Investments

Pooled fund awards were made via our multi-donor funding vehicle.

In the case of affiliate funded awards, we played some supportive role (e.g., in scoping, review, due diligence, or technical assistance), but the award did not flow through our books: an affiliate funder made it directly.

March 15, 2023

| Harvard University

| Reporting (and Misreporting) of Migration Experiences

| $62k from affiliate funder

March 15, 2023

| ITAM

| Impact of Expanding Data Access of Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia

| $72k from affiliate funder

March 15, 2023

| University of Chicago

| Addressing Youth Insecurity in Eastern DRC

| $450k from affiliate funder

March 7, 2023

| Fellowship: A Towne Amporo (Youth impact)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: AC Thorsheim, T Oyekanmi (Family Empowerment Media)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: J Bittner, A Kaslin (Vida Plena)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: J Solomon (tbd)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: K Hashi (OGOW Health)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: K Hu, G Zhou (tbd)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: M Aboubaker (tbd)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: M Pandey, S Guhan, K Joshi (Key Education Foundation)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: N Otis (UC Berkeley)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: P Narayanan (Involve)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 20, 2022

| Fellowship: R Gupta (Labhya Foundation)

| $70k from pooled fund

December 2, 2022

| D-Tree

| Pilot Partnership on Perinatal Health

| $25k from pooled fund

December 2, 2022

| IDinsight

| Pilot Partnership on Perinatal Health

| $35k from pooled fund

December 2, 2022

| LivingGoods

| Pilot Partnership on Perinatal Health

| $25k from pooled fund

December 2, 2022

| Praekelt MomConnect

| Pilot Partnership on Perinatal Health

| $25k from pooled fund

November 30, 2022

| SameSame

| Optimizing Digital Mental Health through Reinforcement Learning

| $100k from affiliate funder

October 31, 2022

| Consilium Bots

| 'Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor': Colombia Expansion

| $113k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Consilium Bots

| Supporting the Navigation of Social Benefit Systems

| $193k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Consilium Bots

| Virtual Counselor for Informed Higher Education Decisions in Colombia

| $200k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| IPA

| Measuring Long-Term Impacts of Negotiation Training with Zambian Girls

| $77k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Kabakoo Academies

| Implementing and Testing a Blended Learning Approach

| $347k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Movva

| Supporting Higher Education Decision-Making in Brazil

| $400k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Railway Children Tanzania

| Building and Testing Associations for Street Youth

| $250k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Saajha

| Involving Parents in the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy of Children

| $200k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Shujaaz & IDinsight

| A/B-Testing Media for User Engagement

| $300k from pooled fund

October 31, 2022

| Youth Impact

| Refining, Codifying, and Exporting Rapid Impact Assessments

| $400k from pooled fund

October 28, 2022

| Columbia Teachers College

| Studying Perceived Control among Teachers in North India

| $13k from pooled fund

October 15, 2022

| NEPI Liberia

| Restarting Liberia Operations

| $180k from affiliate funder

October 4, 2022

| Emory University

| Impact Evaluation of Health Baby Toolkit

| $350k from pooled fund

September 8, 2022

| Educate

| Piloting Bootcamps with Out-of-School Youth

| $450k from affiliate funder

September 8, 2022

| Fundación Capital

| Digital Tools in Social Protection and Ultra-Poor Graduation

| $210k from affiliate funder

September 8, 2022

| Immigration Policy Lab

| Contribution to ECOWAS Migration Research

| $300k from affiliate funder

September 8, 2022

| NEPI Liberia

| General Research Support

| $270k from affiliate funder

July 29, 2022

| Johns Hopkins University

| SEE Change Evaluation

| $412k from affiliate funder

June 17, 2022

| Behavioral Insights Team

| Using Chat to Engage with Cash Transfer Recipients in Peru

| $208k from pooled fund

June 8, 2022

| J-PAL

| Testing Onramps to Female Labor Force Participation in India

| $104k from affiliate funder

June 8, 2022

| Shamiri Institute

| Mental Health Services for Kenyan Youth: Testing Scaling Models

| $212k from affiliate funder

May 13, 2022

| BRAC

| Testing Media & Therapy to Reduce Spousal Violence

| $250k from pooled fund

May 13, 2022

| Myna Mahila Foundation

| Pilot Experimentation on Rani Work app

| $100k from pooled fund

May 13, 2022

| Sangath

| Digital Extension of Health Activity Program

| $200k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| FHI 360

| Conversational Voicebot to Assist with Nutritional Choice

| $200k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| IDEAS Pakistan

| Evaluation of Child Growth Monitoring & Communication Tools

| $250k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| Indus Action

| Helping People Navigate Nutrition Benefit Programs

| $200k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| SameSame

| Chatbots to Support Queer Youth in Hostile Contexts

| $203k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| Shamiri Institute

| Collecting Medium-Term Outcomes on Mental Health RCT in Kenya

| $120k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| Suvita

| Adding Nutritional Counseling to Existing Mobile Campaigns

| $200k from pooled fund

May 9, 2022

| The Taimaka Project

| Innovations in Mobile Tech to Reduce Acute Malnutrition

| $95k from pooled fund

May 6, 2022

| Rocket Learning

| Adding Nutritional Counseling to WhatsApp Groups

| $200k from pooled fund

April 11, 2022

| YLabs

| Building a Platform for Youth Counseling

| $200k from pooled fund

April 1, 2022

| Glific

| Open Source Platform for WhatsApp Chat

| $180k from pooled fund

March 11, 2022

| African School of Economics

| Role Model and Teacher Effects in Nigeria’s NYSC

| $230k from pooled fund

March 9, 2022

| Dost Education

| Evaluation of Early Childhood Stimulation Phonecasts

| $180k from pooled fund

February 17, 2022

| University of Chicago

| Research Projects on Citizen Science in Economic Development

| $1M from affiliate funder

February 13, 2022

| IPA

| Shamba Shape Up Evaluation

| $180k from affiliate funder

February 8, 2022

| Consilium Bots

| General Operating Support

| $288k from affiliate funder

February 8, 2022

| Precision Development

| Testing Leaf Color Charts

| $196k from affiliate funder

February 3, 2022

| Praekelt.org

| Goal-Setting and Plan-Making Toolkit

| $250k from affiliate funder

January 7, 2022

| CIIC-HIN

| Piloting an Antenatal Advisory Platform in Rwanda

| $100k from pooled fund

January 7, 2022

| Consilium Bots

| Expanding the 'Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor' Counseling Program

| $380k from pooled fund

January 7, 2022

| Indus Action

| Improving the Welfare Entitlements Eligibility Engine

| $180k from pooled fund

January 7, 2022

| Jacaranda Health

| Expanding an Antental Advisory Platform in Kenya and Beyond

| $200k from pooled fund

January 7, 2022

| NBER

| Designing & Evaluating a Contest Approach to Media Selection

| $250k from pooled fund

January 6, 2022

| BRAC

| Evaluating StrongMinds Group Therapy with Ugandan Youth (Extension)

| $91k from affiliate funder

January 5, 2022

| Oxford Psychiatry Dept

| Digital Behavioral Activation with Ugandan Youth (Extension)

| $110k from affiliate funder

January 4, 2022

| IPA

| Evaluating the Impact of PsychCorps in Ghana (Extension)

| $88k from affiliate funder

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: B Cornish (finEQUITY)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: F Ochoa (ConsiliumBots)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: J McKay, K Mundangepfupfu, C Roelf (SameSame)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: MF Ramírez Espinoza (ConsiliumBots)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: N Angrist, K Clune, M Matsheng (Youth Impact)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: N Mahajan (Rocket Learning)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: P Poddar (Affordably)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: P Yeats (turn.io)

| $65k from pooled fund

January 1, 2022

| Fellowship: S Vaswani (Saajha)

| $65k from pooled fund

December 1, 2021

| IPA

| 10y Follow-Up on Evaluation of CBT with At-Risk Youth in Liberia (Extension)

| $129k from affiliate funder