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Livelihood Impact Lab
The Livelihood Impact Lab invests funding and expertise into data driven early stage organizations that strive to meaningfully and durably improve the lives of the global poor. We invest in African-led organizations with budgets of less than $1,000,000USD, with most less than $500,000USD.
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Livelihood Impact Fund
The Livelihood Impact Fund support partners that have clear evidence of impact, strong organizational structures and reliably deliver high, impact-level returns
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Eyeglasses initiative
One billion people live with vision impairment that could be corrected with glasses and over 80% (800 million people) are in need of a $1.5 pair of reading glasses, which has shown to increase income by 28% and productivity by 30%. Reading glasses are a low cost solution that can meaningfully improve livelihoods and well-being of 40+ year old adults.
The Eyeglass Initiative, operating under the umbrella of the Livelihood Impact Fund, is a targeted intervention focused on enabling easy access to reading glasses for 800 million adults in need. It aims at researching core questions around the benefits of reading glasses, running pilots & experimentation, and inspiring doers & funders to come together to solve the issue at scale.
Photos courtesy of One Acre Fund, Digital Divide Data, Educate & VisionSpring