Maximize Your Impact Fund
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The Maximize Your Impact Fund is our recommendation for donors who want to support evidence-driven charities working on key characteristics of extreme poverty, including education, health, living standards, and barriers to women and girls’ well-being. You benefit from our data with optimized funding grants managed by our team who allocate your gift to address time-sensitive needs on behalf of our recommended charities. This matches your donor funding with the highest-impact giving opportunities.
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Key Strengths: Evidence, Scale, Depth of impact, Durability
Multidimensional Poverty Index Indicators: Child mortality, Nutrition, Years of schooling, School attendance, Housing, Electricity, Cooking fuel, Sanitation, Drinking water
Other Key Outcomes: Physical safety, Improved health, Psychological well-being, Reduced early pregnancy rates, Agency
Why donate to the Maximize Your Impact Fund?
Extreme poverty encompasses various characteristics that profoundly impact individuals’ ability to meet their family’s needs and to lead the lives they aspire to. The Maximize Your Impact Fund is a reflection of our commitment to addressing multidimensional poverty, with characteristics identified in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The charities benefiting from the Maximize Your Impact Fund cover a wide range of interventions in health, education, living standards, and barriers to women and girls’ well-being. When you donate to the Maximize Your Impact Fund, you support their efforts in having an impact across all the indicators of multidimensional poverty. All the causes we address in our other funds are also funded within the Maximize Your Impact Fund. By donating to the Maximize Your Impact Fund, our fund managers are able to fulfill your impact goals, reaching the most people possible and uplifting the most vulnerable communities.
Global MPI – Dimensions, Indicators, Deprivation Cutoffs, and Weights
Source: Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2020 revision’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
| Dimension | Indicator | Deprived if living in a household where… | Weight |
| Health (1/3) | Nutrition | Any person under 70 years of age for whom there is nutritional information is undernourished. | 1/6 |
| Child mortality | A child under 18 has died in the household in the five-year period preceding the survey. | 1/6 | |
| Education (1/3) | Years of schooling | No eligible household member has completed six years of schooling. | 1/6 |
| School attendance | Any school-aged child is not attending school up to the age at which he/she would complete class 8. | 1/6 | |
| Living Standards (1/3) | Cooking fuel | A household cooks using solid fuel, such as dung, agricultural crop, shrubs, wood, charcoal, or coal. | 1/18 |
| Sanitation | The household has unimproved or no sanitation facility or it is improved but shared with other households. | 1/18 | |
| Drinking water | The household’s source of drinking water is not safe or safe drinking water is a 30-minute or longer walk from home, roundtrip. | 1/18 | |
| Electricity | The household has no electricity. | 1/18 | |
| Housing | The household has inadequate housing materials in any of the three components: floor, roof, or walls. | 1/18 | |
| Assets | The household does not own more than one of these assets: radio, TV, telephone, computer, animal cart, bicycle, motorbike, or refrigerator, and does not own a car or truck. | 1/18 |
What is the intended impact of the Maximize Your Impact Fund?
The Maximize Your Impact Fund is comprised of our recommendations that create impact across the three dimensions of multidimensional poverty: health, education, and living standards. Additionally, while women and girls well-being is not a specific dimension in the MPI, it is also accounted for in our recommendations. Poverty is multifaceted and this fund works to break barriers to well-being and support holistic solutions to advance human development. Children cannot learn if they are hungry and malnourished. Parents cannot support their families through gainful employment if they are sick from not having access to clean drinking water. We understand that singular solutions in isolation cannot solve the complex problems created and sustained by extreme poverty. The Maximize Your Impact Fund allows donors to support a diverse array of solutions and charities that actively create opportunities for individual and community prosperity across all of the dimensions of poverty.
How do we measure impact?
Our research team works closely with our recommended charities, actively monitoring their progress on key outcomes. These outcomes span across various dimensions and indicators of the Multidimensional Poverty Index. We explore the sources of impact metrics, ranging from internal monitoring and evaluation data, to external impact evaluations, including randomized controlled trials. In evaluating the impact of our recommended charities and projecting their future potential, we analyze the convergence of evidence from diverse sources, including external evaluations and the broader literature on specific interventions. Additionally, we assess the impact of our grants and their ability to strengthen the ecosystem of high-impact organizations. Key questions are central to these evaluations, such as:
- Do our grants effectively realize their intended objectives?
- Are our recommended charities making tangible progress towards their goals on an annual basis?
- Are these organizations able to secure additional funding and expand the reach of their programs?
The successful scaling and increased financial backing of our recommended charities serve as indicators of achievement for our team.
Read more about how we measure impact
To learn more about our research and evaluation process, please refer to the following links:
How does the Maximize Your Impact Fund work?
The Maximize Your Impact Fund ensures that donations go where they can create the greatest change. The fund includes a portfolio of organizations across all dimensions of poverty, ensuring that your impact is multidimensional.
Through rigorous research and strategic allocation, we make discretionary grants at the end of each quarter, directing funds to our recommended charities based on their funding needs, urgent opportunities—such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, or sudden funding gaps—and ongoing evaluations. Our decisions are guided by direct conversations with these organizations, the fund’s balance, and a focus on programs aligned with our research and strategy.
By contributing to the fund, you entrust a team of expert grant-makers to maximize the effectiveness of your donation. Your support powers a portfolio of high-impact organizations and promising solutions while addressing time-sensitive funding gaps that individual donors might not be able to fill.
Funds are distributed quarterly, ensuring that every donation is put to work without delay. You can choose to allocate 100% of your donation to charities or dedicate 90% to charities and 10% to support our operations. We offer this option because we do not charge donor fees and instead raise operational funding separately.
Latest Grants Made
| Date | Recipient | Grant | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | Against Malaria Foundation | Supporting operating expenses | USD 137,988.99 |
| December 2024 | Breakthrough Trust | Supporting operating expenses | USD 68,994.96 |
| December 2024 | Development Media International | Supporting operating expenses | USD 172,488.00 |
| December 2024 | Educate Girls | Supporting operating expenses | USD 172,488.02 |
| December 2024 | Evidence Action | Supporting operating expenses | USD 103,492.60 |
| December 2024 | GiveDirectly | Supporting operating expenses | USD 103,492.60 |
| December 2024 | Living Goods | Supporting operating expenses | USD 68,994.96 |
| December 2024 | Raising The Village | Supporting operating expenses | USD 103,492.60 |
| December 2024 | Sanku – Project Healthy Children | Supporting operating expenses | USD 172,488.03 |
| December 2024 | Seva | Supporting operating expenses | USD 68,994.96 |
| December 2024 | Teaching at the Right Level Africa | Supporting operating expenses | USD 68,994.96 |
| December 2024 | Unlimit Health | Supporting operating expenses | USD 172,488.02 |
Fund Manager
Our team works to recommend high-impact donations. Contact us if you have questions about giving to the Maximize Your Impact Fund.
