Our Portfolio

We fund high-impact organizations to do what they do well; mostly grants, sometimes debt or equity. We don't invest in organizations that don't measure impact – they're flying blind and we would be too.

Education

Mostly Early Childhood and Primary

Dost helps moms build ECD skills through mobile that gets kids ready to succeed in school and life in India.

Educate Girls use community volunteers to convince families to send their girls to (improved) schools in India.

Food 4 Education produces nutritious meals in large central kitchens and delivers them to children in public schools in Kenya.

Imagine Worldwide uses tablets or other touch devices to teach children numeracy and literacy.

Lively Minds transforms rural moms in Ghana and Uganda into capable early childhood educators.

Luminos gets kids back on track with accelerated remedial learning.

Peepul make classrooms and teaching in India high engagement so kids have better learning outcomes.

Rising Academies gets kids to their academic grade-level through private sector strengthening of public schools.

Bite-sized videos for Early Childhood Development in India.

Home and community-based early learning in South Africa.

Taleemabad improves learning outcomes with a bundle of digital tools that can be "layered on" to existing low-performing schools.

Ubongo develops locally-relevant "edutainment" content focused on school readiness, school performance, and life skills for African kids.

Livelihood

mostly smallholder farming

Aceli boost small agribusiness financing in Africa.

Avunja provides a business-in-a-phone platform for young people in Kenya

Biotech to extend the shelf-life of cassava in Africa.

Digital Green use mobile phones and videos to deliver training that increases farm yields and incomes.

Farmerline sells agricultural products to farmers in Ghana, and provides the training and market access necessary to make the most of them.

Hello Tractor works like Uber to get tractor services to smallholder farmers in Africa.

Kheyti sells a low-cost affordable greenhouse to smallholder farmers in India.

Pula gets agricultural insurance products to smallholder farmers so they can invest more in their farms.

WARC aggregates land, trains farmers, and provides inputs as a service.

Livelihood

beyond the farm

B2P builds bridges in isolated places for better access to markets and services.

Chancen is pioneering ethical Income Share Agreements (ISAs) to finance college education for low-income students in Africa.

Medha embeds career focused employment training in low-resource public education institutions.

Health

Primary Healthcare and beyond

Amani Global Works is building a primary health system to provide quality care in the DRC.

DMI produces intensive radio, TV and mobile campaigns to change key health behaviors across Africa.

Friendship Bench gets lay people to provide talk-based therapy in Zimbabwe.

Healthy Learners turns school teachers into front-line health workers for low income kids in Zambia.

Integrate Health has created a professionalized primary health care solution in Togo.

Intelehealth gets telemedicine to rural communities in India.

Last Mile Health has become a leader in a hugely important shift toward professionalized community health workers worldwide.

Lwala transforms Kenyan traditional birth attendants into professional community health workers.

Muso design health systems that get fast treatment to people who need it through professionalized community health workers.

Nexleaf make systems that assure effective supply chains for vaccines.

No Means No Worldwide developed a curriculum to reduce sexual violence.

Noora Health teaches families how to care for their loved ones during and after a hospital stay in India.

PIVOT train and deploy professionalized community health workers in Madagascar.

Particles for Humanity transforms early-stage medical technology into products that improves the health of the poorest people.

Sanku equips small flour mills in East Africa with foolproof equipment to add micronutrients to maize consumed by poor families.

SaveLIFE has developed a systematic package of specific interventions for safe highways in India.

Semilla Nueva develops, produces, and sells seeds to grow nutritionally-fortified maize in Guatemala.

Peer therapy for African youth.

StrongMinds uses talk therapy to improve the mental health of women in Africa.

Community influencers as health behavior promoters in India.

THINKMD develops digital tools for the diagnosis and treatment of common health problems in children and pregnant women.

Turn creates WhatsApp tools that give social sector organizations unprecedented interactive connection with their clients.

Ujamaa Africa teaches sexual violence prevention training across Africa.

VillageReach puts medical logistics systems in place to make sure that supplies like vaccines get to the people who need it most.

VisionSpring gets high-quality, affordable eyeglasses to people who otherwise wouldn't have access to them.

Youth Impact sifts through the literature to find health and education programs with proven outcomes for young people.

HIV peer counselling for young people in Zimbabwe.

WAter AND sanitation

and a bit of hygiene

EarthEnable replace dirt floors with a sealed earthen floor that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally sustainable in Rwanda.

WSUP systematically assembles and coordinates the key players for total-access municipal sanitation.

Water Access Rwanda uses solar powered water mini-grids to provide safe and accessible water for everyone.

ENVIRONMENT

Where it benefits the poor

Blue Ventures uses local management of artisanal fisheries to improve catches and increase incomes in Madagascar.

Conserve Global ensures thriving landscapes and resilient communities through community-led conservation of distressed concessions.

Cultivo facilitates financing to regenerate degraded land into healthy ecosystems.

FES restores commonly-held land in India.

Gaia Amazonas have a model for indigenous ecosystem guardianship for the Amazon.

Global Forest Watch monitors the world's forests and provides open access to information about where forests are disappearing.

Instituto Juruá uses market based community conservation to protect freshwater ecosystems.

Mafisa introduces regenerative cattle grazing that results in healthy rangelands and more profitable pastoralists in Zambia.

Maliasili supports grassroots African conservation organizations that do critical work at the nexus of poverty and conservation.

OneReef ensures vibrant reefs and thriving communities through locally managed marine areas.

Pempem is creating a traceable commodity trading platform to end commodity-driven tropical deforestation.

Planet Indonesia uses community commons management to create healthy tropical ecosystems and thriving communities.

Livelihoods-first communal land management in Tanzania.

Urgewald disrupts the finance of fossil fuels.

Energy

Home cooking, lighting, and power

One-stop shop for solar mini-grids in Nigeria.

iconic mulago investments

funded 10+ years

Babban Gona turns small farms into profitable businesses through access to training, capital, quality inputs, and better prices for their crops.

COMACO make Zambian farmers more prosperous through training and access to markets to save wildlife.

Equalize Health designs world-class, affordable health devices for the poorest people.

Fresh Life provides container-based sanitation as a service in Kenya.

Komaza helps people living on arid, degraded land make a living growing trees.

Living Goods get community health workers to be salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied in Uganda and Kenya.

Medic builds world class digital tools for community health workers.

mothers2mothers recruits HIV+ moms as peer mentors to other HIV+ moms.

myAgro helps smallholder farmers save so they can buy fertilizer and seeds at planting time.

One Acre Fund gets smallholder farmers a complete set of services to get out of hunger and make a better living.

One Heart Worldwide systematically tune government birth care in Nepal.

Proximity designs and delivers affordable, income-lifting products and services to the rural poor in Myanmar.

Zola sells solar electricity – not equipment – to households in Africa.