Our Principles

• Bottom-up Change: We favor bottom-up initiatives that put the poor in charge of their own dreams and destinies, and that build the capacities of the organizations that work on their behalf.
• Sustainable Strategies: We support lasting solutions and models that can be shared and brought to scale.
• Immediate and Systemic Support: While our focus is not on disaster relief, we do support programs that alleviate immediate suffering while aiming to eliminate the systems and root causes that produce it.
• Collaborations: We seek continual learning, self-reflection, evaluation, and collaboration among development workers and funders – and, most of all, a relationship of genuine partnership.