The Power of Nutrition

Independent charitable foundation launched in 2015 by a consortium including the U.K. Department for International Development, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and UBS Optimus Foundation. Pools private and public capital to scale evidence-based nutrition interventions in low- and middle-income countries, with an operational focus on the first 1,000 days.

Why it matters here

The Power of Nutrition is one of the models the Dispensary piece in this resource is written against and, in part, in dialogue with: an institution that has managed to attract serious philanthropic capital to a nutritional object, and that has organized itself around the international-development definition of that object. The question for the resource is whether the same institutional form is usable for a physiological object defined at higher physiological standards and in richer countries.