World Hope International/LEAP Africa

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The following write-up should be viewed in this context: it explains why we determined that we wouldn't be prioritizing the organization in question as a potential top charity. This write-up should not be taken as a "negative rating" of the charity. Rather, it is our attempt to be as clear as possible about the process by which we came to our top recommendations.

A note on this page's publication date

The last time we examined World Hope International was in March 2010. In our latest open-ended review of charities, we determined that it was unlikely to meet our criteria based on our past examination of it, so we did not revisit it.

We invite all charities that feel they meet our criteria to apply for consideration.

The content we created in March 2010 appears below. This content is likely to be no longer fully accurate, both with respect to what it says about World Hope International and with respect to what it implies about our own views and positions. With that said, we do feel that the takeaways from this examination are sufficient not to prioritize re-opening our investigation of this organization at this time.

Published: March 2010

World Hope International implements a diverse set of activities related to international aid and development.1

World Hope International applied for funding through our grant application process for organizations working on economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Hope International did not advance past our Round 1 screen because it did not meet any of the criteria below. For more information about this grant, see our overview page for this grant.

Our criteria

We looked for the following in conducting our Round 1 screen and considered further any organization that met at least one of the criteria below:

  1. The charity primarily transfers cash directly to poor individuals
  2. The charity provided a rigorous impact study demonstrating program effect
  3. The charity is using donations to create profitable programs
  4. The charity primarily runs microfinance programs and can answer our questions for microfinance charities

For more information about why we chose these, see our reasoning behind these criteria.

Sources

  • Hope Micro. Audited financial statements (2007) (DOC). [Note: This document was submitted by World Hope. Hope Micro and World Hope are related organizations.]
  • Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-information Services. 2008. Liberia participatory poverty assessment final report (PDF). United Nations Development Programme.
  • Local Enterprise Assistance Program. Auditor's report and financial statements (2007). We do not have permission to publish this document. [Note: This document was submitted by World Hope. World Hope and Local Enterprise Assistance Program are related organizations.]
  • Tucker, John. 2004. Microfinance development in Liberia - an initial assessment. United Nations Capital Development Fund Microfinance Unit. We do not have permission to publish this document.
  • World Hope International. Audited financial statements (2008) (PDF).
  • World Hope International. Global overview. https://www.worldhope.org/ (accessed May 7, 2010). Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5pYDDHXpO.
  • World Hope International. LEAP recommendation - Kiva partnership. We do not have permission to publish this document.
  • World Hope International. Local Enterprise Assistance Program - business plan. We do not have permission to publish this document.
  • World Hope International. Program descriptions (DOC).

Updated: March 5, 2010

  • 1

    World Hope International, "Global Overview."