Project Opportunity with Evidence Action
Evidence Action is US-based non-profit committed to scaling up proven, cost-effective, and sustainable interventions. It is also a sister organization of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and MIT’s Poverty Action Lab. The organization is currently developing an innovative and sustainable financing strategy for its Dispensers for Safe Water project, a major initiative to provide safe water in East Africa already serving 1 million people with a plan to serve 25 million by 2018.
Evidence Action’s Strategy Team is looking for a law student with interest in social enterprise, investment structuring or international development to take on short-term volunteer consulting project doing research/advisory (~10 hrs over 2-3 weeks) on key legal issues (including feasibility, liability, structuring considerations) surrounding the formation of an endowment or a carbon-financing-based investment structure by a non-profit. Interested candidates should contact Mary Hong (mary_hong@hks15.harvard.edu) and copy Christina Reichers (criechers@poverty-action.org).