fund, founded by Carrie Rich in 2012, provides leadership development services for social entrepreneurs and a $10,000 grant. Each fellow is paired with an executive coach and a C-suite business executive, who serve as mentors throughout the 12-month program.

To be eligible for The Global Good Fund’s competitive program, the fellow’s organization needs to address one of the following urgent social issues: health, education, environment, financial inclusion, and economic mobility. Sid’s being awarded the fellowship shows that our cause of bettering financial equity & inclusion through an employer-incentivized savings benefit fits into The Global Good Fund’s vision of a better world.

You can check out the listing of their fellows at the link below.

Global Good Fund

Investing in the most innovative entrepreneurs to solve the most urgent social issues since 2012

Read this great feature from Sid’s alma mater – they discuss various topics like Sid’s background, his four(!!) degrees from the university, why we need financially inclusive and equitable systems, voluntary turnover and how it affects American businesses and the workforce, and a range of other topics.

You can find the article at the link below.

Sid Pailla | UVA Darden School of Business

Sid Pailla — who is a quadruple Hoo, having received a bachelor’s, master’s, MBA, and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia — hopes to use the advantages he gained at Darden to promote financial inclusivity for American workers.