Agency describes the capability to formulate goals, understand and navigate our environment, and learn, adapt and maintain resilience as we strive to achieve our ambitions.

At the Agency Fund, we care about the long-term impacts of new technologies. We want to learn how an app affects people’s health, safety, or prosperity. 

What happened when we tried to use LLMs and machine learning in our own work?

Autonomous LLM agents can aid in data analysis tasks, specifically exploratory data analysis.

Recent strides in machine learning have made it easier to harness “collective wisdom” for the public good. In this post, we will dive into LLMs.

There is always lots to learn in any given context, so we seek grantees that combine research and implementation muscle under the same roof.

In early 2022, we began investigating ways to support the agency of pregnant women and mothers. How might we help?

Exploring the concept of human agency in development and its impact on charitable interventions.

Because people's lives and contexts keep changing, nonprofit programmes need to constantly iterate to factor in new information. Technology and real-time data can play a big role here.

Learn how to use rsurveycto package to analyze and visualize SurveyCTO data in R effortlessly.

Empowering people in poverty to navigate their own choices through expanded agency, using data and technology.