Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In their quest to help donors, their team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents and then used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system (for a total of four stars) to assess over 9,000 of America’s most worthy charities. See Living Goods’ award information here.

In 2013, GSK and Save the Children launched the first Healthcare Innovation Award to identify and reward innovations that have proven successful in reducing child deaths in developing countries. Living Goods was honored to be recognized with this award in 2015.

Living Goods and Last Mile Health were recognized with inaugural honorees of the Audacious Project, a collaborative approach to funding ideas with the potential to create change at thrilling scale. Together, Living Goods and Last Mile Health will provide lifesaving healthcare to 34 million people across six countries in East and West Africa by 2021 by deploying 50,000 digitally-empowered community health workers (CHWs).

In 2020, Living Goods was added to The Million Lives Club, which celebrates entrepreneurs and innovators measurably impacting and improving the lives of those living on less than $5 a day.

The Trinity Challenge (TTC) is a coalition of 42 organisations from the private, public, philanthropic and academic sectors, working towards protecting the world from future pandemics, by using data, analytics and digital tools. TTC was launched in September 2020, as part of global efforts to protect one billion people from health emergencies. TTC invited applications from across the world to develop and scale non-medical interventions, in areas such as data science, behavioural science, and economics, which have been areas often overlooked by current COVID-19 interventions.

Living Goods has received a Guidestar 2024 Platinum Seal of Transparency for our program information and brand details.

Welcome to the Living Goods Integrity Line

Living Goods is committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in all our activities. We expect all stakeholders—including staff, contractors, volunteers, interns, freelance consultants, and partners—to act with integrity and accountability.

We acknowledge our duty to act as stewards, ensuring the safety of children, communities, and all those impacted by our work. Moreover, we recognize our duty to foster a conducive environment to realize our organizations’ ambitions and aspirations.

Our Integrity Line provides a safe and confidential way to report concerns and helps us protect the people and communities we serve.

All reports are treated with strict confidentiality, and we maintain a zero-tolerance policy for retaliation against individuals who report concerns in good faith.

If you have any concerns, please make a report through the contacts below:
> Living Goods Ethics Portal – Link
> Email – reports@lighthouse-services.com  (must reference Living Goods in the report)
> Integrity Lines;

        1. Kenya: 800-603-2869 (Toll Free) | +254 721 611027

        2. Uganda: 800-603-2869 (Toll Free) | +256 414 233 063 | +256 392 202 030

        3. United States: 800-603-2869 (Toll Free)

In Busia County, Living Goods operates a learning site where we directly support the digitizing, equipping, supervising and compensating (DESC) support to CHWs and test new interventions to cost-effectively improve the care families receive

In Kisumu, Vihiga, and Busia Counties, Living Goods operates implementation support sites where we co-implement and co-finance community health programs alongside the county governments. The goal in these sites is to progressively increase government capacity to independently fund and implement their DESC-enabled community health programs. We support 10 additional counties through a USAID-funded Health System Strengthening (USAID Misingi Imara) project.

In these agreements, Living Goods progressively transfers ownership over the implementation and financing of DESC-enabled CHW programs, with the county governments bearing increased responsibility over time. This innovative model of community health financing ensures government ownership from the start, effectively catalyzing funding and offering a path to sustainable government stewardship.

The approach has proven to be highly cost-effective, with county governments covering approximately 50% of our total program costs in 2023. We anticipate co-investments from these governments and other partners totaling approximately $43 million by 2026.

The goal of this landmark system is to improve service delivery through enhanced training, data quality, and usage for decision-making, and ultimately to advance UHC for all Kenyans. The initiative will enable consistent quality of care for patients and support data collection and reporting in near real time – leading to improved performance management of CHWs, commodity management, and disease surveillance, among other outcomes.

Excellence in Giving recognizes Transparency when charities share more data about governance, finances, strategy, and impact than the IRS requires. Each recognized charity has submitted 175 data points about operations and performance for donors to review before making an informed giving decision. Transparency seal recipients voluntarily disclose debt levels, Board practices, 3-year program and financial trends, impact stats, strategic plans, and even an internal S.W.O.T. analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats).