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Thank you from Unlock Aid (opens the original)
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Dear Unlock Aid community,A few months ago, we shared that Unlock Aid would wind down by the end of the year. That day is almost here. This will be our final message to the Unlock Aid community.We started Unlock Aid because we believed the way foreign aid worked needed to change. Too much money and decision-making power sat with institutions far removed from the people the system was meant to serve. We believed more of both should sit with local organizations and leaders, and that our public ins
What we learned building Unlock Aid (opens the original)
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Dear Unlock Aid community,As Unlock Aid winds down, we’ve been thinking about what we learned over the last five years.We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how we built the organization, how we decided what to work on, and why and how we chose different tactics along the way. There was never a Day One blueprint as much as there was a lot of iteration and experimentation. We tried things. Some worked. Plenty didn’t. And our understanding of the problem changed as the community around Unlock Aid
Introducing the Solutions Index: Future Generations Edition (opens the original)
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Dear Unlock Aid community,Today, we’re announcing the third and final edition of the Unlock Aid Solutions Index: 40 pacesetting organizations helping build the conditions for children, young people, families, and communities to thrive.The organizations selected span five areas essential to expanding opportunity for the next generation:Building the industries, jobs, and employment rails of the future;Economic opportunity, financial inclusion, and livelihoods;</p
Naming the Next Horizon for Global Development (opens the original)
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Dear Unlock Aid community,When Jennifer Pahlka recently applied the Three Horizons framework to the challenge of rebuilding government, she gave many of us language for something we had long struggled to articulate.Over the past half-decade or so, the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and fall out from DOGE have each exposed the limits of institutions built for a very different era. In each case, the immediate response has understandably focused on protecting what remains and restoring what
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