Our Recommendation Noora Health is a high‑impact, rigorously evaluated caregiver‑training organization that has demonstrated substantial reductions in complications, readmissions, and neonatal mortality across large hospital cohorts using quasi‑experimental designs. For funders focused on maternal, newborn, and surgical safety in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and on “bending
Our Recommendation BOMA is a high‑performing, graduation‑model organization with strong evidence of improving assets, savings, income, and food security for ultra‑poor households in Africa’s drylands, including credible counterfactual data. For funders focused on women’s economic empowerment, resilience to climate shocks, and right‑sized rigorous evidence,
Our Recommendation Babban Gona is a high‑impact, scalable agricultural social enterprise with strong evidence on productivity and income and at least one rigorous counterfactual study on yields, operating at meaningful scale in northern Nigeria. For a funder focused on rural livelihoods, youth employment, and stability in fragile regions, it
In Atomic Habits, James Clear describes how the British cycling team went from decades of mediocrity to Olympic dominance—thanks to the 1 percent principle. In 2003, when Dave Brailsford became the team’s performance director, the team hadn’t won an Olympic medal since 1908. His strategy, the “aggregation
Homelessness is an ever increasing problem in the US. Chronic homelessness, those with mental health and addiction problems, seems impossible to address. The Other Side Village provides an innovative way that seems to be working on this intractable problem.
Charity says we dig wells to bring water to the developing world. That’s wrong. Meet Water Access Rwanda, a for-profit organization that does it right. They don’t just drill wells but treats, tests, maintains, and delivers safe water directly into people’s homes, just like the system you rely on.
What if the future of mental health didn’t depend on more doctors—but on empowering everyday people to care for each other? With an innovative model that trains near-peer counselors to deliver school-based, evidence-backed group sessions, Shamiri is reaching 100,000s.
Most global nutrition programs try to change how people eat—but behavior change rarely scales. Semilla Nueva or “New Seed” is enhancing the corn families already rely on through natural biofortification–boosting nutrition, farmer income, and child health across Guatemala and beyond.
