Our Recommendation Last Mile Health helped the Liberian government design and launch a national community health worker program, then measured what it did. The intermediate results are strong and comparison-based. In Grand Bassa County, care of childhood illness by a qualified provider rose 60.3 percentage points more in
Our Recommendation Jacaranda Health scores 100 out of 100, and it is the only organization we have reviewed that earned a perfect score while publishing randomized evidence that one of its two flagship programs largely did not work. Jacaranda submitted both of its core programs to separate cluster randomized controlled
Our Recommendation Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has submitted the same program to two independent randomized controlled trials thirty years apart. The 1995 Public/Private Ventures study randomized 959 youth to a match or a waitlist and found, at 18 months, 46 percent lower drug initiation, 52 percent less
Our Recommendation Healthy Learners has identified a real gap that almost nobody was working on: school-aged children have the fewest touch points with the health system of any age group, because global health funding concentrates on the under-fives, and yet nearly half of sub-Saharan Africa's
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.
