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.
The California Policy Lab (a project of The Regents of the University of California)
The California Policy Lab generates research insights for government impact. Through hands-on partnerships with government agencies, CPL performs rigorous research across issue silos and builds the data infrastructure necessary to improve programs and policies that millions of Californians rely on every day.
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.