Spark Microgrants
Spark works with communities, governments, and local organizations to catalyze sustained collective action in villages facing poverty by providing communities the resources and skills they need to design and implement a development project of their choosing — this could mean building a school, planting crops, starting a local business, or anything else the community feels best serves their needs. Through Spark’s Facilitated Collective Action Process (“the Spark Process”), communities are led through weekly meetings and trainings to organize, conceptualize and implement their chosen project and receive a microgrant to fund it.
Code for America Labs
Code for America works at the intersection of technology and government to reduce poverty, advance equity, and improve people’s lives at scale. They do this by helping governments discover barriers that prevent systems from working, then design and deliver adaptive products and services that directly tackle those barriers in order to create a government that works for the people, by the people, in the digital age.
dZi Foundation
dZi works with rural communities in Nepal to achieve prosperity by eliminating barriers to basic needs, fostering opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, and building their capacity to catalyze transformational change.
Hope of Family
Hope of Family provides wrap-around support to children from vulnerable families, improving their academic performance through increased parental involvement, and promoting adult literacy and capacity building to support socio-economic welfare at the family level.
PeacEdu
PeacEdu Initiative Rwanda is a non-government organization aiming to prevent genocide and mass atrocities through education. PeacEdu focuses on healing the wounds caused by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, teaching peace education, working closely with vulnerable genocide survivors, and also with genocide perpetrators to foster reconciliation and peace. PeacEdu is also comprised of youth clubs that equip youth with Human Rights Education, critical thinking, empathy, and a personal responsibility to reject violence.