About Lever for Change

Lever for Change is a nonprofit affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. We help donors find and fund solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. We do this in two primary ways:

• We develop and manage customized grant challenges that award a minimum of $10 million in funding (payable over five years) to help donors accelerate social change. Our challenges can be designed to help donors find and fund bold solutions to the world's biggest problems or to support a cohort of organizations within a particular field.
• We invite all Lever for Change challenge finalists to become members of our Bold Solutions Network, a growing global network that helps members connect with donors, secure additional funding and amplify their impact.

Navigating this Collection

There are 18 highly-rated projects from across Lever for Change challenges featured in this collection that have current and/or proposed work locations in one or more of Vitol Foundation's 30 priority countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Oceania. The projects are categorized relative to Vitol's programmatic focus areas in health, education, livelihoods, and humanitarian relief (please note that we do not have any WASH projects to share at this time that work in Vitol's priority countries).

For ease of viewing the collection below, you may click on each tile to expand the project snapshot. The snapshot includes key organizational details and project information captured during the challenge process.

Last updated 7/5/2023

Next Steps

These organizations are ready to solve critical problems and are seeking resources to implement their solutions. Please contact Dana Rice, VP, Philanthropy at Lever for Change, if you are interested in any of the following:

1. Requesting additional information about a proposal: We are happy to provide you with an organization’s full proposal and a summary of evaluations and due diligence, if available.
2. Connecting with the organizations: We can also facilitate introductions to the organizations featured on this list so you can learn more about their work and ask specific funding questions.
3. Supporting organizations: Ready to support one of these compelling solutions? We can answer questions you may have about how to best support the selected proposal(s) and/or organization(s).
4. Requesting another curated list: If you have other philanthropic interest areas, we’d be happy to share additional curated lists like this.

Please let us know if you supported one of the projects on this curated list.

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