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“Announcing four new charities!” by Ambitious Impact
We are thrilled to introduce four new charities from our latest Charity Entrepreneurship incubation round! Collectively, they have secured $696,000 in seed funding to kickstart their ventures.
Read on to learn more about these newly incubated organisations and how you can support their impact journeys!
Short Summaries
First Embrace
Over 2 million babies die every year. That's 4 babies every minute. 80% of these are low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns. We can change this. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) increases an LBW newborn's chance of survival by at least 33%.
First Embrace will establish KMC wards within existing hospitals, training and equipping nurses to support mothers in practices proven in over 20 RCTs to save newborn lives: skin-to-skin contact, exclusive breastfeeding, and danger-sign identification.
Better Season Project
Half a billion smallholder farmers grow a third of the world's food, yet most live in extreme poverty. Proven tools like water tanks and storage bags can increase farm incomes for years, but lenders often misjudge smallholders’ risk, leaving a $170 billion finance gap.
Better Season Project is closing that gap by making productive investments affordable for smallholder farmers. We achieve this through asset-collateralised loans (ACLs), where the asset itself serves as collateral, lowering barriers [...]
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Outline:
(00:43) Short Summaries
(00:46) First Embrace
(01:28) Better Season Project
(02:26) Opal Health
(03:20) Better Futures Guide
(03:56) First Embrace
(04:07) Why
(04:57) Plans
(05:19) Where
(05:50) Goals
(06:35) How you can support us
(07:02) Better Season Project
(07:16) Why
(09:12) Plans
(10:06) Where
(10:45) Goals
(11:10) How you can support us
(11:49) Opal Health
(11:59) Why
(13:14) Plans
(14:39) Goals
(15:29) How you can support us
(16:04) Better Futures Guide
(16:16) Why
(17:17) Plans
(18:11) Goals
(18:41) How you can support us
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First published:
December 11th, 2025
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9HnvKWH3PYjf89xGg/announcing-four-new-charities
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By EA Forum TeamWe are thrilled to introduce four new charities from our latest Charity Entrepreneurship incubation round! Collectively, they have secured $696,000 in seed funding to kickstart their ventures.
Read on to learn more about these newly incubated organisations and how you can support their impact journeys!
Short Summaries
First Embrace
Over 2 million babies die every year. That's 4 babies every minute. 80% of these are low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns. We can change this. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) increases an LBW newborn's chance of survival by at least 33%.
First Embrace will establish KMC wards within existing hospitals, training and equipping nurses to support mothers in practices proven in over 20 RCTs to save newborn lives: skin-to-skin contact, exclusive breastfeeding, and danger-sign identification.
Better Season Project
Half a billion smallholder farmers grow a third of the world's food, yet most live in extreme poverty. Proven tools like water tanks and storage bags can increase farm incomes for years, but lenders often misjudge smallholders’ risk, leaving a $170 billion finance gap.
Better Season Project is closing that gap by making productive investments affordable for smallholder farmers. We achieve this through asset-collateralised loans (ACLs), where the asset itself serves as collateral, lowering barriers [...]
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Outline:
(00:43) Short Summaries
(00:46) First Embrace
(01:28) Better Season Project
(02:26) Opal Health
(03:20) Better Futures Guide
(03:56) First Embrace
(04:07) Why
(04:57) Plans
(05:19) Where
(05:50) Goals
(06:35) How you can support us
(07:02) Better Season Project
(07:16) Why
(09:12) Plans
(10:06) Where
(10:45) Goals
(11:10) How you can support us
(11:49) Opal Health
(11:59) Why
(13:14) Plans
(14:39) Goals
(15:29) How you can support us
(16:04) Better Futures Guide
(16:16) Why
(17:17) Plans
(18:11) Goals
(18:41) How you can support us
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First published:
December 11th, 2025
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9HnvKWH3PYjf89xGg/announcing-four-new-charities
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.