Our Recommendation Friendship Bench Zimbabwe is a high‑performing, evidence‑rich mental‑health organization that squarely fits our framework: it has an explicit Theory of Change, a tightly aligned intervention, and multiple RCTs showing substantial improvements in depression and functioning, plus wellbeing‑based cost‑effectiveness estimates. The idea is famous
Our Recommendation Friends of the Children is a strong organization, particularly for funders who recognize that breaking the cycle of generational poverty requires long-term human relationships rather than short interventions. Its model is explicitly built toward ultimate, whole-life outcomes such as: belonging, self-esteem, emotional health, hope, and
Our goal is helping more philanthropic dollars flow to incredible social impact organizations that actually change lives. This requires being able to tell which ones do. That is harder than it sounds, and over the past several months we enhanced the standards and tools we use to do that. We
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