Mulago Foundation
Founded | 1993 United States of America |
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Area served | global |
Key people |
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Website | mulagofoundation |
The Mulago Foundation is a
Operations
Criteria for funding organizations
The Foundation's stated goal is to identify and invest in the highest impact giving opportunities. On their "How we fund" page, they write that they are looking for three things: a priority problem, a scalable solution, and an organization that can deliver. Once they identify an organization they wish to fund, they provide unrestricted and continued funding. Unlike most foundations, the Mulago Foundation does not accept or solicit proposals, but rather, the foundation itself tries to locate organizations to give to.[2]
Organizations funded by Mulago
As of August 2012, the Mulago Foundation website listed about 30 organizations funded by the foundation..
Organizations listed as of December 2022 include Babban Gona, Blue Ventures, Bridges to Prosperity, Development Media International, Digital Green, Foundation for Ecological Security, Friendship Bench, Global Forest Watch, Kheyti, Mountain Hazelnuts, Nudge Institute, One Acre Fund, SaveLIFE Foundation, Ubongo Learning, Urgewald and Youth Impact.[5]
Reception
Charity evaluator
The Mulago Foundation was also mentioned on the Tactical Philanthropy blog, and Kevin Starr of Mulago wrote a guest post for the blog.[8][9]
Kevin Starr of Mulago wrote an article for the
On March 11, 2014, Kevin Starr and Laura Hattendorf of the Mulago Foundation wrote a lengthy article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review skeptical of cash transfer charity GiveDirectly's accomplishment so far, saying that the evidence so far was underwhelming, though there might still be bigger gains a few years down the line. They contrasted GiveDirectly with other charities that they felt delivered more bang for the buck: One Acre Fund, VisionSpring, KickStart International, and Proximity Designs.[12] Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell wrote a lengthy response countering that GiveDirectly's impact had been more rigorously established, and that Starr and Hattendorf were using flawed metrics to judge impact.[13] The GiveDirectly board independently published a response on the GiveDirectly blog.[14]
Similar resources
- Acumen Fund
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Good Ventures
- Jasmine Social Investments
- Omidyar Network
- Peery Foundation
- Skoll Foundation
- Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
References
- ^ a b c d "About Mulago". Mulago Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^ "How we fund". Mulago Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^ "Social Impact Portfolio (Who we fund)". Mulago Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^ "Kruti Bharucha". mulagofoundation.org. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ^ "Our Portfolio". Mulago Foundation. Archived from the original on 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ^ "2011 international aid process review". GiveWell. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^ Karnofsky, Holden (February 21, 2011). "GiveWell's plan for 2011: specifics of research". GiveWell. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ^ "What is Impact All About?". Tactical Philanthropy. 2010-11-12.
- ^ Starr, Kevin (2010-07-27). "A Different Kind of Philanthropy". Tactical Philanthropy.
- ^ Starr, Kevin (2012-01-24). "The Trouble with Impact Investing". Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- ^ Dichter, Sasha (2012-01-25). "Your chance to shape a sector". Acumen Fund blog. Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^ Starr, Kevin; Hattendorf, Laura (March 11, 2014). "GiveDirectly? Not So Fast. We are mistaking an important experiment for a proven solution". Stanford Social Innovation Review. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
- ^ Karnofsky, Holden (March 20, 2014). "Big Impact vs. Big Promises". Stanford Social Innovation Review. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
- ^ "What's the
hypeevidence?". GiveDirectly (blog). March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.