Who We Fund — IROH Foundation

Grantees Currently Funded by The IROH Foundation

Global

Tourette Syndrome Research

Tourette Syndrome causes involuntary physical and vocal tics that can profoundly disrupt daily life—yet no medication fully controls its symptoms, and its complex genetic roots remain poorly understood. Dr. Peristera (Perry) Paschou, Professor and Head of Biological Sciences at Purdue University, leads some of the world's largest genomic studies of Tourette Syndrome, working to identify risk genes, unravel neurobiological pathways, and ultimately guide the development of more effective treatments.

Impact & Growth

Leading international genomic studies of Tourette Syndrome, including an NINDS—funded collaborative genome-wide association study of more than 13,000 individuals
Coordinating the ENIGMA Consortium to investigate brain structure and function in Tourette Syndrome and its overlap with ADHD, OCD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Global

Adalat AI

Adalat AI is building the justice infrastructure of the Global South by bringing AI-powered transcription, translation, and workflow automation directly into courtrooms. Their tools reduce clerical delays that keep millions of undertrials waiting in jail and trapped in backlogs. By freeing judges and staff from paperwork, Adalat AI accelerates hearings, improves decision-making speed, and helps ensure people aren’t punished by process. Already live in thousands of courtrooms, they work with judiciaries to make timely justice—and reduced human suffering—a reality at scale.

Impact & Growth

9 states in India with more than 4,000 courts supported in 2025, with significant growth projected through 2026 across additional Indian States
Projected to scale to neighboring countries with similar justice systems in 2026 and 2027 with testing already in place

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India

Farmers for Forests

Farmers for Forests helps smallholder farmers in India restore degraded and abandoned farmland through biodiverse, climate-resilient agroforestry. Founded in Pune, India in 2019, F4F provides tree saplings, drip irrigation, and natural soil inputs while using drones and AI-powered analytics to monitor growth and enable harvest income and carbon market payments. Their results-based payments model bridges the early income gap for farmers, improves biodiversity and rural livelihoods, and is purpose-built to scale through a blend of carbon finance, open-source technology, and government partnerships.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 15,000 saplings planted in 2020 to 464,000 by 2025
As of 2025, 25,000 farmers participating across 3 Indian States

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Madagascar

Projet Jeune Leader

Projet Jeune Leader (PJL) is a Malagasy youth- and women-led organization working to improve the health and well-being of young adolescents in rural Madagascar through comprehensive sexuality education. Founded in 2013, PJL has pioneered a cost-effective, high-quality school-based model specifically tailored to remote, resource-constrained contexts. Their rigorous, evidence-based curriculum of 108 engaging modules covers gender equity, sexual health, self-esteem, and leadership—equipping students with the critical knowledge and skills they need at a formative stage of development where lifelong behaviors are shaped.

Impact & Growth

Serving more than 56,000 students in 154 public middle schools, projected to climb to 400,000 in 2026 as Ministry of Education brings program into official curriculum
163 educators trained, expected to rise to more than 1,700 during expansion in 2026

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Global

Community Health Impact Coalition

Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) exists to make professional community health workers the norm worldwide. A nonprofit field catalyst founded in 2019, CHIC unites thousands of CHWs and dozens of global health organizations in 60+ countries across five WHO regions. They research to equip international norm-setters with evidence, advocate to influence global financing institutions, and activate in-country CHW networks to win national policy. When professional CHWs are salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied, they become a key component in building a first-class health system worldwide.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 36 countries implementing community health worker policies in 2023 to 49 countries in 2025
Grown enrollment in CHW Advocate program from 7,000 in 2023 to well over 22,000 in 2025

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India

Labhya

Labhya is an India-based education nonprofit that equips children in public schools with the essential skills they need to overcome the challenges of poverty and become effective learners. In partnership with state governments, they co-create and embed wellbeing and social emotional learning programs into the daily school schedule, delivering culturally sensitive, evidence-backed curriculum along with end-to-end teacher training and support. These programs build resilience, improve academic performance, and strengthen relationships. Currently Labhya impacts 9.4 million children across 62,000 schools, with an aim to reach 30 million by 2030.

Impact & Growth

Increased number of schools implementing program from 22,000 in 2022 to 62,000 in 2026
Increased students reached from 2.4M to 9.4M in the same time frame

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Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa

Shamiri Institute

Shamiri means “thrive.” Our mission is to provide accessible and effective mental health interventions that enable young people to thrive. Founded at Harvard University in 2019 and launched in Kenya in 2021, Shamiri trains 18-to-22-year-olds to deliver brief, evidence-based group therapy within a tiered, community-based care model—delivering outcomes comparable to traditional therapy at roughly $7 per youth. Since 2021, they have served more than 185,000 young people across Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa, and trained more than 3,500 providers.

Impact & Growth

Increased participants from 1,900 in 2021 to more than 180,000 by 2024
As of 2025, more than 3,500 providers trained

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Grantees Previously Funded by The IROH Foundation

Latin America

Latin American Leadership Academy

LALA is a nonprofit institution that aims to develop a new generation of diverse, entrepreneurial, and ethical leaders who will serve the Latin American region. They identify high-potential, purpose-driven 14-to-20-year-olds—many of them from historically marginalized communities—and provide them with leadership development that includes: collaborative skills including decision-making, coordination of perspectives, and context identification; health, wellness, and personality development to hold the responsibility of being an effective changemaker; and a connection to motivate people to act on behalf of humanity.

Impact & Growth

Grew from 530 fellows in 2019 to almost 3,000 by 2024
Onboarding an average of 468 new leaders into the program each year

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Mozambique, Kenya, and Peru

Legado Initiative

Legado is a women-led global nonprofit working alongside Indigenous Peoples and local communities in places of critical importance for biodiversity. The organization ensures communities have the tools, resources, and partnerships needed to design and implement solutions of their own choosing—solutions that benefit both their communities and the landscapes they steward—an outcome they call Thriving Futures. Their Indigenous partners then create 360-degree community-led change across a full range of interconnected priorities including education, human health, livelihoods, governance, culture, and environmental health.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 2 communities in 2020 to 116 by 2025
As of 2024, impacted more than 120,000 lives

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Global

Tarjimly

Tarjimly is a global tech nonprofit with the mission of eliminating humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers. Tarjimly dramatically improves the speed, volume, quality, and cost-effectiveness of worldwide humanitarian and social support by providing high-quality, on-demand, remote translation and interpretation. Their AI-enabled mobile app instantly connects refugees and humanitarians to a global army of 58K translators in 175 languages and has so far impacted 425,000+ refugees worldwide. Currently, Tarjimly is the world’s most accessible translation and interpretation service.

Impact & Growth

Increased number of languages supported from 128 in 2020 to 250 in 2025 in more than 140 countries
Grown partner organizations from 12 to 1,400 in the same time frame

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Guatemala, Ecuador, & USA

Range of Motion Project

The Range of Motion Project (ROMP) is dedicated to providing high-quality prosthetic care and rehabilitation services to improve the mobility and independence of underserved people in South America. Founded in 2005, ROMP operates two full-time clinics in Guatemala and Ecuador and partners with clinics in the US, delivering sustainable care at low cost. Their Components for a Cause program recycles prosthetic parts from US clinics for reuse in Latin America. To date, ROMP has provided over 4,650 custom-made prosthetic devices to people in need.

Impact & Growth

Increased mobility devices delivered from 300 (early baseline) to 4,000+ by 2024
Scaled assistive technology access over 10 years

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India & Kyrgyzstan

Intelehealth

Intelehealth delivers high-quality healthcare via telemedicine where there is no doctor. Using an open-source technology platform that’s driven by an innovative digital health assistant, Intelehealth connects patients and frontline health workers at the last mile, with doctors, diagnostics, and medications. Intelehealth’s telemedicine programs have resulted in more than a 60% reduction of out-of-pocket expenses for rural populations and improved capacity and skill development for the frontline workforce. Intelehealth is on track to provide healthcare for 10 million women over the next three years.

Impact & Growth

Grew from 275,000 consultations (early tracking) to 8.4M by 2024
Increased the number of doctors supported from 138 in 2020 to 21,516 in 2024

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San Diego County, CA

REINS

REINS supports the physical, mental, and emotional health of disabled children and adults through therapeutic horseback riding, which benefits a wide range of disabling conditions including cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, seizure disorders, speech and learning disabilities, and sensory-integration dysfunction. The warmth and rhythmic motion of the horse produce a calming effect while simultaneously stimulating the rider’s muscles and increasing mobility. Students also engage in group games and social activities encouraging speech and sequential task completion.

Impact & Growth

Providing more than 6,800 adaptive horseback riding lessons each year
Increased the stable size from 20 horses in 2019 to 31 in 2024

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Guatemala

Semilla Nueva

In Guatemala, 46.5% of children under five are chronically malnourished. Semilla Nueva fights malnutrition with better maize. Rather than try to alter the culture, diet, and behavior of millions of Guatemalans, Semilla Nueva, a nonprofit social enterprise, develops, produces, and sells biofortified maize seed with higher zinc, iron, and quality protein contents to reduce nutritional deficiencies across Guatemala’s national population. These high-yielding, low-cost seeds offer an economic advantage to farmers and a solution to malnutrition that works with, not against, maize’s inherent cultural significance.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 4,000 farmers in 2018 to 50,000+ by 2025
Increased the amount of seed sold from 24,680kg in 2018 to 286,020kg in 2025

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Kenya

Food 4 Education

Hunger interferes with learning, and malnutrition disrupts biological and intellectual development, especially in the youngest children. Both are rampant in Kenya and across Africa, but school lunches can meaningfully increase attendance and improve the ability to learn. Food 4 Education produces nutritious, high-quality, low-cost meals in large central kitchens and delivers them to primary schools in Kenya. Their hub-and-spoke model achieves economies of scale in sourcing, preparing, and distributing healthy school meals—a proven, affordable way to nourish children and improve learning outcomes.

Impact & Growth

Grown from feeding 33,000 school children each day in 2021 to 576,000 children per day in 2025
Expanded from 4 central kitchens reaching 3 counties in 2021 to 29 centralized and 127 rural kitchens across 12 counties in 2025

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Global

AtlasFree

An astounding five million people are sexually trafficked every day. AtlasFree’s mission is to prevent sexual exploitation, rescue its victims, and help those victims rebuild and return to a normal life. Because combating sex trafficking requires context-specific solutions, AtlasFree partners with organizations that best understand the issue in their communities and can address it at the source. AtlasFree also collaborates with leading global experts who demonstrate programmatic effectiveness, financial accountability, and an expert-level understanding of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Impact & Growth

Increased the number of safe homes from 40 in 2019 to 227 in 2025
As of 2025, directly impacted 473,612 lives

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Kenya

Lwala

Lwala believes that community participation is the most effective way to improve health and build durable healthcare systems. In order to create a corps of professional Community Health Workers, Lwala recruits, pays, supervises, and empowers government community health workers and traditional midwives. When given proper training, even non-literate traditional midwives become powerful champions of prenatal maternal care, delivery, newborn care, child care, and reproductive health. Together, Lwala and the Kenyan Ministry of Health are building a “county model” of community-led healthcare.

Impact & Growth

Direct reach of 90,000 in 2018 increased to 2.85M+ in 2025
Increased number of facilities supported from 7 in 2018 to 1,057 in 2025

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Uganda & Zambia

StrongMinds

Despite the fact that 66 million African women suffer from depression, only 15% have access to treatment. StrongMinds provides free group talk-therapy to low-income women and adolescents in Uganda and Zambia through peer-to-peer therapy, teletherapy, public education, and mental-health partnerships. Their 12-week Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy approach to treating women and preventing future episodes of depression has been highly successful—as many as 94% of women who complete therapy achieve clinically significant reductions in symptoms, restoring hope for themselves and their families.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 514 individuals treated in 2014 to 745,000 annually by 2025
Reduced cost per treatment from more than $300 to less than $20 over that same period

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Tamale, Ghana

Saha Global

Saha Global gets clean water to the people who need it most. They put women at the heart of the solution, training them to start and run small rural water-treatment businesses. These women entrepreneurs use locally-available materials to treat contaminated surface water. After launching a new water business, Saha provides Customer Care to that partner community for a minimum of ten years. During that time, Saha mentors the woman entrepreneur and helps her to eliminate barriers to clean water consumption by transforming customer behavior. Saha’s goal is to make it as easy as possible for people to choose to drink clean water exclusively.

Impact & Growth

Increased the number of installed clean water systems from 250 in 2020 to 464 in 2025
As of 2025, trained over 1,260 women who provide safe drinking water access to more than 138,000 people living in 464 villages

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Pan-Africa

Ubongo

Ubongo combines the power of entertainment, research-based localized learning, and mass media to deliver effective education at low cost and massive scale across Africa. Ubongo leverages accessible technology that African families already own—radio, TV, and mobile phones—to help kids learn through the universal childhood language of cartoons, music, and play. Over 17 million families in Africa learn with Ubongo’s edu-cartoons and radio programs, and Ubongo is rapidly expanding, now broadcasting educational cartoons and radio programs in 14 languages across 42 countries and reaching 48 million households.

Impact & Growth

In 2024 had grown to reach more than 48M households by Radio and TV combined
Has grown from providing services in 7 languages for 11 countries in 2019 to 14 languages in 42 countries in 2025

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Rwanda

EarthEnable

Dust, spills, and puddles turn dirt floors into breeding grounds for mosquitoes, parasites, and disease—but concrete is far too expensive for many families, especially in Rwanda. EarthEnable’s custom-developed earthen floors are the solution. Made from locally sourced natural materials and installed by trained local artisans, EarthEnable’s flooring is sanitary, washable, and affordable—creating a genuinely healthy home environment for families who need it most. Since 2017, EarthEnable has installed more than 44,000 floors, improving the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Impact & Growth

Between 2017 and 2025, installed more than 44,000 floors
Improved more than 200,000 lives in the same time frame

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Lusaka, Zambia

Healthy Learners

Healthy Learners is a nonprofit based in Zambia that brings healthcare to the place children spend their days: schools. Children ages 5–16 have largely been ignored by major global health initiatives, so Healthy Learners trains classroom teachers to double as school health workers—monitoring students’ health needs, facilitating timely referrals, and responding to illness in real time. With strong backing from Zambia’s Ministries of Health and Education, Healthy Learners is rapidly and cost-effectively scaling this highly impactful community health model nationwide.

Impact & Growth

Students served annually in 2018 has grown to 1.1M in 2025
Reduced the cost per student from $5.10 to $1.46 in the same time frame

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Madagascar

PIVOT

Since 2014, PIVOT has been working in partnership with Madagascar’s Ministry of Health to transform a rural district of 200,000 people into a model evidence-based system of universal health coverage that can be replicated at scale. Their integrated approach combines quality care delivery, public systems strengthening, and rigorous data analysis to advance health as a human right. By expanding the platform for scientific exploration guided by the needs of the poor, PIVOT aims to help Madagascar become a global leader in health-system transformation.

Impact & Growth

Increased the number of health facilities supported from 247 in 2017 to 1,614 in 2025
More than 440,000 patient visits in the same time span

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Uganda, Namibia, South Africa & USA

No Means No Worldwide

No Means No Worldwide (NMNW) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to end sexual violence against women and children. The organization uses a proven, packaged curriculum called IMpower to advance sexual violence prevention, intervention, and recovery for boys and girls aged 10–20 in high-risk communities. NMNW is reaching scale by training like-minded partners to adopt IMpower in new geographies. NMNW has partners and projects in Kenya, Uganda, the United States, and South Africa, and it plans to add six additional countries in 2020.

Impact & Growth

Educated 480,000 boys and girls in 2024 for a total of 1.4M since 2019
Expanded from programs in 4 countries in 2019 to 13 in 2024

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Uganda

Raising the Village

Raising The Village (RTV) focuses on moving rural communities out of ultra-poverty in last-mile Uganda through inclusive, community-driven livelihood solutions that prioritize women, youth, and vulnerable households. After 36 months, an RTV partner-family typically sees daily incomes rise from $0.45 to $2.67—a Social ROI of $9.69 for every dollar invested. Since 2016, RTV has partnered with over 180,000 beneficiaries and is scaling toward its goal of reaching one million lives, expanding from 288 villages annually in 2020 to more than 3,400 in 2025.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 67,000 individuals reached annually in 2019 to 600,000+ in 2025
Expanded number of villages reached annually from 288 in 2020 to 3,474 in 2025

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Togo

Integrate Health

Integrate Health saves lives by making healthcare accessible and effective in Togo, West Africa. Integrate Health was founded in 2004 by a group of Peace Corps Volunteers working with a community-based association of individuals living with HIV/AIDS who believed that everyone deserves access to healthcare regardless of the latitude and longitude of their birthplace. Integrate Health implements an integrated clinic- and community-based healthcare delivery model to strengthen HIV/AIDS and Maternal and Child healthcare services throughout northern Togo in order to eliminate preventable deaths.

Impact & Growth

Grown from 40,000 people reached in 2014 to 371,000 in 2025
Scaled from 9 health centers supported to 32 in the same time frame

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Peru, Chile, Mexico & Brazil

Laboratoria

Laboratoria works with thousands of women in Latin America to help them launch careers in technology, transforming their futures and making the industry more diverse and inclusive. Through an intensive coding bootcamp, women who lacked access to quality technical education become web developers and UX designers, unlocking high-quality jobs and dramatically higher earning potential. More than 4,300 women have graduated from Laboratoria’s program; over 70% are placed in tech jobs within six months, achieving average income increases of 250% over their previous earnings.

Impact & Growth

Increased their number of women graduating annually from 180 in 2017 to 350 in 2025 for a total of more than 4,300 total trained
More than 70% of graduates are placed in jobs within 6 months with an average annual income increase of 250% over their previous incomes

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Nepal

One Heart Worldwide

One Heart Worldwide has over 15 years of experience implementing maternal and neonatal mortality prevention programs in areas where women often die alone at home giving birth. Their aim is to improve access to and utilization of healthcare services to reduce the risk of maternal and neonatal mortality in the most remote, rural areas. By training skilled birth attendants, upgrading birthing centers, and strengthening community-level referral networks, they work to ensure that all women and newborns receive the quality care they deserve, anytime and anyplace.

Impact & Growth

Grown from reaching 28,000 pregnancies with 60 skilled birth attendants in 2016 to 300,000 pregnancies with 830 skilled birth attendants in 2024
Increased the number of upgraded birthing centers from 60 to 812 in the same time frame

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India

Noora Health

Noora Health recognizes that long-term monitoring and regular outpatient care are beyond the capacity of traditional health services. To overcome this gap, Noora equips patients and their families with high-impact health skills that improve treatment outcomes and save lives. By delivering simple, evidence-based care training in hospital settings and through an expanding mobile platform, Noora enables patients and their families to take health care into their own hands and homes, extending the reach of clinical care where it matters most.

Impact & Growth

Grown from 146,000 caregivers and patients trained at 150 partner facilities in 2018 to 26.5M caregivers and patients trained at 16,170 partner facilities in 2025
Introduced a mobile service in 2024 that has reached more than 1.9M subscribers in 2025

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Mali

Muso

Muso builds health systems that save lives by reaching patients within hours of falling ill. Muso partners with governments to design, deploy, and test proactive universal health coverage strategies—most notably supporting Mali’s government in scaling Community Health Worker-led systems to connect more than three million vulnerable patients with care. Research by the Malian government, Harvard, and UCSF documented a 10x reduction in child mortality following Muso’s Proactive Care rollout in Mali, which now has the lowest child mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa.

Impact & Growth

Increased individuals served from 85,000 in 2015 to 600,000 by 2024, with more than 5M clinical and home visits in 2024
Scaled from 4 health centers supported to 36 in the same time frame

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Tanzania

Sanku

Africa is hardest hit by malnutrition. Most don’t have access to healthy foods, and every meal is primarily starchy flour. Lacking key vitamins and minerals, especially in a child’s diet, results in millions of people dying every year from preventable sicknesses. Sanku equips small-scale flour mills in East Africa with foolproof equipment to make sure rural kids are eating flour with critical micronutrients, scientifically proven to improve health and vitality. Children get the key nutrients they need and lives are saved.

Impact & Growth

Scaled from 228,000 people reached in 2015 to nearly 60M annually in early 2026
Reduced the annual cost per person from $1.98 to $0.12 in the same time frame

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Uganda

StrongMinds

Depression is the most prevalent mental illness in the developing world. In Africa, it’s devastating: 66 million sufferers, mostly women. The great majority have no social services to turn to. StrongMinds uses Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy, or “group talk therapy”, a low-cost, proven methodology that has reduced symptoms by up to 90 percent. So far, they have helped more than 1,800 African women, and by extension their families, get back their lives. StrongMinds’ goal is to treat 2 million in the next 10 years.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 514 individuals treated in 2014 to 745,000 annually by 2025
Reduced cost per treatment from more than $300 to less than $20 over that same period

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Global

Bridges to Prosperity (Now FIKA)

In the remote farmlands of the developing world, rainy seasons can be life-threatening. Bridges to Prosperity provides isolated communities with access to essential health care, education, and economic opportunities by training and working alongside them to build footbridges over impassable rivers. Founded in 2001, B2P has supported the construction of more than 200 footbridges in 20 countries, creating access to essential services and opportunities for nearly 1 million people worldwide. This year, the organization will build 42 new bridges, adding more than 80,000 people to the total served.

Impact & Growth

Grew from 25 bridges in 2014 to 790+ bridges by 2025
Expanded access from 75,000 people to 5.1M+ over 10 years

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Nepal

dZi Foundation

The dZi Foundation works in close partnership with remote mountain communities in Nepal to create lasting improvements in quality of life. dZi currently serves seven of the country’s most remote Village Development Communities—comprising 77 separate settlements and nearly 29,000 residents. By committing to each community for a minimum of nine years, dZi’s comprehensive approach allows strategies to adapt to each community’s unique needs over time, delivering multiple interconnected benefits across education, health, infrastructure, governance, and community livelihoods to every person it serves.

Impact & Growth

Increased individuals reached from 23,960 in 2015 to 61,000 by 2025
Sustained steady, community-based growth over 11 years

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Kenya

BOMA Project

BOMA implements a high-impact poverty graduation program for ultra-poor women in the drought-threatened arid lands. BOMA helps them to start small businesses in their rural communities, so they can pay for food, school fees and medical care for their families. BOMA’s Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) is an innovative two-year poverty graduation program that provides a cash grant (seed capital to launch a business), sustained training in business skills and savings, and hands-on local mentoring by BOMA Village Mentors to business groups of three women.

Impact & Growth

Increased individuals reached has grown from 50,000 in 2015 to 1.3M by 2025
Scaled a poverty graduation model across multiple countries over 8–10 years

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Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, DR Congo

Spark MicroGrants

Spark MicroGrants is pioneering a new method of community development. Spark helps low-income rural communities to design, implement and manage their own social impact projects. Spark provides microgrants between $2,000–$10,000 to enable project implementation, such as a school, electricity line or farm. No interest or repayment of the funds granted is requested. To date Spark has partnered with over 100 communities in Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi who have developed local project plans and are in the process of implementing them.

Impact & Growth

Expanded from 90 communities in 2014 to 1,375 communities by 2024
Increased individuals reached from 75,000 to 1.2M+ over 10 years

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