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IDEX identifies, evaluates, and grows the best ideas to alleviate poverty & injustice, connecting passionate and engaged supporters to visionary local leaders & organizations around the world.
New Website, Same IDEX
We are also in the process of replacing our logo. Don't worry, we are still the same IDEX you know and love. Our new website reflects the professional organization we have become since our founding over 25 years ago!
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IDEX: Connecting You to Grassroots Solutions to Poverty
Choose Local Solutions for Global Impact
We’re pleased to bring you IDEX’s first catalog, Choose Local Solutions for Global Impact. It’s filled with 
imagery from our grantee partners’ homelands, descriptions of our issue areas, and a meaningful slate of 
philanthropic choices.
IDEX currently partners with 18 grassroots organizations in six countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America:
A surprisingly uncommon approach.
We fund sustainable solutions to poverty conceived in villages and communities around the world. Not in New York, Washington, Geneva, or even San Francisco where IDEX's office is located.
Organizations funded by IDEX focus on:
Women's Empowerment
Empowering women is central to the mission of IDEX and our partners. It also happens to be the most effective way of fighting poverty.
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Local Economies
Building local economies means giving people the opportunity to succeed and build a future for themselves and their families.
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Environmental Justice
IDEX has long-standing relationships with communities that are already feeling the effects of climate change. It's time to take action.
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Our Supporters
"I like how IDEX very carefully selects who they want to work with. IDEX goes to the most remote and neglected places and finds organizations that don’t yet have the kind of funding they need, but have enough internal structures and potential to grow." - Susan Kahn, IDEX supporter
"My experience as a donor and volunteer for IDEX has been an education in values driven philanthropy." - Jonah Silas Sheridan, IDEX donor and volunteer
"While travelling last year in Nepal, I was able to visit with ASHA, a long-time IDEX partner. It was then that IDEX’s work felt even more ‘real’ to me. I could see how effective the grants are in providing grassroots leaders with the fuel to be able to do even more in their communities." - Ravi Agarwal, IDEX donor
"IDEX truly focuses on helping grassroots groups build sustainable organizations that are dedicated to empowering community members." - Kellye Denton, a long-term IDEX volunteer
ABOUT IDEXSince its founding in 1985, IDEX has supported more than 500 grassroots, community-led projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Annually, IDEX's partners serve approximately 1.2 million people in impoverished communities, including marginalized women, small farmers, indigenous communities, low-in