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Food For Poor

Coconut Creek, Florida

From delivery counts to lives changed.

How Food For Poor moved from counting what it delivered to measuring whether lives actually changed.

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The operating problem

Outputs are not outcomes.

Food For Poor could count what it delivered across Latin America and the Caribbean, but wanted evidence of whether the work was creating lasting change for communities.

A meaningful measure

Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean

One working view

SDGs the measurement model is aligned to

A practical change

Measurement follows the change in people’s lives, not delivery alone.

11 SDGs — The measurement model is aligned to a shared global frame.

Customer voice

"Our M&E model creates a continuous improvement loop where we can keep that needle moving forward to improve what we can do to help lives.”
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The story

Discover how Food For Poor is revolutionizing its approach to aid by focusing on sustainable, long-term outcomes that empower communities in Latin America and the Caribbean to thrive.

Counting outputs, not outcomes

Food For Poor, founded in 1982 and working across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, could count what it delivered, but wanted to measure whether lives actually changed.

The organisation needed an M&E model that connected demographics, income, and basic needs rather than a stack of separate output reports.

Our M&E model creates a continuous improvement loop where we can keep that needle moving forward to improve what we can do to help lives.

Jeff Alexander, CFO

Baseline, progress and final on one model

The team built an M&E model using baseline, progress, and final surveys, quantitative and qualitative, aligned to eleven SDGs, with Sopact automating the collection, analysis, and presentation.

A scorecard tracks demographics, income, basic needs, and economic and human development in one place.

A needle the team can keep moving

The M&E model now runs as a continuous improvement loop: outcomes measured across basic needs, economic sustainability, and human development, so the team can see what to improve rather than what was merely delivered.

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