UNLOCK AID

At Unlock Aid, we choose to create a new system built on the principles of abundance; innovation and agility; and, most importantly, decentralizing decision-making power and resources to the communities closest to the world's hardest problems. Faith in our democratic systems and the planet's future depend on it... Unlock Aid started as a research project. In 2021, we surveyed more than 60 of the world's leading social innovators to ask what kept them from working with the world's largest development agencies. We published our findings and then pooled our resources to solve the problems we identified... We're holding our elected leaders accountable to the commitments it's made to change business as usual, especially in the context of U.S. global spending. The time to announce policy changes is over. Now is when we need to see major, tangible results. We'll be running Unlock Aid as if we may not be here in 2025 - and we hope this administration operates with a similar sense of urgency.