Relevant organizations, groups, and individuals
| Name, description, and external link | Contact | Tags |
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
BMGF focuses on extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries, and the failures of America’s education system. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ |
Guillaume Chabot-Couture, Collaborator | education, poverty, health, polio |
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International Growth Centre (IGC)
The IGC aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. http://www.theigc.org/ |
Angela Ambroz, Economist | poverty, development, research, global-development |
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United Nations Global Pulse
Partner with experts from UN agencies, governments, academia, and the private sector to research, develop, and mainstream approaches for applying real-time digital data to 21st century development challenges. http://www.unglobalpulse.org/ |
Rene Clausen Nielsen, http://www.unglobalpulse.org/contact | United Nations, development, pulse, analytics, global, CDR, DHS |
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AidGrade
AidGrade aggregates information on charity impact evaluations and has experience with meta-analyses. http://www.aidgrade.org |
Eva Vivalt, Founder | meta-charity |
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Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action
CEGA has experience measuring the impacts of large-scale social and economic development programs, using randomized controlled trials and other rigorous methods. http://cega.berkeley.edu/ |
Temina Madon, Executive Director | rct, global-development, poverty |
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Center on Food Security and the Environment (CFSE)
The Center on Food Security and the Environment focuses on critical global issues of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation by generating vital knowledge and policy-relevant solutions. http://foodsecurity.stanford.edu/ |
Rosamond Naylor, Director | hunger, poverty, environment |
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Dimagi
Dimagi is a social enterprise that makes open source software to improve healthcare in developing countries and for the underserved. http://www.dimagi.com |
Neal Lesh, Chief Strategy Officer | health |
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Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is a university-wide research and teaching institution at Stanford devoted to understanding the problems, policies, and processes that cross international borders and affect lives around the world. http://fsi.stanford.edu/docs/about_fsi/ |
Mario-Florentino Cuellar, Director | refugees, health, security, hunger, poverty, environment |
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GreatNonprofits
Understanding the value of feedback from beneficiaries; constructing a meaningful nonprofit rating when feedback comes from disparate sources http://greatnonprofits.org |
Web form | meta-charity, ratings |
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Innovations for Poverty Action
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) applies rigorous techniques to develop, test and scale up proven solutions to real-world problems faced by the poor in developing countries. http://www.poverty-action.org/ |
Lindsey Shaughnessy, Data Coordinator | rct, global-development, poverty, randomized-control-trials |
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Abdul Lateef Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
J-PAL researchers conduct randomized evaluations to test and improve the effectiveness of programs and policies aimed at reducing poverty. http://www.povertyactionlab.org/ |
Ben Jaques, Agriculture Program Manager | poverty, development, hunger, agriculture, health, labor, governance, education, urban-services, randomized-control-trials, rct |
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Stanford Geospatial Center
Experts in geographic information systems (GIS), which capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. Engaged in a variety of social issues ranging from refugee health and safety to mass shootings in the U.S. http://lib.stanford.edu/GIS/ |
Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager | human-rights, education, refugees, migration, health, violence, gis |
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SparkPoint
SparkPoint is a San Francisco based anti-poverty organization offering a range of services -- including financial planning, tax preparation, and help applying to jobs -- for its clients. http://sparkpointcenters.org/ |
poverty | |
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Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis
CEPA investigates education policies at district, state, and federal level. http://cepa.stanford.edu/ |
Michelle Reininger, Executive Director | education, policy |
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Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality (CPI)
The Stanford CPI is one of three National Poverty Centers and a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/ |
Dave Grusky, Director | poverty, inequality, segregation |
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United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
The UNHCR is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. http://www.unhcr.org |
Kimberly Roberson, Chief of Field Information and Coordination Section | refugees, migration |