We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

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Agency in Action

Youth Impact’s Zones program provides health information to young people in Sub-Saharan Africa so they can make safer choices about their sexual and reproductive health.
ConsiliumBots turns underutilized data into virtual assistance to empower people to make informed choices about education, housing, and more.
Rocket Learning empowers parents and caregivers to support early education by creating online communities and sharing play-based learning content via Whatsapp groups.
Indus Action assists vulnerable families in accessing social programs they are eligible for.

Our Vision

All people have the resources they need to envision, navigate toward, and realize a better future.

The Agency Fund is mobilizing an ecosystem of diverse actors unified around a singular vision:

All people have the resources they need to envision, navigate toward, and realize a better future.

We are a multi-donor
collaborative.

Together, we're transforming individual lives and changing the ecosystem of support for development organizations.

Our grantees expand people’s self-determination.

They combine research and action, leveraging data to learn and adapt quickly.

Our Approach

Discover

We fund R&D projects that design agency approaches and evaluate whether they enable people to improve their own outcomes.

Accelerate

We offer financial and in-kind support to exceptional organizations that try to deploy agency approaches cost-effectively, learning and scaling in tandem.

Mobilize

We propagate useful tools & insights and draw resources, talent, and attention toward the science & practice of expanding human agency.