How We Invest
We’ve invested over $100 million in the fight against malnutrition.
And we’re committed to investing as much as we can to end it. We’re a data-driven, active investor obsessed with cost optimization, operational efficiency, and market shaping. We apply strategic thinking and meticulous analysis to every step of the investment process.
Driving scale-up of what works
The power of advocacy, research, and policy
We invest in research to test new ideas and prove what works, policy work to reform sub-optimal practices and make the case for improved solutions, and advocacy to drive smart reforms and urgent scale-up of the most cost-effective and lifesaving malnutrition solutions.
ECF CEO Will Moore talks with Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) at an ECF event co-hosted with the Kyle House Group in October 2023 in Washington, D.C.
Evidence-based action
Research
We fund research to test next-generation innovations and generate evidence for high-impact malnutrition solutions—and identify ways to scale them cost-effectively. We use this knowledge to guide investments and support our scaling partner countries in fighting malnutrition.
Promoting game-changing reforms
Policy
Our team of economists and global health experts develop costed, shovel-ready plans to scale up the highest impact solutions to deadly malnutrition and achieve major reductions in child deaths around the world. We also support international bodies and governments to update their health guidelines to better reflect the latest evidence.
Fostering leadership
Advocacy
We have teams of political insiders on the ground in Washington, London, Ottowa, Paris, Dublin, and other centers of power, who maintain close, supportive relationships with decision-makers in government and philanthropy. We support these decision-makers to build a legacy of impact by scaling up cost-effective solutions that will make a difference in the world. We provide these leaders with custom, costed, shovel-ready plans and help crowd in other funders behind their new initiatives.
Scale-Up
Once we've developed a compelling, costed roadmap for impact and identified anchor champions, ECF uses our own resources to help seed-fund that plan and bring it to life. By putting our own skin in the game, we are able to help convince other funders to do the same. We help build coalitions of funders willing to contribute enough collective resources to bring ambitious plans to life–and change the world!
ECF's CEO, Will Moore, interviews former heads of state Erna Solberg (former prime minister of Norway), Enda Kenny (former taoiseach of Ireland) and Stephen Harper (former prime minister of Canada) about their leadership on global malnutrition at the IDU Summit.
Government partnerships
Coalitions of Action
We partner with governments that are leading transformational change on malnutrition – and we work alongside them to help catalyze their vision. Our scaling partner countries include Ghana, Senegal, and Nepal.
ECF Director of Policy and Research Dr. Yashodhara Rana co-hosts a conference with Nepal's Ministry of Health to discuss the transition to an improved formulation of prenatal vitamins (MMS) in the country.
Grantmaking
We invest in organizations around the world. We consider ourselves not just a funder, but also a thought partner and an active participant in project execution.
ECF team members meet with grantees in Nepal.
Highlights of Our Success
Centering Child Health through Immunization and Nutrition Integration
The Eleanor Crook Foundation and Mana Nutrition Applaud the U.S. Government's Continued Leadership in Combating Child Malnutrition
Eleanor Crook Foundation and CRI Foundation Partner with Action Against Hunger to Accelerate Global Uptake of Updated WHO Guidelines on Child Wasting
A global leader in child survival
Catalyzing the next stage of the child survival revolution starts by scaling the highest impact malnutrition solutions.
Over the next 5 years, we’ll drive toward the next phase of the child survival revolution by focusing on renewed political leadership, accountability, and fundraising to address malnutrition.
Join Us.
We’re looking for others who are obsessed with evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scaling solutions to end child deaths.