Who We Fund

Big ideas, organizations that deliver

Who We Fund

Big Bang organizations address the fundamental needs of the poor, are committed to impact at maximum scale, and have received a total of at least $100,000 from each of at least three Big Bang funders.

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Organizations can be start-ups or scale-ups, for-profits or not-for-profits, but all must show real promise of impact at scale. Later stage organizations must show proof of impact; early-stage organizations must make a strong case for impact ahead and have mechanisms in place to measure it. The Big Bang list is growing as we recommend organizations to each other and as new funders join the conversation.

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Comaco turns poachers into farmers by providing training and access to premium markets in exchange for “conservation burning”- no poaching, good soil management, no burning, and no clearing.
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Jacaranda Health assures high-quality maternity care through their chain of clinics designed for women by women.
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Kickstart develops, manufactures and mass markets money-making products for the rural poor, specifically manual irrigation pumps to drive a shift from subsistence to high-profit farming.
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Komaza provides farmers integrated delivery of cash-crop trees for semi-arid land; best practice, sustainable tree farming; value-capture infrastructure; and access to timber and biofuel markets.
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Living Goods is an Avon-like network of village based Health Promoters selling essential, affordable health products and teaching healthy behaviors door to door.
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mothers2mothers trains and hires HIV+ mothers as peer counselors focused on good pre-and-post-natal care and the prevention of maternal-child transmission of HIV.
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A general contractor of Poverty solutions, Nuru provides holistic rural development that brings together the best of proven, scaleable solutions together in the same place at the same time.
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One Acre Fund bundles together the ingredients of successful farming -training, credit, and access to markets- and delivers them to existing community groups of farmers.
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Proximity Designs treats the poor like customers; designing, marketing and selling moneymaking products that farmers can afford.
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RefugePoint finds lasting solutions for the world’s most vulnerable refugees.
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Root Capital provides capital and technical training to rural producers in the “missing middle” so that they can grow their businesses and access new markets.
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VillageReach puts high performance logistical systems in place to make sure that vaccines, drugs and supplies get to the remote clinics millions of people depend on.
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VisionSpring is a micro-franchise supply chain for the sale of reading glasses to poor people who have lost livelihoods due to uncorrected presbyopia.
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Wild4life uses rural organizations, existing healthcare resources, and a novel approach to HIV testing to assure care for rural populations previously out of reach.
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