Investment Opportunities for
Proven models that unlock co-investment, accelerate adoption, and embed change within national systems—driving compounding, system-level impact.
1. Education and Opportunity
Building a foundation for girls to learn, lead, and thrive.
Break the cycle of child marriage and poverty by giving girls access to the education and skills they need to lead.
Investment Focus
CARE scales proven education and protection models that integrate directly into national systems—creating long-term economic opportunity for girls and their communities.
Key Opportunities
CARE’s proven models, including SOAR, help girls return to school and succeed. In India, 95% of SOAR graduates passed national exams. Investment can scale these programs to reach tens of thousands of girls in countries such as Niger and Uganda.
CARE’s “5×5” model strengthens nutrition, social-emotional learning, and school readiness—ensuring girls enter school prepared to thrive, with lasting literacy and economic benefits.
CARE’s community- and policy-based approaches reduced early marriage risk by 63% in Bangladesh and 44% in Ethiopia. Catalytic investment extends this impact and embeds protections in national systems.
Vocational and digital literacy training connects girls directly to employers. In Bangladesh, 9,500 young people quadrupled their incomes through these programs.
CARE partners with Ministries of Education to embed proven models into teacher training, curriculum reform, and national budgets—ensuring reforms endure beyond individual programs.
2. Women’s Economic Power
Growing women’s economic power from savings to entrepreneurship.
Fund one of the world’s largest women-led financial networks and empower women to earn, save, and invest.
Investment Focus
CARE expands and modernizes women-led financial systems—unlocking capital, digitizing access, and shifting markets to serve women at scale.
Key Opportunities
CARE’s Village Savings and Loan Associations reach more than 21 million women. With dedicated investment, this network can expand to 62 million women over five years.
Digitizing VSLAs will connect 10 million women to formal banking, reduce transaction costs by approximately 70%, and build credit histories that unlock loans and insurance.
The Rise Fund blends philanthropy and private capital to unlock $1 billion in commercial capital and $750 million in co-investment. Philanthropic investment reduces platform risk and attracts multiples of capital.
Seed funding unlocks loans for women-led businesses and pilots voice-enabled AI tools on basic phones, providing real-time enterprise and financial guidance.
3. Entrepreneurship and Resilience
Transforming food and water systems for families and farmers.
Strengthen water supply systems and help small-scale farmers—most of them women—feed their communities, earn income, and protect scarce resources.
Investment Focus
CARE scales climate-resilient agricultural models and sustainable water systems that increase incomes, protect resources, and strengthen local economies.
Key Opportunities
This proven model has reached 5.3 million producers across 41 countries, doubling productivity and incomes for women farmers. Investment will refine the model and pilot AI tools that provide farmers with real-time crop and market advice.
CARE supports safe water, sanitation, and irrigation systems that increase agricultural productivity and fuel long-term economic growth.
CARE connects small-scale producer cooperatives directly to premium buyers and regenerative supply chains. In Bangladesh, farmers doubled their incomes even five years after project completion.
4. Crisis Response
Build the future of crisis response with locally led, data-driven innovation.
Strengthen water supply systems and help small-scale farmers—most of them women—feed their communities, earn income, and protect scarce resources.
Investment Focus
CARE deploys flexible capital, digital platforms, and forecasting tools to reduce response times, unlock co-investment, and reshape humanitarian response systems.
Key Opportunities
CARE’s Humanitarian Surge Fund provides flexible capital within hours. In six months, it supported 35 emergencies in 29 countries, unlocking $95 million in additional resources—a 27x multiplier.
Scale a unified digital cash delivery platform integrated with banks and mobile money, reducing transfer times by 30–50% and enabling assistance within 72 hours.
CARE blends AI forecasting with community-led action planning. In Nepal and Bangladesh, communities evacuated safely and safeguarded assets before floods struck.
Partnerships with Microsoft and the Impact Alliance advance forecasting and operational AI, reduce cost per household reached, and drive sector-wide adoption.