Support highly-impactful, evidence-based solutions to improve education for children around the world. 

## The Founders Pledge Perspective

In 2000, the UN set this Millennium Development goal for education: “Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.” By 2015, 91% of primary-school-age children globally [were enrolled](https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/education.shtml) in school. But access to education did not directly lead to improved learning outcomes. In 2018, more than half of children and adolescents worldwide [did not meet](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/education/) minimum proficiency standards for math and reading. Many of these children live in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa where average years of schooling is the [lowest in the world](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/mean-years-of-schooling-long-run?region=World). 

Unsurprisingly, poverty is a key factor in reduced learning outcomes. Children often start school underprepared due to malnutrition, lack of familial support, and unstable home environments. At school they encounter undertrained and underfunded teachers. These challenges are compounded by lack of educational resources in classrooms. Spending on education is 10-100x lower in low- and middle-income countries than in wealthy countries. In this challenging environment, resources are often focused on the most gifted students, leaving many others behind.

Our top charities work to ensure that students enter school prepared, with adequate nutrition, and attend schools where they can actually learn. By giving to the Founders Pledge Education Index, you can spread your donation across several highly-impactful and neglected global education initiatives to support improved learning outcomes. By pooling your donations, this Index allows you to make larger grants and thereby maximize your impact. 

## Our Approach to Grantmaking

When evaluating potential grants, we consider several key points:

- **Counterfactual impact**. Our grants are designed to create a meaningful outcome that would not otherwise have happened. In particular, we aim to make grants that otherwise wouldn’t have been made, rather than those which just take the place of other philanthropists’ donations. This means that you can rely on the Funds to create meaningful, real change, rather than just maintaining the status quo.
- **The grant’s potential outcomes**. We focus on outcomes (e.g. how many lives were saved), rather than outputs (e.g. how many products were delivered). We review all the available evidence and take into account cost-effectiveness to assess whether the grant money could produce more good if donated elsewhere.
- **The organization’s funding gap**. Not all organizations are set up to scale up their programming and many can’t productively absorb large amounts of unsolicited funding. We evaluate all potential grantees’ capacity for growth and consider how much money they could put to good use.
- **Organizational strength**. Particularly with unrestricted funding, it’s important to have trust in the leadership and capacity of the organizations we support. We look at their track record of success and their transparency about failures as well as successes, and we only support those organizations which are exceptionally well run. We also look for organizations that demonstrate a strong commitment to measuring outcomes and evaluating the impact of their programs.

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Supports governments to improve foundational reading and math for all children using the Teaching at the Right Level approach

TaRL Africa’s mission is to support every child across Africa to build foundational skills for a better future.

[TaRL Africa uses an evidence-backed educational approach](https://www.povertyactionlab.org/case-study/teaching-right-level-improve-learning) that helps children develop basic reading and mathematics skills, opening doors to a brighter future. The approach targets the root of the learning crisis by transforming the structures that lead to it. It was developed and refined in India by education NGO [Pratham](https://www.pratham.org/), and has been rigorously evaluated by [Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)](https://www.povertyactionlab.org/) affiliated professors. Since 2015, the TaRL approach has been adapted in over 17 African countries reaching nearly 7 million children with support from TaRL Africa and its partners.

TaRL Africa began as a joint initiative by Pratham and J-PAL in 2015 and became a registered independent organisation in 2019. Since its inception, TaRL Africa has worked with governments and organisations to design and develop the processes, practices, and resources required to deliver effective TaRL programmes that increase learning outcomes. Globally, the TaRL approach [has been identified by the Global Evidence Education Advisory Panel as a “good buy.”](https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/719211603835247448/pdf/Cost-Effective-Approaches-to-Improve-Global-Learning-What-Does-Recent-Evidence-Tell-Us-Are-Smart-Buys-for-Improving-Learning-in-Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries.pdf)

As of 2025:

- TaRL programming reached over 7 million children in over 17 countries with TaRL Africa's support.
- Across all programmes, the proportion of children who could read a simple paragraph improved by 12–32 percentage points, and the proportion of children who could do a simple subtraction problem increased by 13–26 percentage points.

TaRL Africa is registered and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with teams in Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Zambia.


Teaching at the Right Level Africa (TaRL Africa)

Dedicated to the sustainable elimination of iodine deficiency worldwide.

According to the World Health Organization, iodine deficiency is the world’s most prevalent, yet easily preventable, cause of brain damage in children. Nearly 50 million people have stunted cognitive and motor development as a result. Severe stunting can be as bad as a loss of 15 IQ points, meaning children who don't get enough iodine struggle at school and in later life. The solution is simple, and has already been implemented in many countries: national level fortification of salt with iodine. IGN works with governments to implement such programmes. Despite not being directly related to schools, removing this barrier to healthy development is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to include children's educational outcomes.

Iodine Global Network

Supporting students and teachers with affordable, accessible tech to improve educational outcomes.

In partnership with the Indian government, Educational Initiatives is providing their specialist "teaching at the right level" software (and when needed, the requisite hardware) - "Mindspark" to government schools. This software tailors education to the individual needs of children by using specialist ed tech which tailors content and questions to their individual learning level, ensuring each can learn at their own pace and not be left behind. Mindspark is used to support teaching of both math and literacy.

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