Our Approach
We engage people's consciousness and expand their capability to exert control over their own lives.
White Paper
Agency-oriented approaches can be highly cost-effective development interventions. For more on the science, read our White Paper.
Foundations
Empowering experiences enable people to evaluate options, increase hope, and unlock potential. Read about the Foundations of Our Approach.
What We Do
Discover
We find and fund innovators with compelling ideas for expanding human agency.
Innovation
Our fellows prototype solutions for complex social problems. Their pioneering approaches are often adopted by existing organizations - or used as the basis for a new social enterprise.
Pilot & Demonstration Projects
We fund the testing and implementation of ideas to expand agency and improve lives in a scalable, cost-effective way.
Research
We fund impact evaluations and research that generate insights to inform social innovation, as well as our own approach.
Accelerate
We leverage data and technology to help organizations scale their social impact.
Adaptive learning
We provide technical, strategy, and change management support to help our partners scale what works by increasing their data science, impact evaluation, and adaptive learning capabilities.
Shared infrastructure
We create data and technology infrastructure for our grantees - and open source what we create as a public good.
Funding for scale
We further invest in a selection of our grantees who are ready to scale promising approaches. This funding is typically unrestricted or minimally restricted.
Strategic capacities
We also support our acceleration partners community of grantees with the networking, fundraising, and strategic guidance they need to be successful organizations.
Mobilize
We share insights, build community, and inspire action around agency-led interventions.
Insights
We share our insights and those of our community in our blog, external publications, and media.
Collaboration
We build community and collaboration among actors stakeholders working at the intersection of tech, development, and human flourishing.
Systems Change
We seek to engage diverse actors in bringing their resources to bear to expand agency and improve lives.
Read Case studies demonstrating the impact of agency-led approaches.