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.

Living Goods starts implementing the Global Fund-funded Building Integrated Readiness for Community Health (BIRCH) Project in Uganda, with technical assistance from Africa Frontline First.

Living Goods starts implementation of a new 5-year strategic plan focused on enabling government partners to improve health outcomes nationally. 

Living Goods supports Burkina Faso’s MoH to develop eCHIS based on the CommCare platform, in partnership with Dimagi.

Living Goods is selected by Uganda’s MoH to lead the eCHIS rollout in several districts.

Preliminary results from a second RCT show that Living Goods-supported CHWs in Uganda enabled a 28-30% reduction in U5 mortality and 27% reduction in neonatal mortality from midline to endline when working at scale – with 4,500 digitized CHWs serving 3.6 million people.

The Kenyan government partners closely with Living Goods to develop a national community health strategy that will extend digitized community health services to all 100,000 CHWs in the country and selected a tool based on Living Goods’ Smart Health app to create their own electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS).

Living Goods gets in a 3-year partnership with the government of Burkina Faso to develop a national eCHIS tool for the country’s 18,000 CHWs and their supervisors.

Supported CHWs to respond to COVID and fill the gap in facility-based care, quickly designing low and no-touch workflows for our mHealth app in-house and equipping CHWs and government partners with PPE to stay safe and continue delivering uninterrupted health services.

Kenya’s Kisumu County government inked a co-implementation partnership with Living Goods to extend digitized community health services to all 3,000 CHWs in the county.

Uganda’s MOH, Oyam District and Malaria Consortium and Living Goods launched the a public-private technical assistance partnership for community health.

Living Goods expands support to Burkina Faso to support the country’s CHW Response Plan for COVID-19 provide recommendations on how to digitize the entire community health system. We also provided light touch support in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.

Landmark Immunization Award: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, commits $9 million to Living Goods and Last Mile Health to test the use of digitally empowered CHWs to help target and close the immunize gap vaccine, counselling, and referral services. 

Isiolo County Kenya awards Living Goods a landmark contract to help manage their community health worker system end-to-end, with all 720 CHWs in the county trained to provide digitized community health services.

Co-developed a digital health maturity model to help governments and other community health implementers grow effective community-level digital health programs.

Living Goods secures landmark growth funding from TED’s Audacious Project in partnership with Last Mile Health. Six funders join to provide $35 million in matching funds to inspire new partners to help Living Goods expand operations. 

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation selects Living Goods to build an East Africa Tech Innovation hub to test cutting edge community-based mobile technologies.

Living Goods launches an innovative Results-Based Financing mechanism in Uganda enabling funders to ‘buy outcomes,’ like treatments provided and facility births.

Living Goods expands portfolio into family planning, including the introduction of Sayana Press in Uganda, the first self-injectable contraceptive.

Living Goods receives Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Scale 6,300 CHWs reaching 5 million people.

Living Goods opens in Kenya.

USAID Development Innovations Ventures awards Living Goods $5 million.

Living Goods partners with Medic Mobile to build a next-generation Android app for CHWs. Develops first Data-Driven Task Lists and real-time performance dashboards.

PSI Partnership: Living Goods opens partnership with PSI to replicate the model in Myanmar.

Scale: 4,000 CHWs reaching 3.2 million people

Living Goods works with Uganda MoH and UNICEF to empower CHWs to diagnose and treat pneumonia with Amoxicillin.

Independent researchers conclude randomized controlled trial showing 27% drop in child deaths – over 2 times the expected result, with an even greater impact on neonatal mortality.  The survey covered more than 200 villages and 8,000 families.

Mobile Phone System Test: Living Goods develops its own Android-based Smart Health system for CHWs, successfully replacing paper data collection and testing an innovative automated diagnosis tool to improve accuracy and consistency.

1000 CHWs reaching 800,000 people

Kick-off of randomized controlled trial in Uganda to measure impact on child mortality in partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Innovations for Poverty Action.
Scale: 600 CHWs reaching 480,000 people.

Living Goods opens direct operations in partnership with the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH) in two test districts.

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation awards Living Goods $2 millionto drive growth and study impact.

Living Goods launches in Uganda in partnership with BRAC, focusing on reducing child mortality by treating malaria and diarrhea and supporting healthy pregnancies. Scale: 200 CHWs reaching 160,000 people.

Chuck Slaughter incorporates Living Goods™ as a non-profit in California in May 2006.

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)

Kenya’s government enacts four groundbreaking laws aimed at fortifying the nation’s healthcare infrastructure. This remarkable achievement is a result of the extensive public engagement and collective dedication of numerous stakeholders, including Living Goods. 

Living Goods starts implementing the Global Fund-funded Building Integrated Readiness for Community Health (BIRCH) Project in Burkina Faso, with technical assistance from Africa Frontline First.

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).