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
Our Recommendation The Other Side Village is a promising homelessness organization that has a very clear articulated ultimate outcome goal. The organization states that it is trying to solve social isolation, hopelessness, and disconnection. It argues that placing someone in an apartment without rebuilding community, purpose, and self-belief may