Our Recommendation Fika (formerly Bridges to Prosperity) has partnered with academic economists at Yale, Notre Dame, and the University of Colorado to conduct a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) across 147 sites in Rwanda, including 50 long-term control sites, specifically designed to produce causal estimates of impact across economic, agricultural, health,
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, business
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 compliance improves
Our Recommendation Chancen International stands out as a serious, learning‑oriented social finance organization that has built a clear theory of change around fair education finance for excluded African youth. They deliver very strong access, graduation, and employment results, and they already engage in counterfactual work that moves beyond feel‑
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.
