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Every dollar we raise goes towards dramatically increasing incomes for low-income people in Africa.
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The Africa Jobs Fund is actively raising philanthropic grant money to deploy against our two pillars: export manufacturing and international labour mobility. These are the two interventions with the most robust empirical track record of raising incomes at scale, and both are dramatically underfunded relative to their impact potential.
Although we raise philanthropic grant money, we deploy it as concessional investments that fund the first-mover costs pioneer businesses face. Being the first company to export a particular product, or to move workers along a new labour mobility corridor, carries extra costs and risks that commercial investors will not finance. We absorb that first-mover risk so commercial capital can step in later, once the model is proven, and scale the business up.
We expect to recover most of our investment over time and redeploy it into new opportunities. The fund itself does not generate a financial return for funders — recovered capital flows back into our charitable mission of catalysing high-productivity jobs at scale.
Donations are made to Renaissance Philanthropy, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that houses the Africa Jobs Fund, and are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
For larger philanthropic commitments, partnership conversations, or due-diligence questions, please reach out at hello@africajobsfund.com. To donate now, you can give via the button above.
What your support can do
We target a cost-effectiveness of less than $10 per Doubled Consumption Year (DCY) — i.e., for every $10 we deploy, we aim to double one person's income for one year.
Across a working life of roughly 40 years, that translates to one lifetime income doubling per ~$400 of philanthropic capital. At that cost-effectiveness, here is what different levels of support catalyse:
Figures are modelled estimates derived from our full cost-effectiveness analysis. They assume the fund hits its target of < $10 per DCY and use a working life of ~40 years.