• Reports

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• The People
• Build something
• Meet the others

The Poverty Research Unit (PRU) of the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity has multiple openings for technical fellows in the area of developing and implementing measures of poverty, mobility, and medical care economic risks.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

This narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.

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• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Fellows will work closely with PRU staff to support multiple research projects including statistical data analysis and monitoring the poverty reduction effects of the city’s anti-poverty initiatives.

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• The People
• Civic data
• Fellowships

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

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• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

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• Access social benefits

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

International Aid Transparency Initiative IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Diversity & Inclusion

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Digital Green is a global development organization that empowers smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the collective power of technology and grassroots-level partnerships.

• agriculture
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• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. We believe that the best ideas for solving some of the world's most critical problems can come from anyone, anywhere. Through our grants and risk capital, we help breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and affect meaningful change.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Since 1999 we have supported great entrepreneurs with ideas that create a meaningful social impact, especially for people living in high-poverty communities.

• Graveyard
• Incubators

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

• food
• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Nonprofit tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organisation of nearly four million people, taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

Development Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.

The Praekelt Foundation develops innovative mobile solutions to improve the lives of people living in poverty.

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.

• human rights

Social entrepreneurship is the heart of NESsT's mission in emerging markets: empowering each sustainable business to create jobs and fight poverty.

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• Accelerators

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

HandUp makes giving to nonprofit organizations and their clients easy, secure and transparent -- and your donation goes directly to the cause. We partner with nonprofits whose mission is to serve those experiencing poverty. Every donation, small or large, can have a huge impact on a person's life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Single Stop brings together America's most effective anti-poverty tools to create economic mobility for families and individuals.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Using the Behavioral Sciences to Fight Global Poverty and Reduce Inequality

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

Our mission is to make disciples and alleviate poverty through the power of entrepreneurship.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Empowering employers and employees to ensure fair wages. South Africa has one million domestic workers, with the majority of them left vulnerable to exploitation and living below the poverty line. Living Wage is a calculator based on research surrounding the basic expenses on which a domestic worker may have to spend their salary.

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Data visualization

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech