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Living Goods

Living Goods supports community health workers through government partnerships, digital systems and performance support. The scope is its implementation model, not sole authorship of every underlying platform or a re-evaluation of mortality claims.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 64–74/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Government implementation support, digital/data expertise and worker-management learning can help public-interest health systems run community-health services with less duplicated infrastructure work.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Coordination — editorial, partial alignment.

The documented approach links government systems, worker support and information flows to reduce coordination failures. This is not a clinical-effectiveness finding or verified adoption of the checklist.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Build government capacity to support digitally enabled community health workers

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Government partnerships and digital worker-support systems can change community-health implementation routines rather than fund isolated patient contacts.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Shared implementation practice can influence public health institutions and worker networks across settings; attributable institutional reach was not audited.

Durability

2 / 4

Public-system learning can persist, but workers, devices, supervision, compensation and government budgets require ongoing support.

Scalability

3 / 4

Methods and digital configurations can be reused beyond one area, while financing, local workflows, accessibility and workforce capacity remain constraints.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current costed marginal government-partnership or worker-support bottleneck, replacement funding or causal donation counterfactual was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Listening to families and community health workers does not establish binding affected-community rights over nonprofit budgets, public-system priorities or workforce decisions.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do government programs receiving a specified Living Goods digital and worker-support package sustain independently verified improvements in timely, equitable care compared with credible alternatives, after accounting for financing, staffing, supervision and other partners?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The US Living Goods nonprofit’s government-partner, digital-health and worker-support model, not all partner governments, separate software contributors or every local program.

What remains uncertain

The current donation page identifies a US 501(c)(3), EIN 20-5010527; this is not independent current tax or financial certification. The website’s trial/preprint, mortality and coverage claims were not re-audited or imported as causal findings for these systemic-design scores. Its work includes implementation and support for digital ecosystems, not sole ownership of all underlying platforms; existing tool developers’ work is not attributed twice. Open standards language is not a named repository-license check, so no code badge is assigned. Health-data protection, clinical safety, worker compensation, equitable access and sustainable public financing need deployment-specific review.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage