Social Impact Portfolio
Scalable Solutions Portfolio
The Mulago Foundation is focused on four elements of a lasting better life - livelihood, health, education and conservation - in the places that need it the most.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) tests poverty solutions with the rigor of medical trials, then uses the results to change policy and practice in development.
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Aquaya catalyzes the delivery of clean H2O to the poor through profitable water kiosks using off-the-shelf technologies.
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Bridge International Academies operates a franchise-like network of ultra low-cost, for-profit private schools, delivering high-quality education for less than $4 per student per month.
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Comaco turns poachers into farmers by providing training and access to premium markets in exchange for “conservation farming" - no poaching, good soil management, no burning, and no clearing.
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Conservation Stewards makes local people the guardians of biodiversity through explicit agreements that bring ongoing community benefits in exchange for a commitment to conserve biodiversity.
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D-Rev designs world-class, affordable products that improve health and income – and they make certain those products get to those who need them most
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Embrace uses emerging technologies and a systematic product design process to design, market and distribute high-impact medical products that the poor can afford.
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Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) tests poverty solutions with the rigor of medical trials, then uses the results to change policy and practice in development.
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Jacaranda Health assures high-quality maternity through their chain of clinics designed for women by women.
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Island Conservation eradicates devastating invasive species from islands so that endemic species and ecosystems can recover.
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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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Medic Mobile uses novel software and mobile messaging to create low-cost communications networks that boost the performance of health care organizations.
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Microclinic International uses the power of social networks to make healthy behavior contagious.
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MicroDreams builds financially sustainable micro-enterprise organizations that provide poor aspiring entrepreneurs the training, credit and ongoing guidance and motivation they need to build their businesses.
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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 the best of proven, scalable solutions together in the same place at the same time
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One Heart World Wide works with mothers, families, midwives, and medial personnel to create a robust “Network of Safety” that serves to insure survival of mothers and newborns.
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OneReef brings together whose who care about reefs – the communities that own them and the investors willing to pay – to create durable agreements to ensure reef conservation.
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One Acre Fund bundles together 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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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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Samasource uses the Internet to bring decent-paying digital piecework from rich countries to the educated jobless in poor countries.
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Surfaid International uses Mother’s Care Groups to teach key household health practices.
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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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Vision Spring 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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In addition to our Scalable Solutions Portfolio, the Mulago Foundation invests in a small number of additional organizations and programs.










