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 We strongly recommend 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 early results—100% sobriety, 100% employment or vocational engagement, 100% housing stability at one year, 75% health
Our Recommendation We highly recommend Semilla Nueva for support because they consistently measure appropriate outcomes and impact to understand if their work is successful. This page on their website describes a recent impact study. Semilla Nueva meets the requirements for 7 of our 7 key criteria: ✔ Understands the Social Issue
Why layered solutions and clear goals matter more than silver bullets There’s something irresistible about a single, elegant solution to a big, messy problem. Back in the early 1990s, Todd and I were drawn to the idea that group-based microcredit could be the solution to poverty. The premise was