World Connect, Inc. Employee Directory
Non-profit OrganizationsNew York, United States11-50 Employees
World Connect, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in New York City that provides grants directly to communities to support ideas that originate from within those communities. It emphasizes a bottom-up approach intended to drive progress from the center of communities by supporting locally led development initiatives. The organization operates in the nonprofit sector and focuses on improving health, education, economic opportunity, and safer environments. According to its reported outcomes, 95 percent of the community-led initiatives it supports succeed because communities lead. About 80 percent of these initiatives are sustained at five years after the grant, and 15 percent show compounding ripple effects from the initial support. World Connect notes that 60 percent of the communities it works with receive their first grant, and it has impacted more than 2.4 million people globally with improved access to health, education, economic opportunity, and safer environments.