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
Join This Impact Investment Opportunity The Other Side Village is our most recent recommended social impact organization. They are a bold, evidence-based response to chronic homelessness that combines permanent housing, a structured therapeutic community, and clear, measurable life changes for residents. You can read more about them and their impact
Our Recommendation The Other Side Village as a bold, evidence-based response to chronic homelessness that combines permanent housing, a structured therapeutic community, and clear, measurable life changes for residents. Their impressive first‑year outcomes (100% housing stability, 100% sobriety, 100% employment or training, 75% health improvement, 538% income growth) for
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.
UI Charitable co-founders reveal only 3% of donors vet nonprofits. They discuss shifting from emotion-only giving to blending emotional connection with evidence-based philanthropy—showing how thoughtful, outcome-driven donations lead to deeper, lasting impact.
