Our Recommendation Educate! is an evidence-rich youth employment organization. Over fifteen years it has built an extraordinary list of rigorous evaluations. Four separate studies with counterfactual designs, including multiple Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), across two programmatic models that consistently document large, durable, and causally attributed improvements in income, employment,
Our Recommendation COMACO (Community Markets for Conservation) is one of the most sophisticated and rigorously evaluated integrated conservation-development enterprises in Africa. Its model is genuinely distinctive. Rather than choosing between conservation and poverty alleviation, COMACO has built a self-reinforcing loop in which market incentives drive conservation compliance, conservation
Our Recommendation Suvita is a strong children's health organization due to its cost‑effective, evidence‑grounded immunization “last‑mile” work with genuine randomized controlled trial backing for its core approach. Its model directly replicates and scales a Nobel Prize‑winning randomized controlled trial on immunization ambassadors and SMS
Our Recommendation SaveLIFE Foundation is a policy‑savvy, systems‑level road safety organization with demonstrable reductions in deaths on specific highway corridors, but can live with quasi‑experimental rather than fully experimental counterfactuals. It has unusually clear ultimate‑outcome results (50%‑plus mortality reductions) in a sector where measurement is
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.
