Latin America
LALA is a non-profit institution that aims to develop a new generation of diverse, entrepreneurial, and ethical leaders who will serve the Latin American region. They identify high-potential, purpose-driven 14-to-20-year-olds — many of them from historically marginalized communities to provide them leadership development; which is understood as a combination of (a) skills development (collaborative capacities, coordination of perspectives, decision making ability, context identification), (b) health, wellness, and personality development to be able to hold the responsibility of being changemakers, and (c) transcendence and connection to motivate people to act on behalf of humanity.
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Mozambique, Kenya, and Peru
Legado is a women-led, global nonprofit that works alongside Indigenous Peoples and local communities in places important for biodiversity to ensure they have the tools, resources, and partnerships they need to design and implement solutions of their choosing that benefit both their communities and landscapes—an outcome they call Thriving Futures. Their indigenous partners then create 360 Community-Led change across their range of interconnected priorities including education, human health, livelihoods, governance, culture and environmental health.
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Global
Tarjimly is a global tech nonprofit with the mission of eliminating humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers. Tarjimly dramatically improves the speed, volume, quality, and cost-effectiveness of worldwide humanitarian and social support by providing high-quality, on-demand, remote translation and interpretation. Their AI-enabled mobile app instantly connects refugees and humanitarians to a global army of 58K translators in 175 languages and has so far impacted 425,000+ refugees worldwide. Currently, Tarjimly is the world’s most accessible translation and interpretation service.
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India & Kyrgyzstan
Intelehealth delivers high-quality healthcare via telemedicine where there is no doctor. Using an open-source technology platform that's driven by an innovative digital health assistant, Intelehealth connects patients and frontline health workers at the last mile, with doctors, diagnostics, and medications. Intelehealth's telemedicine programs have resulted in more than a 60% reduction of out-of-pocket expenses for rural populations and improved capacity and skill development for the frontline workforce. Intelehealth is on track to provide healthcare for 10 million women over the next three years.
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Global
An astounding five million people are sexually trafficked every day. Rescue:Freedom’s mission is to prevent sexual exploitation, rescue its victims, and help those victims return to a normal life. Because of the myriad approaches to combating sex trafficking, Rescue:Freedom partners with organizations who best understand sex trafficking in their communities and can combat the issue at its source. Rescue:Freedom also partners with leading experts worldwide who can demonstrate programmatic effectiveness, financial accountability, and an expert-level understanding of slavery.
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San Diego County, CA
The therapeutic value of domesticated animals is widely recognized. REINS has succeeded in supporting the physical, mental and emotional health of disabled children and adults with therapeutic horseback riding, which benefits most disabling conditions, including cerebral palsy, autism, down syndrome, brain injuries, hearing impairments, visual impairments, multiple sclerosis, seizure disorders, speech & learning disabilities, and sensory-integration dysfunction. The warmth and rhythmic motion of the horse have a calming effect while stimulating and exercising the rider’s muscles, increasing mobility. To encourage speech, identify objects, and sequence multiple tasks, students also socialize with other students in games and other group activities.
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Grantees Previously Funded by The IROH Foundation
Tamale, Ghana
Saha Global gets clean water to the people who need it most. They put women at the heart of the solution, training them to start and run small rural water-treatment businesses. These women entrepreneurs use locally-available materials to treat contaminated surface water. After launching a new water business, Saha provides Customer Care to that partner community for a minimum of ten years. During that time, Saha mentors the woman entrepreneur and helps her to eliminate barriers to clean water consumption by transforming customer behavior. Saha’s goal is to make it as easy as possible for people to choose to drink clean water exclusively.
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Guatemala
In Guatemala, 46.5% of children under five are chronically malnourished. Semilla Nueva fights malnutrition with better maize. Rather than try to alter the culture, diet, and behavior of millions of Guatemalans, Semilla Nueva, a nonprofit social enterprise, develops, produces, and sells biofortified maize seed with higher zinc, iron, and quality protein contents to reduce nutritional deficiencies across Guatemala’s national population. These high-yielding, low-cost seeds offer an economic advantage to farmers and a solution to malnutrition that works with, not against, maize’s inherent cultural significance.
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Pan-Africa
Ubongo combines the power of entertainment, the proven efficacy of research based and localized learning, and the reach of mass media to deliver effective and localized learning at low cost and massive scale. Ubongo leverages the accessible technology that African families already have (like radio, TV, and mobile phones) to help kids learn. This is done through the universal childhood language of cartoons, music, and play. Over 17 million families in Africa learn with Ubongo’s edu-cartoons and radio programs, and Ubongo is rapidly growing across Africa, with educational cartoons broadcast on television in four languages in 31 countries.
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Rwanda
Dust is kicked up, spills and puddles stick around, and the floors of peoples’ homes become a breeding ground for mosquitoes, parasites, and all of the disease that comes with them. But concrete floors are just too expensive for many families, especially in Rwanda.
EarthEnable’s custom-developed earthen floors are the solution. EarthEnable eliminates unsanitary dirt floors and provides affordable, sanitary flooring that can be washed, cleaned, and used to create a healthy home environment for millions of people. |
Lusaka, Zambia
Healthy Learners is a nonprofit organization based in Zambia that brings health care to the place children spend their days: schools. Children ages 5-16 have largely been ignored by major global health initiatives, so Healthy Learners trains teachers to double as school health workers. This allows the teachers to monitor and respond to the health needs of school-going children. With strong support from the Ministries of Health and Education, Healthy Learners is rapidly scaling this highly effective program.
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Madagascar
Since 2014, PIVOT has been working in partnership with Madagascar’s Ministry of Health to transform a rural district of 200,000 people into a model evidence-based system of universal health coverage that can be replicated at scale. Their integrated approach combines delivery of quality care, strengthening of public systems, and rigorous data collection and analysis to advance a social justice agenda of health as a human right. Through this, and by providing an expanded platform for scientific exploration guided by the needs of the poor, they aim to help the country of Madagascar become a leader in health-system transformation.
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Uganda, Namibia, South Africa & USA
No Means No Worldwide (NMNW) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to end sexual violence against women and children. The organization uses a proven, packaged curriculum called IMpower to advance sexual violence prevention, intervention, and recovery for boys and girls aged 10-20 in high-risk communities. NMNW is reaching scale by training like-minded partners to adopt IMpower in new geographies. NMNW has partners and projects in Kenya, Uganda, the United States, and South Africa,and it plans to add six additional countries in 2020.
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Uganda
Raising The Village (RTV) focuses on moving rural communities out of ultra-poverty in last-mile Uganda. RTV implements inclusive low-cost, community-driven livelihood solutions to help communities achieve economic self-sufficiency. The program prioritizes the participation of women, youth, and vulnerable households through additional group-specific initiatives.
After 36 months, an RTV partner-family typically sees daily incomes rise from $0.45 to $2.67 per day, achieving a Social ROI of $9.69 for every dollar invested. Since 2016, RTV has partnered with over 180,000 beneficiaries representing 38,000 families. It’s goal is to impact one million lives by 2023. |
Togo
Integrate Health saves lives by making healthcare accessible and effective in Togo, West Africa. Integrate Health was founded in 2004 by a group of Peace Corps Volunteers working with a community-based association of individuals living with HIV/AIDS who believed that everyone deserves access to healthcare regardless of the latitude and longitude of their birthplace. Integrate Health implements an integrated clinic- and community-based healthcare delivery model to strengthen HIV/AIDS and Maternal and Child healthcare services throughout northern Togo in order to eliminate preventable deaths.
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Peru, Chile, Mexico & Brazil
Laboratoria works for thousands of women in Latin America to develop careers in tech that will change their future, while making the industry more diverse. Through their bootcamp, women that did not have access to quality education become Web Developers and UX Designers, accessing great jobs in technology. More than 1000 women have graduated from their program, and more than 80% of them are working in technology, transforming their lives and the industry.
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Nepal
One Heart Worldwide has over 15 years of experience implementing maternal and neonatal mortality prevention programs in areas where women often die alone at home giving birth. Their aim is to improve access to, and utilization of healthcare services to reduce the risk of maternal and neonatal mortality in the most remote, rural areas. They believe that all women and newborns can receive the quality healthcare services they deserve during pregnancy and childbirth, anytime and anyplace.
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India
Noora Health realizes that long-term monitoring and regular outpatient care are beyond the capacity of traditional health services. In order to overcome the problems associated with limited professional care, Noora gives patients and their families the high-impact health skills that can improve treatment outcomes and save lives. By providing families with simple, low-risk skills, Noora enables patients and their families to take health care into their own hands and homes.
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Mali
Muso builds health systems to save lives by reaching patients faster, within hours of the moment they become sick. Muso partners with governments to design, deploy, and test proactive strategies for universal health coverage and child survival, and is supporting the Malian government's efforts to scale-up Community Health Worker-led health systems across the country, to connect more than three million vulnerable patients with care by 2020. Researchers from the Malian government, Harvard, UCSF and Muso documented a 10x difference in child mortality after the roll-out of Muso's Proactive Care strategy in one area of Mali, a site which now has the lowest child mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Tanzania
Africa is hardest hit by malnutrition. Most don’t have access to healthy foods, and every meal is primarily starchy flour. Lacking key vitamins and minerals, especially in a child’s diet, results in millions of people dying every year from preventable sicknesses.
Sanku equips small-scale flour mills in East Africa with foolproof equipment to make sure rural kids are eating flour with critical micronutrients, scientifically proven to improve health and vitality. Children get the key nutrients they need and lives are saved. |
Uganda
Depression is the most prevalent mental illness in the developing world. In Africa, it’s devastating: 66 million sufferers, mostly women. The great majority have no social services to turn to.
StrongMinds uses Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy, or “group talk therapy”, a low-cost, proven methodology that has reduced symptoms by up to 90 percent. So far, they have helped more than 1,800 African women, and by extension their families, get back their lives. StrongMinds goal: treat 2 million in the next 10 years. |
Global
In the remote farmlands of the developing world, rainy seasons can be life-threatening. Bridges to Prosperity provides isolated communities with access to essential health care, education, and economic opportunities by training and working alongside them to build footbridges over impassable rivers.
Founded in 2001, B2P has supported the construction of more than 200 footbridges in 20 countries, creating access to essential services and opportunities for nearly 1 million people worldwide. This year, the organization will build 42 new bridges, adding more than 80,000 people to the total served. |
Nepal
The dZi Foundation works in partnership with remote communities in Nepal to create lasting improvements in their quality of life.
dZi currently works in seven of the most remote Village Development Communities (roughly the equivalent of a county) in Nepal – comprised of 77 separate settlements, and nearly 29,000 residents. dZi commits to each of these communities for at least nine years, and their comprehensive approach provides multiple benefits to each and every person. The long-term approach gives dZi enough time to adapt their strategies according to the needs of each community, thus deepening the impact. |
Kenya
BOMA implements a high-impact poverty graduation program for ultra-poor women in the drought-threatened arid lands. BOMA helps them to start small businesses in their rural communities, so they can pay for food, school fees and medical care for their families.
BOMA’s Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) is an innovative two-year poverty graduation program that provides a cash grant (seed capital to launch a business), sustained training in business skills and savings, and hands-on local mentoring by BOMA Village Mentors to business groups of three women. |
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, DR Congo
Spark MicroGrants is pioneering a new method of community development.
Spark supports rural poor communities to design, implement and manage their own social impact projects. Spark provides microgrants between $2,000-$10,000 to enable project implementation, such as a school, electricity line or farm. No interest or repayment of the funds granted is requested. To date Spark has partnered with over 100 communities in Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi who have developed local project plans and are in the process of implementing them. |